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Pirate Film, Romance Film, adventure film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
King Philip II of Spain declares his intention to destroy England as a first step to world conquest, eager to make his empire reach from Northern Europe to China and India. He sends Don Álvarez as his ambassador to allay the suspicions of …
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adventure film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe
In 1883, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa begins to erupt, terrorizing the children at a mission school in Palembang on nearby Sumatra. In Anjer, Java, the steamer Batavia Queen, commanded by Captain Chris Hanson, takes aboard passeng…
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Crime Comedy, black comedy film, crime film, drama film
Tommy Spinelli is a wiseguy hired by Benny and Rico, a pair of dimwitted hitmen, to transport a duffel bag full of severed heads across the United States to crime boss "Big Sep" (as proof of the deaths). While on a commercial flight, his b…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, disaster film
Aging, respected Captain Paul Blanchard is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS Neptune, is struck by a Norwegian freighter en route…
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Western, Western film, war film
thumb|right|Mari Aldon and Richard Webb at the Castillo de San Marcos for the film's premiere. During the Second Seminole War in 1840, American general Zachary Taylor sends naval lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island h…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
In Ireland in the 1960s, more precisely the centre of the bridge over the river that separates the Irish villages of Carrickdowse and Ballydowse, there is a white line that few young people dare cross. The boys of each village spend most o…
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Drama, adventure film, drama film, family film
Australian girl Kirra Grisby is sent to stay with her grandfather Gus, in his run-down amusement park in Cape Town, South Africa, when her father is hospitalized. Upon arrival, she is met at the airport by Mansa, one of Gus' employees, and…
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War Film, drama film, war film
In the final moments of the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a weakened French battalion awaits a last assault by communist Việt Minh troops. The battalion commander, Basque Lt. Col.
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adventure film, children's film, comedy film
When the Blockheads' E-Z Loan company threatens to take away the farms belonging to the small farmers due to being unable to make their loan payments, Gumby and his band The Clayboys decide to have a benefit concert to save the farms. Howe…
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Adventure, Fantasy, fantasy film
Alice and Dinah live peacefully in their home, until chasing a White Rabbit into a hole. Falling in, Alice is transported to a room of various doors. She drinks a bottle that reads "Drink Me, Not Poison", which makes her grow big.
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Adventure, Drama, drama film, war film
Major William Foster, an American commander in the French Foreign Legion, is haunted by memories of the Great War which has just ended. He has alcoholism and his only friend is his faithful sergeant, Triand. Foster takes command of a legio…
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Western, Western film
Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent African-American man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accuse…
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Super Hero, adventure film, children's film, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film
The life of a shy, seventh-grader Spencer Griffith, who has a crush on a schoolmate named Michelle Eberhardt, changes one night when he sees a mysterious meteorite, as it crashes down into a nearby junkyard. Sneaking out of his house to in…
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Komödie, action comedy film, family film
Irish Terrier Dog superstar Rexxx lives the high life with adoring crowds, a loving owner and an array of best-selling blockbusters under his belt. Unfortunately, when his owner Trey tries to convince him to perform a skydiving stunt and R…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film
The film opens as two white nationalists destroy an apartment complex in which most of the residents are minorities. Veteran police officer, Sgt. Lou Swanson, and his police dog, Reno, investigate the crime and realize the explosives are m…
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Family Comedy, Treasure Hunting, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, heist film
Con-artist Harry Bundage believes that the lost treasure of pirate Captain Joshua St. Edmund is hidden at Candleshoe, the large country estate of Lady St. Edmund.
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy drama, teen film
Teenager Gunther Wheeler and his family move from New York City to the small and quiet suburb of Pleasant Valley, much to the disappointment of Gunther, who finds his new surroundings to be lame and uneventful compared to the city. Shortly…
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Animation, adventure film, children's film, family film
One day, "leaf-gobblers" descend upon the Great Valley, devouring all plants and reducing it to a barren wasteland. The Great Valley's inhabitants must find another place where they can survive until the plants have grown back. However, th…
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Adventure, Komödie, heist film
In 1950 Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox), an ardent member of the Scottish nationalist organisation, the Scottish Covenant Association, hopes to eventually see an independent Scotland. Frustrated and saddened by the complacency of his fellow Sco…
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Drama, Fantasy, children's film, fantasy film
The setting is Germany during the Napoleonic Wars. Mytyl, an unhappy daughter of a wood cutter, finds a unique bird in the royal forest and selfishly refuses to give it to her sick friend Angela. Her mother and father are mortified at Myty…
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Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
thumb|Monica Vitti at the set in Amsterdam, July 1965 thumb|Interview with Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti and director Joseph Losey After the assassination of one of their agents in Amsterdam, British Secret Service chief Sir Gerald Tarrant r…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, drama film
The writing team of Nava and Thomas split the story into three parts: Arturo Xuncax The first part takes place in a small rural Guatemalan village called San Pedro and introduces the Xuncax family, a group of indigenous Mayans. Arturo is a…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
In the late 1960s, after learning that the Russians will be launching a Moon landing mission in four weeks, NASA decides to activate the "Pilgrim Project". The project is a secret plan to send one astronaut to the Moon in a one-way rocket …
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Satire, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a ge…
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