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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, romantic comedy
Steven Jay Russell is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex with his wife, D…
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Action Comedy, action film, girls with guns
An ex-bouncer, Lindy Lewis, suffers from intermittent explosive disorder, which is triggered by interactions with annoying people. She has been seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Ivan Munchin, who has been attempting to treat her disorder with an …
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Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, action comedy film, heist film
Russell Pierce, a veteran armored car driver nearing retirement, and Travis Stolly, a rookie who aspires to be a police officer, team up for the first time on duty. While on duty, criminal mastermind Zoe ambushes them with Banner and Migue…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, romance film, thriller film
In Edwardian London, Wendy Darling spends her last night at home with her parents and her two younger brothers, John and Michael, before leaving for boarding school the next day. She is unhappy with her departure and feels she does not wan…
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Action, Heist, action film, crime thriller film, heist film, prison film
Four years into his 10-year-sentence for armed robbery, Carter "Doc" McCoy is denied parole from a Texas prison. When his wife Carol visits him, he tells her to make a deal to free him with Jack Beynon, a parole board member and corrupt bu…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action film, buddy film, techno-thriller, treasure hunt film
In 1865, at the conclusion of the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia is in ruins. The CSS Texas, captained by Mason Tombs is loaded with the last of the Confederacy's gold to keep it from Union forces before disappearing. In present-da…
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Computeranimation, Horror comedy, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, monster film, werewolf film
Following his father's death, teenager Zach Cooper and his mother Gale move from New York City to Madison, Delaware, where the latter has a new job as its high school's vice-principal. Zach befriends neighbor Hannah and fellow student Cham…
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Action, Fantasy, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Conan and his companion, the thief Malak, are confronted by Queen Taramis of Shadizar, who tests their combat ability with several of her guards. Satisfied, she tells Conan that she has a quest for him. He refuses her, but when she promise…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Girls with Guns, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, spy film
In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus has killed 99 percent of the Earth's population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth. Four centuries later, in 2415, the remaining five million humans inhabit Bregna, a dystopian…
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Early in the Clone Wars, Galactic Republic forces find themselves stranded across the Outer Rim as the Separatists gain control of more hyperspace lanes. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker leads the Republic against a droid army on Christophsis …
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Action Comedy, Adventure, action comedy film
Spy and former soldier Sean Walker reunites with childhood friends only to be drugged and kidnapped by a group looking for a nuclear warhead. The CIA believes Walker and his friends stole the nuclear weapon, so the group decides to re-stea…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the American Old West, card sharp and con artist Bret Maverick is en route to a major five-card draw poker tournament held aboard the paddle steamer Lauren Belle, intending to determine how skilled a poker player he really is. Short $3,…
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Cartoon, Komödie, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, parody film, science fiction film, spy film
Weary of playing antagonist roles in Bugs Bunny's films, Daffy Duck demands his own animated film, only to be fired by Warner Bros.' Vice President of Comedy, Kate Houghton. Security guard and aspiring stuntman DJ Drake is ordered to escor…
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Action, Thriller, action film, mystery film, thriller film
Michael MacCauley, a former NYPD officer turned insurance agent, takes the same daily train commute on the Hudson Line from Tarrytown to Grand Central Terminal. He is abruptly laid off from his job, endangering his family's financial secur…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy comedy film, fantasy film, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In the Peruvian jungle, 6-year-old Dora Márquez, daughter of jungle explorers Cole and Elena, goes on adventures with her monkey friend Boots, her 7-year-old cousin Diego, and imaginary friends Backpack and Map while thwarting Swiper the t…
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Drama, Historie, action film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film
In the Deep South of the United States before the American Civil War, Falconhurst is a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell and largely run by his son, Hammond. One of Hammond's female slaves, Pearl, reaches puberty and Hamm…
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Super Hero, action film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
Kara Zor-El, cousin of Kal-El, and Jor-El's niece, lives in Argo City, an isolated community that survived the planet Krypton's destruction by being transported into a pocket of trans-dimensional space, called the "Innerspace". Zaltar, a w…
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Drama, Historie, War Film, drama film, war film
Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union army as Virginia votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, beginning the Civil War. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of …
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Parodie, Silly Movie, action comedy film, parody film, superhero film
In Champion City, the amateur superhero team of Mr. Furious, the Shoveler, and the Blue Raja attempt to make a name for themselves, but their inexperience, infighting, and dubious abilities generally result in frustration while the city's …
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Komödie, action film, comedy film
Jackass: The Movie is a compilation of stunts, skits, and pranks, intercut with on-set talking heads with its cast. The movie begins with an over-the-top, Hollywood parody set to "O Fortuna", featuring the entire main cast riding a giant s…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for portraying republican sympathies. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Specia…
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Concert film, art film, drama film, musical film
Pink is a depressed rock star touring the United States. As he is discovered motionless and near-catatonic in his hotel room, the traumatic experiences that have brought him to this state surface, each represented as a "brick" in a psychol…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Sport, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film, teen film
Shortly after his dojo's loss to Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 All-Valley Karate Tournament, a furious John Kreese attacks his student, Johnny Lawrence, in the parking lot over the loss after he stood up to him while the other pupils defend L…
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Political Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
While visiting the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells, her cameraman Richard Adams and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through a turbine trip and corresponding SCRAM…
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