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Action, Sci-Fi, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2055, an artificial intelligence created by the U.S. government detonates a nuclear warhead over Los Angeles, California. In response, most of the Western world pledges to eradicate AI to prevent humanity's extinction.
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Coming Of Age, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have settled into a life of material comfort but emotional unease back in District 12 following their joint victory in the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss was traumatized by the Games and remains emotionally d…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller is restoring an old Cessna as a present from his wife, Sarah, who leaves for a business trip in London. At the CIA's Decryption and Analysis division, Charlie has befriended a field agent, Jackson O'Brien, …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1995, on the Kree Empire's capital planet of Hala, Starforce member Vers suffers from amnesia and recurring nightmares involving an older woman. Yon-Rogg, her mentor and commander, trains Vers to control her abilities, while the Supreme…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Following the Avengers's battle against Thanos, Scott Lang has become a successful memoirist and has been living happily with his girlfriend, Hope van Dyne. Scott's now-teenage daughter Cassie has become an activist, helping people displac…
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Cybertron is a technological world formed by the body of the deity Primus and inhabited by sentient robots fueled by a substance called Energon, who live in a hierarchy based on whether they possess a 'transformation cog' that allows them …
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Action, action film, drama film
Troubled former UFC middleweight fighter Elwood Dalton makes a living scamming fighters on the underground circuit. He is approached by Frankie, the owner of an unruly roadhouse in the Florida Keys community of Glass Key, who offers him a …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, survival film
In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing, slowly poisoned by his adamantium skeletal grafts. Working as a limousine driver in El Paso, Texas, he and the mutant tracker Cal…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Detective Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, mystery film
In 1977 Los Angeles, Holland March is a private eye hired by Mrs. Glenn to find her niece, porn star Misty Mountains, who she claims to have seen after her death. March's investigation leads him to Amelia Kuttner.
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Action, Caper-Movie, Dark Comedy, boxing film, crime comedy film
A gang of robbers, disguised as Orthodox Jews, steal an diamond during a heist in Antwerp. Franky Four-Fingers, the gang's leader, travels to London to see diamond dealer Doug the Head on behalf of Jewish-American organised crime figure Co…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, thriller film
In 2003, senior CIA official Donald Fitzroy visits a prisoner named Courtland Gentry in Florida. Eight years earlier, Courtland was a minor convicted of killing his abusive father to protect his brother. Fitzroy offers him his freedom in e…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, war film
In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover an old aircraft with someone frozen inside and a circular shield. In March 1942, during World War II, Nazi lieutenant general and Hydra leader Johann Schmidt steals a mysterious relic ca…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 965 AD, Odin, king of Asgard, wages war against the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and their leader Laufey, to prevent them from conquering the Nine Realms, starting with Earth. The Asgardians defeat the Frost Giants and seize the source of …
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1967, a young Tony Soprano accompanies his mentor, Dickie Moltisanti, to welcome home Dickie's father, Aldo "Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti, and his new Italian bride, Giuseppina. Dickie is a soldier in the DiMeo crime family, which also in…
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Coming Of Age, Martial-Arts, Sport, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film, teen film
In 1984, 17-year-old Daniel LaRusso and his mother Lucille move from Newark, New Jersey, to Reseda, Los Angeles, California. Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric, but kind and humble Okinawan immigrant named Nariyoshi Miyagi. At a be…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film, road movie, teen film
A young Gabby visits her grandma Gigi, who was working on a cat-themed dollhouse which she made just for her. She gets very excited when she shows her the Gabby Cats, Cakey, MerCat, Kitty Fairy, Baby Box, Carlita, DJ Catnip, CatRat, and Pi…
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Action, Terrorism, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film
LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple are tasked with preventing a bombing on a city elevator containing 13 people. After narrowly rescuing the passengers, the duo find and confront the bomber, during which, Harry i…
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Christmas film, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In Gotham City, two wealthy socialites, horrified by the birth of their malformed and feral son Oswald, abandon him in the sewers, where a colony of penguins takes him in. Thirty-three years later, during the Christmas season, wealthy indu…
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Secret Agent, action film, fantasy film, spy film, thriller film
Elly Conway, an introverted spy novelist, has almost finished her fifth book about Aubrey Argylle, the eponymous character of the Argylle series, but suffers from writer's block after feedback from her mother, Ruth. On a train journey to v…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
John Strangways, the Station Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service in Jamaica, is murdered, along with his secretary, by a trio of assassins. Strangways had been helping the CIA investigate radio jamming of rocket launches from …
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Two years after the Battle of New York, Steve Rogers works in Washington, D.C., for the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., while adjusting to contemporary society. While running laps around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Tidal Basin,…
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Blaxploitation, Heist, Thriller, blaxploitation film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles. When Beaumont Livingston—Ordell's bagman—is arrested, Ordell hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1923, best friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker play together in the back of a biplane owned by Rafe's father in Tennessee, pretending to be combat airmen. By 1941, Danny and Rafe are first lieutenants in the US Army Air Force under t…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Cyrus, charismatic leader of the Gramercy Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, requests that 100 of the city's gangs each send nine unarmed delegates to Van Cortlandt Park for a midnight summit. The Warriors, a gang from Coney I…
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