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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, dystopian film, kaiju, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2035, ten years after the events of the previous film, the Jaeger Program has been reinstated and now thrives under the watchful eye of Mako Mori, the Senator who runs the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC). Former Jaeger pilot and Stacke…
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Drama, Fantasy, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, science fiction action film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Gloria is an unemployed writer struggling with alcoholism. Her boyfriend Tim, frustrated with her behavior, breaks up with her and kicks her out of their New York City apartment. Moving back to her family home in Mainhead, New Hampshire, G…
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
A Yautja ship leaves Earth carrying captured Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar's body before a chestburster emerges, with characteristic traits of both species. The chestburster quickly matures into an adult Predalien, and starts slaughtering…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, medieval film, monster film
Five years after the Viking villagers of Berk and the dragons have made peace, Hiccup and his Night Fury best friend, Toothless, map out unexplored lands. Hiccup's father, Stoick the Vast, pressures him to succeed as chieftain, although Hi…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, superhero film
In 1944 during World War II, Grigori Rasputin, his disciples Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, and a group of Nazis build a dimensional portal to free demonic entities called Ogdru Jahad: The Seven Gods of C…
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Ghost-Movie, action film, ghost film, horror film, monster film
The Grudge is a curse, born when someone dies in extreme rage or sorrow and lingers where the person dies. Those who encounter it will die, and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passing from victim to victim in an endless growing chain of ho…
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Aliens, Horror, Komödie, Sci-Fi, body horror film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, zombie comedy
A meteorite brings a malevolent, sentient extraterrestrial parasite to Earth. The parasite enters the town of Wheelsy, South Carolina, where it infects wealthy resident Grant by taking over his body and absorbing his mind. With the alien i…
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, katastrophe, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
An iguana nest is exposed to the fallout of a military nuclear test in French Polynesia. Some time later, a Japanese cannery vessel in the South Pacific is attacked by an unknown giant creature, with one fisherman surviving. While recoveri…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Sharon Da Silva and her adoptive father Christopher have spent the past few years moving from town to town and assuming different identities, including the names Heather and Harry Mason. Heather believes that they are on the run from the p…
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Found Footage, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, found footage film, ghost film, horror film
The film is presented as an anthology of five short horror films, built into a frame narrative which acts as its own sixth short horror film. "Tape 56" (frame narrative) — Prologue Written by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett Directed by Adam…
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Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, science fiction film
In 1978, a group of aliens called the Zarthans, led by Princess Lauranna, travel to Earth and beg the Men in Black (MIB) organization for help in guarding a powerful item called the Light of Zartha before a shapeshifting alien called Serle…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historie, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, thriller film
Ahmed ibn Fahdlan is a court poet of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir of Baghdad until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an "ambassador" to the Volga Bulgars. Traveling with his father's old frien…
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Action, Girls with Guns, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Former security operative Alice and environmental activist Matt Addison escape an underground genetic research facility called the Hive after a zombie outbreak. The pair attempted to expose illegal experiments being performed there by the …
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Action, Fantasy, Monster Film, War Film, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
On the eve of D-Day in an alternate 1940s where Executive Order 9981 is signed in 1944, a paratrooper squad, most of them in an integrated unit, is sent to destroy a German radio-jamming tower in an old church. Their plane is shot down and…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
A few weeks after their adventure on Spooky Island, Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, featuring an exhibit of monster costumes from their past cases. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The citizens of a medieval-futuristic kingdom are protected by the Institute for Elite Knights, established by the legendary heroine Gloreth, who vanquished a "Great Black Monster" and enclosed the kingdom with a high wall one thousand yea…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film, sword and sorcery film
In 507, Geatish warrior Beowulf travels to Denmark with his band of soldiers, to slay Grendel, a creature that killed King Hrothgar's people during a celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar's wife Queen W…
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Action, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action thriller, adventure film, drama film, horror film
In 2050, the Kepler 822, a research and drilling facility operated by Tian Industries at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, is struck by what is assumed to be a strong earthquake. As part of the facility is destroyed by the incident, mechan…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, monster film, sword-and-sandal film
King Acrisius of Argos imprisons his daughter Danaë, jealous of her beauty. When the god Zeus impregnates Danaë, Acrisius banishes her and her newborn son Perseus to sea in a wooden chest. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Pos…
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Aliens, Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film
In the winter of 1982, members of the Norwegian research station "Thule" discover an alien spacecraft and a nearby alien body buried in the Antarctic ice. Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch recruit American paleontologist Ka…
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Monster Film, fantasy film, horror film
In 1127, a djinn asks a Persian emperor to make his second wish. When the emperor wishes to see wonders, the Djinn uses his powers to torture and mutilate people in the palace. The emperor is horrified, but the Djinn tells him to use his t…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1952, aspiring writer and director Ed Wood is struggling to break into the film industry. After learning that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen's life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalize…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film, science fantasy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno, California for a career opportunity. However, just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a de…
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action film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film
In 1954, after the Japanese freighter Eiko-maru is destroyed near Odo Island, another ship—the Bingo-maru—is sent to investigate, only to meet the same fate with few survivors. A fishing boat from Odo is also destroyed, with one survivor. …
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