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Anti-War Film, Destiny, Political Drama, drama film, war film
Two students at a West Coast university, Arian and Ernest, at the urging of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, attempt to do something important with their lives. They make the bold decision to enlist in the army to fight in Afghanist…
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Action, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, vigilante film
Following a grueling day of work, Long Beach, California firefighter Jeremy Coleman and his coworkers contemplate ending the day with a case of 15-year-old Scotch whisky. Jeremy enters a convenience store to buy snacks, but is interrupted …
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crime film, drama film, splatter film
A man named Ichi spies from a balcony, masturbating as he watches a pimp assault a prostitute. When discovered, he flees. Soon after, the sadistic yakuza boss Anjo is murdered.
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Mick O'Brien is a 16-year-old Irish-American hoodlum from Chicago. Mick's crimes include snatching purses, shoplifting, vandalism, and fighting, but he aspires to bigger crimes. He subsequently attempts to rip off his Puerto Rican rival, P…
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal who specializes in "erasing" witnesses, is given a new assignment by his superior, Arthur Beller: Lee Cullen has alerted the FBI that Cyrez executives have financed the creation of an electromagnetic rifle, whic…
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action film, disaster film, katastrophe, mockbuster
In the Arctic Ocean off the Helheim Glacier in Greenland, a person is surfing on waves created by chunks of ice falling off the glacier, caused by the effects of global warming. A huge chunk of ice falls into the water, creating an especia…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film
Buxom Los Angeles TV horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, quits her job after the station's new owner sexually harasses her. She plans to open an act at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, but needs $50,000 for the project. Upon learn…
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Film Noir, Gangster Film, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
thumb|upright=1.2|Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil thumb|upright=1.2|Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan Along the U.S.–Mexico border, a time bomb placed inside a vehicle explodes, killing two people. Mexican special prosecutor Mi…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
Ten years after escaping from Foxworth Hall, the surviving Dollanganger children—Cathy, Chris, and Carrie—attend the funeral of their adoptive father, Paul Sheffield, who took them in. They are still traumatized by their grandmother's abus…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
Small parasitic aliens called "Souls", who travel to planets inserting themselves into a host body of that planet's dominant species while suppressing the host's consciousness, have taken over the human race. Deeming humans too violent to …
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Komödie, Parodie, Secret Agent, Silly Movie, action comedy film, comedy film, spy film
Eight years after the first film, Johnny English has been training at a monastery in Tibet to recover from the shame of a failed mission to protect the newly elected president of Mozambique, which cost him his knighthood. English is called…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, drama film, trial film
In New Orleans, an ex-employee perpetrates a mass shooting with a machine pistol at a stock brokerage firm. Eleven people are killed and several others wounded in the incident. Among the dead is Jacob Wood.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, drama film
In 1963 Texas, convicts Robert "Butch" Haynes and Terry Pugh escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Looking for food, Terry stumbles into a house where eight-year-old Phillip Perry lives with his devout Jehovah's Witness …
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Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, Social Drama, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Marcus is a quiet boy who adores his mother Katrina, and the two live a relatively comfortable life on her drug-dealing income. After Marcus writes a song for his love interest Charlene, her stepfather sends her away to live with her grand…
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Erotic Thriller, Romance Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film
Original Sin is set in late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, and flashes back and forth from the scene of a woman awaiting her execution while telling her story to a priest to the actual events of that story. Luis Vargas, a Cuban…
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Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, girls with guns, spy film
At a location south of Bogotá, Colombia, a drug lord presents criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke with a special decryption program drive that can access any digital system on Earth. Clarke double-crosses and kills him just as the authoritie…
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Horror
A young woman named Iris struggles to finance her brother Raleigh's leukemia treatment. Their oncologist, Dr.Barden, introduces Iris to Shepard Lambrick, a wealthy philanthropist who offers her a deal. If she wins a mysterious game at Shep…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Following his discovery of the body of his wife Alison in a bathtub after her apparent suicide, Dr. David Callaway, a psychologist, decides to move with his 9-year-old daughter Emily to upstate New York. There, Emily makes an imaginary fri…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film
At Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees stalks a woman. The woman (in fact an undercover FBI agent) lures Jason into a trap where FBI SWAT agents attack and kill him with a grenade launcher. Jason's remains are sent to a morgue, where his beating …
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Family Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, rape and revenge film
After the events of the previous film, an unidentified feral woman is the last remaining member of a cannibalistic tribe that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades. Chris Cleek is a mentally deranged and misogynistic country lawyer, w…
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Slasher Horror, drama film, horror film, slasher film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
In a flashback during his time at Smith's Grove Sanitarium, a young Michael Myers is visited by his mother Deborah who gives him a white toy horse as a gift. Fifteen years later, Laurie Strode is wandering around the town of Haddonfield in…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
Buford Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring, and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father Carl Pusser. With a friend, Pusser visits a gambling and prostitution establ…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action thriller, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
47 is an "Agent", a genetically-enhanced super soldier created by Dr. Piotr Litvenko, a skilled Ukrainian geneticist. Litvenko, unable to bear the guilt of his creation, abandoned the Agent project.
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Greta Evans, an American travelling in the United Kingdom, is hired as a nanny by the elderly Heelshires. The couple introduce Greta to her charge, a doll named Brahms, which the Heelshires treat as if it were their real son. They coach Gr…
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