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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 223 films · Page 3.
Adventure, Computeranimation, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The citizens of a medieval-futuristic kingdom are protected by the Institute for Elite Knights, established by the legendary heroine Gloreth, who vanquished a "Great Black Monster" and enclosed the kingdom with a high wall one thousand yea…
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Mysterie, Romance Film, action film, fantasy film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2006, Brooklyn Democratic congressman David Norris unsuccessfully runs for the United States Senate. While rehearsing his concession speech in a men's bathroom, David meets Elise Sellas, who has been hiding after crashing a wedding and …
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Film Noir, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
thumb|300px|left|Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession …
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Dark Comedy, Fake Documentary, Satire On Media, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In Little Hope, New Hampshire, young ambitious Suzanne Stone is obsessed with being on television, aspiring to become a world-famous broadcast correspondent. But today's headline reads, "Little Hope's own weather (girl) reporter is possibl…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film
Nick Hendricks, Dale Arbus, and Kurt Buckman are friends working in Riverside, California, who despise their bosses: Nick works at a financial firm for the sadistic Dave Harken, who hints at a possible promotion for Nick for months, only t…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
Former prosecutor Ray Breslin is the founder and co-owner of Breslin-Clark, a security firm specializing in testing the security measures of supermax prisons. Posing as an inmate to study facilities from within and exploit their weaknesses…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, unreliable narrator
Unemployed number theorist Max Cohen, who lives in a drab apartment in Chinatown, Manhattan, believes everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He suffers from cluster headaches, extreme paranoia, hallucinations, and social a…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, Political Thriller, action thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Assassin Khamel kills two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg. Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing a motive for the murders. Her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan, a former clerk of Rosenb…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, drama film, political film, political thriller film, thriller film
Major Bennett Marco commanded a U.S. Army unit during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Sergeant First Class Raymond Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions following an enemy ambush of his reconnaissance patrol in Kuwait.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Detective Film, Historie, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1888, Mary Kelly and a small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. Their friend Ann Crook is a former prostitute now married to a wealthy painter named Albert, and she has recently given birth to a daughte…
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Animation, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the near future, the United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful drug that causes bizarre hallucinations, has swept the country. Approximately 20 percent of the population is addicted.
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
In 35,000 B.C. during the Ice Age, in what will become North Texas, two cavemen hunters encounter an extraterrestrial life form in a cave, which kills one and infects the other with a black oil-like substance. In 1998, a boy falls into a h…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
While in post-production on the low-budget slasher film Co-ed Frenzy, Philadelphia sound technician Jack Terry is instructed by his producer Sam to obtain a more realistic-sounding scream and better wind effects. As he records potential so…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, environmental film, science fiction film, survival film
In 2019, following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions "Dutch Boy", a system of climate-controlling satellites. After it neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai, a US Senate subcommittee reprimands chief a…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
Nathan Harper is an 18-year-old high school senior living in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his parents Kevin and Mara. He is troubled by recurring nightmares and has been seeing Dr. Geraldine "Geri" Bennett, a psychiatrist,…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
British diplomat and avid horticulturalist Justin Quayle is confronted by Amnesty International activist Tessa during a lecture in London. They strike up a romance, and marry after she accompanies him to his posting in Kenya. She befriends…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, girls with guns, survival film, thriller film
Hanna Heller is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, Erik, in rural northern Finland. Since the age of two, Hanna has been trained by him, an ex-CIA operative from Germany, to be a skilled assassin. He teaches her hand-to-han…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Hard Science Fiction, Political Thriller, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
thumb|left|The Excelsior weathers the shock wave generated by the explosion of Praxis. In 2293, the Federation starship Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, discovers that the Klingon moon of Praxis has been destroyed in a mining a…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action film, buddy film, techno-thriller, treasure hunt film
In 1865, at the conclusion of the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia is in ruins. The CSS Texas, captained by Mason Tombs is loaded with the last of the Confederacy's gold to keep it from Union forces before disappearing. In present-da…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the Mojave Desert, a policeman pulls over a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by J. Frank Parnell. The policeman opens the trunk, sees a blinding flash of white light, and instantly vaporizes, leaving only his boots behind.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Chicago Police Lieutenant Danny Roman is a top hostage negotiator for the east precinct. His partner, Nate Roenick, warns him that an informant inside the department suspects members of their own unit have embezzled millions from the polic…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Destiny, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Michael Faraday is a history professor at George Washington University, teaching a class on American terrorism and living in Reston, Virginia, with his young son Grant. Since the death of his wife Leah, an FBI agent, Michael remains friend…
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Arranged Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Political Documentary, documentary film
The documentary begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the election of 2000 by prematurely declaring Bush the winner. It then suggests that the handling of the voting controversy…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1585, Catholic Spain, ruled by King Philip II, is the most powerful country in Europe. Seeing that the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth's life that occurred from the 1570s onwards had all failed, Pope Sixtus V approached King Phil…
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