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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, science fiction film, space opera
thumb|From left to right: Luke, Leia, and Han in a still from Star Wars In a period of galactic civil war, Rebel Alliance spies have stolen blueprints to the Death Star, a colossal space station built by the Galactic Empire that is capable…
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Fantasy, Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, ninja film, splatter film
In Japan in 1617, Hanzo Hasashi is out collecting water when he finds his wife and son frozen to death, his home ransacked and his allies, the Shirai Ryu ninja clan, dead at the hands of the Chinese Lin Kuei assassin clan, led by the cryom…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, monster film, sword and sorcery film, teen film
Dragons frequently attack the Viking village of Berk, stealing livestock and endangering villagers. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the 16-year-old outcast son of chieftain Stoick the Vast, attempts to create mechanical devices to overcome …
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LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, art film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, surrealist film, suspense film, thriller film
The film opens with brightly lit images of couples dancing the jitterbug, over which a young blonde woman appears smiling and being applauded, followed by a point-of-view shot descending toward a pillow as someone lies down. At night on Mu…
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Adventure, Animation, Computeranimation, Komödie, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film
Nine years ago, Woody and Bo Peep rescue Andy's remote control car, RC, from being washed away in a storm, before Bo and her lamp are donated to a new owner. Woody attempts to rescue her, but she insists it is okay as it is "time for the n…
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Action, Action Comedy, Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, horror film, treasure hunt film
In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, Pharaoh Seti I discovers that his high priest Imhotep has been having an affair with his mistress Anck-su-namun. The two kill Seti when he confronts them. Anck-su-namun takes her own life to buy Imhotep time to e…
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Drama, Satire On Media, Sci-Fi, comedy film, drama film, dystopian fiction, dystopian film, science fiction film, tragicomedy
Selected at birth and legally adopted by a television studio following an unwanted pregnancy, Truman Burbank is the unsuspecting star of The Truman Show, a reality television program filmed and broadcast worldwide, 24/7, through hidden cam…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, body horror film, fantasy film, girls with guns, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
The commercial space tug Nostromo is returning to Earth with a seven-member crew in "stasis": captain Dallas, executive officer Kane, warrant officer Ripley, navigator Lambert, science officer Ash, and engineers Parker and Brett, along wit…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, mystery film, thriller film
Note: Though the movie contains multiple flash-forwards and flash-backs throughout, the story is told here in chronological order. In 1890s London, Robert Angier, Alfred Borden, and Angier's wife, Julia, work as magician's assistants under…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In Philadelphia, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe is at home with his wife Anna. Suddenly, Vincent Grey, a former patient he had treated years ago, breaks into their house. Vincent accuses Malcolm of failing him before shooting Malcolm and…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, tech-noir film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1984 Los Angeles, an imposing man appears naked in an alley amid electric flashes and attacks some punks for clothes. Later, a man with scars appears in an alley the same way and evades police. The first man robs a gun shop, looks up ad…
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
After failing to make his mortgage payments, Farmer Jones's Manor Farm is repossessed by the bank. The farm is set to be sold to Pilkington Industries, led by ruthless billionaire Frieda Pilkington, who intends to slaughter the animals. Wh…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy, fantasy film, thriller film
In a retrofuturist alternative late-Victorian London, 1882, the medical student Max McCandles is recruited by the mad scientist Godwin Baxter to record the behaviour of a strange, nearly mute woman living in Godwin's house. Godwin reveals …
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, slasher film, supernatural horror film
In 2016, twenty-seven years after It's initial defeat, Pennywise the Dancing Clown returns to Derry, Maine, killing a man named Adrian Mellon after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted by homophobic teens. Mike Hanlon, the only memb…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
Struggling doorknob salesman Steve goes to work in a mine to fulfill a childhood dream, where he discovers the Orb of Dominance and the Earth Crystal. When combined, they create a portal that transports him to the Overworld, a world where …
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, chick flick, comedy film, family film, fantasy comedy film, fantasy film, musical comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy film, satirical film, teen film
A "stereotypical" Barbie resides with many different versions of herself in Barbieland, a matriarchal society created by the collective human imagination, along with Kens and a group of discontinued models treated like outcasts due to thei…
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Christmas film, Family Drama, Fantasy, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, flashback film, romantic comedy film
On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. The prayers of his family and friends reach Heaven, where guardian angel second class Clarence Odbody is assigned to save George to earn his wings. Clar…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film
On planet Turo, Dr. Jumba Jookiba is convicted by the United Galactic Federation of illegal genetic experimentation, for creating an aggressive, near-indestructible creature with advanced learning capabilities called Experiment 626. Jumba …
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, melodrama, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an undergrou…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, magic realist film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
On October 2, 1988, troubled teenager Donald "Donnie" Darko sleepwalks outside, led by a mysterious voice. Once outside, he meets a figure named Frank in a monstrous rabbit costume. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 …
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
A group of sloth-like creatures called Pookoo lives in a flooded valley populated by animal-plant hybrids. An inventive young Pookoo named Ollie is curious about the other creatures living in the valley, despite the warnings of his parents…
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Action, Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, biopunk, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Four years after the Lockwood Estate incident that followed the volcanic eruption of Isla Nublar, once-extinct dinosaurs freely roam the Earth, breeding exponentially in order to increase the population numbers of their species. Amid globa…
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Romantic Drama, Super Hero, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
On a high school field trip, Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory with his best friend, Harry Osborn, and his love interest, Mary Jane Watson. There, he is bitten by a genetically engineered spider, and falls ill u…
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Marital Tragedy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, surrealist film, suspense film, thriller film
Saxophonist Fred Madison receives a cryptic message on his intercom in the Hollywood Hills: "Dick Laurent is dead." Moments later, he hears tires screeching and sirens racing past his house. The next morning, his wife Renee finds a VHS tap…
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