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Action, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film, neo-noir
In New York City, John Wick, hiding underground with the Bowery King, recovers after being shot off the roof of the Continental Hotel by Winston. Seeking to exact vengeance against the High Table, he travels to Morocco and kills the Elder,…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 2104, the spaceship Covenant is en route to colonize the planet Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists and 1,140 human embryos in cryogenic stasis. An unexpected shockwave from a nearby star damages the ship and kills 47 colonists, includin…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film
Professional thieves Parker and Philly lead a heist at a racetrack count room, but an employee kills one of the thieves and wounds Philly, driving away with the stolen money and his family. Parker pursues him onto the racetrack and shoots …
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Space Opera, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
A deep-space salvage crew find an escape shuttle where Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to kill an alien creature that slaughtered the crew. Ripley is debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Cor…
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Adventure, Historie, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, epic film, historical film, medieval film, thriller film
In AD 895, in the North Atlantic, King Aurvandill "War-Raven" returns to the island of Hrafnsey, reuniting with his wife, Queen Gudrún, and his heir, Prince Amleth. To prepare Amleth for his eventual accession to the throne, the father and…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Famed novelist Paul Sheldon writes Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Though the books are profitable, Paul despises the series and wishes to focus on writing more serious literature. He has just left the…
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Musical, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, musical film, psychological thriller, thriller film
In an animated short titled "Me and My Shadow", the Joker is impersonated by his shadow, who acts violently and takes his place to perform a musical number for a TV show, then merges back together with the Joker before three police officer…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In 2003, former Force Recon Marine and CIA SAD/SOG officer John Creasy travels to Mexico to visit his old friend Paul Rayburn, who convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a wealthy Mexico City automaker. He needs prot…
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Action Comedy, Dark Comedy, Satire, Splatter Film, action film, action thriller
In a group chat, Athena, Ted, Richard, Miranda, Julius, Peter, Martin, Mike and Liberty discuss an upcoming hunt of "deplorables", at a manor. Later, on Athena's private jet, a flight attendant talks to Richard but is interrupted by Randy,…
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film, action film, thriller film
Yuichi Kimura ("the Father"), boards a bullet train departing Tokyo to find the person who pushed his young son Wataru from a rooftop, leaving him comatose. At the same time, an American freelance gangster codenamed "Ladybug"—whose "bad lu…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
In 1945, Grace Stewart resides in a remote country house in Jersey, a Channel Island formerly occupied by the Germans. As her young children, Anne and Nicholas, suffer from a severe sensitivity to light, Grace keeps the home darkened with …
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Six days after Rose Cotter's death, the now-cursed Joel attempts to pass the Smile Entity on by killing one murderous criminal in front of another. He accidentally kills the witness in a shootout, and drug dealer Lewis Fregoli, whom Joel h…
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Super Hero
Tony Stark, who has inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his late father Howard Stark, tours in war-torn Afghanistan with his best friend and military liaison, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missi…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1958 New York City, shipbuilding magnate Herbert Greenleaf, believing Tom Ripley attended Princeton with his son, Dickie, pays Tom $1,000 to travel to Italy and persuade him to return to the United States. Taking an ocean liner first-cl…
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Thriller, Zombiefilm, survival film, thriller film, zombie film
After the United States accidentally detonates an experimental weapon off the Eastern coast of Tasmania, the city of Hobart is destroyed, and victims on the island not caught in the immediate blast are rendered brain dead. Soon it is found…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film
Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives wit…
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Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film
Panem is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation divided into twelve districts ruled by the Capitol. As punishment for a failed rebellion 74 years earlier, each district must annually select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans meet their contact on Earth, a priest of a secret order, at an ancient Egyptian temple. They take the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years, promising to protect …
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LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Alex and Marcus, a young couple, wake up together and discuss their relationship, as well as an upcoming party, while in the nude. Marcus voices concern about Alex's ex, Pierre, also being invited because he "stole his girl", to which Alex…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, horror film, speculative fiction film
In 1719 in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. While tracking deer, she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a Thunderbird,…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Cellular biology professor and former US Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She recounts her expedition to an anomalous zone known as the Shimmer. The Shimmer began expanding three years prior from a meteor that crash-landed at the …
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has made her Broadway debut. While he is on a date with her in Central Park, an extraterrestrial symbiote oozes out of a fallen meteorite and attaches to his moped. Harry Osborn, knowi…
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Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, erotic thriller, psychological thriller film
Melinda and Vic Van Allen live with their young daughter Trixie in Little Wesley, Louisiana. Vic has retired early after developing guidance chips for combat drones, and his complicated relationship with Melinda is held together by a preca…
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Empire Awards - Winner, Exorcism Film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In northern Iraq, priest Lankester Merrin takes part in an archaeological dig in the ancient ruins of Hatra. During the dig, he finds a stone talisman of a winged being that evokes a concerned look on his face. He then visits an ancient st…
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