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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film
In Missouri, college student Jason Collins is persuaded by his friend Craig to allow a shipment of drugs to be sent to his house. He signs for the package which contains pills and a tracking device. DEA officers break into the house; Jason…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, Treasure Hunting, action film, romantic comedy, treasure hunt film
Six months after the events of Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder's and Jack Colton's romance has grown stale. While moored at a port in Southern France, Joan, suffering writer's block, wants to return to New York, while Jack prefers sailing…
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Satire On Media, Teen Comedy Film, action film, comedy film
The film opens by introducing the primary cast members while bulls aggressively chase them in a suburban neighborhood, wreaking havoc in the process. The most notable stunts include: Johnny Knoxville riding a big red rocket which gets laun…
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Drama, Historie, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film
On 10 April 1912, the luxurious , the largest vessel afloat, and widely believed to be unsinkable, sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On 14 April, in the Atlantic, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from steam…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Nikki is an ex-soldier who left her violent life behind to raise her daughter Chloe. Eventually, Nikki wakes up in an abandoned factory and learns that Chloe has been kidnapped, and sets off in a race against time to comb through the crimi…
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action film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, superhero film
Part One Hoping to solicit help in laundering his funds, Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falcone meets with billionaire Bruce Wayne under the guise of repairing the relationship between their families. Bruce declines. On Halloween, someone mu…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
Capricorn One—the first crewed mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. Just before liftoff, astronauts Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis, and John Walker are suddenly ordered out of the spacecraft by a NASA official. Bewildered, they are flown …
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LGBTQ-related film, Late Western, Satire, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, flashback film, historical film, revisionist Western, war film
The film is framed with narration by 121-year-old Jack Crabb, who is telling his life story to a historian. In 1859, ten-year-old Jack and his sister Caroline survive the massacre of their parents by the Pawnee, and are rescued by Shadow, …
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Action, Thriller, action film
Tin Soldier is an action-thriller film about a former soldier who infiltrates a dangerous cult led by a charismatic leader (Foxx) to rescue his wife and confront his past. The film follows Eastwood’s character, Nash Cavanaugh, as he teams …
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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
On April 18, 1942, a daring and unexpected bomb raid on Tokyo stuns the Japanese. The commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, uses the threat posed to the Japanese home islands by the American Pacific Fleet to have his p…
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Animation, Komödie, science fiction film
Unbeknownst to humans, a technologically sophisticated society of Martians lives below the surface of Mars. Their Supervisor, while observing Earth, sees a mother persuading her son, Milo, to do his chores. The Martians decide to bring her…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In 1975, two Bay City Police detectives, the macho David Starsky (who loves his 1974 Ford Gran Torino and recklessly pursues minor offenders) and the easy-going Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (who often works alongside criminals to investigate the…
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Action, Adventure, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, period drama film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
Castlegard, a village near La Roque Castle in Dordogne, France, is the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole. Her martyrdom led France to win the Hundred Years War against the English. While excavating a near…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, Western, Western film, musical film, romantic comedy
When a wagon crashes into a ravine, prospector Ben Rumson finds two adult occupants, brothers, one of whom is dead and the other of whom has a broken arm and leg. During the dead man's burial, gold dust is discovered at the grave site. Ben…
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Action, action film, adventure film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
While scuba diving near shipwrecks off Bermuda, vacationing couple David Sanders and Gail Berke recover small artifacts, including a glass ampoule with amber-coloured liquid and a gold medallion bearing a woman's image and the letters "S.C…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Aaron Hallam, a special forces operator, successfully assassinates a Serbian military leader in the Kosovo war, receiving a Silver Star but suffering from mental trauma due to the death and destruction he witnessed. In Oregon's Silver Fall…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, mystery film, political thriller film
Louis Salinger, an Interpol detective, and Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan, are assigned to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC), which funds criminal activities such as money laun…
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Action Comedy, action thriller, comedy film
Michael Bryce, haunted by the loss of his client Takashi Kurosawa by Darius Kincaid, is temporarily retired from being a bodyguard and is on a sabbatical vacation while waiting for reinstatement of his license. He takes a vacation in Capri…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Frank Castle is a former undercover police detective whose wife Julie and two daughters were killed 5 years earlier by a Mafia car bomb intended for Frank, who was presumed to be dead. Castle has since become the city's infamous vigilante …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, science fiction film, spy film
Secret agent John Steed and meteorologist Dr. Emma Peel are summoned to The Ministry. They meet the spymaster, codenamed Mother, who informs them that the Prospero project — an attempt to influence the weather — was apparently sabotaged by…
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The orangutan Lawgiver, in "North America – 2670 A.D.", explains to an unseen audience some key events of ape and human events in the late 20th century, then moves forward to the story of the chimpanzee Caesar in the early 21st century, ye…
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Erotic Thriller, action film, crime film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
In London, American best-selling author Catherine Tramell is driving with her companion, famous English football star Kevin Franks. Tramell takes Franks's hand and begins masturbating herself with it as she accelerates the car, but the sem…
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Komödie, action film, blaxploitation film
When soldier Jack Spade learns that his brother Junebug overdosed on gold chains and died, he returns to Any Ghetto, U.S.A, where he is met by his mother and sister-in-law, Cheryl. As he surveys the old neighborhood, Jack notices the impac…
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Police Film, Social Drama, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Two policemen, "Uncle" Bob Hodges, a respected LAPD officer and Vietnam veteran, and rookie officer Danny McGavin, have just been teamed together in the C.R.A.S.H. unit that patrols Northwest L.A., East L.A. and South L.A..
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