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Thriller, adventure film, drama film, thriller film
In 1247 England, a young woman tracks down the legendary outlaw Robin Hood. Living alone in the wilderness and troubled by his murderous past, the aged Robin dismisses the tales that have made him a folk hero. The young Wainwright tries to…
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Natural Disaster, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, drama film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Structural engineer John Garrity lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his estranged wife, Allison, and their diabetic son, Nathan. He is on the way home to watch the near-earth passing of a recently discovered interstellar comet nicknamed "Clar…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, mystery film, thriller film
Note: Though the movie contains multiple flash-forwards and flash-backs throughout, the story is told here in chronological order. In 1890s London, Robert Angier, Alfred Borden, and Angier's wife, Julia, work as magician's assistants under…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In 2008, an investment bank begins laying off a large number of employees, among them Eric Dale, the head of risk management. Dale's attempts to speak about the implications of a model he is working on are ignored. On his way out, he gives…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In Philadelphia, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe is at home with his wife Anna. Suddenly, Vincent Grey, a former patient he had treated years ago, breaks into their house. Vincent accuses Malcolm of failing him before shooting Malcolm and…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia 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
In 1955, teenager Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in East New York, a working class Italian American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, tech-noir film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1984 Los Angeles, an imposing man appears naked in an alley amid electric flashes and attacks some punks for clothes. Later, a man with scars appears in an alley the same way and evades police. The first man robs a gun shop, looks up ad…
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Romance Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 operative James Bond is promoted to 00 agent after assassinating traitorous MI6 section chief Dryden and his contact in Prague. In Uganda, Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy, fantasy film, thriller film
In a retrofuturist alternative late-Victorian London, 1882, the medical student Max McCandles is recruited by the mad scientist Godwin Baxter to record the behaviour of a strange, nearly mute woman living in Godwin's house. Godwin reveals …
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film
While vacationing in Italy, American couple Ben and Louise Dalton and their preteen daughter Agnes (who live in London) meet and befriend British couple Paddy and Ciara and their son Ant, who is unable to communicate verbally; Ciara tells …
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Adventure, Crime, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, ninja film, superhero film
In Gotham City, young Bruce Wayne falls down a well and develops a fear of bats. One evening, Bruce visits the opera with his parents and is so unsettled by the performers masquerading as bats that he asks to leave. While returning home, a…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, thriller film, trial film
At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, United States Marine Private William Santiago dies after being tied up and beaten in the middle of the night. Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey face court-martial, accu…
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Drama, Justice Drama, black comedy, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Thirty-year-old medical school drop-out Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas lives with her parents and works in a coffee shop. At night, she visits bars pretending to be intoxicated, entrapping men to take her home before revealing her sobriety and …
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, slasher film, supernatural horror film
In 2016, twenty-seven years after It's initial defeat, Pennywise the Dancing Clown returns to Derry, Maine, killing a man named Adrian Mellon after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted by homophobic teens. Mike Hanlon, the only memb…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, flashback film, psychological thriller, thriller film
The unnamed Narrator works an office job as an automobile recall coordinator. He sees a doctor for his disordered sleep, complaining that he falls asleep unexpectedly and wakes up in unfamiliar places. The doctor suggests he attend a testi…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Crime, Political Drama, Social Drama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, neo-noir, police procedural film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
In New York City, former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle takes a job as a night-shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia and loneliness, frequently visiting adult movie theaters on his breaks, and keeping a diary in…
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erotic film, erotic thriller, exploitation film, flashback film, found footage film, horror film, pornographic film, rape and revenge film, snuff film, splatter film, thriller film
Miloš, a semi-retired pornographic actor, lives in Belgrade with his wife, Marija, and their six-year-old son, Petar. His brother Marko is a corrupt police officer who envies Miloš's life and is sexually attracted to Marija. Lejla, a forme…
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Crime, Thriller, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2010, Ethiopian Jewish miners retrieve a rare black opal from the Welo mine in Ethiopia. In 2012, gambling addict Howard Ratner runs KMH, a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District. He struggles to pay off his gambling debts, w…
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Crime, Destiny, Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller film
In 1975, Irish-American neighborhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle are playing street hockey in Charlestown, Boston. After the boys write their names in a patch of wet concrete on the sidewalk, two predators posing as p…
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, Thriller, adventure film, horror film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In the New England beach town of Amity Island, a young woman goes for a late-night ocean swim. An unseen force attacks and pulls her underwater. Her partial remains are found washed up on the beach the next morning.
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Drama, Musical, Thriller, drama film, musical film
Andrew Neiman, a 19-year-old jazz drummer, attends the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. Terence Fletcher, the conductor of Shaffer's most prestigious ensemble, overhears Andrew practicing and prompts him to play rudiments…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, melodrama, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an undergrou…
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Action, Destiny, Girls with Guns, Japanese Animation Film, Justice Drama, Martial-Arts, Psychological Thriller, Samurai Film, Yakuza Film, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, girls with guns, martial arts film, neo-noir, samurai cinema, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film, wuxia film
In 1999, the Bride, a former member of the Deadly Viper assassination squad, is rehearsing her marriage at a chapel in rural El Paso, Texas. The Deadly Vipers, led by Bill, attack the chapel, shooting everyone. As the Bride lies wounded, s…
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Action, action film, black comedy film, thriller film
After the events of the first film, Hutch Mansell has to go on assignments for the Barber as an assassin to pay off the debt he owes after destroying a Russian obshchak. His relationship with his family has grown distant as a result, espec…
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