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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller is restoring an old Cessna as a present from his wife, Sarah, who leaves for a business trip in London. At the CIA's Decryption and Analysis division, Charlie has befriended a field agent, Jackson O'Brien, …
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Horror, horror film, natural horror film, survival film, thriller film
Tourists Greg and Heather visit Tucker’s Experience, a shark cage attraction run by the eccentric boat captain Tucker. While riding out into the ocean, Tucker remarks on how he survived a shark attack as a child, which scarred him and chan…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Following the Avengers's battle against Thanos, Scott Lang has become a successful memoirist and has been living happily with his girlfriend, Hope van Dyne. Scott's now-teenage daughter Cassie has become an activist, helping people displac…
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Action, Caper-Movie, Dark Comedy, boxing film, crime comedy film
A gang of robbers, disguised as Orthodox Jews, steal an diamond during a heist in Antwerp. Franky Four-Fingers, the gang's leader, travels to London to see diamond dealer Doug the Head on behalf of Jewish-American organised crime figure Co…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, thriller film
In 2003, senior CIA official Donald Fitzroy visits a prisoner named Courtland Gentry in Florida. Eight years earlier, Courtland was a minor convicted of killing his abusive father to protect his brother. Fitzroy offers him his freedom in e…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In the 1960s, Reggie "Reg" Kray is a former boxer who has become an important part of the criminal underground in London. His twin brother Ron is locked in a psychiatric hospital and being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. Reggie uses th…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, war film
In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover an old aircraft with someone frozen inside and a circular shield. In March 1942, during World War II, Nazi lieutenant general and Hydra leader Johann Schmidt steals a mysterious relic ca…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, thriller film
Lockhart, an executive at a financial services firm in New York City, is sent by the board of directors to retrieve CEO Roland Pembroke, who had abruptly decided to stay at a "wellness center" in the Swiss Alps. At the spa, Lockhart is met…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, detective film, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
In November 1973, "Control", head of British intelligence ("The Circus"), sends field agent Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a Hungarian general and potential defector, who has offered to identify a mole installed by Soviet spymaster Karla…
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Ghost-Movie, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
Steve and Diane Freeling live in the planned community of Cuesta Verde, California. Steve is a successful real-estate agent, and Diane looks after their three children: sixteen-year-old Dana, eight-year-old Robbie, and five-year-old Carol …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, romance film
Banker Sam Wheat and his artist girlfriend Molly Jensen move into a Tribeca loft with the help of Sam's best friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. One night, the couple is attacked on the street by a mugger, and though Sam appears to chase him…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
A struggling, unemployed young writer (credited as "The Young Man") takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his first novel. Initially, he sets strict rules for himself regarding whom h…
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Action, Terrorism, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film
LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple are tasked with preventing a bombing on a city elevator containing 13 people. After narrowly rescuing the passengers, the duo find and confront the bomber, during which, Harry i…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
Recent Memphis State University Law School grad Rudy Baylor has no high-paying work prospects lined up. He takes a job at a Memphis bar where he meets the bar's owner, J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone, who is also a ruthless but successful ambulan…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Cecilia Kass is trapped in an abusive relationship with wealthy optics engineer and businessman Adrian Griffin, the founder and CEO of the human–computer augmentation company Cobalt. One night, she drugs Adrian with her diazepam and escape…
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Christmas film, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In Gotham City, two wealthy socialites, horrified by the birth of their malformed and feral son Oswald, abandon him in the sewers, where a colony of penguins takes him in. Thirty-three years later, during the Christmas season, wealthy indu…
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Secret Agent, action film, fantasy film, spy film, thriller film
Elly Conway, an introverted spy novelist, has almost finished her fifth book about Aubrey Argylle, the eponymous character of the Argylle series, but suffers from writer's block after feedback from her mother, Ruth. On a train journey to v…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Forensic, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1928 Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins returns home to find her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for incompeten…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
John Strangways, the Station Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service in Jamaica, is murdered, along with his secretary, by a trio of assassins. Strangways had been helping the CIA investigate radio jamming of rocket launches from …
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, science fiction film
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway arrives at the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The film's prologue reveals that she was encouraged to pursue science by her father, who died in her youth.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
Sam Walker, a NASA astronaut from the International Space Station, crash-lands back on Earth, after a mission gone wrong when her shuttle was hit by debris. She is eventually rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and taken to the hospital for re…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic film
In 2035, twenty-nine years after a virus killed 99 percent of the global human population, James Cole is a prisoner in a compound underneath the ruins of Philadelphia. He is selected by scientists for a mission to travel to 1996 and collec…
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Blaxploitation, Heist, Thriller, blaxploitation film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles. When Beaumont Livingston—Ordell's bagman—is arrested, Ordell hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out…
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Horror, horror film, thriller film
Peter is a shy, bullied, eight-year-old boy living with his overbearing and emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. He earns sympathy, though, from his substitute teacher, Miss Devine. Peter wishes to go trick-or-treating on Halloween…
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