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Action, action film, boxing film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lyon Gaultier is in the French Foreign Legion stationed in Djibouti, East Africa. After his brother, who lives in Los Angeles, is set on fire during a drug deal gone bad, Lyon receives a letter from his sister-in-law Hélène begging him to …
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Abby Richter is a morning show television producer in Sacramento, California who believes in true love and is a big supporter of self-help books. Coming home from a disastrous date, she sees a local television show, The Ugly Truth, featuri…
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Action Comedy, action film, comedy film
After mistakenly killing the relative of London’s biggest crime lord, mediocre hitman and ex-pat Tommy Ward is forced to go on the run and take refuge in Los Angeles. In order to get back to his son, Tommy makes a deal with his new employe…
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, heist film, science fiction film, teen film
In the near future, the Tracy family, led by widowed former astronaut Jeff Tracy, operate International Rescue (IR), a secret organisation that aids those in need during disasters using technologically advanced machines called Thunderbirds…
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Komödie, action comedy film, fantasy film, superhero film, teen film
Thirty years prior, Team Zenith, a government-sponsored superhero team led by the Shepard brothers Jack / "Captain Zoom" and Connor / "Concussion", fought to protect the world from various threats until the U.S. military used experimental …
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, heist film
Eddie Hawkins—"Hudson Hawk" (from the bracing winds off the Hudson)—is a master cat burglar and safe-cracker with a penchant for using low-tech solutions against high-tech security systems. He is also known for conducting his robberies wit…
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Animation, Super Hero, action film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller, time-travel film
While visiting the grave of his mother Nora Allen, Barry Allen, known as the Flash, is alerted to a break-in by Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, and Top at the Flash Museum. Battling the rogues, he discovers that …
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Crime, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
Scott Turner is a fastidious police investigator in quiet Cypress Beach, California, preparing to transfer to a more exciting position in Sacramento. Showing his replacement David Sutton around town, Scott says goodbye to his longtime frie…
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Action, Fantasy, action film, speculative fiction film
Three hundred years after the ronin samurai Oishi and Kai killed Master Kira and the witch Mizuki to avenge their master, Lord Asano, in the present day world where samurai and witch clans have existed only in complete secrecy, a witch, Yu…
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Action, Horror, Vampirfilm, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, vampire film
Rayne is an unholy breed of human and vampire, known simply as a "dhampir". Dhampirs, with a diminished thirst for human blood, are unaffected by crucifixes but maintain a weakness to holy water. Rayne is the daughter of Kagan, a vampire k…
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Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film
In an unspecified future, Peter, an engineer, has recurring nightmares in which he and everyone he knows suffer through violent, alien invasion-like confrontations with an unknown enemy. This causes him to have a strained relationship with…
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Action, Fantasy, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In a flashback, baby Charlene "Charlie" McGee sits in her crib, spontaneously setting the room ablaze with her pyrokinesis power and sending her father Andrew "Andy" McGee into a panic. In another flashback, a young Andy and his girlfriend…
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Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
John "Breacher" Wharton is the leader of the DEA's Special Operations Team (DEA SOT), which consists of James "Monster" Murray, Monster's wife Lizzy Murray, Joe "Grinder" Philips, Julius "Sugar" Edmonds, Eddie "Neck" Jordan, Tom "Pyro" Rob…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
Chanticleer, a rooster whose singing raises the sun every morning, gets into a fight with a stranger sent by the Grand Duke of Owls, whose kind hates sunlight. Chanticleer defeats his attacker, but forgets to crow, and the sun rises anyway…
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Slasher Horror, action film, horror film, slasher film
Eight years after Chucky's second demise, the Play Pals company resumes manufacturing Good Guy dolls and re-opens their abandoned factory. As Chucky's corpse is being removed from the building, a splash of his blood inadvertently falls int…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
During the Cold War, a group of Soviet and British plunderers excavate an abandoned 13th-century abbey in the Carpathian Mountains. As they set up a dynamite charge, the floor splits beneath them and they fall into a vast cave system. They…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Single mother Teena is brutally assaulted and raped by a local punks gang in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. Despite Bethie being able to identify the attackers, the defense hires a local hot-shot defense attorney Jay Kirkpatrick…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour. A scientist, Dr. Jan Benes, working behind the Iron Curtain, has figured out how to mak…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, sword-and-sandal film
Pelias usurps the throne of Thessaly, killing King Aristo. A prophecy states that one of Aristo's children will avenge him. Aristo's infant son Jason is spirited away by a soldier.
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Cartoon, Super Hero, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, superhero film
Ra's al Ghul hires the Joker as a distraction so that Ra's could destroy Europe's financial districts. He realizes his mistake when he is unable to control Joker, who captures Jason Todd, the second Robin and Batman's partner. In Sarajevo,…
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Action, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film
In 1887, Lord Nelson Rathbone leads a band of Boxers into the Forbidden City, stealing the Imperial Seal of China and mortally wounds its Keeper. Before dying, the Keeper gives his daughter Chon Lin a puzzle box for her brother, Chon Wang.…
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End Times Road Movie, Horror, Thriller, horror film, post-apocalyptic film
A highly infectious virus, known as "The World Ender Virus", has spread worldwide, killing most of the population. Brothers Brian and Danny, along with Brian's girlfriend Bobby and Danny's friend Kate, plot a trip to take shelter at Turtle…
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War Film, action film, adventure film, war film
In 1943, following the destruction of a German fortress on the island of Navarone, Major Keith Mallory and Sergeant Donovan "Dusty" Miller are ordered to eliminate the German spy who betrayed the Navarone mission. The spy is believed to ha…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Following a North American pandemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of Schutzstaffel-patterned police states that took chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans as pets be…
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