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Action, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, prison film, thriller film
After many failed attempts to get his fallen men the recognition they deserved via the proper channels and fed up with the U.S. Government's underhanded tactics, USMC Brigadier General Francis Hummel and his rogue group of Force Recon Mari…
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Action, Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
During World War II, Allied POWs who have repeatedly escaped from camps in Germany are moved to a new camp under the command of Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. He warns the senior prisoner, Group Captain Ramsey, that escapees will be shot. Se…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, detective film, thriller film
In Chicago, vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble is arrested for the murder of his wife, Helen. Despite his claims that he caught a man with a prosthetic arm in the act, Helen's misinterpreted 911 call and substantial life insurance policy …
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Komödie, Treasure Hunting, Western film, comedy drama, comedy film, mystery film, prison film
The Yelnats family has been cursed with bad luck, which they blame on their ancestor Elya's failure to keep a promise to fortune teller Madame Zeroni over a century earlier in Latvia. One day, Stanley Yelnats IV is wrongfully convicted of …
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
U.S. Marshal Madolyn Harris arrests Winston, an accountant, while he is hiding in Alaska after turning informant against his former employer, the Moretti crime family. Madolyn charters a small airplane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, to take them t…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Former Green Beret and retired CIA officer Bryan Mills attempts to build a closer relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, who lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy step-father, Stuart. While overseeing security at a conce…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, prison film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Shortly after escaping the planet LV-426, the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco is travelling back to Earth with Ellen Ripley, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Cpl. Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop in cryonic stasis. An alien egg hatches on boar…
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Action, Drama, athletics film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Louis "Louie" Zamperini is a bombardier in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. An April 1943 bombing mission against Japanese installations on Nauru exposes him to danger. His B-24 Liberator is hit by enemy fire, a crewman i…
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Destiny, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, historical drama, prison film, swashbuckler film
In 1662, the Kingdom of France moves toward revolution, facing bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch. The young and callous King Louis redistributes spoiling food supplies from the army to his starving citizens, and instr…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
DEA agents collect MI6 agent James Bond and his friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter's wedding in Key West, to have them assist in capturing drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In February 1943, a contingent of British prisoners of war, led by Colonel Nicholson, arrive at a Japanese prison camp in Thailand. United States Navy Commander Shears describes the horrific conditions to Nicholson, who forbids any escape …
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Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dance Film, Musical, comedy drama, comedy film, detective film, drama film, musical film, prison film
In 1924, vaudeville star Velma Kelly performs ("Overture/All That Jazz") at The Onyx, a Chicago nightclub; the spotlight highlights the empty place where Velma's sister is missing awkwardly from the double act. Seeking stardom, housewife R…
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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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Action, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
Decorated honorably discharged Army Ranger Cameron Poe is convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing a bar patron in self-defense when the other man drunkenly attacks him and his pregnant wife, Tricia. During his eight-year sentence…
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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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Military Film, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Three years after the incident in Hope, Washington, former U.S. Army Green Beret John Rambo is imprisoned at a penal labor facility. He is met by Colonel Sam Trautman, his commanding officer during the Vietnam War.
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Action, Crime, Drama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, prison film, rape and revenge film, satire
Mickey Knox and his wife Mallory stop at a diner in the New Mexico desert. A duo of rednecks arrive and begin sexually harassing Mallory as she dances by a jukebox. She initially encourages it before beating one of the men viciously.
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, family film, science fiction film
Supervillain Megamind and his polar opposite, superhero Metro Man, are extraterrestrials of different species who were both independently sent to Earth as infants before a black hole destroyed their planets. Though both land in Metro City …
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Fugitive Drama, Justice Drama, Melodrama, Political Thriller, action film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
thumb|The Azure Window of Gozo appears in the background of some scenes (picture from 2003). In 1815, Edmond Dantès, second mate of a French merchant vessel, and his friend Fernand Mondego, a representative of the shipping company, seek me…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Jacob Harlon is a successful stockbroker living with his wife, Katherine, and son Joshua, in California. One night, while driving his wife and two friends home after an evening out, having dinner and drinking wine, he causes a collision wh…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Michael Peterson narrates his early life with self-deprecating humour. Initially, he addresses the camera dressed in prison garb. Other times, he tells his tale in a vaudeville-style theatre with a live audience.
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Krug Stillo, a notorious killer, is being transported to a max security prison. When he asks the transporting officers for a restroom break, the two refuse knowing he is a flight risk. While stopped at a railroad crossing, the two officers…
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Sport, action comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, sport film
Paul Crewe is a former National Football League (NFL) quarterback who was accused of shaving points. Though he was never convicted, he was placed on federal probation for five years. One night, dissatisfied with his life, he gets drunk dur…
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