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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
Batman and his partner, Robin, encounter a new villain, Mr. Freeze, who has left a string of diamond thefts in his wake. During a confrontation at the natural history museum, Freeze steals a diamond and flees, freezing Robin to distract Ba…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
On a beach in Pigeon Creek, Alabama, 10-year-olds Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter inspect the result of lightning striking sand. He asserts they are soulmates who will be married. In the present, Melanie is a New York fashion designer using…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable. Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have…
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Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, science fiction film
In the mid-1950s, the Men in Black (MIB) organization was founded. After secretly making first contact with extraterrestrials in 1961, the small, albeit underfunded government agency becomes fully independent and secret. The MIB designates…
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Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1978 New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging enforcer in the Bonanno crime family, meets Joseph D. Pistone, a young undercover FBI agent posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Donnie insists that a diamond that Lefty has acquired from str…
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Action, Parodie, Political Satire, Political Thriller, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, romantic comedy film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Tasker, to the knowledge of his wife Helen and his daughter Dana, is a mild-mannered computer hardware salesman often away on business trips. In reality he works for Omega Sector, a top-secret U.S. counterterrorism agency.
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent it from locking. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters wi…
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Christmas film, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
James Bond saves a woman on the beach from an attempted suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to her hotel room to thank him, but when Bond arrives he is att…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
Anna Montgomery is an aspiring chef who put her dreams on hold after the death of her mother. She works as a house sitter, but has a habit of pretending to live a life that is not hers through her clients’ clothing and homes. After losing …
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Action, Knights Tale, Komödie, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, knight film, romance film
At a jousting tournament in 14th-century Europe, squires William Thatcher, Roland, and Wat discover that their master, Sir Ector, has died of dysentery. With one more pass, he could have won the tournament. Destitute, William wears Sir Ect…
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LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, comedy film, musical film
Armand Goldman is the openly gay owner of a drag club in South Beach called The Birdcage; his effete and flamboyant partner Albert is the star attraction of the club under the name Starina. They live together in an apartment above The Bird…
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, epic film
Celie is an African American teenager in early 20th-century rural Georgia who twice has borne children by her abusive father, which were taken from her. He gives her away as a wife to Mister, who also abuses her, and his children mistreat …
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Animation, Computeranimation, Komödie, Western film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film
A theatrically-minded pet chameleon is left to fend for himself in the Mojave Desert after his vivarium accidentally falls out of his owners' car. The cause of the accident, armadillo hermit Roadkill, was crossing the road in search of a m…
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Daffy Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Mafia Film, Romantic Comedy, Splatstick, crime film, drama film, gangster film, musical film, romantic comedy film, screwball comedy film
In Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive gambler and ladies' man; Jerry, his anxious friend, is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy
Harry Sanborn is a wealthy New York City record company owner who only dates women under 30, including his latest girlfriend, Marin Klein. The two drive to her mother's Hamptons beach house, expecting to be alone. However, Marin's mother, …
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, teen film
In 2005, unpopular-yet-scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular-yet-underachieving athlete Greg Jenko miss their school prom, Schmidt being rejected by the girl he was trying to ask to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending …
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Coming Out, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Psychodrama, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, surrealist film
Craig Schwartz is an unemployed puppeteer in New York City, in a forlorn marriage with his pet-obsessed wife, Lotte. He finds work as a file clerk for the eccentric Dr. Lester in the Mertin-Flemmer building, on a floor between the 7th and …
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Mysterie, Psychodrama, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Prologue A crackling vinyl record announces that "Axxon N., the longest-running radio play in history", is turning to "a gray winter day in an old hotel". In a hotel room, the Lost Girl—a young Polish prostitute—has an unpleasant encounter…
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
An amorphous parasitic alien race abandons its dying planet and travels across space, eventually coming to Earth. Upon settling, the spores take the form of small pods with fragrant pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll, a laboratory scientist …
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Romantic Drama, action film, romantic comedy film, screwball comedy film
John Smith, a construction executive, and his wife Jane, an IT recruiter, are at marriage counseling. They have been married for about five or six years, and their marriage is suffering from a lack of communication and acts of quiet aggres…
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