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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
The US government asks Reed Richards to track a mysterious, meteor-like object that has entered Earth's atmosphere, is creating large craters and is seemingly causing fluctuations in the weather and power outages. Meanwhile, Reed and his f…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, science fiction film, thriller film
Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a meeting of the fugitive Nazi organization Kameraden in Paraguay. At this meeting, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele provides instructions for the assassinations of 94 civil servan…
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Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy is a history student and distance runner at Columbia University in New York City who seeks to rehabilitate the memory of his father, who committed suicide during McCarthyism. A fiery car accident kills Klaus Sz…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Horror author Maddie Young lost the ability to hear and speak after contracting bacterial meningitis at age thirteen, causing hearing loss and temporary vocal cord paresis, which became permanent after an unsuccessful surgery. Following th…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
In 2026, the Ark, a wormhole portal to an ancient city on Mars, is discovered deep below the Nevada desert. Twenty years later, the 85 personnel at the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility on Mars are attacked by an unknown …
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film
Some time after the drowning of their young daughter, Christine, in an accident at their English country home, John Baxter and his grief-stricken wife, Laura, travel to Venice, where John has accepted a commission from a bishop to restore …
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Action, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film
In Moscow, Viktor Chagarin, a high-ranking, corrupt Russian official, plans to incriminate former billionaire and government whistleblower Yuri Komarov in a rigged trial unless he hands over a secret file believed to contain evidence incri…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Recently widowed Berlin-based American aviation engineer Kyle Pratt is taking her husband David's body back to the United States. Traveling with their six-year-old daughter Julia, they board a new double-decker aircraft Kyle helped design.…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In 1991, Pittsburgh homicide detective Thomas Hardy turns in his partner and cousin, Jimmy Detillo, for using excessive force, which in turn causes him to become alienated by the majority of his fellow officers. Tom and his father, Vince, …
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Crime, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=2:20|right|The original trailer for Strangers on a Train Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife, Miriam, so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. On a train, wealthy smooth-ta…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. At their hotel, Harris realizes he left his briefcase at the airport so takes a taxi to retrieve it. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree…
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Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, thriller film
In the lower echelons of Parisian society in the 1860's, Thérèse Raquin is a beautiful, sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, whom she was forced to marry by her domineering aunt, Mada…
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Horror, horror film, psychological thriller
At a state penitentiary, psychiatrist Dr. James Martin arrives to evaluate a notorious serial killer named Edward Wayne Brady, who is currently a death-row inmate. The prison Warden Tom Moss warns Dr.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of the world's richest private citizen, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, where he lives, by the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-like organized crime group based in Calabria. A ransom o…
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Action, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film
El Mariachi is recruited by CIA officer Sheldon Jeffrey Sands to kill General Emiliano Marquez, a corrupt Mexican Army officer who has been hired by Mexican drug lord Armando Barillo to assassinate the President of Mexico and overthrow the…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
Dr. Peyton Westlake is a scientist developing a prototype for a new "synthetic skin" to help burn victims, but he cannot overcome a flaw that causes the skin to disintegrate after 99 minutes. His girlfriend Julie Hastings discovers an incr…
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Drama, drama film, thriller film
Andy Jones is head chef of Jones & Sons, an upmarket restaurant in London. Andy is embarrassed to learn that his restaurant has been downgraded from a Food Hygiene Rating of 5 to a 3 following an audit by a food inspector, mostly due to in…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
After 32 people mysteriously drop dead in Boston, the U.S. government calls in scientists Dr. Joshua "Josh" Keyes and Dr.
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A psychiatrist, Dr. Hill, is called to a Los Angeles hospital, where a man named Dr. Miles Bennell is being held in custody.
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Slasher Horror, drama film, high school film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
On May 23, 1988, the senior class of Shadyside High School prepares for their prom. Lori Granger signs up to run for prom queen against the popular girl group nicknamed the "Wolfpack", consisting of ruthless queen bee Tiffany Falconer and …
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, society enforces strict regulations on parenthood due to environmental collapse and resource scarcity. Pharmaceutical cocktails that dramatically increase human life expectancy and healthspan also inhibit reproduction s…
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Action, Western, Western film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, drama film
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, English cattleman John Tunstall hires a wayward young gunman named William “Billy the Kid” Bonney to join the "Regulators" who lived and worked on his ranch: Doc Scurlock, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Dick Brewer, "…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film
New York City software designer Allison "Allie" Jones is engaged to Sam Rawson. Sam's ex-wife calls, and when it is revealed that he slept with her recently, Allie throws him out, breaking off their engagement. Her neighbor, aspiring actor…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, Vampirfilm, cyberpunk, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
A centuries-long war between humans and vampires devastated the planet's surface and led to a theocracy under "The Church". Despite vampires' vulnerability to sunlight and humans technological advancements, their strength and speed made th…
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