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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Corporal Rolf Steiner is a veteran soldier of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. During a raid on an enemy mortar position, his reconnaissance platoon captures a Russian boy soldier. They set off for friendly lines just as…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Ray Breslin continues to operate his security company to some success, with senior members Hush and Abigail and newcomers Shu Ren, Jasper Kimbral, and Luke Graves as field operators. During a hostage rescue mission in Chechnya, Kimbral, tr…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, comedy film, spy film
Bob Ho is an operative of the CIA as an undercover agent on loan from the Chinese Intelligence, who decides to retire after putting Russian terrorist Anton Poldark behind bars and falling in love with his next door neighbor Gillian, who ha…
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Action, Thriller
Since the tragic death of his wife, James Brody has appeared to be battling alcoholism and has even hosted anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but in reality, he has never quit drinking. During the Mississippi summer, James, who worke…
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Action, Thriller, police film, thriller film
Beckett, an American tourist, leaves Athens, Greece with his girlfriend April to escape political unrest there. While driving to their hotel, at a mountain village in the region of Epirus, Beckett falls asleep at the wheel and crashes thei…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, sword-and-sandal film
In 1200 BC ancient Greece, King Amphitryon of Tiryns is conquering kingdoms in his thirst for more power, which disgusts his wife, Queen Alcmene. She prays to Hera for guidance and Hera's husband Zeus impregnates Alcmene with the savior of…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An unknown entity, named "The Centre," is born from the Earth itself and witnesses the evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs, and human evolution. Due to humanity's capacity for war and violence, the Centre concludes that they must be …
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Action, Christmas film, Military Film, action film, martial arts film, propaganda film, spy film, thriller film, war film
A group of Cuban refugees are on a boat sailing for the United States and are met by what appears to be a US Coast Guard boat with armed personnel. The captain of the vessel declares that the refugees are welcomed to the United States, but…
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Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, science fiction film
Marvin Mange is an evidence clerk at the local Elkerton police precinct who dreams of becoming an officer like his late father. However, despite physically training, as a result of his medical conditions, he repeatedly fails the physical e…
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Action, action film, thriller film
In a rough part of town, Smith, a carrot-eating drifter and ex-black-ops soldier, sees a pregnant woman fleeing a hitman. Smith kills the hitman by stabbing his head with a carrot and retrieves the woman's pistol. A few more thugs arrive, …
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Action, Action Comedy, action film, buddy film, drama film, vigilante film
On St. Patrick's Day, a renowned Boston priest is ritually murdered. Father Sibeal arrives in Ireland to inform his nephews the MacManus twins, Connor and Murphy, that someone has copied the style of execution they used eight years earlier…
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Action, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film, vigilante film
In 1983, LAPD IA detective Mason Storm investigates a mob meeting held by a pier. He records a shadowy figure who assures the mob they can rely on his political support. Unaware that he is monitored by corrupt cops, he informs his partner,…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film
The film follows Jaxen, a former cop turned private investigator in Atlanta who is hired to find the missing R&B star Jahari.
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Thriller, Time Travel, action film, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg and Jim Parker serve aboard destroyer escort USS Eldridge, docked in Philadelphia. Doctor James Longstreet and his team conduct an experiment to render the ship invisible to radar, but a mal…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, Musical, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film
Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a young and poor man living in rural Jamaica. After his grandmother dies, he leaves the countryside for the city of Kingston, where he is immediately conned out of all his possessions by a street vendor. Though his…
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Action, Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
In the Roman Empire of the 5th century, Ambrosinus, a Druid and member of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword of Julius Caesar, becomes tutor to the young newly crowned Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus. As Emperor, Romulus and his …
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his youn…
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Action, Computeranimation, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Vandal Savage plans to start a new civilization by exterminating two thirds of the population and hires Mirror Master to hack into the Batcomputer and steal contingency plans devised by Batman to incapacitate his League teammates should th…
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Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film
A year after their battle with the Arcane Order, master wizard Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan and former Arcane Order member Nari lure their pursuers Belloc and Skrael onto a moving subway train, where they launch a surprise attack with forme…
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Fantasy, action film, adventure film, family film, martial arts film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, teen film, tokusatsu
On the planet Liaria, a wizard named Lerigot is being hunted down by Divatox; an intergalactic space pirate, who seeks his golden key to traverse an inter-dimensional gateway and enter into matrimony with Maligore, an imprisoned demon who …
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, action film, drama film, sexploitation film, thriller film
Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart attends a private preparatory school in the Los Angeles area in the daytime. At night, she transforms herself into "Angel", a leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street teenage prostitute who work…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In New Orleans, Chris Farraday, a reformed smuggler, enjoys a quiet family life with his wife, Kate, and their two children. Their tranquility is shattered when they discover Kate's brother, Andy, has become entangled in drug smuggling. To…
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Thriller, spy film
British secret agent Harry Palmer is sent to Berlin by his superior Colonel Ross to arrange the defection of Colonel Stok, a prominent Soviet intelligence officer. Palmer is sceptical but links up with Johnny Vulkan, an old German friend a…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1983, rookie LAPD officer and law student Nick Styles meets Alice and drifts away from childhood friend Odessa, who has become a drug dealer in South Central Los Angeles. Styles and his partner Larry Doyle patrol a carnival, where they …
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