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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Terry Richmond, a Marine veteran, cycles into Shelby Springs, Louisiana to bail out his cousin Mike Simmons and to buy a work pickup truck. He is rammed by police officers Evan Marston and Steve Lann, who seize his in cash via civil forfei…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, chase film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In the years since destroying Cyberdyne Systems, John Connor has been living as a nomad following the death of his mother, Sarah. He fears the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet is still hunting him despite the foretold war between …
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, kaiju, science fiction film
Five years after the revelation of giant monsters, called "Titans", Dr. Emma Russell, a paleobiologist working for the Titan-studying organization Monarch, and her daughter Madison witness the birth of a giant larva named Mothra. Emma calm…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by a vampire, causing her to go into premature labor. Doctors can save her baby, but the woman dies. Thirty years later, the child has become the vampire hunter Blade, who is known as the "Daywalker", …
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Christmas film, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
James Bond saves a woman on the beach from an attempted suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to her hotel room to thank him, but when Bond arrives he is att…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, War Film, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, war film
During the second year of the Iraq War, a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team with Bravo Company identifies and attempts to destroy an improvised explosive device (IED) with a robot, but the wagon carrying the trigger charge breaks.…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, drama film, pirate film, survival film, thriller film
Richard Phillips takes command of MV Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container vessel from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Af…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
In 1977 Detroit, Vietnam War veteran and factory worker John Miller completes probation. He buys an engagement ring for his girlfriend Sophia, having rescued her from drug-trafficking mobster Reynolds, her abusive ex-boyfriend. The jealous…
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Caper-Movie, Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In August 2005, inside a small, dimly-lit cell, Dalton Russell proclaims he has committed the perfect bank robbery. Some time prior, in New York City, masked robbers, dressed in painter coveralls and using variants of the name "Steve" as a…
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Animalhorror, action film, disaster film, horror film, katastrophe, natural horror film, survival film, thriller film
During an international flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai, an improperly stowed power bank ignites a fire in the aircraft's cargo hold, leading to an explosion that ruptures the cabin and destroys an engine. As rows of passengers are rip…
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Action, Komödie, action film, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Eddie Morra is a struggling author in New York City. His girlfriend Lindy, frustrated with his lack of progress and ambition, breaks up with him. Eddie encounters Vernon, the brother of his ex-wife Melissa, who gives him a sample of a new …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Satire, Satire On War, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
In the early 1980s, Ukrainian-American restaurant employee Yuri Orlov, whose family assumed Jewish identities to emigrate from the Soviet Union, witnesses a gunfight amongst the Russian mafia in his neighborhood of Brighton Beach. The inci…
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Action, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
John Wick is on the run in Manhattan after he was labeled "excommunicado" for the killing of High Table crime lord Santino D'Antonio on Continental grounds. At the New York Public Library, John retrieves a marker medallion and a rosary. He…
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Aliens, Military Film, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Mercenary Royce is dropped from the sky into an unfamiliar jungle and meets several others who arrive the same way: Los Zetas enforcer Cuchillo, Spetsnaz Alpha Group soldier Nikolai, IDF sniper Isabelle, RUF officer Mombasa, San Quentin de…
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Action, Drama, War Film, war film
In February 1942, Allied convoy HX-25, consisting of 37 merchant and troop ships en route for Liverpool, enters the "Black Pit", the Mid-Atlantic gap, where they will be out of range of protective air cover. The convoy's escort consists of…
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Action Comedy, action film, thriller film, war film
The Expendables are sent to Libya to prevent mercenary Suarto Rahmat from stealing nuclear warheads for a mysterious terrorist named Ocelot. The team is led by Barney Ross and formed of members Lee Christmas, Toll Road, and Gunner Jensen, …
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Super Hero, detective film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1961 Philadelphia, baby Elijah Price is born with both arms and legs broken, caused by Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease that renders his bones extremely fragile and prone to fracture. In the present day, unhappily married …
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
U.S. Marshal Madolyn Harris arrests Winston, an accountant, while he is hiding in Alaska after turning informant against his former employer, the Moretti crime family. Madolyn charters a small airplane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, to take them t…
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Action, Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, war film
In 1793, amid the French Revolution, young army officer Napoleon Bonaparte watches Marie Antoinette beheaded by the guillotine. Later that year, Revolutionary leader Paul Barras has Napoleon manage the Siege of Toulon; he storms the enemy …
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Former Green Beret and retired CIA officer Bryan Mills attempts to build a closer relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, who lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy step-father, Stuart. While overseeing security at a conce…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
On the planet of Cybertron, the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are on the verge of losing their war against the Decepticons and prepare to evacuate the planet. Decepticon forces led by Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave intercept the Au…
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Action, Knights Tale, Komödie, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, knight film, romance film
At a jousting tournament in 14th-century Europe, squires William Thatcher, Roland, and Wat discover that their master, Sir Ector, has died of dysentery. With one more pass, he could have won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ect…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, thriller film
The Ark spacecraft escapes from the planet Cybertron carrying an invention capable of ending the war between Autobots and Decepticons, and crash-lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon in 1962. NASA detects the crash, and President John F. …
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
Four years after becoming king of Atlantis, Arthur Curry has married Mera and has a son, Arthur Jr., while splitting his life between land and sea. Meanwhile, David Kane / Black Manta continues to seek revenge against Arthur for his father…
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