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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, teen film, thriller film
Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welc…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows …
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Action, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, splatter film, war film
During the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads his Burmese Army forces in a campaign of fear. His soldiers pillage settlements, sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teena…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"Just Another Saturday Night" Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking The Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Three years before the events of the film, mysterious apex predators called Reapers emerged from sinkholes underground and began exterminating humanity, with 95% killed in the first month. Survivors live in pocketed communities 8,000 feet …
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Aliens, Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film
In the winter of 1982, members of the Norwegian research station "Thule" discover an alien spacecraft and a nearby alien body buried in the Antarctic ice. Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch recruit American paleontologist Ka…
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Action, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
Established by survivors of World War III, the totalitarian city-state of Libria blames human emotion as the root of all conflicts. It strictly outlaws all activities or objects that stimulate emotion, with violators labeled Sense Offender…
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Action, Natural Disaster, Thriller, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film
In 1993, USGS volcanologist Harry Dalton and his partner-turned-fiancée Marianne attempt to escape an ongoing eruption in Colombia. As they venture out, a lava bomb smashes through the roof of the truck, killing Marianne. Four years later …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film
Taylor, a prison cook who has been incarcerated for 13 years, is informed he is eligible for early release on the basis he maintains good behaviour. Taylor regularly does haircuts for fellow prisoners Gaz and Paul, from whom he buys drugs …
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Action, action film, thriller film
The Expendables are sent to Nepal to rescue a Chinese businessman who has been captured by Nepalese militia. The mercenary team includes leader Barney Ross, blade expert Lee Christmas, martial artist Yin Yang, weapons specialist Hale Caesa…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
14-year-old Hayley Stark and 32-year-old photographer Jeff Kohlver engage in a sexually charged flirtatious online chat. They then meet at a coffeehouse before going to Jeff's home. When they arrive, Jeff makes them drinks, but Hayley refu…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Bani…
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Fantasy, Historie, Mysterie, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, mysticism, romance film, thriller film
In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.…
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Action, Vampirfilm, action film, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film, vampire film
A small group of vampires, led by the Talos siblings, Danica and Asher, and their bodyguard Jarko, investigate an ancient tomb in the Syrian Desert, which they believe belongs to the first vampire Dracula, also called "Drake". To keep Blad…
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Horror, Mysterie, Splatter Film, arthouse science fiction film, body horror film, desire horror fiction, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalist programming. Harlan, the operator of CIVIC-TV's unauthorized satellite dish, shows Max Videodrome, a plotless show purportedly broadcast…
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Film Noir, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
thumb|300px|left|Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession …
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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe
The Poseidon, a luxury cruise ship, is making a transatlantic crossing from London. Former New York City Mayor and firefighter Robert Ramsey is traveling with his daughter Jennifer and her boyfriend Christian Sanders to New York, soon to b…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2046, Grey Trace, an auto mechanic, lives with his wife Asha who works for Cobalt, one of the companies contributing to human-computer augmentations. Grey asks Asha to help him return a refurbished car to his client Eron Keen, a renowne…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, road movie, thriller film
After a global war results in widespread oil shortages and ecocide, civilisation collapses and the world descends into barbarism. Former policeman Max Rockatansky, haunted by the death of his family, drives around the desert Outback of wha…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD in Moscow leads to the demise of the younger brother of Azerbaijani mafia kingpin Terek Murad. Intending to retaliate, Murad hires an ex-KGB asset, an international hitman operating under the c…
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Action, action film, thriller film
After barely surviving a previous mission in Dhaka, Tyler Rake is airlifted for medical treatment to Dubai, and after recovery, retires from mercenary work to a cabin in Gmunden to recuperate. Tyler is later approached by a stranger and as…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
On November 5, 1975, in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his five co-workers—Mike Rogers, Allan Dallis, David Whitlock, Greg Hayes and Bobby Cogdill—head to work in the White Mountains. Driving back towards town that night, th…
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Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1884 Arizona Territory, Dan Evans is a poor rancher and Civil War veteran who owes money to Glen Hollander, a local banker in the town of Bisbee. Hollander's men burn down his barn and scatter his cattle as a warning to pay his debts. T…
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Crime, Drama, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
On the evening of February 3, 1971, NYPD Detective Frank Serpico is rushed to the hospital, having been shot in the face. Police Chief Sidney Green fears that Serpico was shot by another cop. Serpico's story is shown in a flashback.
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