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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, action comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
While driving through the Alps, thief Roger Beckerman is murdered by the local Mafia and his body disposed of in the river below. In the United Kingdom, his friend and fellow thief, Charlie Croker, is released from prison. After reuniting …
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Action, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
L.A.–based Englishman Chev Chelios works as a hitman under Don "Carlito" Carlos's crime empire. Chelios is contracted by Carlito to kill Don Kim, a mafia boss, because members of the Triads have been encroaching on Carlito's business. Chel…
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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, detective film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Amidst a hot summer in New York City, the dismembered body parts of men begin appearing in the Hudson River. Police suspect a serial killer is targeting gay men at West Village bars such as the Eagle's Nest, the Ramrod and the Cock Pit, lu…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, psychological thriller
When the body of a young woman is found on a lumber truck in Minnesota, Detective Walter Marshall suspects that the victim leapt to her death to escape from a captor. A breakthrough is inadvertently made in the case when former judge Micha…
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Action, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, drama film, girls with guns, vigilante film
In 1992, in Bogota, Colombia, drug baron Don Luis Sandoval sends his enforcer Marco and a gang of armed men to kill his gang member Fabio Restrepo and his family because Fabio has defied him by trying to leave his prolific drug crime activ…
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Action, Retro Science Fiction, action film, adventure film, comedy film, dieselpunk, family film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 1938 Los Angeles, California, gangsters from Eddie Valentine's gang steal a prototype rocket pack from aviation magnate Howard Hughes. During their escape from the pursuing police, the getaway driver quickly stops and hides the rocket i…
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Action Comedy, Silly Movie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Assassins named the "Allentown Brothers" enter a Mexican cartel's drug-processing facility and kill everyone, including the boss, King Diaz. They try to take Diaz's kitten, Iglesias, but the kitten escapes. Recently dumped Rell Williams fi…
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Mafia Film, Martial-Arts, Super Hero, action film, martial arts film
In Rome, Chen Ching-hua and her uncle Wang experience trouble with their restaurant from a crime boss who wants their property. When Chen refuses to give it up, the boss sends gangsters there to scare away the customers. Appealing to an un…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, police film
Kat Bryant is teaching improv classes in London, having made no career or relationship progress in a decade while her friends are all established. Among her new students are Marlon and Hugh. Marlon is an unsuccessful actor whose detailed c…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Super Hero, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In a dystopian future, a plague (called Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration) kills nearly 90 percent of the children in the United States. Those who survive develop superpowers. They are classified by color: Green (increased inte…
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Historie, Vampirfilm, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1818, Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with parents Nancy and Thomas, who work at a plantation owned by Jack Barts. There, Lincoln befriends a young African-American boy, William Johnson, and intervenes when Johnson is beaten by a slave…
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Satire On War, War Film, action film, heist film, war film
In 1944 France, during World War II, United States Army Private Kelly—a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault—captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Kelly realizes that Dankhopf is carrying several gold …
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, action film, adventure film, comedy film
June Havens, who is returning home to Boston from buying car parts in Wichita, collides with Roy Miller at the airport, and is bumped to a later flight. John Fitzgerald, a CIA agent, assumes June is working with Roy and puts her back on th…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, drama film, political film, political thriller film, thriller film
Major Bennett Marco commanded a U.S. Army unit during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Sergeant First Class Raymond Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions following an enemy ambush of his reconnaissance patrol in Kuwait.
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Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, teen film
In the Dogtown area of Santa Monica/Venice in the mid-1970s, teenagers Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams enjoy the life of skating and surfing the pier with board designer Skip Engblom and other locals. One day, Skip is given polyure…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
After his living toy friends from the Hundred Acre Wood throw him a farewell party before he departs for boarding school, Christopher Robin reassures Winnie the Pooh that he will never forget him. Nevertheless, his rough experiences at sch…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Joanna "Joey" Locke and her older brother Michael grow up in a troubled London household, which has forced Joey to take up wall-climbing to escape her abusive father. Twenty years later, as an adult and former soldier, Joey looks after Mic…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, action-adventure film
In 1987, while flying a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird on a mission over Soviet Russia, a US Air Force Pilot is forced to eject his plane to survive a mid-air collision with a MiG-29. In the Russian wilderness, he meets and befriends a Russian e…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Jeff and Amy Taylor are driving from Boston to San Diego in a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. In the Arizona desert, they nearly collide with a battered pickup. At a gas station, the pickup's driver, Earl, angrily confronts Jeff before departing.
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Crime, Komödie, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, a likeable Chicago-born dentist from Montreal, is despised by his wife Sophie and mother-in-law. His assistant Jill jokingly asks him to name a price to have Sophie disappear. Oz meets a new neighbor and realizes h…
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Fantasy, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, superhero film
U.S. Marine Corps Force Recon Lieutenant Colonel and CIA operative Al Simmons is assigned by his superior, Jason Wynn, to infiltrate a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea, despite Simmons' growing moral qualms with the nature of his w…
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Animation, Computeranimation, Komödie, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film
Dusty Crophopper, a young crop duster plane, works at a cornfield in Propwash Junction, Minnesota, and practices aerobatic maneuvers in his spare time. He dreams of becoming a racer but is scorned by his boss, Leadbottom, and his forklift …
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Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, science fiction film, splatter film, thriller film
Local fisherman Matt Boyd is fishing in Lake Victoria, Arizona when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool. Matt falls in and is eaten by a school of prehistoric piranhas that emerge from the chasm. As sp…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
After bombings in Sheffield, UK, police raid an apartment in Manchester, but the terrorists inside trigger an explosion, destroying the building. In Samarra, Iraq, CIA officer Roger Ferris is tracking Al-Saleem, the elusive leader of the t…
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