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Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
James Reese appears to be an efficient and affable personal aide to the U.S. ambassador in France and after a brief morning chat, Reese quickly leaves, slips into the building's dark parking garage to switch license plates on his vehicle b…
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Biographical picture, Occult Horror, biographical film, drama film, satanic film
In 1634 France, following the aftermath of the Huguenot rebellions, the French Catholic statesman Cardinal Richelieu influences King Louis XIII in an attempt to gain further power. Richelieu seeks to consolidate his authority by systematic…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
A successful action thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an infamous criminal and John Travolta as the cop trying to bring him down. In an attempt to get information on criminal Castor Troy, police officer Sean Archer switches faces with him …
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Action, Social Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, action thriller, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2154, Earth is overpopulated, diseased, and heavily polluted from ecocide. The planet's citizens live in extreme poverty. In contrast, the rich and powerful live on Elysium, an orbiting space station just outside Earth's atmosphere, wit…
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Christmas film, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Carrying out his first order, inexperienced hitman Ray shoots a priest during confession, but accidentally kills an altar boy standing in the line of fire. He and his mentor Ken are sent by their boss, Harry, to hide in Bruges, where they …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo plots to hold NATO ransom by hijacking two atomic bombs from an RAF Avro Vulcan bomber during a training exercise. At the Shrublands health resort, SPECTRE operative Count Lippe has French Air Force pilot Fra…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, biographical film, thriller film
At the 1988 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software discovers Tetris, a captivating puzzle game developed by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov. Tetris is owned by the Soviet Un…
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Action, Thriller, action film, political thriller film, thriller film
Mike Banning, a former U.S. Army Ranger, serves as a Secret Service agent in the Presidential Protective Division. He cultivates a warm, personal bond with President Benjamin Asher, First Lady Margaret, and their son, Connor.
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Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio and his 14-year-old son Joe mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker Louis Dainard for the accident, as Dainard had a hangove…
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Coming Of Age, Found Footage, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, found footage film, pseudo-documentary, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
In Seattle, teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied in school, abused by his alcoholic father Richard, and his mother Karen has cancer. The family struggles with medical debt after Richard loses his firefighter job. Andrew’s only friend is his c…
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Horror, Monster Film, Occult Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
John Trent is delivered by ambulance to an insane asylum, violently agitated and restrained. He is confined to a padded room, where he experiences disturbing hallucinations. He begins telling his story to a doctor.
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Action, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Road Movie, action film, road movie, thriller film
David Mann is a middle-aged salesman driving on a business trip. He encounters a dilapidated tanker truck in the Mojave Desert. Mann passes the truck, but the truck roars past him.
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Adventure, Drama, Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, drama film
In the Fall of 1991, the commercial swordfishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch; boat owner Bob Brown ridicules and taunts Captain Billy Tyne over his recent "cold streak." Desperate to red…
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Crime Comedy, Heist, comedy film, detective film, drama film, heist film, melodrama, mystery film
thumb|San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908), the Claude Monet painting stolen in the film thumb|A close copy of Poker Sympathy from Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker series is used as a plot point in the film. Thieves infiltrat…
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Thriller, thriller film
Troubled LAPD officer Joe Baylor works the night shift at a 911 call center while awaiting a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. He answers a call from Emily Lighton, a woman who states she has been abdu…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a Soviet microchip. Q analyzes the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse, made by government contractor Z…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In San Francisco, pharmaceutical chemist Will Rodman tests the viral-based drug ALZ-112 on chimpanzees at the biotechnology company Gen-Sys to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-112 is given to a chimpanzee named Bright Eyes, greatly…
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Crime, Komödie, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, romance film, thriller film
In Cape Fear, North Carolina, lovers Lula Fortune and Sailor Ripley are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta. Upon Sailor's relea…
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Action, Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a Green Beret platoon is attacked and killed in a remote jungle valley by unknown predators while on a classified mission. Their commander, Colonel Jericho, calls in Vulture Squad, a LRRP team consisting of…
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American football film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, comedy film
Ace Ventura, an eccentric private investigator in Miami, specializes in rescuing animals and is frequently mocked by the Miami Police Department. After the Miami Dolphins' mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is stolen from the te…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
In Phoenix, Arizona, 18-year-old wrestler Robert "Bobby" Tennison starts talking to 16-year-old classmate Stacy Collins. He eventually invites her and her friends to a late night lake party. There, Bobby and Stacy sneak off, and eventually…
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Military Film, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Three years after the incident in Hope, Washington, former U.S. Army Green Beret John Rambo is imprisoned at a penal labor facility. He is met by Colonel Sam Trautman, his commanding officer during the Vietnam War.
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Military Film, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, disaster film, propaganda film, thriller film, war film
In the 1980s, the United States has become increasingly isolated after NATO is dissolved and Western Europe's nuclear weapons are removed. The Soviet Union is devastated by a failed wheat harvest and is forced to use military intervention …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
Humanity has developed lifelike androids that have replaced many jobs. Nick, a construction foreman, lives with his wife Maggie, who has an unspecified heart condition, and their young daughter Isla and baby son Max. When Maggie is hospita…
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