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Action, Gangster Film, action film, blaxploitation film
The movie opens to a narration (by Ron O'Neal) detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary, Indiana. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Charged with a murder he did not commit, truck driver Frank Webster has broken out of jail. While on the run toward the Mexico–United States border, and the subject of radio news reports, he is cornered in a small Southern California coffe…
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Adventure, Romance Film, adventure film, romance film, war film
Eve Tozer is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s Istanbul. She needs to find her father, Bradley Tozer, before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming business partner, Bentik. …
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Komödie, Swashbuckler, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
In France just prior to the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette asks her cousin Noël, the Marquis de Maynes, to uncover the identity of "Marcus Brutus", a dangerous pamphleteer rousing hatred of the aristocracy. She also pressures de…
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Western, Western film, war film
1885, Arizona. Following mistreatment by Indian agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small Chiricahua war party. When news reaches Fort Lowell, the commanding officer sends riders out to alert t…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film
Granger, a former Special Forces soldier living in modern-day Vancouver, is sent on a quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy. He is forcibly pulled into a time portal in his home after fighting off a small group of hooded assassins who try t…
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Action, Adventure, Western, Western film
Based on actual events of the early twentieth century, the story concerns a grueling cross-country horse race in 1906, with a winner-take-all prize of $2,000 ($ today), and the way it affects the lives of its various participants. The fift…
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action film, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1916, young aristocrat Manfred von Richthofen is serving as a pilot with a fighter division of the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the funeral of an Allied pilot, Richthofen and his fell…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1917, four World War I Australian cavalrymen – Frank, Scotty, Chiller, and Tas – serve in Palestine as part of the 4th Light Horse Brigade, a unit of the British and Commonwealth forces. When Frank dies, he is replaced by Dave. Dave fin…
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Action, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Nomad (Patrick Swayze), a swordsman, wanders through the desert in a post-World War III world. He searches for his mentor's killer, the assassin Sho (Christopher Neame). In the past, Nomad had a position of privilege as a soldier of the el…
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
Jonathan Cabot is approached by the Special Intelligence Agency (SIA) to play "the Game". The Game is an athletic competition in the fictional country of Parmistan, a tiny mountain nation in the Hindu Kush mountain range. Parmistan forces …
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Adventure, Animation, children's film, family film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film
The narrator explains that in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Earth's first satellite Sputnik 1 into orbit. In 1961, when NASA was putting a chimpanzee aboard Mercury Atlas 5, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go to space. …
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Space Opera, adventure film, science fiction film
Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant star system, in an age described as "the seventh millennium of time". Twelve colonies of humans, living on different worlds, have been fighting a 1,000 year war against the robotic race of Cylons, w…
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Justice Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2054, a "Precrime" pilot program is running in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Three clairvoyant individuals known as "precognitives" or "precogs" receive psychic visions about imminent homicides.
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Adventure, Cartoon, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film
Mystery Inc. receive a free trip to Hawaii from a surf-and-beachwear company called "Goha Aloha", who wants Daphne Blake to design new swimwear for them. Upon their arrival, the gang meet with Jared Moon, a representative of Goha Aloha and…
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Adventure, drama film
The setting is the present day in Sarkhan, a fictional Southeast Asian country roiled by civil unrest and divided between the Communist North Sarkhan and South Sarkhan. Americans and Sarkhanese are building a "Freedom Road" in Sarkhan, whi…
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adventure film, time-travel film
In 2020, marine archeologist Jay Fennel (Josh Hartnett) is brain-dead after trying to save his wife Laura (Tamsin Egerton) who got trapped exploring the wreck of a colonial British East Indiaman. The comatose Fennel dreams about the advent…
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Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In rural Arkansas during the Depression, middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker, disturbed by the childhood incestuous rape that she experienced by her father and brothers, also brutalizes those around her while indulging in her monstrous sexual app…
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Horror, comedy horror, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film, splatter film
Mya is cheating on her husband, Lewis, with Ben. Ben asks Mya to leave the city with him, but she remains noncommittal. As Mya exits, Ben turns the television on and watches a bizarre psychedelic sequence of images.
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Christmas film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
At Christmas time, New York City convicts Dave and Alvin Firpo are paroled early and placed in the custody of their younger brother Bill, a restaurant manager. Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor fo…
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Adventure, Historie, action film, drama film
There are two classes of people: Long Ears and Short Ears. Long Ears, marked by large wooden plugs in their earlobes and a certain tattoo, are the ruling class. The working-class Short Ears have no ear plugs and a different tattoo.
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, war film
In November 1941, a British commando unit raids the headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, unaware that the target of their assassination attempt is recovering from nasal diphtheria in Germany. A phone call from Adolf Hitler prompts R…
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Adventure, adventure film
American adventurer Harry Steele makes a living as a tour guide in Cusco, Peru, but plans to earn his fortune by finding the legendary gold and jeweled "sunburst", a lost Inca treasure, at the ancient capital of Machu Picchu. He possesses …
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
Luella Delano, a witness against the Mafia, is being hidden in the desert until the trial. Tony Castellano, a hitman, blows up the house using a sewage removal truck to pump gas under it. The violent attempt against her kills her husband M…
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