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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
Facing foreclosure of their homes in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon to an expanding country club, a group of boys who call themselves "the Goonies"—Michael "Mikey" Walsh, Richard "Data" Wang, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, and …
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Romance Film, Social Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film
To mark the upcoming United States Bicentennial, heavyweight boxing world champion Apollo Creed plans to hold a title bout in Philadelphia. However, he is informed five weeks from the fight date that his scheduled opponent, Mac Lee Green, …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, superhero film
T'Challa, king of Wakanda, is suffering from a terminal illness which his sister Shuri believes can be cured by the "heart-shaped herb". Shuri attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was burned by Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, bu…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, flashback film
17-year-old Andy Davis, who has not played with his toys in years, is leaving for college, and intends to take Woody with him. Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the others are put in a bag to be stored in the attic, but Andy's mother mistakenly …
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Treasure Hunting, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, musical film, road movie, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In the summer of 1937, three convicts – Pete, Delmar, and Everett – escape from a Mississippi chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure hidden by Everett before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three are assisted by a blind man drivi…
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Adventure, Romantic Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the distant future, the Avalon, a sleeper ship transporting 5,000 colonists and 258 crew in hibernation pods, is traveling from Earth to the planet Homestead II, a 120-year journey as part of a wave of space colonization to escape the o…
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Action, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film, neo-noir
In New York City, John Wick, hiding underground with the Bowery King, recovers after being shot off the roof of the Continental Hotel by Winston. Seeking to exact vengeance against the High Table, he travels to Morocco and kills the Elder,…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Military Film, drama film, war film
During the Vietnam War, a group of United States Marine Corps recruits arrive for eight weeks of Recruit Training at Parris Island, where Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman uses harsh methods to train them for combat. Among t…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. After critically wounding Rocket, Adam i…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 2104, the spaceship Covenant is en route to colonize the planet Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists and 1,140 human embryos in cryogenic stasis. An unexpected shockwave from a nearby star damages the ship and kills 47 colonists, includin…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film
Professional thieves Parker and Philly lead a heist at a racetrack count room, but an employee kills one of the thieves and wounds Philly, driving away with the stolen money and his family. Parker pursues him onto the racetrack and shoots …
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Space Opera, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
A deep-space salvage crew find an escape shuttle where Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to kill an alien creature that slaughtered the crew. Ripley is debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Cor…
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Action Comedy, Fantasy, Pirate Film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film
13 years after Will Turner first leaves Elizabeth Swann aboard the Flying Dutchman, Will is visited by his twelve-year-old son, Henry. Will is still bound to the Dutchman, but Henry says that he can be freed from his curse by the Trident o…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the representative of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for obtaining the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises to provide Loki with …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In 2003, former Force Recon Marine and CIA SAD/SOG officer John Creasy travels to Mexico to visit his old friend Paul Rayburn, who convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a wealthy Mexico City automaker. He needs prot…
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Action Comedy, Dark Comedy, Satire, Splatter Film, action film, action thriller
In a group chat, Athena, Ted, Richard, Miranda, Julius, Peter, Martin, Mike and Liberty discuss an upcoming hunt of "deplorables", at a manor. Later, on Athena's private jet, a flight attendant talks to Richard but is interrupted by Randy,…
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film, action film, thriller film
Yuichi Kimura ("the Father"), boards a bullet train departing Tokyo to find the person who pushed his young son Wataru from a rooftop, leaving him comatose. At the same time, an American freelance gangster codenamed "Ladybug"—whose "bad lu…
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Super Hero
Tony Stark, who has inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his late father Howard Stark, tours in war-torn Afghanistan with his best friend and military liaison, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missi…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film
Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives wit…
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Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film
Panem is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation divided into twelve districts ruled by the Capitol. As punishment for a failed rebellion 74 years earlier, each district must annually select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans meet their contact on Earth, a priest of a secret order, at an ancient Egyptian temple. They take the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years, promising to protect …
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Action Comedy, Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, science fiction film, splatter film, superhero film
Intelligence officer Amanda Waller assembles two Task Force X teams, colloquially known as the "Suicide Squad", which consists of Belle Reve penitentiary inmates who agree to carry out missions in exchange for commuted sentences. The teams…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, horror film, speculative fiction film
In 1719 in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. While tracking deer, she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a Thunderbird,…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Cellular biology professor and former US Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She recounts her expedition to an anomalous zone known as the Shimmer. The Shimmer began expanding three years prior from a meteor that crash-landed at the …
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