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Action, Western, Western film, action film, crime film
In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue, accompanied by an army of Blackstone Agents, seizes control of the frontier town of Rose Creek and forces the residents to work as cheap labor for his mine, while polluting th…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
In London, MI6 agent Hattie Shaw retrieves a programmable supervirus 'Snowflake' from Eteon, a techno-terrorist organization. She is ambushed by Brixton Lore, an ex-MI6 agent and Eteon operative strengthened with cybernetic implants. Hatti…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, katastrophe, science fiction film
Paleontologist Alan Grant struggles to secure funding for his Velociraptor research, where he attempts to prove his hypothesis that the dinosaurs were intellectually and socially advanced. Instead, he finds himself rebuffing the public's o…
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Action, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film
Following the disappearance of her father, Lord Richard Croft, Lara Croft makes a living as a bike courier. She is arrested after a collision with a police car. Richard's business partner, Ana Miller, posts her bail and urges Lara to accep…
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Action, Drama, athletics film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Louis "Louie" Zamperini is a bombardier in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. An April 1943 bombing mission against Japanese installations on Nauru exposes him to danger. His B-24 Liberator is hit by enemy fire, a crewman i…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Crime, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, buddy cop film, martial arts film
On the last day of British rule of Hong Kong on June 30, 1997, Detective Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force leads a raid at the wharf, hoping to arrest the unidentified, anonymous crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang, Junta…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, action film, thriller film
The film opens with a prologue that consists of four segments described by critics as "vignettes". They show the principal characters in different parts of the world and provide their backstories. Nilo, an elegantly dressed man, enters a f…
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Destiny, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, historical drama, prison film, swashbuckler film
In 1662, the Kingdom of France moves toward revolution, facing bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch. The young and callous King Louis redistributes spoiling food supplies from the army to his starving citizens, and instr…
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Komödie, buddy film, romantic comedy, sex comedy
Andy Stitzer is a shy 40-year-old introvert who works as a stock supervisor at the electronics store Smart Tech. He gave up trying to have sex after various failed attempts and lives alone in an apartment with a collection of action figure…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
After an encounter with knife-throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin, mortally wounded British agent 009, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg, crashes into the British ambassador's residence and di…
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Cartoon, clay animation, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film, puppetoon animation
Fantasia is the adventurous 1940 experiment from Disney. The film sets Disney animated characters to classical music as Mickey Mouse uses his magic wand to set broom stick to dancing in one of the more famous elaborate scenes. The film was…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, spy film, thriller film
IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed in Budapest by assassin Sabine Moreau, who steals Russian nuclear launch codes to sell to a man named "Cobalt". IMF agent Ethan Hunt is extracted from a Moscow prison, along with an asset named Bogdan, by…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, drama fiction, family film, musical film
In the 1890s, a British couple and their infant son are shipwrecked in equatorial Africa. The couple build a tree house, but are killed by a leopard named Sabor. Kala, a local gorilla whose son was also killed by Sabor, finds the human inf…
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, crime film, spy film
A year after defeating Richmond Valentine, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin has officially joined the Kingsman intelligence service, taking his late mentor Harry Hart's title of "Galahad", and begun a relationship with Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden. H…
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Action, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 2012, following the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Benghazi is named one of the most dangerous places in the world. While several countries have pulled their embassies out of Libya in fear of an attack by militants, the U.S…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1985 Maine, lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry rescues Atlanna, queen of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, during a storm. They fall in love and have a son named Arthur, who has the power to communicate with sea creatures. When Atlantean …
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Action, Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, drama film
On an Oklahoma farm in 1969, young Jo Thornton, her parents, and their dog Toby take shelter from an F5 tornado that destroys their farm and kills Jo's father. 27 years later, Jo is a tornado-obsessed meteorologist leading a team of storm …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, superhero film
In 1996, young Cletus Kasady's lover, Frances Barrison, is taken away from St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children to the Ravencroft Institute. On the way, Frances uses her sonic scream powers to attack young police officer Patrick Mulligan.
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, detective film, family film, fantasy film, mystery film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
In 1940s Brussels, young journalist Tintin browses an outdoor market with his pet dog Snowy, and purchases a model of a ship known as the Unicorn. He is then accosted by an Interpol officer named Barnaby and a ship collector named Ivan Iva…
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, ninja film, science fiction film, superhero film
In August 1945, Logan is held in a Japanese POW camp near Nagasaki. During the city's atomic bombing, Logan saved an officer named Ichirō Yashida by shielding him from the blast. In the present day, Logan has left the X-Men and lives as a …
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Parodie, Super Hero
John Hancock is an alcoholic, reckless superhuman imbued with flight, invulnerability, and super-strength. Acting as a haphazard and unrefined superhero in Los Angeles, he is shunned, ridiculed, and hated by the public for his drunken and …
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Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, LGBTQ-related film, Super Hero, Time Travel, black comedy film, superhero film, time-travel film
After fighting organized crime as Deadpool for two years, Wade Wilson fails to kill one of his targets on his anniversary with his girlfriend, Vanessa. That night, after the pair decides to start a family together, the target tracks Wade d…
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Action, Adventure, Animalhorror, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film
In 1944, two World War II fighter pilots, American pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari, parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat until the fight is interrupted by a giant ape. …
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