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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller
A scientist is commissioned by his government to create a highly intelligent robot in the name of peaceful progress, which the government then seizes and turns into the Fabrication Machine, an automaton that can construct an army of war ma…
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Animation, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror comedy, children's film, comedy horror, detective film, family film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, thriller film
On the day before Halloween, young Dustin James "D.J." Walters spies on his elderly neighbor, Horace Nebbercracker, who is known for frightening children off his property and confiscating their belongings. D.J.'s parents leave town for a c…
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Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, adventure film, fantasy film, mystery film
Elderly sage Doctor Parnassus runs a travelling theatre troupe, which includes his teenage daughter Valentina, barker Anton, and dwarf Percy. The troupe's main attraction is a portal to a magical "Imaginarium", a surreal dream world that t…
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Action, Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Some time after helping the Holy See deal with an antimatter threat, Harvard University professor Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital room in Florence, Italy. He has no memory of the last few days but is plagued with hellish visions. Dr.
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, legal thriller, mystery film, trial film
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother Ricky are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their Memphis trailer home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford attempting suicide. Mark sneaks up to the back of Clifford's car t…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Obsession, Occult Horror, horror film, supernatural film, thriller film
Philadelphia detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) visits convicted serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) on death row shortly before his execution. Reese appears strangely cheerful, grips Hobbes' hand, and delivers what seems to be…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was las…
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Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1959, Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly mee…
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Fantasy, Horror, Komödie, comedy film, comedy horror, dark fantasy, fantasy film, ghost film, vampire film
In 1760, a young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy family immigrated from Liverpool to Maine to expand their family’s empire in the fishing industry, where they established the town of Collinsport and constructed the Collinwood Mansion. Six…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, thriller film
In 1933, John Dillinger infiltrates Indiana State Penitentiary, jailbreaking his crew. During the firefight, his mentor Walter Dietrich is shot and killed. Dillinger and company change clothes and eat at a nearby farm before driving to a s…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In Hamden, Connecticut, Kate and John Coleman's marriage is strained after the stillbirth of their third child, Jessica, whose loss is particularly hard on Kate, a recovering alcoholic. She and John then decide to adopt a 9-year-old Russia…
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Mysterie, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain living a quiet and sheltered life. He spends his days leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island and is obsessed with catching an evasive giant yellowfin tuna whom he calls "J…
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Destiny, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is a young albino man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abn…
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Forensic, Political Drama, Swords and Sandals, drama film, trial film, white savior film
The schooner La Amistad is transporting black slaves off the coast of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1839. A captive, Cinqué, leads an uprising against the crew, most of whom are killed. Two navigators, Pedro Montes and José Ruiz, are spare…
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Gothic film, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
In October 1830, alcoholic retired detective Augustus Landor is asked by the military to investigate the hanging of Cadet Leroy Fry at the United States Military Academy. Landor is a widower whose daughter Mattie ran off two years before. …
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Action, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, mystery film, science fiction film
In October 1959, an elementary school in Lexington celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. Lucinda Embry fills her paper with numbers while being guided by whispering vo…
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Horror, Obsession, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A dollmaker named Samuel Mullins and his wife Esther grieve for the loss of their seven-year-old daughter Annabelle, nicknamed "Bee", who dies when she accidentally steps in front of a driving car. Twelve years later, the Mullins open thei…
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LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, psychological thriller
Laura Burney appears to have an idyllic life and a happy marriage to Martin, a successful Boston investment counselor. Beneath Martin's charming, handsome exterior, however, is an obsessive and controlling person who has physically, emotio…
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
In Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson lives with her three sons. To earn a living, she offers psychic readings to locals. She is friendly with Buddy Cole, an emotionally unstable young man who works at an auto repair shop, and Valerie Ba…
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Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In early May 2002, a last-minute midnight hearing is held before serial killer Malcolm Rivers' scheduled execution the next day. A tape of Malcolm reciting the poem "Antigonish" is played. Journals belonging to Malcolm are discovered havin…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
The El Royale, once popular with the wealthy until losing its gambling license, is a hotel that straddles the California–Nevada border. In 1959, Felix O'Kelly hides a money bag under the floorboards of his room. His accomplice arrives and …
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, adventure film, crime thriller film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1891, a series of bombings blamed on political radicals bring France and Germany to the brink of war. Detective Sherlock Holmes narrowly intercepts one such bomb instead intended for expert surgeon Dr. Hoffmanstahl and Holmes' former lo…
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Drama, Mysterie, disaster film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Psychotherapist Claire Summers counsels five survivors of a recent plane crash: passengers Dean, Norman, Shannon, Eric, and flight attendant Janice. Eric, however, is unusually euphoric after the tragedy, and he asks that Claire meet with …
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Horror, Obsession, Psychodrama, art film, drama film, erotic thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller film
An unnamed couple have sex in their Seattle apartment while their unsupervised infant son, Nic, climbs up to the bedroom window and falls out of it to his death. The mother collapses at the funeral and spends the next month in the hospital…
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