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Action, Adventure, Animalhorror, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, thriller film
On the Amazon River, a poacher hides from an unknown creature in his boat. When it breaks through the boat and corners him, he commits suicide with his Colt Police Positive revolver. A film crew is searching for the Shirishamas, a long-los…
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Monster Film, Mysterie, Splatter Film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, psychological horror fiction
Rose Da Silva and her husband Christopher are disturbed by their adopted daughter Sharon's constant sleepwalking and nightmares about Silent Hill, a town in West Virginia that was abandoned in the 1970s due to a massive coal seam fire. Des…
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Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
A severe thunderstorm strikes Bridgton, Maine, causing a tree to crash through the lakeside home of artist David Drayton, his wife Stephanie, and their eight-year-old son, Billy. While surveying the damage the next morning, they notice a t…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
At Culver University in Virginia, U.S. military general Thaddeus Ross meets with Dr. Bruce Banner, the colleague and boyfriend of his daughter Betty, regarding an experiment that Ross claims is meant to make humans immune to gamma radiatio…
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Buddy Film, Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, monster film
In a world inhabited entirely by monsters, the city of Monstropolis harnesses the screams of human children for energy. At the Monsters Incorporated factory, skilled monsters employed as "scarers" enter the human world through special door…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film
Mark is a spy who returns home to West Berlin after a mission to discover that his wife, Anna, is seeing another man and wants to separate. Mark turns over their apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, to Anna. After a long drinking…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Monster Film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film
In the small town of Millbrook, New York, the Abbott family — parents Evelyn and Lee, daughter Regan, who is deaf, and sons Marcus and Beau — attend a Little League baseball game. A meteor-like object is seen hurtling toward Earth. Soon af…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Monster Film, horror film
Sam, a terminally ill cancer patient, lives at a hospice outside New York City with her cat, Frodo. Reuben, a nurse, convinces a reluctant Sam to join a group outing to a marionette show in Manhattan. While in the city, the group notices m…
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Action, Komödie, Pirate Film, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film, zombie film
Around 1750, some 21 years after Captain Jack Sparrow acquired Sao Feng's map to find the Fountain of Youth and the Black Pearl stolen by Hector Barbossa, a castaway found in the ocean was brought to King Ferdinand at Cádiz, holding a ship…
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Adventure, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Monumental Film, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader, dispatches probe droids across the galaxy in search of the Rebel Alliance. One probe locates the Rebel base on the ice planet Hoth. A wampa captur…
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Horror, Social Drama, adventure television series, horror television series
During a heavy rainstorm in Derry, Maine, in the spring of 1960, George Denbrough plays in the streets with a paper sailboat made by his stuttering older brother, Bill. It falls into a storm drain, where Georgie encounters Pennywise the Da…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, crossover fiction, superhero film
In a flashback to his childhood, Bruce Wayne flees his parents' funeral. He falls into a cave, where a circling vortex of bats elevates him back to the surface. In the present, eighteen months after his cataclysmic battle with General Zod …
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Action, Gangster Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Splatter Film, Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, monster film, splatter film, thriller film, vampire film
At a Texas roadside liquor store, fugitive bank robber Seth Gecko and his deranged brother Richie kill the clerk and a Texas Ranger and destroy the building. Richie nurses a gunshot to his hand as they drive down the highway to a motel and…
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, dystopian film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 2013, colossal extraterrestrials called Kaiju emerge from an interdimensional portal called the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and begin to attack coastal cities along the Pacific Rim. In response, humanity constructs massive…
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, kaiju, science fiction film, thriller film
Five years after the three headed dragon-like extraterrestrial, King Ghidorah, awakened giant monsters, known as "Titans", and was defeated by Godzilla, Kong is monitored by Monarch within a giant dome on Skull Island, which has been struc…
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Fantasy, Parodie, Pirate Film, Romantic Comedy, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film
About one year after Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann helped Captain Jack Sparrow escape from Port Royal, their wedding is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who arrives with arrest warrants. Commodore Jam…
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Christmas film, Fantasy, Horror comedy, comedy horror film, monster film
Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store to find a Christmas present for his son, Billy. In it, Randall uncovers a small and furry creature called a (Cantonese: , 'devil'). The owner, Sam Wing, refuses to sell i…
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Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, fantasy film
After burying Dobby, Harry Potter asks the goblin Griphook to help him, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux is there. Griphook agrees, in exchange for the Sword o…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Monster Film, horror film, monster film, slasher film, teen film
Trish Jenner and her brother Darry are traveling home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Florida countryside, an old truck violently tailgates them but eventually passes. During their drive, they discuss the urban leg…
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Monster Film, Thriller, adventure film, female buddy film, horror film, monster film, survival film
Sarah is picked up by her husband Paul and daughter Jessica after a whitewater rafting trip with her thrill-seeking friends Juno and Beth. Paul is distracted on the ride home, causing a car crash that kills both him and Jessica. Sarah awak…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, action film, fantasy film, horror film
In 3067 B.C., a warrior known as the Scorpion King leads an army to conquer the world. However, they are eventually defeated, and he is exiled to the desert of Ahm Shere. Dying, the King offers Anubis his soul in return for the power to de…
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Horror, Horror comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Zombiefilm, comedy drama, comedy horror, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film, werewolf film, zombie film
In an underground laboratory, engineers Gary Sitterson and Steve Hadley discuss preparations for a mysterious ritual. The Stockholm operation recently failed, leaving only their facility and one in Japan to undertake the process, with the …
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Action, Found Footage, Monster Film, action-adventure film, disaster film, fantasy film, found footage film, kaiju, katastrophe, pseudo-documentary, science fantasy, science fiction action film, thriller film
The footage from a personal camcorder is recovered by the U.S. Department of Defense in the area "formerly known as Central Park", bearing a disclaimer about multiple sightings of a case designated "Cloverfield". On April 27, 2008, Rob Haw…
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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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