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War Film, war film
In the Cape Colony in January 1879, British Army officer Lord Chelmsford plots with diplomat Sir Henry Bartle Frere to annex the neighbouring Zulu Empire, which they perceive as a threat to the Cape Colony's emerging industrial economy. Fr…
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action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In a dystopian near future, a Russian mobster, Gorsky, hires the mercenary Toorop to bring a young woman known only as Aurora from Asia to New York City. Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons and a subdermally implanted UN passport. Too…
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action film, science fiction film
On the planet Krypton, criminals General Zod, Ursa and Non are sentenced to eternal banishment inside the Phantom Zone by Jor-El for insurrection and murder, amongst other crimes. Thirty years later, Superman diverts a missile into outer s…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, fantasy film, neo-noir, superhero film
Denny Colt, also known as "the Spirit", learns about a major case from Detective Sussman involving his nemesis, "the Octopus". The Spirit dons his costume and travels across rooftops, saving a woman before connecting with Officer Liebowitz…
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Action, Fantasy, Horror, action film, crime film, fantasy film, ghost film
In Los Angeles, drug kingpin Judah Earl has mechanic Ashe Corven and his eight-year-old son Danny murdered after they witness a gang of Judah's henchmen murdering a fellow drug dealer, with his gang dumping Ashe and Danny's bodies into the…
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Action, Fantasy, Girls with Guns, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, girls with guns, science fiction film, vampire film
In the mid-21st century, an accident occurs in an illegal U.S. biotechnological laboratory, where they tried to create super-soldiers to subjugate and exterminate the third world, but the project goes horribly wrong. As a result, part of t…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, biopunk, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Dr. Tetsu Segawa, a researcher for the corporation Chronos, is on the run after having stolen an alien device known as The Guyver unit from Chronos. He is caught by Lisker, the right-hand man of the president of Chronos, and his thugs.
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Komödie, War Film, comedy film, war film
In 1959, U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman, ComSubPac, boards the obsolete diesel submarine USS Sea Tiger, prior to her departure for the scrapyard.
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Drama, Thriller, thriller
Sara is arrested for the murder of Christina (Scofield) Hampton. She is held in the Miami-Dade State Penitentiary, where overcrowding necessitates that the female prison and jail inmates are housed in the same building. Prisoner Gretchen M…
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Drama, Mysterie, Romance Film, disaster film, drama film, political thriller film, romance film, science fiction film
Harry Washello and Julie Peters meet at the La Brea Tar Pits and immediately fall in love. They spend the afternoon together and arrange to meet again at midnight. However, due to a freak accident, a power failure results in Harry's alarm …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, the company "Wifelike" creates expensive android replicas of dead women for their widowers. The companions are subservient to their respective owners while gradually developing consciousness. S.C.A.I.R., a group of militant …
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Action, Adventure, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Having escaped from Central America with his comrades Drew Blakeley, Derek Godwin, Michel-Claude, Terry, and Richard, mercenary Jamie Shannon gets an offer from Endean, a British businessman working for a tycoon. Endean's company is intere…
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
B.O.O.T.S. (Bureau Of Official Texas Science) Laboratory in Galveston, Texas, where Sandy Cheeks works, scoops Bikini Bottom and its inhabitants out of the ocean. Confused about their possible motives, Sandy and SpongeBob SquarePants go to…
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Action, Thriller, action film, biopunk, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
By 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs. The Union corporation sells these expensive "artiforgs" on credit, and when customers fail to pay on time, the company sends "repo men" to forcibly repossess…
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Action, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film
In 1933, an older man named Chaney watches a bare-knuckled street fight, on which bets are made. The fighter, backed by the cocky, fast-talking "Speed" loses badly. Chaney talks a very skeptical Speed into letting him fight the winner.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Parodie, Satire, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, zombie film
The Earth is passing through the tail of a comet, an event which has not occurred in 65 million years and coincided with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. On the night of the comet's passage, eleven days before Christmas, …
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Computeranimation, Fantasy, action anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, sword and sorcery film
In 1165, the witcher Vesemir saves a child from a leshen in the forests of Kaedwen. Before dying, the creature says something in an archaic elven dialect to Vesemir, leading him to suspect that it was under someone's control. Vesemir is vi…
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Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their br…
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Action, action film, crime film
Cain Burgess is a prisoner who is being escorted by police to a hospital where he learns of his mother's death. After seeing her corpse, Cain escapes and then visits a private bar, entering it by attacking the bouncers. While having his dr…
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Erotic Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller
Assistant District Attorney David Corelli is called to the murder scene of prominent businessman Kyle Medford, found skinned to death in his San Francisco home by an antique hatchet. Police detectives Bob Hargrove and Petey Vesko find phot…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Following a failed sting operation in which two fellow undercover officers are killed months prior, Detroit PD's Sergeant Jake Roenick begins to regularly abuse alcohol and painkillers while clinging to his unambitious assignment as a desk…
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Teen Comedy Film, Vampirfilm, fantasy film, teen film, vampire film
In an unnamed American town, teenagers Darren Shan and Steve Leonard (Darren's more rebellious best friend and classmate) sneak out at night to attend the Cirque du Freak freak show at a local theater. During the performance, Steve recogni…
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Jack DeVries, a quiet citizen with no criminal past, robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, kills all of the security guards inside, and leads the Los Angeles Police Department on a high-speed chase. The chase ends when DeVries encounters a …
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Occult Horror, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
John Whitney, an anthropologist for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, studies a tribe in South America and drinks a soup made by the tribesmen. Shortly after, Whitney accosts a merchant ship captain, asking him to remove the …
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