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Animalhorror, horror film, survival film, thriller film
Mia and her stepsister, Sasha, have just moved to a new school. Another student, Catherine, pushes Mia into the campus pool with Sasha as a bystander. Mia's father Grant learns about the incident and plans a boat ride for the sisters to se…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, Z movie, action film, comedy film
Two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 debate the number of virgins they get in heaven as a reward for carrying out the September 11 attacks. They call their leader, Osama Bin Laden, to find out, but when they learn heaven is …
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Drama, survival film
Overgård is stranded in the Arctic Circle waiting for rescue, living in his crashed plane. His daily routine consists of checking fishing lines, mapping his surroundings and running a distress beacon powered by a hand-crank dynamo. One day…
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Event Documentary, War Film, documentary film
Overview The film is concerned chiefly with three topics: the Chełmno extermination camp, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw Ghetto, wit…
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Action, Werewolf, action film, horror film, werewolf film
A couple goes camping in the Scottish Highlands. The woman gives the man a silver letter opener as a present; shortly afterward they are killed in their tent by unseen assailants. Meanwhile, a soldier named Cooper runs through a forest in …
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Action, Family Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
A Boston couple, Gail and Tom Hartman, are having marital problems, mostly due to Tom, an architect, spending so much time working. Gail, a history teacher and former river guide, is taking their son, Roarke, on a rafting trip down the Sal…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Following a North American pandemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of Schutzstaffel-patterned police states that took chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans as pets be…
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Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical drama, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the year 140 AD, twenty years after the Ninth Legion of the Roman army disappeared in the north of Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, arrives in Roman Britain to serve at his first post as a garrison commander. Mar…
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Psychological Thriller, survival film
A group of friends, Amy (Susan May Pratt), James (Richard Speight, Jr.), Zach (Niklaus Lange), Lauren (Ali Hillis), Dan (Eric Dane), and Dan's new girlfriend, Michelle (Cameron Richardson), go for a weekend cruise on Dan's new yacht. Amy a…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, survival film, thriller film
Mallory is a young bride-to-be on her way to Denver for her wedding rehearsal. She video chats with her sister, Ella, on her way there. Ella tells her that she hasn't bought her plane tickets yet because she wants to make sure Mallory is a…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In the mid-1950s, Robert Scott Carey, known as "Scott," is on vacation with his wife, Louise, when a strange mist envelops him. Six months later, he observes that his clothes are too large, suspects he is shrinking, and seeks medical advic…
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Adventure, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, War Film, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
The Roman Empire has been unable to fully conquer Britain, reaching a harsh stalemate in the North. The Picts engage in guerrilla warfare against the Romans along the Glenblocker forts and the Gask Ridge at the southern border of the Scott…
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Destiny, Psychodrama, drama film
Max Klein survives an airline crash. The plane plummets, but he is strangely calm. This calm enables him to dispel fear in the flight cabin.
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Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, residents of an apartment block rush downstairs to escape from the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions. Only eight of the residents – Eva and her boyfriend Sam, Jo…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, crime film, romance film, science fiction film
Due to the 21-century ecological crisis on Earth, for twenty years humankind has been terraforming Mars as its new home by sending algae to its surface. When oxygen levels begin decreasing, Mars-1 is sent to investigate, under Mission Comm…
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Action, Animation, Computeranimation, Drama, Horror, Monster Film, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, horror film, zombie film
In 2011, DSO agent Leon S. Kennedy infiltrates the "Eastern Slav Republic", a former Soviet republic, to confirm rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, and ignores the government's order to retrea…
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Drama Documentary, documentary film, drama film
Drama, drama film, survival film
In August 2010, a group of 33 miners from Copiapó, Chile, work in the San José Mine when the mine collapses due to the owner's negligence in ignoring warning signs of instability. The collapse blocks the only path into the mine, leaving th…
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Drama, drama film, survival film, war film
Eight British and American civilians, service members and United States Merchant Mariners are adrift in a lifeboat after their ship and a German U-boat sink each other in combat. Willi, a German survivor of the U-boat, is pulled aboard. Du…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Parodie, Satire, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, zombie film
The Earth is passing through the tail of a comet, an event which has not occurred in 65 million years and coincided with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. On the night of the comet's passage, eleven days before Christmas, …
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Western film, contemporary Western film, drama film, survival film
A cattle wrangler, True Brandywine, emerges from beneath snow in a desolate meadow. He calls unsuccessfully for his missing horse, Dude, and becomes aware his boot has become dislodged, dangerously exposing his foot to snow. In flashback, …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
On July 5, a mysterious phenomenon briefly darkens the sky over Hamilton, New Zealand. Zac Hobson, a scientist working on Project Flashlight (an experiment designed to create a wireless global energy grid), awakens to find all radio transm…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, historical film, survival film
In 1909, Danish explorer Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen organizes an expedition to Shannon Island, East Greenland, from which he makes treks to recover the records of the ill-fated Denmark expedition. His first attempt is unsuccessful and a crewm…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
John Ottway works as a sharpshooter at a remote Alaska oil facility, protecting the staff from frequent grey wolf attacks. His wife has died from a terminal illness, leaving him devastated and depressed. On Ottway's last day of work, he co…
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