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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
While working an undercover prostitute sting operation in a nightclub to arrest a pimp named Neptune, Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alo…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, kaiju, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
In the isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada, handymen Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett decide to leave for the nearby town of Bixby after growing dissatisfied with their work. Before they can depart, they discover resident Edga…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, comic book, live action, parody film, science fiction film
In 1982, Sam Brenner and his friends Will Cooper and Ludlow "The Wonder Kid" Lamonsoff play at an amusement arcade together before Brenner participates in a video game championship, where he seemingly loses a Donkey Kong match to Eddie "Th…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the year 2678, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is struck by micrometeoroids that penetrate the hull, killing the captain and sending it off course toward a nearby planet. First Officer Owens and docking pilot Carolyn Fry attempt an emerge…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film, romantic comedy
In the animated fairy tale kingdom of Andalasia, the corrupt and ruthless Queen Narissa is determined to stay in power; her reign will end if her stepson, Prince Edward, ever gets married. Narissa enlists her loyal servant Nathaniel to hel…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, adventure film, crime thriller film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1891, a series of bombings blamed on political radicals bring France and Germany to the brink of war. Detective Sherlock Holmes narrowly intercepts one such bomb instead intended for expert surgeon Dr. Hoffmanstahl and Holmes' former lo…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
Dr. James Marcus, the founder of the Umbrella Corporation, had a daughter, Alicia, who was dying of progeria. Desperate to save her, Marcus confiscates an untested embryonic Umbrella project—the T-virus—created by his colleague Dr.
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 2012, alien criminal Boris the Animal escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon to take revenge on Men in Black (MIB) Agent K, who shot off his arm and arrested him in 1969. He eventually confronts K and his partner Agent J, te…
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lee, a martial artist and instructor from the Shaolin temple, is approached by British intelligence agent Braithwaite, who asks for his help in an undercover mission to investigate Han, a suspected crime lord, who was one of the students i…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, political thriller film, thriller film
Congressman Phil Hammersley opposes a proposed counterterrorism bill that would significantly expand surveillance powers for American intelligence agencies, arguing that it poses a threat to civil liberties. In response, National Security …
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, action thriller, comedy film, thriller film
During the 1st century BC, Roman general Mark Antony gives Egyptian queen Cleopatra three bejeweled eggs as a wedding gift. The eggs are lost in time until two are found by a farmer in 1907, but the last one remains lost for over 2,000 yea…
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Adventure, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The cast of the 1980s space-adventure series Galaxy Quest attend fan conventions and make trivial promotional appearances. Though the series' vain former star, Jason Nesmith, thrives on the attention, his co-stars Gwen DeMarco, Alexander D…
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Adventure, Animation, Komödie, Musical, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film, family film, live-action/animated film, musical film
Every emperor penguin attracts a mate by singing a unique "heartsong". If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin and they become mates.
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Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, an Israeli warplane carrying a nuclear bomb crashes. In 2002, Ghazi, a Syrian scrap collector, recovers the bomb from a field in the Golan Heights. He sells it to South African black market arms traffick…
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Crime, Parodie, Satire, Secret Agent, Splatstick, Super Hero, crime film, parody film, spy film
In 1967, Austin Powers is a flamboyant British spy, renowned for his charm, style, and embodiment of the era's free-spirited hedonism. Unable to defeat Austin, his nemesis Dr. Evil cryogenically freezes himself, intending to return when fr…
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Action, Historie, War Film, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
Queen Gorgo of Sparta narrates about the Battle of Marathon, in which King Darius of Persia was killed by Themistocles of Athens. Darius's son, Xerxes, witnesses his father's death and is advised to never wage war against the Greeks. Dariu…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Micky Ward is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother Alice, Micky is trained by his older half-brother Dicky Eklund, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leona…
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Martial-Arts, Super Hero, action film, martial arts film
In Thailand, civil war occurs between the forces of drug lord-turned-General M. Bison of Shadaloo and the Allied Nations led by Colonel William F. Guile.
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Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
The far-right Organisation armée secrète ("Secret Army Organisation") plots to assassinate President de Gaulle. The first attempt on 22 August fails, leaving de Gaulle and his entourage unharmed. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Bilbo and the Dwarves watch from the Lonely Mountain as the dragon Smaug sets Laketown ablaze. Bard breaks out of prison and kills Smaug with the black arrow. Smaug's falling body crushes the Master of Laketown and his cronies, who were es…
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Adventure, Animation, adventure film, coming-of-age film, dark fantasy, fantasy film
In the land of Prydain, Taran, a teenage "assistant pig-keeper" on the farm of Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the Enchanter, dreams of becoming a famous warrior. Dallben learns from the oracular powers of his pig Hen Wen that the evil Horne…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, science fiction film
In 2026, ten years after a "Simian Flu" pandemic, humans are nearly extinct, with only about 1 in 500 (0.2%) genetically immune. Human civilization was destroyed after societal collapse. The apes, all bestowed with genetically enhanced int…
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Christmas film, Political Satire, Satire On War, Sitcom, screwball comedy film, war film
Six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine, commanded by Akiro Mitamura and carrying Kriegsmarine officer Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt, surfaces off the Californian coast. Wanting to destroy something "hono…
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