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action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film
Xiaohei, a cat spirit who shapeshifts begins his wandering journey because his home is destroyed by humans. On a search for a new home, he encounters human allies as well as other spirits, some of which share his dislike of humans. Being k…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film
Five days after the assault on the Abnegation faction by the Erudite leader Jeanine and her mind-controlled Dauntless soldiers, Jeanine has declared martial law, insisting the Divergents and their allies are the enemies. Among the Abnegati…
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Action, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
During the reign of Emperor Renzong, a group of European mercenaries travels to China, searching for gunpowder. A few miles north of the Great Wall, they are attacked by a monster. Only Irishman William Garin and Spaniard Pero Tovar surviv…
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Coming Of Age, Computeranimation, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, speculative fiction film
In the town of Oceanside, Ruby Gillman and her family are secretly krakens. Determined to fit in with humans, Ruby's mother Agatha forbids her from going near the ocean, including her school's prom at sea. Ruby's friends Margot, Trevin, an…
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
In the aftermath of a financial crisis in the European Union and the weakening of NATO, collaborative dealings have occurred between a progressively militant North Korea and an ultranationalist Russia. The American mainland has become larg…
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Monumental Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, sword-and-sandal film
Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur and his adopted Roman brother Messala are best friends despite their different origins. After Messala's interest in Judah's sister Tirzah is rebuffed by her mother, he enlists in the Roman army. Ben-Hur marries …
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Action Comedy, Heist, action comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
Cyrus Whitaker, a renowned international thief, leads a heist crew that consists of Denton, pilot Camila, hacker Mi-Sun, safecracker Magnus, and engineer Luke. They undertake two simultaneous thefts, stealing a Van Gogh painting in London …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Bradley Thomas is laid off from his job at an auto repair shop. When he arrives home, he finds a hickey on his wife, Lauren, who admits to an extramarital affair. Bradley orders her inside the house before he violently dismantles her car.
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lorna Cole is pregnant with LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs's baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant but will not reveal who the father is. The officers and Le…
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Action, Drama, Komödie, Military Film, War Film, war film
In 1983, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Thomas "Tom" Highway finagles a transfer back to his old unit, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Marine Division. On route, "Stitch" Jones gets on the same bus as Highway. The following morning at …
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action thriller, war film
In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II, US Captain John Castle, 324th Engineering Battalion of Charlie Company, and his men (minus one named Cash, who is compelled to resign due to combat injuries) are sent to blo…
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Action, action film, spy film, thriller film
United States Air Force Major Vic "Deak" Deakins and his co-pilot Captain Riley Hale are flying a stealth bomber with two B83 nuclear bombs on a secret exercise. Deakins suddenly attacks Hale and ejects him from the plane. He then jettison…
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Action, Sci-Fi
A race of aliens arrives on Earth in a fleet of 50 huge, saucer-shaped motherships, which hover over major cities across the world. They reveal themselves on the roof of the United Nations building in New York City, appearing human, but re…
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Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film, thriller film, war film
A group of teenagers from Angel Grove, California secretly serve as the Power Rangers, a team of super-powered humans who use their abilities to defend the Earth from otherworldly threats. After participating in a charity skydive for the l…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, thriller film
In South-Central Los Angeles, a local gang, Street Thunder, steals a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of t…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
After leading a successful rescue operation of hostages in Mombasa, U.S. Marine Ray Garrison and his wife Gina travel for a holiday at an Italian beachside town in the Amalfi Coast. They are kidnapped by a group of mercenaries led by Marti…
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Action, Ninja Film, action film, drama film, ninja film, thriller film
The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu, trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins to offer assassin services to rich clients. The clan charges 100 pounds worth of gold for their services and always…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, fantasy film, katastrophe, thriller film
University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown home from college to New York to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele, for his birthday party. However, her mother, Irene, informs her that her father cannot make it. While…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a "housekeeper", an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. He calls his mentor and immediate superior David B…
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Action, Historie, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In northern Britannia, AD 62, Roman soldiers led by General Quintus Attius Corvus wipe out a tribe of Celtic horsemen. Corvus personally kills the parents of a boy named Milo. Being the only survivor, Milo is later captured by slave trader…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
CIA Officer James Silva leads a top secret CIA Special Activities Division unit, code-named Overwatch, to infiltrate a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) safe house in the United States. Under the supervision of James Bishop, Overwatch…
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Historie, Military Film, Political Drama, drama film, war film
In August and September 1941, several weeks after Nazi Germany launched its invasion into the USSR, sweep behind the relentlessly advancing German forces across the occupied parts of western Soviet Union, systematically exterminating the J…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Superman saves the crew of a Russian space station before uncovering the capsule that brought him to Earth and retrieving a green Kryptonian energy module. A recording left by his mother Lara reveals the module's power can only be used onc…
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Computeranimation, action film, animated film, superhero film
Following the planet Krypton's destruction, Kryptonian infant Kal-El was sent by his parents to Earth where he is adopted by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent who raise him as "Clark". Years later, Clark works for the Daily Planet as an int…
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