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Action Comedy, Adventure, Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, flashback film, kung fu film, wuxia
In the Valley of Peace province of Ancient China, the red panda Master Shifu learns from his mentor, the tortoise Master Oogway, that the snow leopard Tai Lung will escape from imprisonment and attempt to acquire the Dragon Scroll, an arti…
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Action, action film, fantasy film, sword-and-sandal film
Hercules leads a band of mercenaries composed of king-turned-prophet Amphiaraus of Argos, thief Autolycus of Sparta, mute and feral barbarian Tydeus of Thebes, Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia, and storyteller and nephew to Hercules, Iola…
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Action, Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Some time after helping the Holy See deal with an antimatter threat, Harvard University professor Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital room in Florence, Italy. He has no memory of the last few days but is plagued with hellish visions. Dr.
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Musical, Sci-Fi, action film, adult animated film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
"Soft Landing" The title sequence was based on the comic of the same name by Dan O'Bannon and Thomas Warkentin. The title sequence story opens with a Space Shuttle orbiting the Earth. The bay doors open, releasing a 1960 Corvette.
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Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, superhero film, war film
As a child, Diana participates in an athletic competition on Themyscira against adult Amazons. After being knocked off her horse, she takes a shortcut and remounts, but misses a checkpoint. Antiope removes her from the race for cheating, e…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
Kumandra, a prosperous Southeast Asian land where humans live alongside dragons, is ravaged by the Druun, mindless spirits that petrify every living being in their path. Sisu, the last surviving dragon, concentrates her magic into a gem an…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Pirate Film, Sex Film, Sexploitation Film, pornographic film
In 1763, Captain Edward Reynolds is hunting pirates, or at least trying to do so. He does not consider himself a great commander, and neither does most of his crew. Only his first officer Jules believes in him.
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
An Army sniper living in a trailer park struggles to protect her family from a trio of super soldiers who have escaped from a secret military facility and are killing everyone in their path.
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive by revealing the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru to save them, and Spock, from a cataclysmic vol…
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Action, action film, comedy film, sport film
Speed Racer is a young man passionate about automobile racing. His parents, Pops and Mom, run Racer Motors, which involves his brother Spritle, their pet chimpanzee Chim Chim, mechanic Sparky, and his girlfriend Trixie. He also idolizes hi…
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Anti-War Film, Political Drama, Psychodrama
Lieutenant Werner, a war correspondent on the in October 1941, is driven by his captain and chief engineer to a French bordello, where he meets some of the crew. Thomsen, another captain, gives a drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Girls with Guns, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Underneath Raccoon City, a genetic research facility called the Hive is owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intellig…
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Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Komödie, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy comedy, fantasy film
Shrek and Princess Fiona are to succeed King Harold, but Shrek's attempts to serve as the regent during Harold's medical absence end in disaster, as he lacks interest in being king of Far Far Away. With his dying breath, Harold tells Shrek…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
An American gangster, Rodney, visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to kill him and collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate, where Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and kills hi…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, thriller film
In 1933, John Dillinger infiltrates Indiana State Penitentiary, jailbreaking his crew. During the firefight, his mentor Walter Dietrich is shot and killed. Dillinger and company change clothes and eat at a nearby farm before driving to a s…
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Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, heist film
As Dominic Toretto is being transported by bus to Lompoc Prison, his sister Mia Toretto and friend Brian O'Conner lead an assault on the bus and free Dom. While the authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting D…
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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, Sword And Sorcery, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
The evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda of Nockmaar hears of a prophecy that a child with a special rune birthmark will bring about her downfall. She imprisons all pregnant women in her realm. The child is born, but her mother persuades the midw…
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, drama film, epic film, historical film
In the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, General Nanisca, leader of the all-female regiment of warriors, the Agojie, liberates Dahomean women who were abducted by slavers from the Oyo Empire. This provokes King Ghezo of Dahomey to p…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin is on vacation in Beirut when he disrupts a conference of the United States' greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who are …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
An FBI bust of a smuggling operation in Tampa results in the deaths of Bobby Saint, the son of mafia boss Howard Saint, and Otto Krieg, an arms dealer. However, Krieg's death was faked, and he is later revealed to be undercover FBI agent F…
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Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film
At the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, King Leopold II of Belgium claims the Congo Basin. Five years later, after accruing massive debts in exploiting the resources of the Congo Free State, Leopold sends his envoy Léon Rom to secure the fa…
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Historie, Late Western, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, Western film, drama film
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, the…
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Martial-Arts, Sport, children's film, comedy drama, drama film, martial arts film, sport film
12-year-old Dre Parker and his widowed mother Sherry move from Detroit to Beijing after she gets a job transfer at a car factory. Dre meets young violinist Meiying, and immediately becomes infatuated with her. However, Cheng, a rebellious …
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