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Heist, action film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
After being nearly caught during a burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells considers retiring to live with his girlfriend Diane and run his Montreal jazz club as a legitimate businessman. He declines another job from his fence Max, and is…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Cameron Vale, a vagrant who apparently suffers from auditory hallucination in the form of hearing voices in his head, causes a rude woman in a mall food court to have a seizure by what appears to be purely psychic means. Vale is then hunte…
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Action, Animation, Fantasy, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, teen film, thriller film
After her mother dies, 17-year-old Mary Katherine ("M.K.") moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba in Danbury, Connecticut. Bomba spent his life researching the Leafmen, tiny humanoid soldiers who protect the neighbori…
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Action, Historie, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
At a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1863, a slave named "Peter" is praying with his family when his owner, John Lyons, and a group of white men drag him out of his home at gunpoint. As the wagon carrying him pulls away, Peter cries out to …
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
Dr. Will Caster is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in hi…
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Action, Adventure, Thriller, action film, survival film, thriller film
Mountain rescue rangers Gabe Walker, his girlfriend Jessie Deighan, and Frank attempt to rescue their fellow ranger Hal Tucker and his girlfriend Sarah, stranded in the Colorado Rockies. Sarah's harness breaks loose, and she falls to her d…
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Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
left|200px|thumb|Shane (Alan Ladd) and Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur) Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, environmental film, science fiction film, survival film
In 2019, following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions "Dutch Boy", a system of climate-controlling satellites. After it neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai, a US Senate subcommittee reprimands chief a…
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Horror, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vigilante film
The Shadow Mountains In 1983, in the Pacific Northwest, recovering alcoholic war veteran (former MACV-SOG unit) lumberjack Red Miller lives with his girlfriend, artist and author Mandy Bloom, who had an abusive childhood. Mandy works as a …
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Komödie, comedy film
Unemployed 28-year-old cartoonist Gordon "Gord" Brody leaves his parents' home in Portland, Oregon, to pursue his lifelong ambition of obtaining a contract for an animated television series. His parents, Jim and Julie, give him a Chrysler …
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Action, Monster Film, Thriller, adventure film, horror film, monster film
Two days after the events of the first film, in which six women, Sarah, Juno, Beth, Sam, Rebecca, and Holly entered an uncharted cave system, a traumatized and blood-covered Sarah escapes the cave system with amnesia. She is taken to a hos…
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Drama, action film, drama film, survival film
On January 16, 1942, US Navy airmen pilot Harold Dixon, bombardier Tony Pastula and radioman Gene Aldrich, flying a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, encounter problems on a patrol mission over…
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Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, superhero film
On Duckworld, an Earth-like planet inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks, Howard the Duck is propelled out of his apartment building and into outer space; he lands on Earth, in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon arriving, he encounters a woman being attac…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Political Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film
In a house near the Pentagon, Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell of the Office of Naval Intelligence is under interrogation, asked how he came to meet Secretary of Defense David Brice. Six months earlier, Farrell is invited to an inaugural b…
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action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The father of Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec boy, is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. As an adult, Coatl is a priest in the court of King Moctezuma II and works with his fellow clerics in the temple of Tzinacan to defy the Spanish invader…
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Action, action film, adventure film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Chile, Michael Green, a retired former employee of assassin organization Damocles, is killed by a specialist hit squad consisting of decoy Sindy, sniper Facundo, and an assault team of Alexei, Karl, and Hilde, all of whom are also Damoc…
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Thriller, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
In 1967, during the Stanleyville mutinies, a virus called Motaba, which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock and William Ford order the bombing of the …
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Animation, Anti-War Film, Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Political Satire, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, technofantasy
Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors – trolls, fair…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, musical film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Hell's Angels (1930)|left Roy and Monte Rutledge are very different British brothers. Straitlaced Roy loves and idealizes the supposedly demure Helen, but Monte is a womanizer. Their German friend and fellow University of…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1969, veteran firefighter Frank Sullivan dies on duty and is survived by Julia, his wife, and John, his young son. In 1999, John has become an NYPD detective and struggles with emotional openness as a result of his loss. An atmospheric …
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Action, Buddy Film, Komödie, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Murderer and robber Albert Ganz escapes from prison with the help of a member of his gang, Billy Bear. The criminals travel to San Francisco to recover money from Ganz's last robbery. Searching for the cash, they kill Henry Wong, a former …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, fantasy film
A decade following the defeat of Dorian Tyrell, Doctor Arthur Neuman is giving a tour of the hall of Norse mythology in Edge City's local museum. Neuman mentions that Loki, the God of Mischief, created the Mask of Loki and unleashed it on …
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Kora and her allies—Gunnar, Tarak, Nemesis, Titus and Milius—return to her and Gunnar's village on Veldt, believing that Atticus Noble, whom she had killed, is dead and that her group had prevented the Imperium's return to the village to c…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Con artist and fixer Teddy Murretto is on the run in a bullet-riddled unmarked police car, which breaks down near Gun Creek, Nevada. As rookie police officer Valerie Young breaks up a brawl outside a casino, Murretto sucker-punches her to …
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