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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 510 films.
Action, action film, adventure film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In Virginia, assailants breach an underground NSA bunker run by Agent Augustus Gibbons, who fends off the attackers before barely escaping with Toby Shavers. To find help from a XXX with more attitude, Gibbons meets his former comrade, Dar…
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Justice Drama, buddy film, crime film, drama film, prison film
In 1947, Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank State Prison to serve two consecutive life sentences for murdering his wife and her lover. He is befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a contraband smuggler serving a li…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In Chandler, Arizona, FBI special agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a Sonora Cartel safe house, where they discover dozens of decaying corpses hidden in the walls. Outside, an explosive booby trap kills two police officers.…
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Justice Drama, drama film, fantasy film, flashback film, magic realist film, prison film
In 1935, corrections officer Paul Edgecomb oversees "The Green Mile", the death row section of Cold Mountain Penitentiary, alongside officers Brutus Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, and the sadistic and despised Percy Wetmore, whos…
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Political Drama, Political Satire, Social Drama, action film, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, mystery film, prison film, satirical film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
thumb|right|Human furniture from the Korova milk bar, where the "milk-plus" was served In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. They engage in an intoxicated evening of "ultra-violence"…
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Justice Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, medical drama, prison film
In 1963, Oregon, Randle McMurphy is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl (which he claims he committed under the assumption that she was an 18-year-old), with five previous arrests for assault. He feigns mental illness…
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Military Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1992, a famine in southern Somalia induced by the civil war leads the United Nations Security Council to authorize a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. Conflict ensues between UNOSOM II and the Mogadishu-based militia loyal…
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Aliens, Fantasy, Military Film, Political Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, dystopian film, military science fiction, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, Earth is governed by the United Citizen Federation, a stratocratic regime founded generations earlier by "veterans" after democracy and social scientists brought civilization to the brink of ruin. Citizenship is exclusively …
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Destiny, Drama, Social Drama, drama film
Ruth Slater is released from prison after serving twenty years for killing a sheriff who came to evict her and her five-year-old sister, Katie, from their home in Snohomish, Washington. Upon her release, she gets two jobs, and begins to se…
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Anti-War Film, anti-war film, drama film, epic film, war drama, war film
Three Russian-American friends in Clairton, Pennsylvania—Mike, Steven, and Nick—work in a steel mill and hunt deer with co-workers Stan and Axel, and bartender friend John. Mike, Steven, and Nick have enlisted for the Vietnam War. Steven i…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1995, super soldier Alexei Shostakov and Black Widow assassin Melina Vostokoff work as Russian undercover agents, posing as a family in Ohio with Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova as their daughters. They steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and e…
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Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
In April 1997, 17-year-old White-American student Daniel "Danny" Vinyard antagonizes his Jewish history teacher Mr. Murray by writing an essay on Mein Kampf. School principal and outreach worker Dr.
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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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Adventure, Political Drama, War Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
In the winter of 1941, amid Japan's invasion of China during World War II, Jamie Graham is a British upper class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the Shanghai International Settlement. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan begins …
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film
MI6 agent James Bond infiltrates a North Korean military base where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is trading weapons for African conflict diamonds. After Moon's right-hand man, Zao, receives notification of Bond's real identity, Moon attempts to ki…
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Coming Of Age, Forensic, Mafia Film, Social Drama, buddy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, prison film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, trial film
In the summer of 1967, Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan and John Reilly are childhood friends living in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. At that time, the boys start running small errands for local gangster "King" Ben…
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Action, Justice Drama, Thriller, action film, action thriller, drama film, war film
In December 1981, United States Army Vietnam War veteran John Rambo visits the home of his army buddy Delmar Barry and learns that he has died from the effects of Agent Orange exposure. Wandering aimlessly on foot, he arrives at the town o…
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Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, prison film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Clyde Shelton lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia when two burglars, Rupert Ames and Clarence Darby, break into their home. Ames ties up and gags Clyde, while Darby stabs him in the stomach before raping and murdering his wife…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, prison film, science fiction film, superhero film, vigilante film
In the aftermath of Superman's death, intelligence officer Amanda Waller convinces the U.S. government to greenlight Task Force X, a response team of criminals and supervillains. The team will be used to combat metahuman threats, under Wal…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
Bruno, an eight-year-old German boy living in Berlin, is uprooted to the countryside with his family after his father Ralf, an SS officer, is promoted. The boy notices an extermination camp from his bedroom window, but believes it to be a …
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Family Drama, Social Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, musical film, war film
In September 1939, Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman plays live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during a Nazi German air raid against Warsaw. Szpilman and his family prepare to leave the city when they learn that B…
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Historie, biographical film, historical film, trial film, war film
In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Lawyer James B. Donovan, formerly general counsel to the Office of Strategic Services but now in private practice in insurance law, is appointed t…
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
Two years after the capture of rogue British agent Solomon Lane, his terrorist network, the Syndicate, has reorganized as the Apostles, a terror-for-hire group. They are recruited by extremist "John Lark" to acquire three plutonium cores f…
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, thriller film
In 1993, wealthy Whidbey Island residents Libby and Nick Parsons appear to live an idyllic Pacific Northwest life with their four-year-old son, Matty. At a lavish private school fundraiser hosted at their waterfront mansion, Nick presents …
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