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Horror comedy, action film, comedy horror, science fiction film
In 1979, space station Skylab is decommissioned through atmospheric reentry, but an oxygen tank survives and lands in Western Australia. A farmer takes it and makes a makeshift Skylab museum around it. In 2007, biochemist Dr.
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
The planet Krypton is destabilizing due to reckless mining of the planetary core. The Kryptonian Council ignores the warnings of renowned scientist Jor-El, who then steals and infuses the Kryptonian genetics codex into his new-born son, Ka…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, superhero film
In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James "Bucky" Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum. In the present day, approximately one year after Ultron is defeated b…
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Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
Just outside Philadelphia, three teenage girls — friends Claire and Marcia, and their classmate Casey — are waiting in the car of Claire's father to be driven home from her birthday party. They are kidnapped by a man, who imprisons them in…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, spy film
The Sevastopol, a next-generation Russian stealth submarine named after the Ukrainian city of same name, on its inaugural mission, activates an advanced active learning defense system using a two-piece cruciform key. The AI appears to beco…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, alien invasion, disaster film, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mothership, entering Earth's orbit outside the Moon, deploys its flying saucers, each in diameter, over major cities worldwide. U.S. Marine Captain Steven Hiller and his unit, the Black Knights fighter …
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In a dystopian 2045, people seek to escape from reality through the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), a virtual reality entertainment universe created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1986, young Adelaide Thomas wanders away from her parents at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and enters a funhouse. She encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter, she suddenly stops speaking, a…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, drama film, melodrama, psychological thriller film, romance film, science fiction film
David Aames Jr., the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe.
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1988, following his mother's death, the child Peter Quill is abducted from Earth by the Ravagers, a group of alien thieves and smugglers led by Yondu Udonta. In 2014, on the abandoned planet Morag, Quill steals a mysterious Orb but is a…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, steampunk film, thriller film
In 2031, 17 years after an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection with the compound CW-7 catastrophically backfired, creating a new ice age that destroyed life on Earth, the remnants of humanity shelter in a sta…
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Super Hero, action film, biopunk, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
After discovering that his home office has been burglarized, scientist Richard Parker and his wife Mary flee to an unknown destination, leaving their young son Peter in the care of his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Years later, a teenage Peter a…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Three years after defeating Mechagodzilla, Kong has established his new territory in Hollow Earth and searches for more of his kind. On the Earth's surface, Godzilla continues to maintain order between humanity and giant monsters, known as…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action thriller, dystopian film, political drama, political thriller film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, thriller film, vigilante film
In the near future, Britain is ruled by the Norsefire political party, a fascist and totalitarian regime led by High Chancellor Adam Sutler. The government controls the populace through propaganda and fear, imprisoning or executing those d…
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Romantic Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker struggles to balance his personal life with his crime-fighting as Spider-Man. He juggles multiple jobs and faces overdue rent and schoolwork as his aunt May is being evicted. Daily Bugle editor J.
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Daffy Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sitcom, action film, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, monster film, science fiction film
After Columbia University parapsychology professors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler experience their first encounter with a ghost at the New York Public Library, the university dean dismisses the credibility of their paranorma…
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Action, Sci-Fi, War Film, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera, war film
Research scientist Galen Erso and his family are in hiding on the planet Lah'mu when Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a superweapon capable of destroying planets. Galen's wife Ly…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, animated film, comedy film, family film, live-action/animated film, science fiction film
In 1974, a meteorite containing the alien hedgehog Shadow crash-lands in Oklahoma and is seized by the U.S. military. Shadow's power is experimented on by Professor Gerald Robotnik at a Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.) research facility …
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Corvette, Mariah, and Sade—known collectively as the "Velvet Gang"—routinely shoplift from the Metro Designers fashion chain run by designer Christie Smith. They sell the clothes they steal at a discount to m…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, superhero film
A young woman named Bugs learns that the Matrix is running old code in a loop, enacting the moment when Trinity first found Neo within the Matrix. Bugs discovers a program embodying Morpheus and helps free him from the simulation. In San F…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film
Following the death of his mother, Sergei Kravinoff and his half-brother Dmitri are taken by their father Nikolai Kravinoff to prepare to take over his drug trafficking operations. During a hunting trip in Ghana, Sergei is injured protecti…
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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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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, vampire film
In 2009, a genetically engineered measles virus designed to cure cancer mutated and killed 90% of the human population, and transformed another 9% into vampiric-zombies known as Darkseekers, who hunt for immune humans at night as they are …
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Super Hero, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crossover fiction, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, time-travel film
In a dystopian 2023, robots called Sentinels hunt and kill mutants, as well as humans who either possess the genetic potential to have mutant offspring or try to protect them. In Moscow, they attack X-Men survivors Kitty Pryde, Colossus, B…
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