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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, rape and revenge film, science fiction film, thriller film
Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at Lincoln High School, a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures h…
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science fiction film
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life in Baltimore in 1987, with his dog, Sandy. One day, while reading through a computer magazine, he discovers an advertisement for a video game called OBEX, featuring a demon villain named Ixaroth who devour…
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Cyberpunk, Melodrama, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
Adam's two-planet home world has "dual gravity", allowing the two planets to orbit each other in extremely close proximity. Three immutable laws of gravity exist for this two-planet system: All matter is only pulled by the gravity of the w…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
Dylan Branson works as an air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport; he possesses the ability to visualize constellations and patterns, and though he has a pilot's license, he has a fear of flying. He has a recurring …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film
After a young fashion designer, Rose, suffers a disfiguring accident, she undergoes an experimental stem cell skin and tissue graft treatment performed by Dr. William Burroughs. Rose ends up attacking several people, as a parasite emerges …
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Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, biographical film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
In 1985, New York–based author Whitley Strieber lives with his wife Anne and son Andrew in Manhattan and seems to be successful. However, he is awakened at night by paranoid dreams that someone else is in the room. On a trip to the family …
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Mysterie, Romantic Drama, drama film, ghost film, romance film, science fiction film
Joe and Emily Darrow are doctors in a Chicago hospital. Seven months pregnant Emily travels to Venezuela to help natives in the Amazon area. She dies when a bus is hit by a landslide and plunges into the river below.
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Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida and gives it the name Ramon. When the family returns home to Missouri, the girl's surly, animal-phobic father prompt…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film, martial arts film, romance film, science fiction film, slasher film
In a small Texas town, John Kirby, a mentally ill man, kills two members of the family with whom he was staying. Sheriff Daniel "Dan" Stevens and his deputy, Charlie, respond and eventually arrest John, but he breaks out of the handcuffs, …
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Drama, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film
The film begins with a man (mentioned in the credits as the "Thief") who seems to be harvesting a type of larva for the peculiar effects it has on the human mind when ingested. At a club, Kris (Amy Seimetz) is tasered and kidnapped by the …
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Action Comedy, comedy film
Crime in Riverton has ceased ever since Dr. Claw (real name: Sanford Scolex) was arrested and sent to prison, and Inspector Gadget (real name: John Brown) and his Gadgetmobile are having problems in their line of work, mostly because Gadge…
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Action, Sci-Fi
In Edwardian England, 1905, journalist George (Rafe Spall) has left his unhappy marriage behind to start a life with his partner Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson), an aspiring researcher, in the town of Woking. There, they befriend Ogilvy (Robert Ca…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, Sci-Fi, children's film, comedy film, science fiction film
A meteor shower rockets through the dark galaxy, and four glowing pods are seen hiding behind the meteor shower. Suddenly the four glowing pods makes a hard right and heads towards a distant planet Earth. In a Chicago suburb, Stuart Pearso…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Komödie, Sci-Fi, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the late 20th century, a large-scale nuclear war ends in a nuclear holocaust. In the aftermath, Earth has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where, due to fallout, most humans have been rendered sterile. As a result, the government pl…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, dark fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, war film
George Gardner encourages his 12-year-old son David's dreams of becoming an astronaut by stargazing with him. A thunderstorm wakes David, and he observes a strange alien spaceship landing on Copper Hill, just beyond the house. His father a…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s— a rural school in the desert with children playing, the main street of an Outback town, a traffic jam in the city— all being affected by unusually adverse wea…
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Action, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2009, the super-wealthy achieve immortality by hiring "bonejackers", mercenaries equipped with time travel devices, to snatch people from the past, just prior to the moment of their deaths, for use as substitute bodies. Those who escape…
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Parodie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film
Jefferson Reed is a school teacher in Washington, DC. His neighborhood is terrorized by a gang called the Golden Lords led by Simon Caine and allied with drug lord Anthony Byers. One night, Jeff steps in to rescue a woman from the gang.
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Aliens, Retro Science Fiction, Thriller, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
thumb|The rocket lands The British-American Rocket Group, headed by Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first crewed rocket into outer space. All contact is soon lost with the rocket and its three-man crew: Carroon, Reichenheim and …
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, science fiction film
Mike Hammer is a tough private investigator who, with the assistance of his associate and lover Velda, typically works on "penny-ante divorce cases." One evening, Hammer is forced to suddenly stop his sports car by Christina, an escapee fr…
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Drama, Sci-Fi
V: The Final Battle was played out over three episodes, starting four months after the events of the original miniseries concluded. Part 1 Teleplay by Brian Taggert and Peggy GoldmanStory by Lillian Weezer & Peggy Goldman & Faustus Buck (p…
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Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, drama film
Fifty people awaken in a darkened room, arranged in two concentric circles around a black dome. When they attempt to move from their designated platforms or touch the others, alarms sound off. When someone ignores the warning and leaves fo…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Western film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In early 20th century Mexico, T.J. Breckenridge hosts a rodeo. Her former lover, Tuck Kirby, a former stuntman working for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, wants to buy her out.
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Super Hero, action film, biopunk, martial arts film, science fiction film
At least 15 years after Andrew Scott's death, former UniSol Luc Deveraux has been reverted to normal via genetic procedures. He currently works as a technical expert for the U.S. government with his new partner Maggie, who has been through…
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