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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is retired from fieldwork and has settled down with his fiancée, nurse Julia Meade, who is unaware of his job training recruits. IMF Director of Operations John Musgrave approaches him about a special mission to rescue…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film, detective film, heist film, mystery film
Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of Danny Ocean's crew, demanding they return the $160 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million in interest. He gives them a two-week deadline to return the money, under the threat that …
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Fake Documentary, Horror, crime film, found footage film, horror film
The film is presented as a documentary, featuring interviews with police and FBI officials. Police officers raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they discover over 800 videotapes created by serial killer Edward Carver, which prese…
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Justice Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, flashback film, romance film, spy film, war film
German gunners shoot down a British biplane, containing a pilot and a slumped down woman, flying across the desert. A group of Bedouin pulls the badly burned pilot from the wreckage, rescuing him. Hana, a French-Canadian Royal Canadian Arm…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, spy film
Three MI6 agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's …
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Komödie, Mysterie, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
A waiter pages George Kaplan at the Oak Room restaurant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City at the request of two well-dressed men. While summoning the same waiter, advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy
Fifteen-year-old musician Anna Coleman lives in Los Angeles with her nine-year-old brother Harry, their widowed psychologist mother Tess, and grandfather Alan. Tess is engaged to Ryan, but Anna has not accepted the engagement, still coping…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
A successful action thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an infamous criminal and John Travolta as the cop trying to bring him down. In an attempt to get information on criminal Castor Troy, police officer Sean Archer switches faces with him …
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film
Superman has been missing for five years, ever since he traveled to the location where astronomers believed they discovered the remains of Krypton. His arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor, has recently been released from prison and married a wealthy …
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Coming Of Age, Found Footage, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, found footage film, pseudo-documentary, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
In Seattle, teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied in school, abused by his alcoholic father Richard, and his mother Karen has cancer. The family struggles with medical debt after Richard loses his firefighter job. Andrew’s only friend is his c…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a Soviet microchip. Q analyzes the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse, made by government contractor Z…
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Erotic Film, Romance Film, drama film, erotic film, romance film
Paul, a middle-aged American hotel owner mourning the suicide of his wife Rosa, meets a young, engaged Parisian woman named Jeanne at an apartment that both are interested in renting. Paul takes the apartment after they begin an anonymous …
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American football film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, comedy film
Ace Ventura, an eccentric private investigator in Miami, specializes in rescuing animals and is frequently mocked by the Miami Police Department. After the Miami Dolphins' mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is stolen from the te…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
In Denver, low-level marijuana dealer David Clark is robbed of his money and stash, some of which he owes to his supplier and college acquaintance Brad Gurdlinger. Gurdlinger forces him to smuggle marijuana from Mexico to clear his debt. R…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, ninja film, spy film, thriller film
American NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspects the Soviet Union, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investig…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, science fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
Brilliant but narcissistic scientist Sebastian Caine develops a serum for the military that renders a subject invisible. His team includes ex-girlfriend Linda McKay, Matt Kensington, Sarah Kennedy, Janice Walton, Carter Abbey, and Frank Ch…
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Action, Adventure, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, drama film, fantasy film, sword-and-sandal film
During the gods' battle against the Titans, Hades created the Kraken, a fearsome monster that helped win the gods' victory. Zeus and his brothers then divided the world amongst themselves: Zeus took the skies, Poseidon the seas, and Hades,…
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Historie, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, medieval film, swashbuckler film
In AD 1199, Robin Longstride serves as a common archer in the army of King Richard the Lionheart. A veteran of Richard's crusade, he now takes part in the siege of Chalus Castle. Disillusioned, war-weary, and facing charges of misconduct a…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Super Hero, action film, spy film, thriller film
In Sydney, bio-genetics scientist Doctor Vladimir Nekhorvich sends a message to the IMF for Dimitri (Ethan Hunt's cover name), his old friend, warning that his employer, Biocyte Pharmaceuticals, forced him to develop a biological weapon, t…
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Action, Mysterie, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police while wounded and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone, seemingly of him being forced to comply with the program. Six weeks later, CIA De…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Dark Comedy, Parodie, Satire, comedy film, parody film, religious satire
Brian Cohen is born in a stable next door to Jesus, which initially confuses the three wise men who come to praise the future King of the Jews. He grows up into an idealistic young man who resents the continuing Roman occupation of Judea. …
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Crime Comedy, crime comedy film, mystery film, thriller film
Five years after the first film, Stephanie Smothers is a famous true crime vlogger, an amateur detective and has written a book about her friendship with Emily Nelson and Emily’s subsequent imprisonment. At a book signing, Emily appears, a…
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, dystopian film, film noir, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him.
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Tim Thomas, sending a text message while driving, caused a car crash in which seven people died: six strangers and his fiancée, Sarah Jenson. In a bid for redemption, and unable to live with the guilt of his actions, Tim sets out to save t…
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