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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, buddy cop film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order…
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
The film opens to a scene of modern-day female soldiers in a battle, armed with firearms and swords, preparing to fight monsters known as "breakers" that emerge from an underground opening called the "stitch". The scene is narrated by an u…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Thriller, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film, heist film
The Bonwit Teller department store in New York City is blown up by a bomb during the morning commute. A man identifying himself as "Simon" telephones the New York Police Department (NYPD) and claims responsibility. Making demands in the fo…
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Adventure, Komödie, adventure film, romantic comedy film
Sue Charlton is a feature writer for her father's newspaper, Newsday, and is dating the editor, Richard Mason. She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small township in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. "Mick" or "Crocodile…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
A truck driven by a paraplegic man disguised in drag and filled with dozens of dogs is stopped by police in New Jersey. The driver, Douglas “Doug” Munrow, is arrested. Psychiatrist Evelyn is called to interrogate him, and the film unfolds …
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Fugitive Drama, Justice Drama, Melodrama, Political Thriller, action film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
thumb|The Azure Window of Gozo appears in the background of some scenes (picture from 2003). In 1815, Edmond Dantès, second mate of a French merchant vessel, and his friend Fernand Mondego, a representative of the shipping company, seek me…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
The Federation starship USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown for resupply and shore leave for its crew. Struggling to find meaning in the third year of their five-year exploration, Captain James T. Kirk has applied for a promotion t…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Mike McCann, a seasoned ice-road trucker, is grappling with survivor's guilt following the death of his younger brother, Gurty, who perished in the events of The Ice Road. To honor Gurty's final wish, Mike travels to Nepal to scatter his a…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Phil Broker, a DEA agent, leads a raid on a methamphetamine lab owned by Danny "T" Turrie, a biker gang boss who leads the Outcasts MC. Danny T is arrested, but his son is killed when police shoot him. Broker retires from the agency as a r…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
After mistakenly shooting Derek Jeter at the World Series, hot-tempered NYPD detective Terry Hoitz is partnered with mild-mannered forensic accountant Allen Gamble. Both are ridiculed by their peers, who idolize detectives Chris Danson and…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust, Eli travels on foot across the wasteland of the continental land of the former U.S. nation in search of water. He arrives in a ramshackle town ruled by a warlord named Carnegie, who seeks to control …
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Action Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, action comedy film
Friends and train stewardesses Tess and DeeDee find themselves out of a job when their train line, the Stank Rail, is discontinued. They sneak onto the Glamazonian Express disguised as stewardesses, where they meet Amber, Alli, and Ayshlei…
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Action Comedy, Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, action comedy film, black comedy film, speculative fiction film
A bitter and jaded Santa Claus has become so fed up with centuries of enabling mankind's materialism and greed that he intends to retire after finishing this year's Christmas deliveries. In Greenwich, Connecticut, Jason Lightstone and his …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
James Bond, alongside fellow MI6 agents 004 and 002, participates in a training exercise in Gibraltar. During the exercise, an assassin kills 004 and several British military personnel. Bond manages to chase down the assassin, who dies aft…
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LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller, thriller film
In 1990, Anna, a young Russian woman and victim of domestic abuse, will do anything to escape the life she is trapped in. A KGB agent, Alex, discovers Anna's predicament and recruits her as a field agent. After a year of training, she is t…
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Action, Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film, thriller film
Five years after the events of the first film, Jonas Taylor has been involved in fighting environmental crimes while helping Mana One explore the Mariana Trench, where the Megalodon had been found. Following the death of Jonas' wife Suyin …
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Jacob Harlon is a successful stockbroker living with his wife, Katherine, and son Joshua, in California. One night, while driving his wife and two friends home after an evening out, having dinner and drinking wine, he causes a collision wh…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, political thriller film, vigilante film
Force Recon Scout Snipers Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger and his spotter Donnie Fenn provide overwatch for a black ops mission in Ethiopia. The mission is successful, but while covering the retreat of friendly forces, an enemy attack hel…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, time-travel film
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the sta…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Monster Film, action film, horror film, thriller film
The film opens with Paul scavenging for supplies in a storehouse and then fleeing through deserted back alleys, with the pandemonium of an apocalyptic event in the background, sirens blaring, sounds of distant explosions, and people scream…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In 2005, potentially habitable "Planet G" is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built on Oʻahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha "Sam" Shane, …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Super Hero, action film, spy film, thriller film
In Sydney, bio-genetics scientist Doctor Vladimir Nekhorvich sends a message to the IMF for Dimitri (Ethan Hunt's cover name), his old friend, warning that his employer, Biocyte Pharmaceuticals, forced him to develop a biological weapon, t…
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Action, Mysterie, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police while wounded and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone, seemingly of him being forced to comply with the program. Six weeks later, CIA De…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals a time jet to escape to 2018 to save his wife, Laura, from assassination. During his escape, he is injured and crash-lands in 2022, where he encounters his 12-year-old self, who has been …
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