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Super Hero, science fiction film, superhero film
Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to report on the world's deepest oil well. That night, two dwarfish, furry humanoids emerge through the shaft and scare the elderly night watchman to death. Lois and Clark arrive …
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Christmas film, Drama, Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
On Christmas Eve in New York City, down-on-his-luck ex-convict Nick Bianco and his three colleagues rob a jewelry store. Before they can exit the building, however, the injured proprietor sets off his alarm. While attempting to escape, Nic…
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Western
A lone gunman travels to the town of Yuta, which is run by the warring clans of the white-colored Genji and red-colored Heike. After ignoring requests from both clans to join them, he is given shelter by a woman named Ruriko, who takes car…
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action film, science fiction film, superhero film
As the planet Krypton is on the verge of exploding, Jor-El and Lara put their newborn son Kal-El in a spaceship bound for Earth. An alien parasite named Starro escapes his containment in Jor-El's lab and stows away on the ship before it is…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Professor Challenger, a celebrated biologist and anthropologist, reports to the London Zoological Society that he has discovered living specimens of supposedly extinct animals, including dinosaurs, on an expedition to the Amazon Basin and …
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Komödie, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film
In the town of Cheyanne, Johnny Black arrives and sees an Indian kid being beaten up by white men. Johnny tries to rescue the kid, but is overpowered and jailed. Johnny warns that Brett Clayton is going to rob the bank, and sure enough he …
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Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction
Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
A-X-L is a top-secret, robotic dog created by Andric, a Craine Systems scientist, to assist and protect soldiers. The project is funded by the military. Code-named A-X-L ("Attack, exploration, Logistics") by the scientists who created it, …
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Action, Animation
Three days after Hank's disappearance, the O.S.I. is distracted with a low-level Guild villain attacking one of their labs with technology supplied by the mysterious new villain organization ARCH. The Council of Thirteen assigns Dr.
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Psychodrama, action film, drama film, prison film
Young mother Madylyn Mabry puts her daughter to bed while her husband Jack watches golf on television. After the child is asleep, Madylyn goes downstairs and announces that she is leaving Jack. Jack runs upstairs to the bedroom and holds t…
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Action, Thriller, action film
While in South Sudan on a routine mission, close protection officer Sam Carlson saves two journalists she is protecting when their vehicle is attacked by local insurgents. Zoe Tanner, the troubled child and heir of recently deceased busine…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
The film is narrated by Frankie, a young everyman living in South East London during the Thatcher era of the 1980s specifically 1984, with little hope of ever making anything of himself, yet he dreams of "being somebody" and escaping his l…
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Historie, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, comedy film, historical film, swashbuckler film
In 1649 (twenty years after the events of The Four Musketeers), Royalty in Europe are troubled by events in England, fearing that the overthrow of King Charles I by Oliver Cromwell's forces might encourage their own subjects to rebel again…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Las Vegas, LVMPD policemen Vincent Downs and his partner Sean Cass rob a shipment of cocaine belonging to entrepreneur Stanley Rubino, who intended to sell it to mobster Rob Novak, the son of a powerful mob boss. The two cops volunteer …
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a reporter in Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Times, is contacted by the executor of his late aunt Belle's will, attorney Amanda Ray Ross. Ross informs Fletch he has inherited his aunt's plantation, Belle Isle, in …
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Action
Bryant befriends a troubled teen and introduces him to martial arts. As Bryant's mysterious and dangerous past catches up to him, he is forced into a life and death struggle to clear his name, save the boy and get back all he left behind.
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Swashbuckler, action film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
Don Diego Vega is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of a wealthy ranchero, the former alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, having returned to Alta California, Mexico, after his military education …
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Action, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, thriller film
In the Yukon Territory in 1931, Albert Johnson (Charles Bronson), a solitary American trapper, comes across an organized dog fight. A white German Shepherd named Sitka is badly injured and Johnson forces $200 on its owner, a vicious trappe…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As U.S. Senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes.
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Action, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Criminal Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
Convict Jack Hammond stops at a gas station in Newport Beach, California, where he encounters two police officers and a young woman. When the officers receive a radio call indicating that the car Jack is driving is stolen, he panics and us…
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, Arizona lawman Lyedecker chases Yaqui Joe, a half-Yaqui, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000. Both men are captured by the Mexican general Verdugo. Lyedecker learns that Joe used the loot to buy 100 rifles …
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, docudrama, drama film, historical film, political thriller film, thriller film, war film
On 27 June 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 at Athens. With President Idi Amin's appr…
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adventure film, drama film
In 1803 in India, Sergeant Sharpe leads a patrol to an East India Company outpost. He arrives shortly before another group of Company soldiers led by Lieutenant William Dodd. While Sharpe has 'gone for a piss' , Dodd's men kill almost the …
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Action, Heist, Thriller
In an unidentified European country, Police oversees the transportation of $10 million from a bank. To prevent the master thief Diabolik from stealing the money, he creates a diversion whereby a truck from the bank transports wastepaper, w…
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