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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Linguist Louise Banks's daughter Hannah dies at the age of twelve from an incurable illness. Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over various locations around the Earth. In the ensuing widespread panic, affected nations send military …
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Action, Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, biopunk, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Four years after the Lockwood Estate incident that followed the volcanic eruption of Isla Nublar, once-extinct dinosaurs freely roam the Earth, breeding exponentially in order to increase the population numbers of their species. Amid globa…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, chase film, comedy film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Earth has been ravaged by the war between the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet and the human resistance. Skynet sends the T-1000—an advanced, shape-shifting prototype Terminator made of virtually indestructible liquid met…
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Romantic Drama, Super Hero, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
On a high school field trip, Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory with his best friend, Harry Osborn, and his love interest, Mary Jane Watson. There, he is bitten by a genetically engineered spider, and falls ill u…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, body horror film, drama film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter pursues a sled dog to an American research station. The Americans witness the passenger fumble a grenade and accidentally blow up the helicopter and himself. The pilot fires a rifle at the dog and shou…
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Action, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, romance film, science fiction film
Two elite snipers receive identical missions: guard opposite sides of a remote, top-secret gorge for a year without contact with their counterparts or the outside world. Levi Kane, a former U.S. Marine Scout/Sniper, is recruited by a myste…
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Action, Satire On Media, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2017, following a worldwide economic collapse and resource scarcity, the USA has become a totalitarian police state. The government maintains control through propaganda and censorship of unsanctioned art, music, and communication. The s…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Drama, Thriller, comedy drama, fantasy film, melodrama, romantic comedy, science fiction film
Joel Barish discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski, has undergone a procedure to have her memories of him erased by the suburban Long Island firm Lacuna. Heartbroken, he decides to undergo the same procedure. In pre…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, science fiction film
In 2050, to escape the global reach of a murderous loan shark, Mickey Barnes and his friend Timo join a spaceship crew to colonize the ice planet Niflheim. Timo becomes a shuttle pilot, while Mickey joins as an "Expendable", a controversia…
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Action, Alter Ego, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, science fiction film
Leading software engineer Kevin Flynn, formerly employed by technology corporation ENCOM, now runs a video game arcade, where he hacks into ENCOM's system with a program called CLU, hoping to find proof that he is the true author of ENCOM'…
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Action, Computeranimation, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film
In 1989, Kevin Flynn, the CEO of ENCOM, disappears. Twenty years later, his son Sam, now ENCOM's primary shareholder, pranks the corporation by releasing the company's signature operating system online for free. ENCOM executive Alan Bradle…
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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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drama film, science fiction film
American tourists Jenai and Riley arrive in Iceland and visit several landmarks. Riley has taken his father's Rolleiflex camera and plenty of film. When Jenai questions why he prefers it over a modern digital camera, Riley says he prefers …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 5000 BC, ten superpowered beings known as Eternals—Ajak, Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, Sprite, Phastos, Makkari, Druig, Gilgamesh, and Thena—are sent to Earth by Arishem, a Celestial, on the starship Domo. They are charged with exterminating in…
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Dark Comedy, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, black comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
A young woman, Iris, recalls meeting her boyfriend, Josh Beeman, for the first time. Later, they travel to an isolated lakehouse for a vacation with Josh's friends Kat and Eli, Eli's boyfriend Patrick, and Kat's boyfriend Sergey, who owns …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Alice and Jack Chambers live in Victory, California, an idyllic 1950s desert company town. Every day, the men leave for work at Victory Headquarters in the surrounding desert, and their wives enjoy luxuries and leisure while the men are go…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Zombiefilm, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
During the initial Rage Virus outbreak in Britain, Don, his wife Alice, and four other survivors shelter in a cottage outside London. They hear a boy screaming and allow him inside, only to discover that a horde of Infected has followed hi…
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Dark Comedy, Political Satire, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Prologue: A glib case study demonstrates how ne'er-do-wells with lower IQ scores and incomes rashly reproduce at greater rates than more prudent, affluent, and overly logical intellectuals, thus reducing future humanity's average intellige…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In Agua Dulce, California, the Haywood family trains and handles horses for film productions. One day, at their ranch, small metallic objects begin rapidly falling from the sky. A nickel strikes Otis Haywood Sr.
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Action, Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero
Having acquired the Power Stone—one of six Infinity Stones—from the planet Xandar, Thanos and his lieutenants—Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive—intercept the spaceship carrying the survivors of Asgard's destruct…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Twenty-two years after the Jurassic Park disaster on Isla Nublar in 1993, a new dinosaur theme park called Jurassic World has been built on the island, owned by Masrani Global Corporation in affiliation with InGen, which created the dinosa…
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Action, Computeranimation, Horror, adult animated film, anthology film, science fiction film
The Shield In Karelia in the year 841, Viking warrior Ursa leads her son Anders and their clan on an expedition to destroy the Krivich tribe and their leader, Zoran, who forced Ursa to kill her own father, Einar, the previous Earl of Ladog…
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
After the death of his parents, young Elio Solís is orphaned and lives with his aunt Olga, an Air Force major who gave up her dreams of becoming an astronaut to raise her nephew. On an outing to a museum, Elio wanders into a closed exhibit…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, black comedy, comedy film, disaster film, drama film, satire, science fiction film
Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at Michigan State University, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her adviser, Dr. Randall Mindy, confirms that it will collide with Earth in approximately six months and is large enough t…
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