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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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Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, drama film, girls with guns, science fiction film
Lucy is an American studying in Taipei. Her new boyfriend Richard coerces her into delivering a briefcase containing four bags of the highly valuable synthetic drug CPH4 to Mr. Jang, a South Korean drug lord, at the Regent Taipei.
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Action, Aliens, Time Travel, action film, military science fiction, science fiction film, time-travel film, war film
In December 2022, biology teacher and former Green Beret Dan Forester fails to land a job at the United States Army Research Laboratory. While he watches the televised 2022 FIFA World Cup final, soldiers from the year 2051 arrive on the pl…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 2600 BC, the tyrannical king Ahk-Ton of Kahndaq enslaves his people to mine the mythical metal Eternium, using it to forge the Crown of Sabbac to attain power and invincibility. After attempting to stage an uprising against Ahk-Ton, a y…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
In 1928, a solitary mountaineer exploring the Karakoram mountains in India encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere is gone and there is a scar on his hand. In the present day, a rapidly moving obje…
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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
Batman and his partner, Robin, encounter a new villain, Mr. Freeze, who has left a string of diamond thefts in his wake. During a confrontation at the natural history museum, Freeze steals a diamond and flees, freezing Robin to distract Ba…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, superhero film, sword and sorcery film
On the planet Eternia, the warlord Skeletor seizes control of Castle Grayskull, the center of power in the universe. His army scatters the remaining Eternian defenders and captures the Sorceress of Grayskull, imprisoning her within a power…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
On the planet Corellia, orphans Han and Qi'ra escape a local gang. They bribe an Imperial officer with stolen coaxium, a starship fuel, for passage on a transport, but Qi'ra is captured before she can board. Han vows to return for her and …
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Action, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, superhero film
At a New Year's Eve party in 1999, Tony Stark meets scientist Maya Hansen, the inventor of Extremis, an experimental regenerative treatment that allows recovery from crippling injuries. Disabled scientist Aldrich Killian offers them a plac…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, Washington, D.C., archaeo-linguist Milo Thatch obsesses over finding the legendary lost city of Atlantis, believed to have sunk thousands of years ago. His employers ridicule his theories, but he gains an unexpected ally in eccent…
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Super Hero, science fiction action film, superhero film
Thousands of years ago, Apokoliptian warlord Darkseid and his Parademons attempt to invade Earth using the combined energies of three Mother Boxes to form "the Unity", an event that would instantly devastate Earth and xenoform it into a co…
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Satire, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film
In a near-future dystopia, Detroit is on the brink of social and financial collapse. Overwhelmed by crime and dwindling resources, the city grants the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of the Detroit Police Department. …
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Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Two years after the Battle of Sokovia, Thor is imprisoned by the fire demon Surtur, who reveals that Thor's father Odin is no longer on Asgard. He explains that Asgard will soon be destroyed during the prophesied apocalypse Ragnarök, once …
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Action Comedy, Animation, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
In the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, Hiro Hamada, a fourteen-year-old high school graduate and robotics prodigy, spends his time competing in illegal underground betting for robot fights. Hoping to get Hiro out of this dangerous lifest…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist for the NOAA, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf with his colleagues Frank and Jason. A large portion of the ice shelf splits away, but they manage to escape. At a United Nations conference …
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Super Hero, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Seeing Michael's potential, their adoptive father and ho…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor launches a final offensive against Skynet, an artificial general intelligence system seeking to eliminate the human race. Before the Resistance can triumph, Skynet activates a time displacement …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable. Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have…
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Horror, Super Hero, action film, horror film, science fiction film
Danielle "Dani" Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, is hidden in a tree by her father as her entire reservation is devastated by a tornado, leaving her the only survivor. After falling unconscious, Dani awakens in an oddly empty ho…
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Action, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Russia, the media covers Tony Stark's disclosure of his identity as Iron Man. Ivan Vanko, mourning the death of his father Anton Vanko—a former Stark Industries employee, sees this and builds the same miniature arc reactor as Stark's us…
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Action, Adventure, Monumental Film, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film
In the year 10,191, the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most valuable substance in the empire is the spice melange, which extends life and expands consciousness. The spice also allows the Spacing Guild to fo…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2500, rising sea levels have put every continent on Earth underwater. The remains of human civilization live on makeshift floating communities built out of scavenged materials known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land.…
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