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Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film
Ruthless tycoon and trophy collector John Madec flaunts his $500,000 all-terrain vehicle in a small Mojave desert town, buying off the local sheriff to bag an endangered desert bighorn sheep. The sheriff solicits the young but experienced …
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Action, action film, drama film, war film
In 1972, a group of American soldiers in South Vietnam carry one of their wounded to a helicopter landing zone for evacuation but are left behind as another helicopter carrying "Blaster", "Sailor" and Wilkes departs under fire. A decade la…
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Action, Crime Comedy, action film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
In an Italian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, cousins Charlie Moran, a maître d'hôtel with aspirations of someday owning his own restaurant, and Paulie Gibonni, a bungling schemer who works as a waiter, have expensive tastes but not muc…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Sgt. Paul Cutler is an ex-military Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. officer and considered to be one of the best, even holding a record of having no civilian casualties for ten years straight.
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Biographical picture, Military Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Before America's entry into World War I, Alvin York is a poor, young farmer in rural Tennessee, living with his widowed mother Mary Elizabeth, sister Rosie, and younger brother George. He spends his time fighting and getting drunk with fri…
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Thriller, action film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Michael Lander is a Goodyear Blimp pilot who flies over National Football League games for network television coverage. Secretly deranged by years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam War, he had a bitter court martial upon his return and a …
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Computeranimation, Horror comedy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, family film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
In Vancouver, British Columbia in the early 1990s, a young timber wolf named Gracie lives with her pack at Colepepper Zoo, a massive animal theme park. The pack's paranoid elder, Gramma Abigale, trains them for any upcoming "disasters" and…
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Dark Comedy, Mafia Film, Romance Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Trying to go straight, ex-gangster Jimmy "The Saint" Tosnia runs Afterlife Advice in Denver, where dying people videotape messages for their loved ones. His business isn't doing well and his former boss, a crime lord known as "The Man With…
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Action, Komödie, Thriller
Indian journalists Suhel Khan and Jai Kapoor arrive in post-Taliban Afghanistan to document the condition of the country following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Based in Kabul and working for Star News, they begin their journey through the c…
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Action, action film, thriller film
In 1995, Russian criminal mobster Arkady Karasov and his associates Leo Imasov and Yuri took over rival gangs' sex trafficking business at the French Riviera. One of the prostitutes is a young Anna and Maïssa. Karasov takes an interest in …
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Action Comedy, action film
Arrested by the NSA for his involvement with the secretive organization Cicada 3301, hacker Connor testifies in front of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the events that transpired. Connor explains that 29 da…
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Drama, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
thumb|thumbtime=7|The full version of Fear and Desire Fear and Desire opens with an off-screen narration by actor David Allen who tells the audience: There is a war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, nor one that will be, but …
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
In the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1864, during the Civil War, family patriarch Charlie Anderson and his six sons Jacob, John, James, Nathan, Henry, and Boy (who is 16) run the family farm, while his daughter Jennie and daughter-in-law Ann…
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy film, crime comedy film
Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas "Oz" Ozeransky, retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a …
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Classical Western, Drama, Western film, drama film, romance film
The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben as head of the family. Ben and his mother, Mattilda, are very protective of Rachel, who was adopte…
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Action, Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, action film, military science fiction
After the events of Invasion, Johnny Rico has been demoted to the rank of colonel and relocated to a space station orbiting Mars to train a new batch of troopers. Unfortunately, his squad is incompetent. Mars has low support for the war, s…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Overworked air traffic controller Jack Chester is given five weeks' paid leave as an alternative to being fired after nearly causing a mid-air collision on the job and having an outburst over a fly covering a radar blip. He uses this time …
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Biographical picture, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2003 in southern Sudan, the LRA attacks a village and forces a young boy to kill his mother. A few years earlier, Sam Childers, an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania, is released from prison and finds that his wife, Lynn, has …
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1945, the Portland-class heavy cruiser , commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30, …
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Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
While walking home, Hawthorne College student Lindsay is killed by a masked individual. Riley Stone, a member of the Mu Kappa Epsilon sorority, struggles with PTSD after being raped by Delta Kappa Omicron fraternity president Brian Huntley…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
John Ottway works as a sharpshooter at a remote Alaska oil facility, protecting the staff from frequent grey wolf attacks. His wife has died from a terminal illness, leaving him devastated and depressed. On Ottway's last day of work, he co…
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Adventure, drama film, romance film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
The film retells the story of the Trojan War in 1100 B.C., albeit with some major changes from the Iliad's storyline; Paris of Troy sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful city-states. His ship is forced to return…
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Action, Auto Racing, Komödie, action film, comedy film
Having lost the first Cannonball Run race, Sheik Abdul Ben Falafel is ordered by his father, King Abdul, to go back to America and win another Cannonball Run in order to "emblazon the Falafel name as the fastest in the world". When Sheik A…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, action film, martial arts film
The Old Summer Palace was looted and burnt by a combined Anglo-French expeditionary force during the Second Opium War. Among the artifacts stolen are twelve bronze heads of the animals of the Chinese zodiac. In the present day, the bronze …
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