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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but …
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Action, Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1999, Sierra Leone is ravaged by civil war. The Revolutionary United Front terrorizes the countryside and enslaves many locals to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman fr…
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Historie, Mafia Film, Police Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film, trial film
In 1930, during Prohibition, the notorious gangland boss Al Capone supplies illegal liquor and controls most of Chicago. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness has been tasked with halting Capone's activities by hitting a warehouse with cr…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, action film, alien invasion, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Former Episcopal priest Graham Hess lives on a rural farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with his asthmatic preteen son, Morgan, and young daughter, Bo, who has a fixation on contaminated water. Graham's younger brother Merrill, a failed min…
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Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, body horror film, drama film, horror film, monster film, romance film, romantic drama film, romantic horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist, meets Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife, a science journalist, at a press event. He takes her back to his home and laboratory and shows her his invention: a set of "telepods" that allows instantane…
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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
Returning from a Hong Kong business trip, Beth Emhoff meets up with a former lover during a Chicago layover. She feels slightly ill; two days later, back home in Minneapolis, she suffers a seizure and dies from an unknown illness. Her 6-ye…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
A medical breakthrough in the 1950s has, by the late 1960s, extended human lifespan beyond 100 years. In 1978, the young Kathy H, along with her friends Tommy D and Ruth C, spent their childhood at Hailsham, a traditional boarding school. …
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, prison film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Shortly after escaping the planet LV-426, the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco is travelling back to Earth with Ellen Ripley, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Cpl. Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop in cryonic stasis. An alien egg hatches on boar…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 sends James Bond into the field to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his mission, Royal Navy Rear Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile …
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Animalhorror, Thriller, survival film, thriller film
Five friends, Sara, Max, James, Adrianne and Greg, travel to Thailand on a graduation trip funded by Sara. Sara's father died during a visit to Thailand, and she hopes to honor his memory by visiting the country and seeing the Devil's Mout…
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Adventure, Animalhorror, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, romance film
In 1933, during the Great Depression, struggling New York City vaudeville performer Ann Darrow is hired by financially troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to star in a film with actor Bruce Baxter. Ann is hesitant to join the picture until she …
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Nicholas Van Orton is a divorced investment banker in San Francisco. He is haunted by the death of his father, who committed suicide on his 48th birthday by jumping off the roof of the family mansion. For his 48th birthday, Nicholas's estr…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 1928 at Giza, Egypt, archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpos…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who revea…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, action thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
William Foster is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a hot day. After his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking, carrying his briefcase. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone …
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Adventure, Drama, action film, adventure film, biographical film, disaster film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its riva…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Time Travel, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
thumb|thumbtime=103|upright=1.5|Teaser of the film Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation when their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet after a near-light-speed space voyage. Before they abandon …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, anthology film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)" The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save …
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Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In the summer of 2011, Sam is an aimless 33-year-old in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, more interested in conspiracy theories than paying his overdue rent. Spying on a topless neighbor, Sam notices another neighbor, Sarah, and learns that billi…
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Thriller, thriller film
After the death of Archer Monroe, the patriarch of a powerful political family, his estate is divided among his family. The beneficiaries are his wife, Catherine; his son, William, a politician running for reelection; and his daughter, Lau…
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Found Footage, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Psychological Thriller, found footage film, horror film, thriller film
Katie drives up to a house in San Diego as her boyfriend and housemate Micah records her from the driveway using his new video camera. Katie claims that an evil presence has been haunting her since she was a child and suspects it may be re…
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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
John Kramer is told he has only months to live due to advanced brain cancer. He attends a cancer support group meeting and befriends Henry Kessler, who later claims he has been cured by an experimental Norwegian cancer treatment conducted …
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A satellite detects a heat bloom beneath Bouvet Island, an island about off the coast of Antarctica. Wealthy industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland discovers through thermal imaging that there is a pyramid buried beneath the ice. He assemble…
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