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Action Comedy, action comedy film
Randy and his partner Mike are paramedics. Frequently feeling chastised, overworked, and overlooked by both healthcare professionals and fellow uniformed personnel, Randy attends a job interview at an insurance company, highlighting that h…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a Soviet microchip. Q analyzes the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse, made by government contractor Z…
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Adventure, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
In 1938, a team of archaeologists is searching for the tomb of pharaoh Ahkmenrah in Egypt. Among the group is young Cecil "C.J." Fredericks, who discovers the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. As the team packs up the artifacts due to an incoming sands…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In San Francisco, pharmaceutical chemist Will Rodman tests the viral-based drug ALZ-112 on chimpanzees at the biotechnology company Gen-Sys to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-112 is given to a chimpanzee named Bright Eyes, greatly…
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Action, Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a Green Beret platoon is attacked and killed in a remote jungle valley by unknown predators while on a classified mission. Their commander, Colonel Jericho, calls in Vulture Squad, a LRRP team consisting of…
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American football film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, comedy film
Ace Ventura, an eccentric private investigator in Miami, specializes in rescuing animals and is frequently mocked by the Miami Police Department. After the Miami Dolphins' mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is stolen from the te…
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Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Animation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crossover fiction, dystopian film, family film, fantasy film, teen film
In a Lego universe, a wizard named Vitruvius fails to protect a superweapon called the Kragle—a tube of Krazy Glue—from the maniacal Lord Business, who blinds him in the process. Vitruvius prophesies that someone called "the Special" will …
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, historical drama
While heading to afternoon prayers in New Delhi on January 30, 1948, Gandhi is fatally shot. On 7 June 1893, in the Colony of Natal, young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi is forcibly expelled from a whites-only train carriage in Pietermaritzburg de…
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Military Film, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Three years after the incident in Hope, Washington, former U.S. Army Green Beret John Rambo is imprisoned at a penal labor facility. He is met by Colonel Sam Trautman, his commanding officer during the Vietnam War.
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Military Film, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, disaster film, propaganda film, thriller film, war film
In the 1980s, the United States has become increasingly isolated after NATO is dissolved and Western Europe's nuclear weapons are removed. The Soviet Union is devastated by a failed wheat harvest and is forced to use military intervention …
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Action Comedy, Heist, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1989, scientist Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering their attempt to replicate his Ant-Man shrinking technology. Believing the technology would be dangerous if replicated, Pym vows to hide it for as long as he lives.
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, ninja film, spy film, thriller film
American NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspects the Soviet Union, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investig…
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Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Before his 111th birthday, the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins writes a story of his adventure for his nephew, Frodo. Many years ago, the Dwarf king Thrór led his kin to prosperity under the Lonely Mountain until the dragon Smaug arrived. Smaug destr…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, science fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
Brilliant but narcissistic scientist Sebastian Caine develops a serum for the military that renders a subject invisible. His team includes ex-girlfriend Linda McKay, Matt Kensington, Sarah Kennedy, Janice Walton, Carter Abbey, and Frank Ch…
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Action Comedy, Computeranimation, Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, animated film, comedy film, ninja film, superhero film
Techno Cosmic Research Institute (TCRI) executive Cynthia Utrom sends a squad to hunt down rogue scientist Baxter Stockman, who has created a mutagenic ooze with which he intends to form his own mutant animal family, starting with a housef…
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Cartoon, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, family film, live-action/animated film, teen film
Mr. Krabs opens a second location of the Krusty Krab, right next to the original. His fry cook, SpongeBob SquarePants, hopes to be promoted to manager of the new restaurant, but Krabs instead selects his co-worker, Squidward Tentacles, exp…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
To avenge Tracy, James Bond hunts Ernst Stavro Blofeld. At a facility where Blofeld lookalikes are being created through plastic surgery, Bond kills a test subject and later the "real" Blofeld. While the assassins Mr.
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
Two ballistic missile submarines—one British and one Soviet—suddenly vanish. James Bond—MI6 agent 007—is summoned to investigate. On the way to his briefing, Bond is ambushed during a downhill ski chase by a squad of Soviet agents—includin…
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Action, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film
Mordred the warlock and his armies lay siege to Camelot. Uther Pendragon, the king of the Britons, infiltrates Mordred's lair during the attack and beheads him with the help of a unique sword forged by Merlin, saving Camelot. Uther's broth…
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Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy thriller, mystery film
Max and Annie Davis are avid gamers who met at bar trivia and became engaged during charades. The couple's plans for a baby are complicated by Max's feelings of inadequacy compared to his successful brother, Brooks. The couple regularly ho…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
In a flashback, a woman leaves her son, Thomas, with the scientist Ava Paige and armed operatives from the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD) to ensure his survival. Thomas, along with other children, is eventually placed in a co…
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Action, action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an oil drilling rig operated by private contractor Transocean, is set to complete drilling off the southern coast of Louisiana on behalf of BP. Chief Electronics Technician Michael "Mike" Williams and …
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Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt intercepts a shipment of nerve gas being moved from Minsk by The Syndicate, a secret consortium of rogue field operatives from various intelligence agencies that he has been tracking. At an IMF station in London, The S…
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Military Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, submarine film, thriller film, war film
In post-Soviet Russia, civil war erupts as a result of the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Military units loyal to Vladimir Radchenko, a Russian ultra-nationalist rebel, take control of a nuclear missile installation in the Russian Far East …
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