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Secret Agent, action film, spy film, thriller film
In the Italian Alps at a ski resort/casino, MI6 field agents Parker, Yang, and Bailey, supported by technician Rachel Stone, are tasked with extracting Mulvaney, an arms dealer who is there gambling on a US Navy SEAL combat operation someh…
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Anti-War Film, Destiny, Political Drama, drama film, war film
Two students at a West Coast university, Arian and Ernest, at the urging of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, attempt to do something important with their lives. They make the bold decision to enlist in the army to fight in Afghanist…
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Action, Monster Film, Mysterie, action film, horror film, monster film, pirate film, science fiction film
Captain John Finnegan and his crew, Joey and Leila, are hired by mercenaries Hanover, Mulligan, Mason, Billy, T-Ray, Mamooli, and Vivo to pilot their boat across the South China Sea to an undisclosed rendezvous point. Meanwhile, the Argona…
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Action, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, vigilante film
Following a grueling day of work, Long Beach, California firefighter Jeremy Coleman and his coworkers contemplate ending the day with a case of 15-year-old Scotch whisky. Jeremy enters a convenience store to buy snacks, but is interrupted …
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crime film, drama film, splatter film
A man named Ichi spies from a balcony, masturbating as he watches a pimp assault a prostitute. When discovered, he flees. Soon after, the sadistic yakuza boss Anjo is murdered.
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal who specializes in "erasing" witnesses, is given a new assignment by his superior, Arthur Beller: Lee Cullen has alerted the FBI that Cyrez executives have financed the creation of an electromagnetic rifle, whic…
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action film, disaster film, katastrophe, mockbuster
In the Arctic Ocean off the Helheim Glacier in Greenland, a person is surfing on waves created by chunks of ice falling off the glacier, caused by the effects of global warming. A huge chunk of ice falls into the water, creating an especia…
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Action, Adventure, Classical Western, Western film
J.P. Harrah is sheriff of the town of El Dorado and observes that his old friend, gun-for-hire Cole Thornton, has just arrived in response to a mysterious job offer from wealthy landowner Bart Jason. Harrah reveals to Thornton that Jason i…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Sonja, a young, red-haired woman, is gang-raped and left for dead by soldiers of Queen Gedren, who murdered Sonja's parents and her brother after Sonja had rejected the queen's sexual advances and scarred Gedren's face. Answering Sonja's c…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
Small parasitic aliens called "Souls", who travel to planets inserting themselves into a host body of that planet's dominant species while suppressing the host's consciousness, have taken over the human race. Deeming humans too violent to …
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Komödie, Parodie, Secret Agent, Silly Movie, action comedy film, comedy film, spy film
Eight years after the first film, Johnny English has been training at a monastery in Tibet to recover from the shame of a failed mission to protect the newly elected president of Mozambique, which cost him his knighthood. English is called…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, Social Drama, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Marcus is a quiet boy who adores his mother Katrina, and the two live a relatively comfortable life on her drug-dealing income. After Marcus writes a song for his love interest Charlene, her stepfather sends her away to live with her grand…
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Monster Film, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Edward Carnby, a paranormal investigator, has a nightmare in which he hides from alien-like creatures as a child. Carnby flies to an urban museum where his girlfriend, Aline Cedrac, is an assistant curator. Carnby holds an artifact-puzzle …
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
A man wakes inside a laboratory on an airship. A scientist, Estelle, tells him that his name is Henry, she is his wife, and he has been revived after an accident that left him amnesiac and mute. She replaces his missing limbs with cybernet…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, girls with guns, spy film
At a location south of Bogotá, Colombia, a drug lord presents criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke with a special decryption program drive that can access any digital system on Earth. Clarke double-crosses and kills him just as the authoritie…
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Action, Swashbuckler, action film, superhero film, swashbuckler film
In 1850, California votes on whether to join the United States. Zorro, formerly Alejandro Murrieta, now known to the public as Don Alejandro De La Vega, foils a plot to steal the ballots. During the fight with a gunman named Jacob McGivens…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
Buford Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring, and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father Carl Pusser. With a friend, Pusser visits a gambling and prostitution establ…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action thriller, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
47 is an "Agent", a genetically-enhanced super soldier created by Dr. Piotr Litvenko, a skilled Ukrainian geneticist. Litvenko, unable to bear the guilt of his creation, abandoned the Agent project.
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Action, Western, Western film, action film
Three armed men ambush Emmett as he sleeps in an isolated shack. He kills them and takes one of their horses, then sets off for the town of Turley to meet his brother, Jake, intending to visit their sister Kate in Silverado before continui…
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Action, Western, Western film, action film
Thomas Keller, an outlaw with the largest reward in history, is on the run after killing a member of the Rockefeller family four years prior. He joins the town of Redemption, a town where outlaws fake their deaths and reintegrate into soci…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Gangster Film, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1968, Anthony Curtis, a soon-to-be high school graduate in The Bronx, chooses to enlist in the United States Marine Corps rather than go to college. He deploys to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, his girlfriend Juanita, …
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Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Komödie, Martial-Arts, Romance Film, Splatstick, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film
Chinese thief Lau Xing robs a Jade Buddha from the Bank of England belonging to Lord Kelvin, head of the Royal Academy of Science, given to him by extremist group the Black Scorpions in exchange for providing military assistance to their c…
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Action, Adventure, Christmas film, Fantasy, Space Opera, adventure film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
On Life Day, Chewbacca, accompanied by Han Solo, is headed home to see his family. Along the way, the duo is chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace. Meanwhile, on Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's family is preparing for his re…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
The Federation starship limps back to Earth following a battle with the superhuman Khan Noonien Singh, who tried to destroy the Enterprise by detonating an experimental terraforming device known as Genesis. The casualties of the fight incl…
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