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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, action film, fantasy film, horror film
In 3067 B.C., a warrior known as the Scorpion King leads an army to conquer the world. However, they are eventually defeated, and he is exiled to the desert of Ahm Shere. Dying, the King offers Anubis his soul in return for the power to de…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
"Nada" is a homeless man who comes to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of work, where he spots a preacher warning that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. He finds employment at a construction site and befrie…
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High Fantasy, Monumental Film, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Awakening from a dream of Gandalf fighting the Balrog in Moria, Frodo Baggins finds himself, along with Samwise Gamgee, lost in the Emyn Muil near Mordor. They discover they are being pursued by Gollum, a former bearer of the One Ring. Cap…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
After the MI6 agent James Bond fails a routine training exercise, his superior M sends him to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a nurse beating a male patient with a bandaged face. While the…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, action film, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, romance film, speculative fiction film
In the fictional city of Agrabah, an orphaned street urchin named Aladdin and his monkey, Abu, meet Princess Jasmine, who has snuck away from her sheltered life in the palace. She wishes to succeed her father as Sultan but is instead expec…
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Action, Action Comedy, Super Hero, action film, black comedy film, erotic film, superhero film
The vigilante Deadpool, Wade Wilson, ambushes Ajax and his convoy on an expressway. Throughout the ambush, Wade shows the viewer the events leading to how he became Deadpool. After being dishonorably discharged from the Canadian special fo…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
In 1996, Brantford, New Hampshire, teenager Alex Vreeke receives Jumanji, which was previously disposed of by Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle in 1969, from his father, who found it on the coast. Only interested in video games, he sets the b…
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Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction action film
In 484 AD, Merlin finds the Knights of Iacon, a group of Transformers hiding on Earth, seeking their help to aid King Arthur and his knights. They hand him a staff and help Arthur defeat the Saxons, but warn Merlin to hide the staff. In th…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1993, alcoholic advertising executive Joe Doucett gets drunk after losing a major account. Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. When he awakes, he finds himself locked within a hotel room.
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Action, Erotic Film, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, chase film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
Three friends, Arlene, Shanna and radio DJ "Jungle" Julia Lucai, drive down Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on their way to celebrate Julia's birthday. In a bar, Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance …
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, action film, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
Peter Banning, a workaholic lawyer, has a strained relationship with his wife, Moira, and their children, 9-year-old Jack and 6-year-old Maggie, due to his constant absences and broken promises. During Christmas, the family travels to Lond…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action comedy film, action film, buddy cop film
Four years after the death of Isabel Aretas, MPD Detective Mike Lowrey marries his physical therapist, Christine. During the reception, his partner, Detective Marcus Burnett, suffers a heart attack and goes into a coma, where he experience…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic fiction, science fiction film
In the year 2563, 300 years after Earth was devastated in a catastrophic war against the United Republic of Mars (URM), scientist Dr. Dyson Ido salvages a disembodied female cyborg with an intact human brain in the Iron City scrapyard. He …
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Action, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Twelve years after exposing Blackbriar, ex-CIA agent and Treadstone operative Jason Bourne is still tormented by flashbacks. He isolated himself from the world, making a living as a street fighter in Greece. Meanwhile, in Reykjavík, former…
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Drama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film
In 1878, 14-year-old Mattie Ross travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, after her father is murdered by hired hand Tom Chaney. Sent to collect her father's body, she learns that Chaney has likely fled with "Lucky" Ned Pepper and his gang into In…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, buddy film
After his adopted son Jimmy Boy is released from prison, mob boss Sosa and his men celebrate with a night of partying. Among them is Nick, a loan shark whose wife Alice is having an affair with his fellow criminal Quick Draw Mike. No longe…
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Biographical picture, Military Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Growing up in Texas, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Chris has become a ranch hand and rodeo cowboy, and returns home early to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. After telling h…
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Pirate Film, Silly Movie, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, epic film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
Now in control of the oceans, Lord Cutler Beckett executes anyone associated with piracy in Port Royal and orders Davy Jones to destroy all pirate ships, also forcing him to kill the Kraken. Condemned prisoners sing 'Hoist the Colours' to …
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Action, Fake Documentary, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, adventure film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, mockumentary, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1982, an extraterrestrial mothership arrives and hovers over Johannesburg, South Africa. Inside, an investigation team finds over a million starved insectoid and crustacean-like aliens and the South African government voluntarily reloca…
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Heist, Mafia Film, Police Film, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at his downtown apartment. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by C…
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Action, Adventure, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film
Orphaned brothers Sam and Nathan "Nate" Drake are caught trying to steal a map made after the Magellan expedition from a Boston museum. Before the orphanage can expel Sam, he sneaks out to be on his own, but promises Nate that he will retu…
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
Two years after the capture of rogue British agent Solomon Lane, his terrorist network, the Syndicate, has reorganized as the Apostles, a terror-for-hire group. They are recruited by extremist "John Lark" to acquire three plutonium cores f…
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Action, Found Footage, Monster Film, action-adventure film, disaster film, fantasy film, found footage film, kaiju, katastrophe, pseudo-documentary, science fantasy, science fiction action film, thriller film
The footage from a personal camcorder is recovered by the U.S. Department of Defense in the area "formerly known as Central Park", bearing a disclaimer about multiple sightings of a case designated "Cloverfield". On April 27, 2008, Rob Haw…
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Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical drama, war film
In April 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British frigate HMS Surprise is ambushed by the French privateer Acheron off Brazil, suffering heavy damage by cannon balls. After escaping by using rowboats to tow the ship into a nearby fog …
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