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Action, Fantasy, Monster Film, War Film, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
On the eve of D-Day in an alternate 1940s where Executive Order 9981 is signed in 1944, a paratrooper squad, most of them in an integrated unit, is sent to destroy a German radio-jamming tower in an old church. Their plane is shot down and…
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Action, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, vampire film
In the 15th century, Vlad Dracula is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania. As royal ward of the Ottoman Empire's Sultan, Vlad was trained since a young age to join the Sultan's elite janissary corps. He became their most feared warrior…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
A few weeks after their adventure on Spooky Island, Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, featuring an exhibit of monster costumes from their past cases. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a…
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Action
In 1990, Iqbal Haroon Khan, who owns The Great Indian Circus in Illinois, is ordered by the Western Bank of Chicago to close down the circus as he cannot repay his loan. Dejected, Iqbal commits suicide in front of his young son Sahir Iqbal…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the future on a human-populated space colony, Nova Prime, the S'krell extraterrestrial race attempts to take it over with creatures called Ursas, which hunt by "sensing" fear despite being technically blind. Humanity created a peacekeep…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
Boston homicide detective Thomas Craven picks up his daughter Emma, who comes home to visit. Emma feels increasingly unwell, vomiting and suffering a nosebleed. When they leave the house to go to a hospital, a masked gunman shouts "Craven!…
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Action, Drama, Romantic Drama, action film, boxing film, drama film
On New Year's Day 1976, world heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed has successfully defended his title in a split decision against challenger Rocky Balboa. He and Rocky are taken to the same hospital. Despite their agreement that there…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru, but is attacked by…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The citizens of a medieval-futuristic kingdom are protected by the Institute for Elite Knights, established by the legendary heroine Gloreth, who vanquished a "Great Black Monster" and enclosed the kingdom with a high wall one thousand yea…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, teen film
Teenager Ruby Baker and her little brother, Rhett, lose their parents suddenly in a car accident and are placed under the guardianship of family friends and former neighbors, Terry and Erin Glass. Erin is a respected physician and Terry ru…
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Action, Mafia Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|The film's 1979 trailer In 1920s Chicago, an Italian immigrant and ambitious low-level thug, Tony "Scarface" Camonte, works as a bodyguard for crime lord "Big" Louis Costillo. Tony guns down his boss with Costillo's disgruntled lieut…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, live-action/animated film, science fiction film
Sonic lives with the Wachowskis and attempts to help the public as a vigilante hero with little success due to his recklessness. While on a fishing trip, Tom advises Sonic to remain patient for the day his powers will be needed. He and Mad…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action-adventure film, heist film, screwball comedy film, treasure hunt film
thumb|270px|Left to right: Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett Smiler Grogan, a recently released convict, crashes his car on California State Route 74. With his dying brea…
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Bible Film, action film, fantasy film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In 1300 B.C., Moses, a general in the household of the Egyptian royal family, prepares to attack an encamped Hittite army with Prince Ramesses at Kadesh. A High Priestess divines a prophecy, which she relates to Ramesses's father, Seti I. …
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Komödie, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film
Loretta Sage, a former archaeology researcher, writes romance-adventure novels featuring the fictional Dr. Angela Lovemore and her romantic interest, Dash McMahon. To promote her latest book, her publisher, Beth Hatten, puts her on a book …
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film, sword and sorcery film
In 507, Geatish warrior Beowulf travels to Denmark with his band of soldiers, to slay Grendel, a creature that killed King Hrothgar's people during a celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar's wife Queen W…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
In the Mirror Universe, an alternate universe governed by the ruthless Terran Empire, a teenage Philippa Georgiou returns home from a deadly contest to determine the next Emperor. She reveals to her family that she befriended a boy named S…
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, film noir, heist film, neo-noir
Frank is a jewel thief and ex-convict who was released from Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. With a pair of Chicago businesses, including a car lot, as fronts for his criminal enterprise, he sets out to fulfill the missing p…
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Action Comedy, Western, Western film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, treasure hunt film
In 1933, at a San Francisco funfair, a boy named Will who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger encounters Tonto, an elderly Comanche man who starts recounting his experiences with the Old West adventurer, 64 years ago. In 1869, lawyer John R…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, prison film, thriller film
Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin is sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security military prison for sending his troops on a rescue mission in Burundi, which violated a presidential order and resulted in the deaths of eight soldiers. Prison …
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Action, Romance Film, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime thriller film, science fiction film, spy film, thriller film, time-travel film
In New Orleans, a ferry carrying U.S. Navy sailors and their families across the Mississippi River for Mardi Gras explodes, killing 543 people. ATF Special Agent Doug Carlin discovers evidence of a bomb planted by a domestic terrorist, and…
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Action, Heist, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Antwerp, Belgium, Donnie Wilson joins the Panther Crew, led by Jovanna, to steal a red diamond and files from an airport hangar. They flee disguised as SWAT. Back in Long Beach, California, Deputy Sheriff Nick O'Brien is recently divorc…
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Action Comedy, Computeranimation, Parodie, Super Hero, comedy film, fantasy film, superhero film
Within the DC-centric portion of the Lego universe, Batman protects Gotham City and fights crime. During his latest mission to stop the Joker and his cronies from destroying the city, Batman succeeds, but additionally hurts Joker's feeling…
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Action, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action thriller, adventure film, drama film, horror film
In 2050, the Kepler 822, a research and drilling facility operated by Tian Industries at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, is struck by what is assumed to be a strong earthquake. As part of the facility is destroyed by the incident, mechan…
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