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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist for the NOAA, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf with his colleagues Frank and Jason. A large portion of the ice shelf splits away, but they manage to escape. At a United Nations conference …
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Super Hero, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Seeing Michael's potential, their adoptive father and ho…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor launches a final offensive against Skynet, an artificial general intelligence system seeking to eliminate the human race. Before the Resistance can triumph, Skynet activates a time displacement …
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
In Bilbao, MI6 agent James Bond meets Swiss banker Lachaise to retrieve money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M. Bond interrogates the banker to identify the assassin of an MI6 agent, but Lachaise is killed before r…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable. Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film, vigilante film
After taking down Pushkin's operations, Robert McCall works as a driver and assists the less fortunate with the help of his close friend and former DIA colleague Susan Plummer. McCall travels to Istanbul, and disguises himself as a bearded…
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Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, swashbuckler film, thriller film, vampire film, werewolf film
In 1887 Transylvania, Doctor Victor Frankenstein, aided by his assistant Igor and Count Dracula, creates a monster. Dracula kills Frankenstein when he refuses to go along with the vampire's designs for the creature as Igor, revealed to be …
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Horror, Super Hero, action film, horror film, science fiction film
Danielle "Dani" Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, is hidden in a tree by her father as her entire reservation is devastated by a tornado, leaving her the only survivor. After falling unconscious, Dani awakens in an oddly empty ho…
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Action, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Russia, the media covers Tony Stark's disclosure of his identity as Iron Man. Ivan Vanko, mourning the death of his father Anton Vanko—a former Stark Industries employee, sees this and builds the same miniature arc reactor as Stark's us…
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Action, Adventure, Monumental Film, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film
In the year 10,191, the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most valuable substance in the empire is the spice melange, which extends life and expands consciousness. The spice also allows the Spacing Guild to fo…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2500, rising sea levels have put every continent on Earth underwater. The remains of human civilization live on makeshift floating communities built out of scavenged materials known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land.…
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Adventure, Destiny, Melodrama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film, war film, white savior film
In 1863, 1st Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, serving with the Union army, is wounded in a stalemated battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee.
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, horror film
In ancient China, the warlord Qin Shi Huang unified Qin and became the founder of the Qin dynasty, known as the Dragon Emperor. Fearing his death would end all he had accomplished, the Emperor summoned the sorceress Zi Yuan and sent her to…
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Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, science fiction film
In the mid-1950s, the Men in Black (MIB) organization was founded. After secretly making first contact with extraterrestrials in 1961, the small, albeit underfunded government agency becomes fully independent and secret. The MIB designates…
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Crime, Justice Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Max Durocher is a Los Angeles cab driver trying to save his earnings and start his own limousine business. One of the evening's fares is federal prosecutor Annie Farrell, who works for the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Californ…
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Action, Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Komödie, Police Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, parody film
Nicholas Angel, a recently promoted Metropolitan Police Sergeant, is reassigned to the rural town of Sandford, Gloucestershire for being too exceptional, despite his desire to continue in London. On his first night in town, Angel arrests D…
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Action Comedy, action film, comedy film
Dan Morgan, an ex-assassin who works as a car salesman, lives quietly in the Buffalo suburbs with his wife Jessica and their three kids; teens Nina and Kyle, and infant Max. Dan is content with his low-key life and dislikes violence, tech,…
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Action, Adventure, Heist, adventure film, fantasy film, heist film, mystery film
Disgraced archaeologist Luke Purdue steals a painting from criminals in Thailand and foils the mysterious Esme and her henchmen, who attempt to seize the painting themselves. In London, Luke surprises his sister Charlotte, a museum curator…
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Action, Adventure, Historie, Martial-Arts, Melodrama, Psychodrama, Samurai Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, ninja film, war film, white savior film
In 1876, former U.S. Army Captain Nathan Algren, an alcoholic traumatized by his actions during the American Indian Wars, is approached by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bagley. Bagley asks him to train the newly created Imperial J…
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Action, Parodie, Political Satire, Political Thriller, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, romantic comedy film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Tasker, to the knowledge of his wife Helen and his daughter Dana, is a mild-mannered computer hardware salesman often away on business trips. In reality he works for Omega Sector, a top-secret U.S. counterterrorism agency.
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Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
On the planet Krypton, Jor-El, a member of the Kryptonian high council, sentences criminals General Zod, Ursa, and Non to the Phantom Zone. He warns the council that Krypton will be destroyed by its exploding red supergiant sun, but they d…
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Action, Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film
In the 1960s, governmental genetics researcher David Banner tries to improve human DNA. His supervisor, Colonel Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, forbids human experimentation, so David experiments on himself. His wife, Edith, soon gives birth …
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Classical Western, Western film, action film, drama film
A gang of bandits led by Calvera periodically raids a poor Mexican village for food and supplies. After the latest raid, during which Calvera kills a villager, the village leaders decide to consult the only man they believe has the wisdom …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, techno-thriller, thriller film, war film
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. Sometime later, the automated Skynet system is activated, becomes self-aware, and p…
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