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Action, Dark Comedy, Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
"Ghetto" Pat Calhoun and Perfidia Beverly Hills are lovers and members of a far-left militant revolutionary group, the French 75. While breaking out detained immigrants from Otay Mesa Detention Center, Perfidia sexually humiliates the comm…
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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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Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1932, identical twins and World War I veterans Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore return to Clarksdale, Mississippi, after seven years in Chicago working for the Chicago mob. Using money stolen from criminal syndicates, they purchas…
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Thriller, thriller film
Recently paroled Millie Calloway is hired by Nina Winchester as a live-in maid in a Great Neck, Long Island mansion, with Nina's wealthy husband Andrew and daughter Cece. She is given an attic bedroom with a sealed window and a door with a…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A child narrator explains that on a Wednesday night, seventeen children in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, ran out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanished into the night. The missing were all students of Justine Gandy's third-grade class, from wh…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, black comedy film, comedy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz and his cousin Don abduct Michelle Fuller, the CEO of pharmaceutical conglomerate Auxolith. Teddy's mother, Sandy, previously participated in a clinical trial for an Auxolith drug that rendered her comatose. …
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
As the planet is on the brink of a nuclear war, cybersecurity specialist Dr. Daniel Kellner has stolen material from his employer, a secretive U.S. government contractor known as the Wardex Corporation (Waived Reporting, Development, and E…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, survival film
Socially awkward and downtrodden corporate strategist Linda Liddle anticipates a long-promised promotion from Bradley Preston, the son of her former boss, upon his appointment as CEO. Instead, Bradley awards the position to Donovan, a rece…
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Thriller, dystopian fiction, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
In an alternate 20th century, the United States is a totalitarian military regime following a devastating civil war. The regime has established an annual event, the "Long Walk", which aims to inspire patriotism and work ethic among the des…
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In Brazil, a satellite that had fallen out of orbit crashes on NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons who is attempting to recruit footballer Neymar for the Triple-X (xXx) program, seemingly killing them both. In New York City, Xiang's team infiltrate…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, science fiction film
Dek is a Yautja runt from the Yautja home planet of Yautja Prime. Seeking approval from his father, clan leader Njohrr, Dek plans to hunt the Kalisk, an apex predator on the "death planet" Genna, feared even by Njohrr. Before Dek can leave…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Zombiefilm, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
During the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus, a young boy, Jimmy Crystal, flees his house in the Scottish Highlands as his family is attacked by the Infected. He takes refuge in the local church with his father, a minister, but finds him …
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Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In Woodsboro, Stab fan Scott and his girlfriend Madison visit Stu Macher's house after hearing rumors that he might have survived having a television dropped on his head. They are killed by Ghostface, who sets the house on fire. In Pine Gr…
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Action, Computeranimation, Romantic Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, epic film, live-action/animated film, military science fiction, science fiction film, white savior film
In 2154, Earth suffers from resource exhaustion and ecological collapse. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines the valuable mineral unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is i…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
When Captain Jackie Velez of the Miami-Dade Police Department is murdered, suspicion falls on her specialized unit, the Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), amid rumors of a crew of crooked cops robbing drug houses. Her second-in-command, Lieute…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, hard science fiction, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In the near future, humanity faces extinction due to dust storms and widespread crop blights. Joseph Cooper, a widowed former NASA test pilot, works as a farmer and raises his children, Murph and Tom, with his father-in-law Donald. Followi…
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Political Thriller, thriller film
In Washington, DC, Captain Olivia Walker, the oversight officer for the White House Situation Room, is informed of several geopolitical developments: an imminent military exercise by the People's Liberation Army of China, suspicious chatte…
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Action, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, the United States is ruled by the Network, an authoritarian media network. Most viewers live in poverty with little access to healthcare, and the Network placates the masses with trashy, violent game shows and reality t…
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Biographical picture, Historical drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, thriller film
A 1959 Senate committee questions ex-AEC Chairman, Lewis Strauss, over his actions during Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 security hearing before the Gray Board, which revoked Oppenheimer's Q clearance and ended his government advisory role. Str…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In Aswan, Egypt, a man, a woman, their two sons, and their daughter, Layla, arrive home to find their pet bird mortally wounded. The parents go to the cellar, which is revealed to be built on a buried black pyramid. Inside, a black basalt …
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Thriller, action film, survival film, thriller film
While climbing the Troll Wall in Norway, adventurous couple Sasha and Tommy are caught in a storm. Tommy is struck by a falling boulder, and the weight of his unconscious body threatens to drag Sasha off the cliff face. She is forced to re…
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Family Saga, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In the mid-1940s, Michael Corleone is a World War II veteran and the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone. Vito is head of the Corleone mafia family and runs it with his eldest son Santino Sonny and adopted son Tom Hagen, a lawyer who is the …
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The family of wealthy mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey attends his birthday party at his estate. The next morning, Harlan's housekeeper Fran discovers him dead with a slit throat. Police detectives Lieutenant Elliot and Trooper Wagner beli…
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Heist, crime film, heist film, thriller film
Ten years after the Horsemen's last performance, three young illusionists—Charlie, Bosco, and June—impersonate the Horsemen using deepfakes and holograms to drain a corrupt cryptocurrency exchange owner's wallet and share the stolen funds.…
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