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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
After Dr. Stephen Strange's magic spell makes the world forget that Peter Parker exists, he chooses to protect his girlfriend Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson and best friend Ned Leeds by not reintroducing himself to them. Over the next four yea…
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Super Hero, action film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Russian terrorist group Anarchy 99 acquires the biochemical weapon "Silent Night", presumed missing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Undercover NSA agent Jim McGrath is assigned to recover the weapon, but is killed by Anarchy 99 …
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Fourteen months after the events of Thunderbolts* (2025), groups of heroes from three different universes—the Avengers, Wakandans, and New Avengers from Earth-616; the Fantastic Four from Earth-828; and the "original" X-Men from a separate…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, superhero film
In Eternos, the capital city of the planet Eternia, young Prince Adam and his friend Teela are trained in the art of battle by Duncan, the king's Man-At-Arms and Teela's father. The city is attacked by forces led by warlock Skeletor, who c…
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Super Hero, action film, superhero film
During the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Zor-El and his wife Alura evacuate along with many Kryptonians to Argo City, where Zor-El activates a force field system that separates a chunk containing the city from Krypton, preve…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Superman stops the nation of Boravia from invading the neighboring country of Jarhanpur and warns Boravian president Vasil Ghurkos to leave Jarhanpur alone. In Metropolis, Superman is defeated for the first time by a metahuman called the "…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
On Earth-828 in 1964, the world celebrates the fourth anniversary of astronauts Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm becoming the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four after they gained superhuman abilities from expos…
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Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, technofantasy
After Quentin Beck frames Peter Parker for his murder and reveals that Peter is Spider-Man, the Department of Damage Control arrests Peter; his girlfriend, Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson; his best friend, Ned Leeds; and his aunt, May Parker. L…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crime film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Kuala Lumpur, Yelena Belova destroys a laboratory on behalf of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who is attempting to destroy any evidence of her involvement with the O.X.E. Group's "Project Sentry". As de Fontaine faces immin…
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Super Hero, Time Travel
In 2018, 23 days after Thanos erased half of all life in the universe, Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space. They reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhod…
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Action, Detective Film, Super Hero, action film, crime film, detective film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
On Halloween, Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is murdered by a masked serial killer, the Riddler. Reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated for two years as the vigilante Batman, investigates the murder alongside Lieutenant Ji…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, superhero film, thriller film
A gang of masked criminals rob a mafia-owned bank in Gotham City, betraying and killing each other until the sole survivor, the Joker, reveals himself as the mastermind and escapes with the money. The vigilante Batman, district attorney Ha…
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Dark Comedy, Super Hero, action film, black comedy film, science fiction film, splatter film, superhero film
In 2018, Wade Wilson uses Cable's time travel device to prevent the death of his girlfriend, Vanessa Carlysle. He then travels from his universe, Earth-10005, to Earth-616—also called the "Sacred Timeline"—hoping to join that reality's Ave…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, superhero film
Following the Battle of New York in 2012, Adrian Toomes and his salvage company are contracted to clean up the city, but their operation is taken over by the Department of Damage Control (DODC), a partnership between Tony Stark and the U.S…
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Action, Super Hero, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
Bane, a former member of the League of Shadows, leads an attack on a CIA plane over Uzbekistan to abduct nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel. Meanwhile, eight years after the death of Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent and the arrest…
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Super Hero, superhero film
Frank Castle, as the brutal vigilante known as the Punisher, kills members of the Gnucci Crime Family who are believed to be the last criminals involved in the deaths of his family. The Gnucci's former territory in New York City's Little S…
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Action Comedy, Computeranimation, Super Hero, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, drama fiction, superhero film
On Earth-65, Spider-Woman Gwen Stacy has become increasingly isolated from her friends and estranged from her father George Stacy. George is hunting Spider-Woman for killing Peter Parker, unaware that it was an accident after Peter turned …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Super Hero, action film, action thriller, cyberpunk, dystopian film, film noir, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1999, in an unnamed city, Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer known as "Neo" in hacking circles, investigates the mystery of the "Matrix", bringing him to the attention of hacker Trinity. She tells him that Morpheus can answer Neo's …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In Ixtenco, Mexico, Nick Fury and Maria Hill investigate an unnatural storm and encounter the Earth Elemental. Quentin Beck, a super-powered individual, arrives and defeats the creature. Fury and Hill subsequently recruit him.
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Action Comedy, Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
New York City teenager Miles Morales struggles to live up to the expectations of his father, police officer Jefferson Davis, who sees Spider-Man, the superhero persona of Peter Parker, as a menace. Miles's uncle Aaron takes him to an aband…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Five months after Thaddeus Ross is elected president of the United States, he sends Sam Wilson and Joaquin Torres—the new Captain America and Falcon, respectively—to Oaxaca, Mexico, to stop the illegal sale of classified items stolen by Si…
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Adventure, Crime, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, ninja film, superhero film
In Gotham City, young Bruce Wayne falls down a well and develops a fear of bats. One evening, Bruce visits the opera with his parents and is so unsettled by the performers masquerading as bats that he asks to leave. While returning home, a…
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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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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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