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Action, Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film
In the 1960s, governmental genetics researcher David Banner tries to improve human DNA. His supervisor, Colonel Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, forbids human experimentation, so David experiments on himself. His wife, Edith, soon gives birth …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by a vampire, causing her to go into premature labor. Doctors can save her baby, but the woman dies. Thirty years later, the child has become the vampire hunter Blade, who is known as the "Daywalker", …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, superhero film, thriller film
While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. The probe returns to Earth with four samples, but one escapes and causes…
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Aliens, Military Film, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Mercenary Royce is dropped from the sky into an unfamiliar jungle and meets several others who arrive the same way: Los Zetas enforcer Cuchillo, Spetsnaz Alpha Group soldier Nikolai, IDF sniper Isabelle, RUF officer Mombasa, San Quentin de…
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Super Hero, detective film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1961 Philadelphia, baby Elijah Price is born with both arms and legs broken, caused by Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease that renders his bones extremely fragile and prone to fracture. In the present day, unhappily married …
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
Four years after becoming king of Atlantis, Arthur Curry has married Mera and has a son, Arthur Jr., while splitting his life between land and sea. Meanwhile, David Kane / Black Manta continues to seek revenge against Arthur for his father…
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter for seven years, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored resear…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Kathmandu, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. They steal several pages from a book belonging to the Ancient One, a long-lived sorcerer who has taught every student at Kam…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who revea…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, anthology film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)" The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save …
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Coming Of Age, Justice Drama, Komödie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, superhero film, teen film
Dave Lizewski is an awkward teenager who lives in Staten Island with his widowed father. Inspired by comic books and wondering why there are no real-life superheroes, Dave modifies a wetsuit to become a superhero but is attacked and critic…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, martial arts film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Six months after escaping the Matrix, Neo and Trinity are now romantically involved. Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all ships of Zion. An army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Z…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, adventure film, animated film with LGBT character(s), comedy film, family film, science fiction film, superhero fiction
A Star Command exploration vessel filled with hypersleeping personnel changes course to investigate signs of life on the unknown world T'Kani Prime. Awakened from hibernation by the ship AI, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his commanding o…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1985 Maine, lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry rescues Atlanna, queen of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, during a storm. They fall in love and have a son named Arthur, who has the power to communicate with sea creatures. When Atlantean …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, superhero film
In 1996, young Cletus Kasady's lover, Frances Barrison, is taken away from St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children to the Ravencroft Institute. On the way, Frances uses her sonic scream powers to attack young police officer Patrick Mulligan.
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, ninja film, science fiction film, superhero film
In August 1945, Logan is held in a Japanese POW camp near Nagasaki. During the city's atomic bombing, Logan saved an officer named Ichirō Yashida by shielding him from the blast. In the present day, Logan has left the X-Men and lives as a …
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Parodie, Super Hero
John Hancock is an alcoholic, reckless superhuman imbued with flight, invulnerability, and super-strength. Acting as a haphazard and unrefined superhero in Los Angeles, he is shunned, ridiculed, and hated by the public for his drunken and …
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Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, LGBTQ-related film, Super Hero, Time Travel, black comedy film, superhero film, time-travel film
After fighting organized crime as Deadpool for two years, Wade Wilson fails to kill one of his targets on his anniversary with his girlfriend, Vanessa. That night, after the pair decides to start a family together, the target tracks Wade d…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Super Hero, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film
A Cimmerian blacksmith forges a sword and shows it to his young son, Conan, as he tells him of the "Riddle of Steel", an aphorism on the importance of steel to their people. A band of raiders led by cult leader Thulsa Doom then massacres t…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is retired from fieldwork and has settled down with his fiancée, nurse Julia Meade, who is unaware of his job training recruits. IMF Director of Operations John Musgrave approaches him about a special mission to rescue…
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Mysterie, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, horror film, superhero film
The demon Mephisto sends his bounty hunter, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve the contract of San Venganza for control of a thousand dark souls. Seeing that the agreement would give Mephistopheles the power to bring hell to Earth, the Rider ref…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, children's film, fantasy film, kung fu film, martial arts film, superhero film
A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt to conquer the world. Sokka and his younger sister Katara, who live in the Southern Water Tribe, discover an unusual…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Following the impact of a meteorite into Earth 65million years ago, the universe is split into a pair of parallel dimensions. Surviving dinosaurs escape into the new dimension, evolving into a humanoid race and founding a city known as Din…
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