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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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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
A demon chases America Chavez and a variant of Stephen Strange in the space between universes while searching for the Book of Vishanti. Strange is killed and Chavez accidentally creates a portal that transports herself and Strange's corpse…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Carol Danvers destroys the Supreme Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that leads the Kree empire. This leads to a civil war on planet Hala, the Kree home world, rendering the planet barren as it loses its air, water, and sunlight ov…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero
Thousands of years ago, five African tribes warred over a meteorite containing the metal vibranium. One warrior ingests a "heart-shaped herb" affected by the metal and gains superhuman abilities, becoming the first "Black Panther". He unit…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, superhero film
T'Challa, king of Wakanda, is suffering from a terminal illness which his sister Shuri believes can be cured by the "heart-shaped herb". Shuri attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was burned by Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, bu…
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Martial-Arts, Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, martial arts film, superhero film
A thousand years ago, Xu Wenwu discovers the mystical ten rings which grant godly powers including immortality. He establishes the Ten Rings organization, conquering kingdoms and toppling governments throughout history. In 1996, Wenwu sear…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. After critically wounding Rocket, Adam i…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the representative of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for obtaining the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises to provide Loki with …
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Super Hero
Tony Stark, who has inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his late father Howard Stark, tours in war-torn Afghanistan with his best friend and military liaison, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missi…
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Action Comedy, Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, science fiction film, splatter film, superhero film
Intelligence officer Amanda Waller assembles two Task Force X teams, colloquially known as the "Suicide Squad", which consists of Belle Reve penitentiary inmates who agree to carry out missions in exchange for commuted sentences. The teams…
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Action Comedy, Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Gorr and his daughter, Love, the last of their race, struggle in a barren desert. Despite their prayers to their god, Rapu, Love dies. The god-killing Necrosword calls to Gorr, leading him to Rapu's lush realm.
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has made her Broadway debut. While he is on a date with her in Central Park, an extraterrestrial symbiote oozes out of a fallen meteorite and attaches to his moped. Harry Osborn, knowi…
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Super Hero, action film, superhero film
In 1973, a research team in the Amazon rainforest in Peru led by a pregnant Constance Webb discovers an unidentified spider species with rare healing properties. Ezekiel Sims, the man Constance hired for protection and security, betrays th…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
In 1985 New York, Connor MacLeod encounters an old enemy, Iman Fasil, in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden. After a sword duel, Connor beheads Fasil and absorbs a powerful release of energy from his body, then hides his sword in …
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