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Adventure, Secret Agent, action film, crime film
The Losers, an elite black-ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, includes team leader Clay, demo expert Roque, heavy weapon specialist Pooch, hacker Jensen, and sniper Cougar. They are sent to Bolivia on a search-and-destroy…
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Komödie, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is decommissioned and towed to a junkyard after losing several races. Maggie Peyton is the youngest member of the Peyton racing clan. Her father, Ray Peyton Sr., takes her to the junkyard…
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Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1960, Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen on the Cleveland docks. Sneperger's gambling leaves him with a huge debt to Cleveland Mafia captain John Nardi. In return for Sneperger's deb…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, fantasy film, monster film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
The founder of "quantum paleontology", Dr. Rick Marshall has a low-level job at the La Brea Tar Pits, three years after a disastrous interview with Matt Lauer on Today went viral and ruined his career. Doctoral candidate from Cambridge Hol…
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Action, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1944, as the air war over Europe enters a deadly phase with increasing losses of Allied bombers, the 332d Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen), consisting of African-American USAAF fighter pilots, after enduring racism throughout their r…
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Adventure, action film, drama film, submarine film
A satellite re-enters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule, which lands approximately northwest of Station Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack. A person approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, comedy film
Throughout his life, Rod Kimble has believed his dead father was a successful and respectable stuntman working for Evel Knievel. He aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and become a famous stuntman himself. Meanwhile, his stepfather…
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, buddy cop film, parody film
In Los Angeles, a man known as Mr. Jigsaw murders Billie York because she possesses a microfilm containing a recipe that can turn cocaine into cookies. Her former partner, Wes Luger, who is about to retire, is assigned the case by the relu…
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Action, action comedy film, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film
After leading an operation gone terribly wrong, former LAPD narcotics detective Ray Owens moves to the small town of Sommerton Junction, Arizona, where he settles down as sheriff of Sommerton County. Commanding his small force of deputies …
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Adventure, Western, Western film
Matthew Quigley is an American cowboy with a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Seeing a newspaper advertisement that asks for a man with his special talent, he answers using just four w…
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Adventure, Christmas film, Detective Film, mystery film, teen film
Following the closure of his old school in the countryside, a young John Watson is transferred to London's Brompton Academy, where Sherlock Holmes befriends him immediately. Holmes's mentors there include Rupert Waxflatter, an eccentric re…
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Anti-War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In 1969, a platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, receives five new recruits as replacements: Privates Joseph Beletsky, Vincent Languilli (soon called Alphabet), Johnny Washburn, Martin Bienstock and Paul Ga…
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Action, Adventure, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1916, a group of Americans go to France to serve in the French Air Service, L'Aéronautique militaire, in World War I. They are placed under the command of Captain Georges Thenault, with veteran flying ace Reed Cassidy as their mentor. P…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Michael J. "Jay" Cochran is a U.S. Navy aviator, leaving the service after 12 years.
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Crime, action film, crime thriller film, mystery film, thriller film
Psychologist Detective Dr. Alex Cross is working as a detective for the Detroit Police Department together with his childhood friend, Thomas Kane, and Monica Ashe. Outside of work, Alex lives a happy suburban life with his mother, his preg…
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Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Nick and Audrey Spitz work as full-time private detectives, although their agency falls on hard times after a few bad cases. One night, while arguing about which direction to take their careers, the Spitzes receive a call from their friend…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, crime thriller film, martial arts film
Chun-Li moves from San Francisco to Hong Kong with her family and begins intensive training in wushu under the tutelage of her father, businessman Xiang. The criminal organization Shadaloo targets Xiang, abducting him right in front of Chu…
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1882, the town of Appaloosa, New Mexico, is terrorized by rancher and Englishman Randall Bragg, who kills the town's marshal and his deputies when they attempt to arrest two of Bragg's men for murdering a Chicago businessman and raping …
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Buddy Film, Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=25|Wings (1927) thumb| In 1918, Jack Powell and David Armstrong are rivals in the same small American town, both vying for the attentions of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack fails to realize that "the girl next door", Mary Pr…
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Action, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film
Frank Murphy is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. His newly assigned observer is rookie officer Richard Lymangood. The two patrol the cit…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, drama film, war film
Colonel Allen Faulkner, a former British Army officer turned mercenary, meets with merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson in London. Matherson proposes the rescue of President Julius Limbani, the deposed leader of a southern African nation d…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Part One After the death of his protégé, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne retired his Batman persona. Ten years later, in mid-1986, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The 55-year-old Wayne maintains a f…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, drama film, romance film
After their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass (Idris Elba) and photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) hire private pilot Walter (Beau Bridges) to get them from Idaho to Denver for connecting flights to…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, action film, romantic comedy, spy film
CIA agents and best friends Franklin "FDR" Foster and Tuck Hansen are deployed to Hong Kong to prevent international criminal Karl Heinrich from acquiring a weapon of mass destruction. However, the mission goes awry, resulting in the death…
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