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Action, Auto Racing, Biographical picture, Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1963, Ford Motor Company vice president Lee Iacocca proposes to Henry Ford II to boost their car sales by purchasing Ferrari, who are dominant in the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans. Owner Enzo Ferrari uses Ford's offer to secure a deal with…
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Action Comedy, Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Gorr and his daughter, Love, the last of their race, struggle in a barren desert. Despite their prayers to their god, Rapu, Love dies. The god-killing Necrosword calls to Gorr, leading him to Rapu's lush realm.
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has made her Broadway debut. While he is on a date with her in Central Park, an extraterrestrial symbiote oozes out of a fallen meteorite and attaches to his moped. Harry Osborn, knowi…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, tech noir, thriller film
In 2027, total human infertility has led to wars and global depression, pushing civilization to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The UK has transformed into a totalitarian police state in which asylum seekers are arreste…
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Action, action film
In a city in Southeast Asia, journalist Matia investigates an unchecked local child trafficking ring despite her husband Navin requesting her to return home. She finds trafficked children and fights traffickers to help a child escape. The …
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Secret Agent, action film
In Dubai, an MI6 mission to extract intelligence run by Nigel Cooke fails when his men are killed by Liam Crown. Jack Ryan, now working a civilian job on Wall Street, is approached by his friend James Greer, now CIA deputy director. He rel…
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Super Hero, action film, superhero film
In 1973, a research team in the Amazon rainforest in Peru led by a pregnant Constance Webb discovers an unidentified spider species with rare healing properties. Ezekiel Sims, the man Constance hired for protection and security, betrays th…
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Horror comedy, action film, comedy horror, science fiction film
In 1979, space station Skylab is decommissioned through atmospheric reentry, but an oxygen tank survives and lands in Western Australia. A farmer takes it and makes a makeshift Skylab museum around it. In 2007, biochemist Dr.
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Action, action film, thriller film
In Springfield, Massachusetts, retired school teacher Eloise Parker lives alone but shares a warm friendship with Adam Clay, a quiet beekeeper who rents space in her barn. One day, Eloise falls for a phishing scam that steals her life savi…
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Military Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1992, a famine in southern Somalia induced by the civil war leads the United Nations Security Council to authorize a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. Conflict ensues between UNOSOM II and the Mogadishu-based militia loyal…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
The planet Krypton is destabilizing due to reckless mining of the planetary core. The Kryptonian Council ignores the warnings of renowned scientist Jor-El, who then steals and infuses the Kryptonian genetics codex into his new-born son, Ka…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, action comedy film, action film, buddy film, comedy film
Recently laid-off forensic accountant Brian Jennings struggles to adjust to life as a stay-at-home dad for his stepson Lucas, who is bullied at school for being effeminate and uninterested in sports. While his wife Emily returns to work at…
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Adventure, Drama, Robinsonade, adventure film, drama film, robinsonade
In December 1995, a FedEx courier collects a package from a sculptor, whose gate carries the names "Dick & Bettina". The package, marked with pink angel wings, is delivered to her husband, who is in Moscow with another woman. Meanwhile, Ch…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, superhero film
In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James "Bucky" Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum. In the present day, approximately one year after Ultron is defeated b…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, spy film
The Sevastopol, a next-generation Russian stealth submarine named after the Ukrainian city of same name, on its inaugural mission, activates an advanced active learning defense system using a two-piece cruciform key. The AI appears to beco…
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High Fantasy, Monumental Film, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film
The hobbit Déagol discovers the One Ring in a river while fishing with his cousin Sméagol. The Ring immediately ensnares Sméagol's mind, and he kills his cousin for it. Corrupted physically and mentally, he retreats into caves below the Mi…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, alien invasion, disaster film, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mothership, entering Earth's orbit outside the Moon, deploys its flying saucers, each in diameter, over major cities worldwide. U.S. Marine Captain Steven Hiller and his unit, the Black Knights fighter …
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Action Comedy, Fantasy, Komödie, Pirate Film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film
In the early 18th century, Governor Weatherby Swann and his daughter, Elizabeth, sail aboard HMS Dauntless, which is captained by Lieutenant Norrington. They encounter a shipwreck and rescue a boy named Will Turner. Elizabeth notices a gol…
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Action, Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film
Shortly after capturing Mr. White, James Bond drives him from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. Evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates White regarding the mysterious organisation Quantum.
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Action, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
In New York City, John Wick is grieving the death of his wife Helen, who had arranged for him to receive a beagle puppy, Daisy, to help cope with his loss. A few days later, a group of Russian gangsters led by Iosef Tarasov accost John at …
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In a dystopian 2045, people seek to escape from reality through the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), a virtual reality entertainment universe created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Military Film, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, medieval film, war film
In 1280, English king Edward I, known as "Longshanks", conquers Scotland following the death of the Scots' king, who left no heir. Young William Wallace witnesses the aftermath of Longshanks' execution of several Scottish nobles, then lose…
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Action Comedy, Satire On Media, action film, comedy film, parody film
Tropic Thunder, the memoir of handless Vietnam veteran John "Four Leaf" Tayback, is being made into a film on location in Vietnam. Except for supporting actor Kevin Sandusky, the cast — faded action hero star Tugg Speedman, overbearing fiv…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas wanders away from her parents at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and enters a funhouse. She encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter, she suddenly stops speaking, a…
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