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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, ninja film, spy film, thriller film
American NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspects the Soviet Union, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investig…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, science fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
Brilliant but narcissistic scientist Sebastian Caine develops a serum for the military that renders a subject invisible. His team includes ex-girlfriend Linda McKay, Matt Kensington, Sarah Kennedy, Janice Walton, Carter Abbey, and Frank Ch…
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Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1932, Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are Sylvia's sisters Louisa and Lavinia and their husbands Lord Stockbridge and Co…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film
Joe Turner is a bookish CIA analyst, codenamed "Condor", who works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, in reality a clandestine CIA office. The staff analyzes print media from around the world. Turner files a repo…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
To avenge Tracy, James Bond hunts Ernst Stavro Blofeld. At a facility where Blofeld lookalikes are being created through plastic surgery, Bond kills a test subject and later the "real" Blofeld. While the assassins Mr.
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Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
Two ballistic missile submarines—one British and one Soviet—suddenly vanish. James Bond—MI6 agent 007—is summoned to investigate. On the way to his briefing, Bond is ambushed during a downhill ski chase by a squad of Soviet agents—includin…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, psychological thriller, thriller film
The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a notorious murderer, with an angry mob demanding he be killed. The story of his life is told in flashback. He is seen born in a French fish market by his mother, believing h…
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Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy thriller, mystery film
Max and Annie Davis are avid gamers who met at bar trivia and became engaged during charades. The couple's plans for a baby are complicated by Max's feelings of inadequacy compared to his successful brother, Brooks. The couple regularly ho…
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Action, action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an oil drilling rig operated by private contractor Transocean, is set to complete drilling off the southern coast of Louisiana on behalf of BP. Chief Electronics Technician Michael "Mike" Williams and …
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Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt intercepts a shipment of nerve gas being moved from Minsk by The Syndicate, a secret consortium of rogue field operatives from various intelligence agencies that he has been tracking. At an IMF station in London, The S…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, Thriller, adventure film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
Holly Martins, an American author of Western pulp novels, arrives in the British sector of Allied-occupied Vienna seeking Harry Lime, a childhood friend who has offered him a job. However, Martins is told that Lime was killed by a car whil…
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Military Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, submarine film, thriller film, war film
In post-Soviet Russia, civil war erupts as a result of the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Military units loyal to Vladimir Radchenko, a Russian ultra-nationalist rebel, take control of a nuclear missile installation in the Russian Far East …
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, independent film, neo-noir, thriller film
Drug lord Frank White strives to control New York City's criminal underground. Shortly after his release from Sing Sing Penitentiary, White and his crew, led by his trigger-happy right-hand man Jimmy Jump, consolidate power by eliminating …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Harry Caul, a surveillance expert in San Francisco, specializes in audio recordings. He and his team are hired by a client known as "the Director" to eavesdrop on a couple, whom they record walking in circles in Union Square. Despite the b…
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Action, Dark Fantasy, Erotic Film, Fantasy, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, girls with guns, thriller film
Following the death of her mother, a young woman is framed for her sister's murder by their stepfather, who is infuriated after being excluded from the will, and is subsequently committed to a mental institute. Upon arrival, her stepfather…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alternate history film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, steampunk film, superhero film, vampire film
In 1899, a terrorist group led by the "Fantom" robs the Bank of England for Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice's foundations, kidnaps German scientists, and destroys a Zeppelin factory in Berlin. With the British and German Empires t…
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Crime, Drama, Gothic film, Musical, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film, musical drama, musical film, romance film, romantic horror film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by young sailor Anthony Hope. A flashback reveals that sixteen years prior, Benjamin was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted a…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
In the winter of 1931, Michael Sullivan Sr, is an orphaned enforcer of Irish Mob boss John Rooney in Rock Island, Illinois. His wife Annie knows of his work, but his two sons Michael Jr. and Peter do not.
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Found Footage, Horror, found footage film, horror film, thriller film
Strapped for cash, videographer Aaron Franklin accepts an online job request to travel to a remote cabin in Crestline, California, where he meets his client, Josef. Josef explains that he has an inoperable brain tumor and is expected to di…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, prison film, rape and revenge film, satire
Mickey Knox and his wife Mallory stop at a diner in the New Mexico desert. A duo of rednecks arrive and begin sexually harassing Mallory as she dances by a jukebox. She initially encourages it before beating one of the men viciously.
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, spy film, thriller film
Two years after the incident in Paris, Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz are living in exile in Goa. Still suffering from amnesia, he documents flashbacks about his life as a CIA assassin in a notebook. In Berlin, a CIA agent wo…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1996 Los Angeles, psychopathic criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a busload of passengers. Police officer John Spartan, nicknamed "The Demolition Man" for the collateral damage he often causes in apprehending suspects, mounts an unauthorize…
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Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In Los Angeles, California, Seth is one of many angels who watch over humans, protecting them in unseen ways. His main responsibility is to appear to those who are close to death and guide them to the next life. During this task, Seth and …
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Action, Thriller, action film, katastrophe, thriller film
A botched switching operation by yard hostlers Dewey and Gilleece at an Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR) yard in southern Pennsylvania results in a runaway freight train pulled by locomotive 777 (Triple 7) heading south at full …
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