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Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film
Law student Martin Bells is hired as a night watchman at a hospital morgue. A string of gruesome prostitute murders committed by a necrophiliac serial killer quickly point to him as the lead suspect in the investigation carried out by Insp…
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Biographical picture, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Young Audie Murphy grows up in a large, poor sharecropper family in Northeast Texas. His father deserts them around 1939–40, leaving his mother barely able to feed her nine children. As the eldest son, Murphy works from an early age for hi…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film
Rick Rambis, best friend Luke, and other friends Anthony, "Pig Pen", Jenny, Lance and Stumpy, all live and work at a ski resort on Bull Mountain in Alaska. The mountain and resort were founded by Herbert "Papa" Muntz who stole the land fro…
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Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film
The plot follows Leslie, an aging hitman on the brink of retirement, who has not met his annual quota with the British Guild of Assassins. His officious boss, Harvey, sets him a deadline that forces Leslie to resort to desperate measures –…
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Action, action film, spy film, thriller film
Two drug enforcement agents are killed on a private Hawaiian island. Donna and Taryn, two operatives for The Agency (Molokai Cargo), accidentally intercept a delivery of diamonds intended for drug lord Seth Romero, who takes exception and …
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Crime, Drama, action thriller
Three years after his second killing spree at WK7 TV station in Washington D.C. (following which he was presumed dead in a massive explosion), Bill Williamson returns from hiding and, using a sniper rifle, assassinates the President of the…
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Animation, action film, science fiction film
Dr. Leo Quintum and his team are exploring the Sun when they are sabotaged by a booby-trapped genetically-enhanced time-bomb clone made by Lex Luthor. Superman stops the clone but in doing so receives an overdose of solar radiation; it has…
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Horror, Thriller, action film, horror film
In Burundi, a British forensic anthropologist is examining the corpses in a mass grave, claiming they were all killed in an identical manner. When the woman digs her shovel into the ground, an unseen creature suddenly attacks and violently…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2079, CIA operative Snow is arrested for murdering Colonel Frank Armstrong, who had uncovered evidence of a mole selling secrets about the United States space program. Secret Service Director Scott Langral, on advice from the President,…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, comedy film
Three years after the events of the second film, Big and Little Enos Burdette offer retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice a wager, betting $250,000 against his badge on his ability to transport a large statue shark from Miami to Austin, Texas…
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Action, action film, comedy drama, comedy film
The Trans-America Grand Prix is an illegal race held every year between Los Angeles (Santa Monica Pier) and New York City. Recently released from jail, where he was serving a sentence for killing a girl while driving drunk, racing driver C…
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Adventure, live-action/animated film, speculative fiction film
Picking up after the second film, Maltazard has assumed human size, and left Arthur in miniature. Accompanied by Princess Selenia and her brother, Prince Betameche, Arthur attempts to retrieve an enlarging potion from his house, which Malt…
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Action, Thriller
Eye in the Sky begins with a group of organised burglars successfully robbing a jewelry store. Wet-behind-the-ears new recruit Piggy (Kate Tsui) is plunged at the deep end in her first surveillance assignment working alongside her mentor, …
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Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film
At Munich's Oktoberfest, veteran CIA field agent Miles Kendig and his team foil a microfilm transfer. When Kendig returns to Washington, his boss, Myerson, reassigns him to a desk job because Kendig did not arrest Yaskov, the head of the K…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
In New York, veteran thief Keith Ripley recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mafia, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, before they could comp…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In a distant galaxy, a starship searches for the evil Count Zarth Arn. Closing in on a planet, the ship is attacked by a mysterious weapon which drives the crew insane. Three escape pods launch, but the ship crashes into the atmosphere of …
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Western, Western film, drama film, war film
A Union cavalry brigade led by Colonel John Marlowe — a railroad construction engineer in civilian life — is sent on a raid behind Confederate Army lines to destroy railroad track and the Confederate supply depot for Vicksburg at Newton St…
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Action, Thriller, action film, hood film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
Two Fort Smith, Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, meet a hysterical old man in a burning building. The old man hands them an envelope, telling them that he stole from Jesus Christ. The old man tells them that he stole some things and stashe…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, prison film
The film opens with a getaway driver and his wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American Border Patrol toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican polic…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, romance film
In London, young pickpocket Jamie Perse steals a ticket to board Titanic in third class. He join forces with steward Simon Doonan, a hard-bitten criminal determined to rob first class passengers. In first class is the Allison family, a fam…
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Action, Western film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
At the airport in El Paso, Texas, five U.S. Army sergeants meet up with Major Paul Hackett, the leader of the clandestine Zombie Unit, composed of soldiers reported to be killed in action and on temporary assignment under Hackett for the d…
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Action, Drama, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The undefeated champion of underground motorcycle drag racing is Smoke, the "King of Cali". A biker, Chu-Chu, eventually issues a challenge to Smoke, who accepts. Smoke wins the race while the challenger crashes into parked bikes.
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Classical Western, Western film
A large caravan of settlers attempts to cross the Western United States on the Oregon Trail. Breck Coleman is a young trapper who just got back to Missouri from his travels near Santa Fe, seeking to avenge the death of an old trapper frien…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
During World War II, President Roosevelt was asked by Colonel Steve Trevor to get the United States involved by creating a team of superhumans. Consisting of Trevor, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hourman, Jay Garrick / Flash, and led by Wonder Wo…
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