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Drama, Sci-Fi, epic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the early 22nd century, mysterious cosmic-ray bursts emanating from Neptune cause power surges that threaten to destroy all life in the Solar System. Major Roy McBride is informed that the surge is antimatter in origin and may be connec…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent it from locking. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters wi…
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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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Christmas film, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
James Bond saves a woman on the beach from an attempted suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to her hotel room to thank him, but when Bond arrives he is att…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, War Film, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, war film
During the second year of the Iraq War, a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team with Bravo Company identifies and attempts to destroy an improvised explosive device (IED) with a robot, but the wagon carrying the trigger charge breaks.…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, drama film, pirate film, survival film, thriller film
Richard Phillips takes command of MV Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container vessel from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Af…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
In 1977 Detroit, Vietnam War veteran and factory worker John Miller completes probation. He buys an engagement ring for his girlfriend Sophia, having rescued her from drug-trafficking mobster Reynolds, her abusive ex-boyfriend. The jealous…
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Caper-Movie, Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In August 2005, inside a small, dimly-lit cell, Dalton Russell proclaims he has committed the perfect bank robbery. Some time prior, in New York City, masked robbers, dressed in painter coveralls and using variants of the name "Steve" as a…
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Animalhorror, action film, disaster film, horror film, katastrophe, natural horror film, survival film, thriller film
During an international flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai, an improperly stowed power bank ignites a fire in the aircraft's cargo hold, leading to an explosion that ruptures the cabin and destroys an engine. As rows of passengers are rip…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In a post-apocalyptic world, Malorie Hayes informs two young children that they are going down the river in a rowboat. She sternly instructs them not to remove their blindfolds, or they will die. The film then cuts between the events of th…
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Erotic Thriller, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dan Gallagher is a publishing attorney from Manhattan. While his wife, Beth, and daughter, Ellen, are away visiting Beth's family, he has an affair with Alex Forrest, an associate editor for a client who begins to cling to him. Dan relucta…
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Action, Komödie, action film, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Eddie Morra is a struggling author in New York City. His girlfriend Lindy, frustrated with his lack of progress and ambition, breaks up with him. Eddie encounters Vernon, the brother of his ex-wife Melissa, who gives him a sample of a new …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Satire, Satire On War, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
In the early 1980s, Ukrainian-American restaurant employee Yuri Orlov, whose family assumed Jewish identities to emigrate from the Soviet Union, witnesses a gunfight amongst the Russian mafia in his neighborhood of Brighton Beach. The inci…
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Action, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
John Wick is on the run in Manhattan after he was labeled "excommunicado" for the killing of High Table crime lord Santino D'Antonio on Continental grounds. At the New York Public Library, John retrieves a marker medallion and a rosary. He…
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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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Action Comedy, action film, thriller film, war film
The Expendables are sent to Libya to prevent mercenary Suarto Rahmat from stealing nuclear warheads for a mysterious terrorist named Ocelot. The team is led by Barney Ross and formed of members Lee Christmas, Toll Road, and Gunner Jensen, …
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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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Action, Thriller, thriller film
U.S. Marshal Madolyn Harris arrests Winston, an accountant, while he is hiding in Alaska after turning informant against his former employer, the Moretti crime family. Madolyn charters a small airplane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, to take them t…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Former Green Beret and retired CIA officer Bryan Mills attempts to build a closer relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim, who lives with her mother, Lenore, and her wealthy step-father, Stuart. While overseeing security at a conce…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, War Film, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film, war film
On October 6, 1971, American infantryman Jacob Singer is with the 1st Air Cavalry Division, deployed in a village in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, when his unit comes under attack. As many of Jacob's comrades are killed or wounded, others exhibi…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Ramona is a widowed mother who was injured in a car accident that also killed her husband David. She cares for their two children Taylor and Annie, but she is strict and emotionally distant from them. A mysterious woman draped in black app…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, thriller film
The Ark spacecraft escapes from the planet Cybertron carrying an invention capable of ending the war between Autobots and Decepticons, and crash-lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon in 1962. NASA detects the crash, and President John F. …
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Mysterie, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
thumb|James Stewart and Grace Kelly In the mid-1950s, photojournalist L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies, recuperating from assignment-related injuries, in a cast from his groin to his foot, is wheelchair-bound in his Greenwich Village apartment.
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