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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film, thriller film
In Salamanca, Spain, an assassination attempt on U.S. President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) unfolds from several different vantage points. GNN producer Rex Brooks directs news coverage from a mobile television studio as the president arriv…
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Action, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, thriller film
Kate is an assassin and expert sniper who eliminates targets chosen by her trusted mentor and handler, Varrick, or V. After she was left orphaned as a child, Varrick raised her as a father figure, giving her extensive training in weapons a…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Alice Bowman moves to the (fictional) South American country of Tecala because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman, has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. While driving one morning through the city, Peter is cau…
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Drama, Historie, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
The film loosely follows the events leading up to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. A respected healer, Geronimo and his fellow Apache reluctantly agree to settle on a reservation established by the American government in accordance with …
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Destiny, Psychodrama, drama film
Max Klein survives an airline crash. The plane plummets, but he is strangely calm. This calm enables him to dispel fear in the flight cabin.
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Action, action film
On the eve of Bastille Day in Paris, American drifter and pickpocket Michael Mason steals a woman's handbag, not knowing that it contains explosives. After taking the cash and her cell phone from the bag, he discards it, caught unwittingly…
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War Film, drama film
Le Ly is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when communist insurgents show up in the village to defend against the forces of France and then the United States. During the American involvement, Le Ly is captured and…
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Buddy Cop, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
In New York City, a waitress on her way home is assaulted by two muggers and seeks aid from a police officer, who breaks her neck. Over the next two nights, this "Maniac Cop" commits more murders, prompting Lieutenant McCrae, who was told …
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Christmas film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction comedy, superhero film
The Guardians of the Galaxy have purchased Knowhere from the Collector and taken in Cosmo the Spacedog as a new member. As Christmas approaches, Kraglin tells the Guardians a childhood story of how Yondu ruined Christmas for Peter Quill. M…
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Classical Western, War Film, Western film, drama film, war film
Sam Houston leads the forces of Texas against Mexico and needs time to build an army. The opposing Mexican forces, led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna are numerically stronger as well as better-armed and trained. Nevertheless, the T…
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Western, Western film
In the 1880s Arizona Territory, struggling rancher Dan Evans and his two sons witness a gang led by notorious outlaw Ben Wade rob a passing coach of the famous Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line. When the stagecoach driver manages t…
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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
While attending a suburban Christian middle school, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos formed a bond over their interest in militaria, but were frequently in trouble with teachers and the school principal. On one visit to the principal's off…
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Adventure, Romance Film, War Film, drama film, romantic comedy
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are English Methodist missionaries in German East Africa in August 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steamboat named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic C…
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action fiction, action film, biopunk, horror film, science fiction
In 2014, BSAA agent Chris Redfield is tracking Glenn Arias, a former CIA operative-turned arms dealer. Arias, wanting revenge against the U.S. government for killing his friends and family in a drone strike at his wedding, is developing an…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film
Detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and his teenage daughter kidnapped by an insidious satanic cult. Hightower takes matters into his own hands and infiltrates the secretive cult with the help of the cult's only female victi…
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Family Comedy, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
On Smurfette's birthday, the Smurfs read out the story of how she was created by Gargamel to destroy them before Papa Smurf turned her into a true blue Smurf. Smurfette has nightmares about her origin story and becomes unsure of her identi…
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Action, Justice Drama, Psychodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a masked attacker. Returning to her apartment, she is raped a second time by a burglar. Thana strikes this seco…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Lexington, Missouri when the Civil War breaks out. Chiles' family are wealthy planters, and Jake's father, a German immigrant, warns him of anti-German suspicion from other Southerners. Jayha…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film
In 1999, college freshman Bert Kreischer goes on a class trip to Russia. During a night of hard partying, Bert befriends their tour guide named Igor along with his friends and is nicknamed "The Machine". 23 years later, Bert is now a stand…
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Drama, action film, drama film, thriller film
Roman Melnyk, a construction worker, is allowed to leave work early to prepare for the arrival of his wife Olena and pregnant daughter Nadiya from New York City, aboard flight AX 112. At the airport to welcome his family, Roman receives th…
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Action, action film, boxing film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and sentenced to six to eight years at Sweetwater, a new prison in the Mojave desert. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Unaware of t…
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Action, action film
John Lawlor, a DEA agent who goes undercover at a Chinese restaurant in Minneapolis to gather evidence of drug trafficking by a billionaire and disguised seafood merchant named Kwang, is forced to break cover due to a mistake by his collea…
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Buddy Film, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film
Advertising executive Nick Beam thinks his life is going very well, until he returns home from work and finds his wife Ann apparently having an affair with another man. He deduces that the man is his boss, Philip Barrow, after finding a pa…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action film, musical film, romantic comedy film
Leslie "The Great Leslie" Gallant III and Professor Fate are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is an archetypically handsome, kind, skillful. and successful hero always dressed in white, often with an American Fl…
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