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Adventure, Monumental Film, fantasy film
Led by Pelias, brother of Iolcus's King, Aeson, soldiers invade the city of Iolcus. Inside the temple Pelias goes to embrace his brother but produces a dagger and kills him during the embrace. This is witnessed by Aeson's wife Polymele and…
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Action, Thriller
Tattoo artist Jimmy Jayne owns a tattoo parlor named Gasoline Alley. He is interviewed by Detectives Bill Freeman and Freddy Vargas, who are investigating a mass murder of prostitutes, after a lighter inscribed with his studio's name is fo…
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Horror, action film, black comedy film, comedy horror film, vampire film
In Washington, D.C., Edgar and Alan Frog confront a half-vampire Senator who kills a Congressman, leading to Alan being forced to drink vampire blood. Five years later in San Cazador, California, Edgar faces eviction and is approached by G…
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Action, Animation, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, animated film, superhero film
When the universe was in its infancy, the Guardians of the Universe, the first sentient beings to exist, harnessed the power of the green element (representing will) to create a battery of energy with which to maintain peace throughout the…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
A group of terrorists called the Pasalan Liberation Front, led by Commander Topov, kidnap the Ukrainian Prime Minister's son and daughter and hold them hostage, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades within 72 hours. In additio…
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Drama, Musical, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, musical film
As Miguel de Cervantes and his manservant wait to be called before the Spanish Inquisition for putting on a play critical of the tribunal, his fellow inmates subject him to a sham trial of their own in order to justify taking all of the po…
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Action, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Joe Huff is an Alabama cop who has been suspended for excessive violence. After stopping a supermarket robbery, he is summoned by FBI agent Lance Dockery, who takes him to meet with special agent Frank Cunningham. Cunningham blackmails Joe…
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Accident, action film, disaster film, drama film
Kevin Harrison, a corrupt arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, reporter Maggie Whelan, learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War. The Con…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, kaiju
The story follows the adventures of Ethan Kendrick, charged in his childhood by the enigmatic Jack to protect the Yuh Yi Joo, an individual who had been born able to change an Imoogi chosen by heaven into a Celestial Dragon, from a corrupt…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Maia Marten is a prosecutor and mother to her diabetic son Noah, living in London. On the day she is scheduled to appear in court for the trial of crime boss Tommy Boyd, she drops Noah off at school, then goes for a run. While on her run, …
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Action, martial arts film
One year after the events of the first film, it is revealed that kickboxing brothers Kurt and Eric Sloane died shortly after Kurt's victory over Tong Po. David Sloane, the last surviving brother, struggles to keep the family's Los Angeles …
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Drama, Psychodrama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, drama film, science fiction film
In 1989, while on its landing approach, a commercial airliner is about to be struck by another plane from above. The pilot struggles to control the plane while the flight engineer checks the passenger cabin. He returns to the cockpit yelli…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In London, sand is put into the bearings of an electrical generator, causing a power blackout. At a cinema owned by Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), people demand their money back. Verloc enters through a back entrance to the living quarters a…
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Action, Animated Film, Animation, Crime, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, science fiction film
Since his last encounter against Batman, Victor Fries has made a home for himself in an Arctic cave with a newly adopted Inuit son, Koonak, and polar bears Notchka and Shaka. His wife, Nora, remains in her cryogenic chamber while he seeks …
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Crime, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
On a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees is led by instructor and Master Sergeant Nathan West, tasked with traversing the jungle in hurricane weather, attacking pop-up metal targets with live ammuni…
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Action, action film
A privatized security firm runs the Sprawl, a massive prison housing around 420,000 inmates. Inside, the popular Death Race competition has been made illegal by the new warden who was hired by the prison's owner, Weyland International. He …
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Action, Komödie, Romance Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
A white supremacist group is chasing Lou Ann, whose husband, Roy, is a member. She has inadvertently taken counterfeit money from them by running away with his car (the pink Cadillac), which held the supremacists' stash. Tommy Nowak is a s…
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action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Sharky, a narcotics sergeant for the Atlanta Police Department, is working on a transaction with drug dealer Highball. Smiley, another member of the force, shows up unexpectedly during the sting, causing the drug dealer to run and Shar…
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Action, Eastern, Yakuza Film, action film, crime film, martial arts film
While painting the landscape on a hill in San Francisco, a young woman named Emu O'Hara witnesses the murder of a Japanese Yakuza member. She notices that while the assassin stands emotionless in front of her, his eyes begin to shed tears.…
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Crime, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1957, a Russian cargo plane is flying above Antarctica. In the cockpit, the two pilots conspire to kill three men sitting in the hold guarding a padlocked box. The copilot leaves his seat and begins to shoot the other men.
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Komödie, comedy thriller, hood film
Sean (Dr. Dre) and Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg) are roommates who have not paid their rent, and their landlord's given them a 3-day eviction notice. To make matters worse, Sean has just lost his job at Foot Locker due to Dee Loc stealing shoes, an…
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Action, Animalhorror, horror film
Dr. Emma Collins continues the work of her deceased father Nick on climate change and the protection of great white sharks on an artificial island, flooded by rising sea levels, near South Africa named Little Happy. Her team includes Spinn…
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Action, Adventure, action film, treasure hunt film
Librarian Flynn Carsen is in England bidding on a priceless Ming vase for the Library. He is simultaneously on the phone with Charlene, and his girlfriend, Katie, who is at the end of her rope. Frantic and distracted, he bids £1 million an…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film
In 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Androids known as 'cyborgs' are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella "Cash" Ree…
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