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Action, Komödie, Treasure Hunting, action comedy film, adventure film, treasure hunt film
In 1912, Boy Scout Indiana Jones lives with his father Henry Jones Sr. in Moab, Utah. One day, while exploring caves on an excursion with his scout troop, Indy takes a crucifix owned by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado from a group of gravero…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Drama, War Film
In 1917, three years into World War I, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enthusiastically enlists in the Imperial German Army alongside schoolmates Albert Kropp, Franz Müller, and Ludwig Behm. They hear a patriotic speech by a school official and un…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, prison film, science fiction film, superhero film, vigilante film
In the aftermath of Superman's death, intelligence officer Amanda Waller convinces the U.S. government to greenlight Task Force X, a response team of criminals and supervillains. The team will be used to combat metahuman threats, under Wal…
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Action Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, Super Hero, absurdist fiction, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, magic realist film, romantic comedy
In Toronto, Scott Pilgrim, a 22-year-old bassist for unsuccessful indie garage band Sex Bob-Omb, dates Knives Chau, a 17-year-old high-school student, to the disapproval of his friends in the band, his younger sister Stacey, and his roomma…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, female buddy film, heist film, thriller film
Newly paroled con artist Debbie Ocean, the younger sister of Danny Ocean, reunites with her former partner Lou Miller to plan an ambitious new heist. The target is the Toussaint, a $150 million diamond necklace owned by Cartier, which Debb…
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In April 1945, during the Western Allied invasion of Germany, Don "Wardaddy" Collier, a battle-hardened US Army first sergeant in the Second Armored Division, commands an M4A3E8 Sherman tank nicknamed Fury, whose crew—consisting of gunner …
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Action, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, treasure hunt film
In 1935, American archeologist Indiana Jones survives a murder attempt in Shanghai by Triad crime boss Lao Che, who hired him to retrieve the remains of Nurhaci. Jones flees from the city accompanied by his young orphan sidekick Short Roun…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, mystery film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an American man adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. Tending to his wounds, they find he has amnesia but shows fluency in several languages. A tiny laser projector found implanted i…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action thriller, neo-noir
A professional hitman known only as the Killer stakes out a Parisian hotel room. He prepares to use a sniper rifle to kill a target who will check into the hotel room at an unknown time. While waiting for the target, he eats, practices yog…
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Action, action film, comedy film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
After defeating Owen Shaw and securing pardons for their past crimes, Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner, and the team have returned to the US to live normal lives. Dom tries to help Letty Ortiz regain her memory, while Brian accustoms to lif…
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Adventure, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, superhero film
In Gotham City, Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by the criminal Two-Face, formerly district attorney Harvey Dent, who escapes. Flashbacks reveal that Dent, once one of Batman's biggest supporters, was horribly disfigured wi…
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, crime film, spy film
In 1997, probationary secret agent Lee Unwin sacrifices himself during a mission in the Middle East to save his superior, Harry Hart. Feeling responsible for Lee's death, Harry gives Lee's young son, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, a medal engraved wi…
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Action, Auto Racing, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
At the Los Angeles port, a heist crew driving three heavily modified Honda Civics hijack a semi-truck trailer carrying electronic goods and escape into the night along the Terminal Island Freeway. Meanwhile, LAPD officer Brian O'Conner is …
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2084, Mars is a colonized world under the tyrannical regime of Vilos Cohaagen, who controls the mining of valuable turbinium ore. On Earth, construction worker Douglas Quaid experiences recurring dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman…
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the rural town of Millbrook, Indiana, with wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. One night, two spree killers attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills…
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Action, action film
In 1989, Jack Toretto participates in a late model race on a short track, with his sons Dominic "Dom" and Jakob working in the pit crew. Dom argues with rival racer Kenny Linder about his dirty tactics. During the race, Linder's car clips …
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Accident, Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, science fiction film
In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in Jharkhand, India, and learns that a previously undiscovered type of neutrino from a solar flare is heating the Earth's core. Returning to Washington, D.C…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
In Pittsburgh, a man drives a van into a rooftop parking garage near the Allegheny River and PNC Park, dropping a 1968 quarter into the parking meter. Using a sniper rifle, he shoots and kills five people on the river's North Shore Trail, …
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
After Mystery, Inc. solve their latest mystery and unmask a would-be criminal known as "The Luna Ghost", long-brewing tensions erupt between Fred Jones, who has become a self-obsessed glory hog, Daphne Blake, who is tired of being the dams…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film
In 1944, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Nazi officer Klaus Schmidt witnesses a young Erik Lehnsherr bending a metal gate with his mind upon being separated from his parents. Schmidt brings Lehnsherr into his office and tells him to m…
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Crime, Girls with Guns, Justice Drama, Samurai Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, girls with guns, martial arts film, suspense film, thriller film
The pregnant Bride and her groom rehearse their wedding. Bill, the Bride's former lover and the leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, arrives unexpectedly and orders the Deadly Vipers to kill everyone at the wedding rehearsal. Bi…
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Exorcism Film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Obsession, Super Hero, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, satanic film, superhero film
In Mexico, a scavenger discovers the tip of the spear that pierced Jesus Christ and, after becoming possessed, takes it to Los Angeles. There, cynical occult expert John Constantine exorcises a demon from a young girl after witnessing its …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Former FinCEN director Raymond King meets with the mysterious assassin Anaïs to ask her help locating a Salvadorean family, offering only a dated photo of the parents and their young son. Anaïs does not respond to the offer but warns King …
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Action, Destiny, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
One year after Han Solo's capture and imprisonment in carbonite, C-3PO and R2-D2 enter the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. They were sent as a goodwill gift from Luke Skywalker, who hopes to negotiate with Jabba for Ha…
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