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Western, Western film, drama film
George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford), son of a notorious "fast gun", moves to the quiet town of Cross Creek with his wife, Dora (Jeanne Crain), both under assumed identities. Now known as George Temple, he runs a general store, portraying himself…
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Adventure, Detective Film
Phryne Fisher helps to rescue a young Bedouin girl called Shirin from imprisonment in 1920s Jerusalem. While doing so she is suspected of having died. Shirin is reunited with her uncle Sheikh Kahlil Abbas and they travel to Lofthouse Manor…
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Drama, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck, who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer owned by Boss, patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon…
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Komödie, Romance Film, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy film
220px|left|thumb|Joanne Woodward and George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants. Justin Playfair is an eminent judge who retreats into fantasy after his wife's death, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective.
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film
In 1899, Jim is a promising young English merchant seaman who rises to first officer under Captain Charles Marlow. Jim is injured and left at Java. When he is fit again, he signs on with the first available ship, a dilapidated freighter ca…
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Komödie, children's film, comedy drama, fantasy film
In the summer of 1917, the Butterworth children (11-year-old Robert, 14-year-old Cyril, 10-year-old Jane, 12-year-old Anthea and 2-year-old The Lamb), whose father has gone to fight in World War I, are evacuated from London to stay with th…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film
In the year 3000, the salvage spaceship Mother III happens upon the derelict transport Demeter. Captain Van Helsing and his crew board the abandoned ship. They explore the bridge and find the corpse of the Demeter's Captain tied to a chair…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, fantasy film
While his girlfriend Annie is away for the weekend, 30-year-old Dave works fervently on his next big art project. Dave has a habit of not being able to finish anything, is apparently jobless and gets his income from his parents, whom he be…
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Action, Sci-Fi, spy film
Oscar Goldman is reluctantly attending a gala banquet at The Pentagon to celebrate the upcoming "World Unity Games" unhappy that he now has to practice détente with former enemies in the era of glasnost. Also at the gala, Steve Austin is n…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American west, lives with his horse, Mate. After the rest of his gang is killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, Jack survives only to read of the events in the newspaper that he was not…
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Tragic Comedy Film, adventure film, comedy drama, romance film
Phillip Dimitrius is a middle-aged New York City architect who is going through a difficult mid-life crisis. After learning that his wife Antonia has been having an affair with his boss, Alonzo, Phillip leaves New York and travels to Greec…
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B movie, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun or outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and r…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In October 1916, fighter ace John Gresham speaks to the senior class at Eton College, which includes Stephen Croft. Gresham had been his house captain at Eton and is his older sister's boyfriend. To Croft he is a hero to be emulated.
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Drama, Historie, action film, docudrama, drama film, thriller film
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked Flight 139, an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. Two of the …
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Action, Romance Film, Western, Western film
Link Jones rides into Crosscut, Texas to have a bite to eat, then catch a train to Fort Worth, where he intends to use the savings of his community of Good Hope to hire a schoolteacher. On the train platform Sam Beasley speaks briefly with…
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Action, Thriller, action film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Los Angeles, divorced editor Carol Hunnicut is on a blind date at a hotel restaurant with widowed lawyer Michael Tarlow, when a waiter delivers a message for him to phone a client. Tarlow goes to his suite to make the call and invites h…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
Junior "JR" Bonner is a rodeo cowboy who is slightly past his prime, although he will not admit it. Junior is first seen taping up his injuries after an unsuccessful ride on an ornery bull named Sunshine. He returns home to Prescott for th…
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Drama, Martial-Arts, action film, drama film, martial arts film, neo-noir, thriller film
One evening, at his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio, martial arts teacher Mike Terry is approached by attorney Laura Black, who accidentally sideswiped his car. Policeman Joe Collins, one of Mike's students, sees that Laura is distressed and tr…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper, USN, and Colonel Dan McReady, USAF, reach the red planet in their spaceship, Mars Gravity Probe 1. They are forced to use up their remaining fuel in order to avoid an imminent collision with a large orbi…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero
Luthor, the Atom Man, invents several deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kr…
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Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Tommy Gibbs is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named Jack McKinney. As an adult, he joins the New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem.
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, Western film
In late 19th century Mexico, Federales capture Quintero (Fernando Rey), a revolutionary who attempts to rally those opposing the dictatorship of President Díaz. Before going to prison, Quintero gives his lieutenant, Maximiliano O'Leary (Re…
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Action, action film, thriller film
A group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who are themselves tied into law enforcement agencies and criminal underworlds alike and who also control the international media with their billions, have devised the ultimate enter…
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Adventure, Thriller, adventure film
Johannesburg, 1973. A tunnel collapse at the Sonderditch gold mine is no accident. It was actually a failed plan by an international syndicate to manipulate gold prices.
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