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Action, Crime
An undercover cop, Chan Kam-wah, investigating a group of jewelry thieves, is killed by three attackers. Inspector Lau assigns Ko Chow, another undercover officer, to continue the investigation. Chow hesitates due to a past experience wher…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Mark Corley, a Los Angeles police detective, helps his estranged son, Trent, out of jail just as an alien invasion begins. Much of the city's population is taken up into various spaceships by a blue light. Mark leads a group of surviving h…
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Mysterie, action film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
In West Texas, Roy Tomlin and his childhood friend Lucas hear an Amber alert for 8-year-old Alton Meyer and his reported abductor, Roy, while the boy reads comic books in the car. At the Ranch, a religious cult in San Angelo, Texas, Pastor…
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Romantic Comedy, Secret Agent, comedy thriller, romantic comedy, spy film
In New York City, Terry Doolittle is an eccentric but talented and affable computer operator at First National Bank. She regularly uses her work computer to communicate remotely with and advise people around the world. Late one night, Terr…
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Komödie, comedy film
Rudy Russo is a young and cunning car salesman in Mesa, Arizona, with aspirations of running for the state senate. He works at the struggling New Deal used car lot owned by the elderly Luke Fuchs, who agrees to invest $10,000 in Rudy's cam…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
For the past four years, veteran San Francisco Police Inspector Jack Cates has been after a drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man." At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in …
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War Film, drama film
In a sepia-tinted prologue, a United States Army private (Lee Marvin) kills a German soldier with his trench knife, not believing the man's claims the Great War is over. His company commander then tells him the war ended four hours earlier…
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Action, Komödie, action film, crime film, romantic comedy
In Los Angeles, wealthy couple Bigby and Priscilla Powers, want their daughter Paula to marry Collins Hedgeworth, who also hails from a wealthy family. Paula is really in love with classmate Sam Freeman, whom Bigby dismisses as a "fortune …
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Action Comedy, Romance Film
When stuntman Viraj Shergill and medical student Simrita Rai come across each other at his brother Lucky's and her best friend Kamini Sandhu's hastily planned wedding ceremony, they instantly develop a dislike for each other. Both have a v…
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Gangster Film, Thriller, action film
Deep in the heart of Dixie, in a small town struggling with the ravages of addiction, a local sheriff tries to maintain the peace when desperate family man Shelby robs a pill mill with his reckless brother-in-law, Trey, but the supposedly …
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Action, Drama, Musical, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Joey and Turkey are members of the Wanderers, an Italian-American greaser street gang living in the Bronx. Joey tries to dissuade Turkey from joining a rival gang, the Fordham Baldies. Before Turkey can ask, Terror's girlfriend Peewee over…
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Destiny, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
San Francisco police officer and widowed father Frank Conner is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his leukemia-stricken son, Matt. In desperation, he breaks into FBI headquarters and finds a perfect match. Unfortun…
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Thriller, Western film, action film, drama film, heist film, political film, thriller film
A young woman, Xochitl, cuts the tires of an SUV and leaves a bright yellow one-page manifesto on the window. In Long Beach, California, Xochitl and her friend Theo witness the devastating effects of climate change. Xochitl's mother dies d…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adult animated film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In ages past, the Arakacians, a malevolent race, discovered a place where spacetime leaked a type of fluid. This fluid granted immortality to anyone who consumed it. The Arakacians built an empire and enslaved the known universe for centur…
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Animation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, live-action/animated film
Two years after the arrest of Happy Chapman, Jon Arbuckle plans to propose to his girlfriend, veterinarian Elizabeth "Liz" Wilson, who is going on a business trip to London. Jon follows Liz to the United Kingdom as a surprise; after escapi…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, science fiction action film, thriller film
Lee Weathers is a "risk-management specialist" for genetic-engineering company SynSect. She arrives at a rural site hosting its L-9 project, an artificial being with nanotechnology-infused synthetic DNA named Morgan. The "hybrid biological…
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Action, Thriller, action film
A war hero accused of a crime he did not commit, and with nothing to lose, leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase, helped by members of his former Special Forces Army battalion; as a fascinated public cheers him on.
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Roughly eight years after the events of the first film, Paul Kersey has recovered from his shattered life and moved on, now living in Los Angeles and working as a freelance architect. One of his clients is close friend Elliot Cass, who own…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, Force Reconnaissance Marine, an experienced sniper, and his spotter, Corporal Papich, are on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. Upon successful completion of their miss…
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Action, Adventure, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Farm world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador, ruler of the Malmori Empire. Sador's body parts are deteriorating and he lives only by stealing organs from others. Sador demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he …
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Dark Comedy, Secret Agent, crime film, film noir, mystery film
Juliet Forrest, daughter of scientist and cheesemaker John Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death. Searching Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists, "Friends of Carlotta" (FOC) and "Enemies of …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, neo-noir, thriller film
The Driver steals cars for use as getaway vehicles in robberies around Los Angeles. He is known among criminals for his high skill and his high price, and is notorious among the police, particularly for The Detective who is obsessed with c…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
A man calling himself prot (not capitalized and pronounced with a long O, rhyming with boat) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan after claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in…
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Drama, disaster film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
The Wetherly family—husband Tom, wife Carol, and children Brad, Mary Liz, and Scottie—live in the fictional suburb of Hamelin, California, north of Santa Rosa. Tom, the breadwinner, works in San Francisco, 60 miles south. On a routine afte…
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