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Romantic Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker struggles to balance his personal life with his crime-fighting as Spider-Man. He juggles multiple jobs and faces overdue rent and schoolwork as his aunt May is being evicted. Daily Bugle editor J.
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Found Footage, Horror, Horror comedy, drama film, found footage film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
Two siblings from Philadelphia, Becca and Tyler, prepare for a five-day visit with their grandparents while their divorced mother Loretta goes on a cruise with her boyfriend. Loretta has not spoken to her parents in fifteen years after the…
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Action, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The Trade Federation blockades the planet Naboo in secret preparation for a full-scale invasion, disrupting order in the Galactic Republic. The Republic's leader, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and hi…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, romance film
Adaline Marie Bowman was born on New Year's Day, 1908, in San Francisco at 12:01 a.m. to Faye and Milton Bowman. In 1929, when she was twenty-one, Adaline married engineer Clarence James Prescott.
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Computeranimation, Parodie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, family film, superhero film
During the glory days of superheroes, Bob Parr (alias Mr. Incredible) thwarts a civilian's attempted suicide by tackling him through a skyscraper window. Bob discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by hi…
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Destiny, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the "not-too-distant" future, eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived naturally and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "in-valids". G…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Erotic Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, survival film, teen film
In the late Victorian period, two cousins, nine-year-old Richard and seven-year-old Emmeline Lestrange, and galley cook Paddy Button, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Paddy cares for the children and forbids …
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Historie, adventure film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, war drama, war film
Part I: "By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired the Style and Title of Barry Lyndon" In 1750, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Redmond Barry's father is killed in a duel. Barry, of a genteel but impoverished Irish Protestant family, becomes infatu…
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film
MI6 agent James Bond infiltrates a North Korean military base where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is trading weapons for African conflict diamonds. After Moon's right-hand man, Zao, receives notification of Bond's real identity, Moon attempts to ki…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Super Hero, action film, neo-noir, superhero film
Newspaper reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of "Batman", a masked vigilante targeting Gotham City's criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, who is secretly Batman, h…
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Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, alternate history film, drama film, dystopian film, neo-noir, superhero film, vigilante film
In 1985, a man living in a Manhattan apartment watches news about escalating Cold War tensions and the response from five-term President Richard Nixon when an unknown assailant attacks and hurls him to the street below. Throughout the open…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1986, Charles Xavier and Magneto meet young Jean Grey at her parents' house to invite her to join their school, the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Ten years later, in 1996, industrialist Warren Worthington II discovers his son is …
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Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy of remarriage, family film, romantic comedy film
In 1986, American wine grower Nicholas "Nick" Parker and British wedding gown designer Elizabeth James fall in love and marry aboard a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Shortly after Elizabeth gives birth to identical twins, Annie and Halli…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, mystery film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an American man adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. Tending to his wounds, they find he has amnesia but shows fluency in several languages. A tiny laser projector found implanted i…
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Adventure, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, superhero film
In Gotham City, Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by the criminal Two-Face, formerly district attorney Harvey Dent, who escapes. Flashbacks reveal that Dent, once one of Batman's biggest supporters, was horribly disfigured wi…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2084, Mars is a colonized world under the tyrannical regime of Vilos Cohaagen, who controls the mining of valuable turbinium ore. On Earth, construction worker Douglas Quaid experiences recurring dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman…
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the rural town of Millbrook, Indiana, with wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. One night, two spree killers attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, high school film, sex comedy, teen film
Seth and Evan are unpopular Nevada high school seniors who have been best friends since childhood, and hope to lose their virginities before going to different colleges. Jules, a girl Seth is attracted to, invites him to a party at her hou…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, adventure film, comedy drama, family film, fantasy film, martial arts film, musical film
The Huns invade China by breaching the Great Wall. The Emperor orders a general mobilization, with conscription notices requiring one man from each family to join the Imperial Army. Fa Mulan, an adventurous young woman, hopes to bring hono…
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Christmas film, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In Gotham City, two wealthy socialites, horrified by the birth of their malformed and feral son Oswald, abandon him in the sewers, where a colony of penguins takes him in. Thirty-three years later, during the Christmas season, wealthy indu…
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Family Comedy, Family Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film, screwball comedy film
Freelance voice actor Daniel Hillard lives in San Francisco and is a devoted father to three children - 14-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Chris, and 5-year-old Natalie - though his workaholic wife Miranda considers him immature and unreliable…
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Secret Agent, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, heist film, spy film, thriller film
After finishing a mission in Kyiv, IMF agent Jim Phelps and his latest team are sent to Prague to stop rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn from stealing the CIA's NOC (non-official cover) list, which reveals the identities of all their undercov…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, planetary romance, science fiction film
In 1881, Edgar Rice Burroughs arrives at the estate of his recently deceased uncle, John Carter, a former American Civil War Confederate Army captain. Per Carter's instructions, the body is put in a tomb that can be unlocked only from the …
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, thriller film
In 1993, wealthy Whidbey Island residents Libby and Nick Parsons appear to live an idyllic Pacific Northwest life with their four-year-old son, Matty. At a lavish private school fundraiser hosted at their waterfront mansion, Nick presents …
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