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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Family Drama, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, katastrophe, science fiction film, thriller film
A narrator opens the film stating that extraterrestrials with immense intelligence have grown envious of humanity's dominion of Earth and are plotting against them. Charming but self-absorbed longshoreman Ray Ferrier works as a crane opera…
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Dark Comedy, Heist, Thriller, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Eight men planning to rob a jewelry store for a diamond shipment eat breakfast at a diner. To pull off the heist, boss Joe Cabot assembles six experienced robbers who are strangers to each other. Joe and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot, ha…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Horror, Mysterie, Occult Horror, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1981, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren document the exorcism of 8-year-old David Glatzel, attended by his family, his older sister Debbie, her boyfriend Arne Johnson, and Father Gordon in Brookfield, Connecticut. In an attempt to sa…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, psychological horror film
At a psychiatric ward in Newark, New Jersey, therapist Rose Cotter meets a new patient, PhD student Laura Weaver, who recently witnessed her professor kill himself. Laura claims she is now being terrorized by an invisible entity that only …
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Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing human civilization to the brink of collapse. New York City ha…
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Gothic film, Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film, psycho-biddy, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, satanic film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent a recently vacated apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City, after the previous tenant, an elderly woman, fell into a coma and died. Guy and Rosemary ignore their friend Hutch's wa…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1998, three years after the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah and John Connor have retreated to Livingston, Guatemala, where they are ambushed by a T-800 Terminator—one of several sent back through time by Skynet prior to its eras…
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Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1969, "the manager of Western Auto", Chase Andrews is found dead in the mud, at the bottom of a 63 ft tall metal fire tower from which he had fallen. The muddy bog floods at high tide, destroying any tracks from the killer and no finger…
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Destiny, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the "not-too-distant" future, eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived naturally and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "in-valids". G…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film
Mark is a spy who returns home to West Berlin after a mission to discover that his wife, Anna, is seeing another man and wants to separate. Mark turns over their apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, to Anna. After a long drinking…
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Destiny, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, romance film
In 1992, five-year-old Jamal Malik, a resident of the Juhu slum in Mumbai, obtains Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's autograph after jumping into a cesspit; the crowds around Amitabh Bachchan are deterred by Jamal as he is covered head to …
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Zombiefilm, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
Former United Nations investigator Gerald "Gerry" Lane, his wife, Karin, and their two daughters, Rachel and Connie, are caught in traffic in downtown Philadelphia when a zombie outbreak hits. Escaping the ensuing chaos, they travel to New…
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Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Four lifelong friends from Charlestown, Boston—mild-mannered Doug MacRay, volatile James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy" MacGloan, and Desmond "Dez" Elden—rob a bank wearing latex skeleton masks. Against Doug's wishes, Jem takes bank mana…
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Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
In April 1997, 17-year-old White-American student Daniel "Danny" Vinyard antagonizes his Jewish history teacher Mr. Murray by writing an essay on Mein Kampf. School principal and outreach worker Dr.
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Levon Cade, an ex-Royal Marine Commando, works as a construction foreman in Chicago and has a close friendship with the Garcia family – Joe, his wife, Carla and their daughter, Jenny – that runs the company. He suffers from PTSD and strugg…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
An autistic child whose mother desires to have him treated at the Harbor Neuroscience facility is instead raised by his father, a U.S. Army psychological operations officer who refuses to enroll him. When the mother leaves the family, unab…
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Drama, Natural Disaster, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
In December 2004, Dr. Maria Bennett, her husband Henry, and their three sons — Lucas, Thomas, and Simon — go on holiday to Khao Lak, Thailand. Arriving on Christmas Eve, they settle in and begin to enjoy the new Orchid Beach Resort.
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller
In the burned-out remains of a large house, Him, an acclaimed poet struggling with writer's block, places a crystal object on a pedestal in his study, and the building morphs into a beautiful home in an edenic landscape. Mother, the poet's…
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, horror film
An unknown strange outbreak has devastated the United States. A family of three, Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), Claire (Andrea Riseborough) and their daughter Zoe (Emily Alyn Lind), have taken refuge in an abandoned fallout shelter shortly aft…
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
At an underground club, a man attends an erotic show which culminates with a naked woman about to crush a live tarantula under her high-heel. Adam Bell, a college history professor, lives a quiet, mundane life in Toronto. He rents a film, …
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Destiny, Family Drama, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Claire Bartel, a Seattle housewife pregnant with her second child, is sexually assaulted by her new obstetrician, Dr. Victor Mott, during a routine check-up. Her husband Michael encourages her to report Dr.
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Military Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, submarine film, thriller film, war film
In November 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is given command of Red October, a new Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine with a "caterpillar drive", rendering it nearly undetectable to passive sonar. At sea, Ramius secretly…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1953, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) aims to improve its public image following decades of corruption. Career-focused sergeant Edmund Exley lives in the shadow of his legendary detective father, whose murderer was never identi…
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