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Drama, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, drama film, horror film, horror western, revisionist Western, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
A mysterious, unnamed stranger rides out of the desert into the isolated mining town of Lago in the American Old West. He jerks upon hearing the sound of a horse whip from a passing buckboard. While sitting for a shave in a barber’s chair,…
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Action, Thriller, action film, heist film, thriller film
Afghanistan Marine veteran Will Sharp, desperately needing money for his wife Amy's surgery, reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and life-long criminal. He is talked into being the getaway driver for a $32 million bank heist. Though…
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Action, Adventure, High Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Following their battle with Azog and his Orc party, Thorin Oakenshield and his company are ushered by Gandalf to the nearby home of Beorn, a skin-changer who can take the form of a bear. That night, Azog is summoned to Dol Guldur by the Ne…
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Action, action film, thriller film
The Expendables—led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunner Jensen, and Toll Road—extract former member Doctor Death, a medic and knives specialist, from a dictator’s fortress prison-camp during his transfer on a train. They rec…
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Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, science fiction film
In 1978, a group of aliens called the Zarthans, led by Princess Lauranna, travel to Earth and beg the Men in Black (MIB) organization for help in guarding a powerful item called the Light of Zartha before a shapeshifting alien called Serle…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Convenience store robber Herbert ("H.I." or "Hi") McDunnough meets police officer Edwina ("Ed") when she takes his mugshot after each of several arrests in Tempe, Arizona. He learns that Ed's fiancé has left her for a younger woman and, af…
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Adventure, Girls with Guns, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, girls with guns, science fiction film, treasure hunt film
Adventurer Lara Croft defeats a robot in an Egyptian tomb, revealed to be a training exercise arena in her family manor, where she lives with her technical assistant Bryce and butler Hillary. In Venice, as the first phase of a planetary al…
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Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film
After his victory over Ivan Drago in Moscow, Rocky Balboa finds himself experiencing physical trauma from the fight. He returns with his wife Adrian, brother-in-law Paulie, and trainer Tony "Duke" Evers to the United States, where Rocky's …
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Adventure, Fantasy, Stop Motion, action film, adventure film, family film, fantasy film
In the early feudal Japan era, a 12-year-old boy with only one eye named Kubo tends to his ill mother in a mountain cave near a village. He earns their living by manipulating origami with music from his magical shamisen (a Japanese stringe…
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Action, action film
Ovi Mahajan Jr., son of incarcerated Indian drug lord Ovi Mahajan Sr., sneaks out of his house to attend a party with his friend. At the party, corrupt police officers working for rival Bangladeshi drug lord Amir Asif shoot and kill Ovi Jr…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, biographical film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
Around 285 BC, Ptolemy I Soter, basileus and pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, narrates the life of Alexander. Alexander grows up with his mother Olympias and his tutor Aristotle, where he finds interest in love, honor, music, exploration, poetr…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
Six years after the events of the first film, Ralph and Vanellope have stayed best friends, hanging out after work in Litwak's Arcade. Ralph is content with their life, but Vanellope longs for excitement and expresses how bored she has bec…
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Parodie, Satire, Secret Agent, Splatstick, parody film, spy film
On his honeymoon in 1999, British spy Austin Powers discovers that his wife, Vanessa Kensington, is actually an android "fembot" controlled by Dr. Evil. After Vanessa self-destructs, Austin celebrates that he is single again.
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Action, Drama, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, thriller film, zombie film
The United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies. At the dawn of the crisis, it has been reported that millions of people have died and reanimated. Despite the go…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller film
In November 1989, days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin kills MI6 agent James Gascoigne and steals his watch, which contains a microfilm document with a list of the names of every intelligence agent active in …
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Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, martial arts film
U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux, who has trained in the ways of ninjutsu since childhood under sensei Senzo Tanaka, receives an invitation to the Kumite, a three-day underground martial arts tournament in Hong Kong. Going absent without leave,…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historie, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, thriller film
Ahmed ibn Fahdlan is a court poet of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir of Baghdad until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an "ambassador" to the Volga Bulgars. Traveling with his father's old frien…
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action thriller, disaster film
In 1970, Japanese Ride Flight 351 is hijacked by armed members of Japan's Red Army Faction soon after taking off for Itazuke from Tokyo. The young hijackers, referring to themselves as Ashita no Joe, demand to be flown to Pyongyang, where …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
A joint operation between American and Russian special forces captures General Ivan Radek, the dictator of a rogue neo-Soviet regime in Kazakhstan that retained its nuclear weapons, threatening war. Three weeks later, U.S. president James …
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Action, Military Film, action film, thriller film, war film
In upstate California, former United States Army Special Forces colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that unknown mercenaries have killed all the other members of his former unit. The assassin…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
In Aleppo, Syria, a team of US Navy SEALs, including Senior Chief Petty Officer John Kelly, rescue a CIA operative taken hostage by a suspected pro-Assad para-military group. The situation escalates as the SEALs discover that the captors a…
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Action, Crime, Heist, Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film
In 1969, student hackers and long-time friends Martin Brice and Cosmo use their skills to reallocate money from causes they consider evil to underfunded ones that help the world. When Martin steps out to get pizza, the police arrive and ar…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, ninja film, science fiction film
Weapons master James McCullen has created a nanotech-based weapon—nanobots that can rapidly devour any non-organic materials. His company M.A.R.S. sells four warheads to NATO, and American soldiers Duke and Ripcord are tasked to deliver th…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, prison film
Henri Charrière is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In France, he is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp in 1933 and is sentenced to life imprisonment in French Guiana. On the way, he meets…
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