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Adventure, Drama, Historie, action film, drama film
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets sail from England for Tahiti under the command of William Bligh. His mission is to collect a shipload of breadfruit saplings and transport them to Jamaica, in the hopes that they can be used as cheap food for p…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Izmir's young Empress, Savina, rules with the power of a scepter that allows her to control gold dragons. When she wants to give rights to the common people, she's opposed by the Council of Mages, led by the evil Profion. They demand that …
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Action, Thriller, action film
Owen is a small time bar owner with the help of his daughter Lena in a small Texan town during 1988. A biker gang led by Clyde arrives and attempts to seduce Lena but Owen intervenes. Clyde pushes Owen and warns him not to intervene before…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, spy film
Spanish industrialist-turned-anarchist Xavier Heimdahl arranges for his associate Jan Strook—a hacker known as "the Dutchman"—to create a wormhole program that would allow the owner to bypass all computer codes protecting the world's nucle…
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Adventure, Romance Film, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Art professor and mountaineer, Jonathan Hemlock, is a retired government assassin called on to return to work for two more "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. During his career with a secret government agency called …
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, thriller film
Political activist Sofia Flores speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C., about women's and racial equality. That evening, she is killed in a deliberately planned hit-and-run outside her home. Travis Block, a Vietnam War veteran, works off-th…
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Political Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with a bank robbery hostage crisis in South Dakota. Undercover as one of the criminals, FBI agent Art Jeffries guards fourteen-year-old James while trying to convince the gang’s leader, Edgar Halstrom, to surrender. Despite …
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
In 1902, a mysterious gambler named John McCabe arrives in the unincorporated boomtown of Presbyterian Church, Washington, named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused chapel. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Frank Martin has relocated from southern France to Miami, Florida, where, as a favor to a friend, he becomes the temporary chauffeur for wealthy Audrey and Jefferson Billings. Frank bonds with their son Jack, picking him up from elementary…
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Bible Film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
Samson, a Danite Hebrew placed under Nazirite vows from birth by his mother Hazelelponit, is the leader and protector of the Danites, who are under Philistine rule. He plans to marry a Philistine woman named Semadar, who is also being cour…
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Gangster Film, Melodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
As youngsters in 1900s Chicago, Irish-Americans Tom Powers and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle engage in petty theft, selling stolen items to "Putty Nose". Putty Nose persuades them to join his gang on a fur warehouse robbery, assuring them…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Komödie, action comedy film, crime film, martial arts film
Ma Hon Keung, a Hong Kong cop, comes to New York to attend the wedding of his Uncle Bill and his African-American bride-to-be Whitney at his supermarket, which he has sold to a young woman named Elaine. That night, a street gang starts a m…
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Action, Christmas film, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
In a prison near Iron Mountain, Michigan, cellmates Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are two days from release. Nick has been exchanging letters with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, although they have never met. He plans to meet Ashley afte…
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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Splatter Film, action film, horror film, slasher film
Two bikers have sex in a natural hot tub in the mountains. The Hillicker brothers Three Finger, Saw Tooth, and One Eye murder them at a bike trail in West Virginia. The brothers are under the care of their demented relatives Jackson and Sa…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
Texas Ranger Jim "J.J." McQuade, a former Marine, prefers to work alone, packing a large .44 Magnum revolver as his duty sidearm. He lives in a dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere in solitude, except for his pet wolf. From the cliff…
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Action, Thriller, action film, disaster film, thriller film
Columbia Airlines Flight 409 is a Boeing 747 on a red-eye flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, while Scott Freeman is a businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to a sales meeting…
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Action, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film
Seiya is a street orphan searching for his sister Patricia, who has been kidnapped. During a fight with Cassios in a fighting ring, Seiya unleashes a strange blue light. After the fight, he meets with Docrates and Alman Kido.
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Action, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
After booking a boat trip to attend a rave on an island located off the coast of Seattle named "Isla del Morte" ("Island of Death"), two college students, Simon and Greg meet up with three girls: Alicia, Karma, and Greg's girlfriend Cynthi…
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Action, Thriller
Ito is one of six elite enforcers for the South East Asian Triad, known as the Six Seas (Indonesian: enam laut). After massacring a village due to few villagers having stolen Triad drugs, Ito discovers a young survivor named Reina. Ito fee…
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action film, comedy film, musical film
A suburban neighborhood is invaded by stereotypes of common horror film characters.
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Komödie, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, comedy film, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Nick Halloway is a stock analyst in San Francisco who spends most of his life avoiding responsibility and connections with other people. At his favorite bar, the Academy Club, his friend George Talbot introduces him to Alice Monroe, a TV d…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
Ms. Martin, the CEO of Tri-Oceanic Corp., hires geologist Steven Beck to supervise an undersea mining operation for three months. The crew consists of members Glen "Doc" Thompson, Elizabeth "Willie" Williams, Buzz "Sixpack" Parrish, Justin…
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Action, action film
The film begins with Mason and his partner Amelia executing a car theft at a private plane exhibition. After a police chase, Amelia reveals her identity as an undercover FBI agent and impedes the theft. Mason decides to retire.
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Ghost-Movie, ghost film, horror film, mystery film
In 1871, William Blake, a wealthy man suffering from leprosy arranges to purchase half of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, to establish a leper colony for his afflicted people. However, island residents Patrick Malone, Norman Castl…
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