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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but …
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Action, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Following a pitch by marketing executive Danny Moore, Nissan establishes the GT Academy to recruit skilled players of the racing simulator Gran Turismo and transform them into real racing drivers. Danny enlists former driver-turned-mechani…
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Action, Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1999, Sierra Leone is ravaged by civil war. The Revolutionary United Front terrorizes the countryside and enslaves many locals to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman fr…
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Historie, Mafia Film, Police Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film, trial film
In 1930, during Prohibition, the notorious gangland boss Al Capone supplies illegal liquor and controls most of Chicago. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness has been tasked with halting Capone's activities by hitting a warehouse with cr…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, action film, alien invasion, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Former Episcopal priest Graham Hess lives on a rural farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with his asthmatic preteen son, Morgan, and young daughter, Bo, who has a fixation on contaminated water. Graham's younger brother Merrill, a failed min…
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Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, dark fantasy, epic film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
In order to cast the world into eternal night, the Lord of Darkness sends the goblin Blix to kill the unicorns in the forest near his castle and bring him their horns. Told by Darkness that the best bait is Innocence, Blix and her colleagu…
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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
Returning from a Hong Kong business trip, Beth Emhoff meets up with a former lover during a Chicago layover. She feels slightly ill; two days later, back home in Minneapolis, she suffers a seizure and dies from an unknown illness. Her 6-ye…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, epic film, science fiction film
In an unnamed galaxy, the imperialistic Motherworld sees its royal family, including Issa, a princess who was expected to end its militaristic Imperium's planetary conquests, assassinated. Balisarius, a senator and former general, subseque…
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Japanese Monster Movie, Monster Film, action film, kaiju, science fiction film
In 1954, Godzilla, a prehistoric alpha predator, is lured to Bikini Atoll in an attempt to kill him with a nuclear weapon. In 1999, Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate the skeleton of a monster similar to God…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, prison film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Shortly after escaping the planet LV-426, the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco is travelling back to Earth with Ellen Ripley, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Cpl. Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop in cryonic stasis. An alien egg hatches on boar…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 sends James Bond into the field to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his mission, Royal Navy Rear Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile …
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, war film
After being attacked by a brainwashed Peeta Mellark, Katniss Everdeen recovers from her injuries in District 13. President of District 13, Alma Coin, refuses to let Katniss go to the Capitol until they secure District 2, the last district …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter for seven years, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored resear…
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Adventure, Animalhorror, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, romance film
In 1933, during the Great Depression, struggling New York City vaudeville performer Ann Darrow is hired by financially troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to star in a film with actor Bruce Baxter. Ann is hesitant to join the picture until she …
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Nicholas Van Orton is a divorced investment banker in San Francisco. He is haunted by the death of his father, who committed suicide on his 48th birthday by jumping off the roof of the family mansion. For his 48th birthday, Nicholas's estr…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
James Hunt, a brash and self-confident individual, and Niki Lauda, a cool and calculating technical genius who relies on practice and precision, are exceptional racing drivers who develop a fierce rivalry in 1970 at a Formula Three event i…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Kathmandu, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. They steal several pages from a book belonging to the Ancient One, a long-lived sorcerer who has taught every student at Kam…
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 1928 at Giza, Egypt, archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpos…
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Animation, Computeranimation, Komödie, Western film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film
A theatrically-minded pet chameleon is left to fend for himself in the Mojave Desert after his vivarium accidentally falls out of his owners' car. The cause of the accident, armadillo hermit Roadkill, was crossing the road in search of a m…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who revea…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, action thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
William Foster is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a hot day. After his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking, carrying his briefcase. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone …
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film, disaster film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its riva…
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