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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
Batman and his partner, Robin, encounter a new villain, Mr. Freeze, who has left a string of diamond thefts in his wake. During a confrontation at the natural history museum, Freeze steals a diamond and flees, freezing Robin to distract Ba…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, superhero film, sword and sorcery film
On the planet Eternia, the warlord Skeletor seizes control of Castle Grayskull, the center of power in the universe. His army scatters the remaining Eternian defenders and captures the Sorceress of Grayskull, imprisoning her within a power…
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Fairy-Tale Film, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, dark fantasy, drama film, family film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic drama, teen film
Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm. As a child, she meets a human boy named Stefan, and they fall in love with each other. However, as they get older, they grow apart, with Stefan's love overshadowed…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, prison film, thriller film
After many failed attempts to get his fallen men the recognition they deserved via the proper channels and fed up with the U.S. Government's underhanded tactics, USMC Brigadier General Francis Hummel and his rogue group of Force Recon Mari…
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, neo-noir, period drama film, sport film
In 1941, Jake LaMotta is a young up-and-coming middleweight boxer who suffers his first loss to Jimmy Reeves after a controversial decision. Jake's brother Joey discusses a potential shot for the middleweight title with one of his Mafia co…
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Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, thriller film
Many years after his adventures with Shrek, Puss in Boots is accidentally crushed by a church bell after subduing a giant during a party in the town of Del Mar. As he recovers, the town doctor advises him to retire because he has already l…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
On the planet Corellia, orphans Han and Qi'ra escape a local gang. They bribe an Imperial officer with stolen coaxium, a starship fuel, for passage on a transport, but Qi'ra is captured before she can board. Han vows to return for her and …
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Action, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, superhero film
At a New Year's Eve party in 1999, Tony Stark meets scientist Maya Hansen, the inventor of Extremis, an experimental regenerative treatment that allows recovery from crippling injuries. Disabled scientist Aldrich Killian offers them a plac…
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Crime Comedy, action comedy film, black comedy, black comedy film, thriller film
Gary Johnson is a mild-mannered professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of New Orleans who also works for the New Orleans Police Department to assist in sting operations. When Jasper, an undercover detective who portrays f…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, Washington, D.C., archaeo-linguist Milo Thatch obsesses over finding the legendary lost city of Atlantis, believed to have sunk thousands of years ago. His employers ridicule his theories, but he gains an unexpected ally in eccent…
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Historie, Thriller, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
In 1978, Baton Rouge pilot Barry Seal, who flies commercial jets for TWA, is recruited by CIA case officer Monty Schafer. He asks Seal, who has been smuggling Cuban cigars into the country to make a little money, to fly reconnaissance miss…
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Classical Western, Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western, Western film, action film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, melodrama
A train arrives at the Old West town of Flagstone where a man with a harmonica (later dubbed "Harmonica") kills three men attempting to ambush him. Although Harmonica was expecting an outlaw named Frank, he concludes the men belonged to th…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Justice Drama, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, heist film
In September 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners, Luther Coleman and Joe Erie, con $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim in Joliet, Illinois. Hooker loses his share of the con on a rigged roulette …
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Super Hero, science fiction action film, superhero film
Thousands of years ago, Apokoliptian warlord Darkseid and his Parademons attempt to invade Earth using the combined energies of three Mother Boxes to form "the Unity", an event that would instantly devastate Earth and xenoform it into a co…
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, superhero film
Following Syndrome’s death, The Parrs (The Incredibles) and Lucius Best (Frozone) battle The Underminer in Municiberg. The superheroes prevent the villain from destroying city hall, but fail to stop him from robbing a bank and making his e…
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Satire, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film
In a near-future dystopia, Detroit is on the brink of social and financial collapse. Overwhelmed by crime and dwindling resources, the city grants the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of the Detroit Police Department. …
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Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Two years after the Battle of Sokovia, Thor is imprisoned by the fire demon Surtur, who reveals that Thor's father Odin is no longer on Asgard. He explains that Asgard will soon be destroyed during the prophesied apocalypse Ragnarök, once …
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Action Comedy, Animation, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
In the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, Hiro Hamada, a fourteen-year-old high school graduate and robotics prodigy, spends his time competing in illegal underground betting for robot fights. Hoping to get Hiro out of this dangerous lifest…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
James Dalton is a professional bouncer working security for a club in New York City. Although stoic and cool-headed, Dalton is tormented by memories of a man he killed in self-defense by ripping out his throat. Frank Tilghman, a businessma…
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Action, Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
During World War II, Allied POWs who have repeatedly escaped from camps in Germany are moved to a new camp under the command of Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. He warns the senior prisoner, Group Captain Ramsey, that escapees will be shot. Se…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, detective film, thriller film
In Chicago, vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble is arrested for the murder of his wife, Helen. Despite his claims that he caught a man with a prosthetic arm in the act, Helen's misinterpreted 911 call and substantial life insurance policy …
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Adventure, Fantasy, fantasy film
Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on the wizarding and Muggle worlds: his Death Eaters kidnap wandmaker Ollivander and destroy the Millennium Bridge. With Lucius Malfoy incarcerated in Azkaban, Voldemort chooses his son, Draco Malfoy, to ca…
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