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Romance Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, monster film, science fiction film
After a NASA space probe (sent to verify the existence of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System) crash-lands in Mexico, extraterrestrial life forms spread throughout the Mexico–United States border region, leading to the quarantine of …
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, buddy cop film, parody film
In Los Angeles, a man known as Mr. Jigsaw murders Billie York because she possesses a microfilm containing a recipe that can turn cocaine into cookies. Her former partner, Wes Luger, who is about to retire, is assigned the case by the relu…
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Adventure, Western, Western film
Matthew Quigley is an American cowboy with a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Seeing a newspaper advertisement that asks for a man with his special talent, he answers using just four w…
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Adventure, Christmas film, Detective Film, mystery film, teen film
Following the closure of his old school in the countryside, a young John Watson is transferred to London's Brompton Academy, where Sherlock Holmes befriends him immediately. Holmes's mentors there include Rupert Waxflatter, an eccentric re…
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Anti-War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In 1969, a platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, receives five new recruits as replacements: Privates Joseph Beletsky, Vincent Languilli (soon called Alphabet), Johnny Washburn, Martin Bienstock and Paul Ga…
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Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, fantasy film
Alex is a twelve-year-old boy, who is a Year 7 student in a London suburb. When his best friend Bedders is bullied by older students, Lance and Kaye, Alex comes to his aid. Alex, Lance, and Kaye are given detention by the headmistress.
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Action, Adventure, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1916, a group of Americans go to France to serve in the French Air Service, L'Aéronautique militaire, in World War I. They are placed under the command of Captain Georges Thenault, with veteran flying ace Reed Cassidy as their mentor. P…
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Hard Science Fiction, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the future, all forests on Earth have become extinct from careless environmental exploitation. As many specimens as possible have been preserved in a series of enormous greenhouse-like geodesic domes serving as closed ecological systems…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
During a thunderstorm, a traveling circus, Circus Sarano, inadvertently abandons a young plains zebra after replacing a flat tire. The foal is rescued by Nolan Walsh, a Kentucky widower and former racehorse trainer, and taken to his farm, …
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Computeranimation, Dance Film, adventure film, children's film, family film, musical play
In the 1880s, eleven-year-old Félicie, an orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina, but lacks formal training, runs away from her orphanage in rural Brittany, France, with her best friend, Victor, a young inventor, who has a crush on…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In early 1900s Maine, an orphan named Pete flees from the Gogans – an abusive farm family that previously purchased him – with the assistance of an unseen force he calls Elliott. They call for him to return and promise they will treat him …
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Cartoon, adventure film, comedy film, family film, science fiction film
In the town of Grandview, a scientist discovers an asteroid heading towards Earth, but then discovers a UFO hurtling alongside it, which crashes onto Earth. When he goes to investigate, he vanishes. Years earlier, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig …
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Adventure, adventure film, children's film, pirate film
A ship carrying a Swiss family from Bern—Father, Mother, and their three sons, who are relocating to a colony in New Guinea to escape the Napoleonic Wars—is attacked by pirates. Abandoned by the crew, the ship eventually grounds on rocks o…
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Adventure, adventure film, family film
Jeff, a middle-aged man, recalls how, on the night of December 28, 1962, he was an 8-year-old boy being dropped off with his 49-year-old mother Helen at New York’s Idlewild Airport for his first flight, a prospect that excited him given th…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, crime thriller film, martial arts film
Chun-Li moves from San Francisco to Hong Kong with her family and begins intensive training in wushu under the tutelage of her father, businessman Xiang. The criminal organization Shadaloo targets Xiang, abducting him right in front of Chu…
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1882, the town of Appaloosa, New Mexico, is terrorized by rancher and Englishman Randall Bragg, who kills the town's marshal and his deputies when they attempt to arrest two of Bragg's men for murdering a Chicago businessman and raping …
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
Gus Matthews, Richie Goodman, and Clark Reedy are adult "nerds" who spent their childhoods wishing to play baseball, but never got the chance. One day, Gus and Clark witness overweight, timid Nelson Carmichael and his friends being bullied…
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Buddy Film, Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=25|Wings (1927) thumb| In 1918, Jack Powell and David Armstrong are rivals in the same small American town, both vying for the attentions of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack fails to realize that "the girl next door", Mary Pr…
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Action, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film
Frank Murphy is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. His newly assigned observer is rookie officer Richard Lymangood. The two patrol the cit…
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Adventure, medieval film, thriller film
In AD 55 Cappadocia, Saint Matthias is stoned to death. Before the final stone is thrown, lightning begins to crackle overhead. In 1209 Medieval Ireland, French Cistercian monk Frère Geraldus arrives at a remote monastery with a charter fr…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, drama film, war film
Colonel Allen Faulkner, a former British Army officer turned mercenary, meets with merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson in London. Matherson proposes the rescue of President Julius Limbani, the deposed leader of a southern African nation d…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, drama film, romance film
After their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass (Idris Elba) and photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) hire private pilot Walter (Beau Bridges) to get them from Idaho to Denver for connecting flights to…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, military science fiction, science fiction film
In the late 21st century, an interstellar war breaks out between the human Bilateral Terran Alliance (BTA) and the bipedal reptilian Dracs. During a space battle in 2092, human fighter pilot Willis E. Davidge and Drac pilot Jeriba Shigan e…
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Action, Mysterie, Road Movie, action film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
In the town of Brooks, Arizona, Packard Walsh, the leader of a gang of car thieves, coerces people with fast cars into racing, with the winner of the race taking ownership of the loser's car. Packard controls everyone through intimidation …
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