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Anti-War Film, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1989, Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, whose father served in the earlier Vietnam War (1955–1975), attends United States Marine Corps recruit training before being stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. Claiming that he joined the military b…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Mexico story line In Mexico, police officers Javier Rodriguez and Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport. General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official, interrupts their arrest to offer Javier a special assignment: apprehending Francisco …
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
A United States Coast Guard vessel intercepts and boards an American yacht in the Caribbean Sea and finds evidence that the ship's owner and passengers, American businessman Peter Hardin and his family, were murdered by the piloting Colomb…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, black comedy film, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Spencer and Laura Peterson, with their children Luke and Anna, are coping with the loss of their elder son, Caleb, to the war in Afghanistan. They are visited by David Collins, a former U.S. Army sergeant who claims he was Caleb's best fri…
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Action, Fantasy, action film, mystery film, speculative fiction film
Andy, Booker, Joe, and Nicky are mercenaries with unexplained regenerative healing abilities. They accept a job to rescue a group of kidnapped girls in South Sudan, breaking their rule of never working for the same employer twice. The miss…
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1997, Los Angeles is experiencing a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the gangs and the LAPD, observing as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan charges into the…
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Fantasy, Komödie, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, teen film
At the top of the Empire State Building, Zeus meets his brother Poseidon. Zeus accuses Poseidon's demigod son, Percy Jackson, of stealing his master lightning bolt. Poseidon reminds him that Percy is unaware of his true identity.
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Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, superhero film, war film
As a child, Diana participates in an athletic competition on Themyscira against adult Amazons. After being knocked off her horse, she takes a shortcut and remounts, but misses a checkpoint. Antiope removes her from the race for cheating, e…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive by revealing the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru to save them, and Spock, from a cataclysmic vol…
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Anti-War Film, Political Drama, Psychodrama
Lieutenant Werner, a war correspondent on the in October 1941, is driven by his captain and chief engineer to a French bordello, where he meets some of the crew. Thomsen, another captain, gives a drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, heist film
As Dominic Toretto is being transported by bus to Lompoc Prison, his sister Mia Toretto and friend Brian O'Conner lead an assault on the bus and free Dom. While the authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting D…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
An FBI bust of a smuggling operation in Tampa results in the deaths of Bobby Saint, the son of mafia boss Howard Saint, and Otto Krieg, an arms dealer. However, Krieg's death was faked, and he is later revealed to be undercover FBI agent F…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, superhero film, war film
In present-day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate from Wayne Enterprises taken during World War I. It shows herself and four men, and prompts her to recall her past. Diana, the young daughter of Queen Hippolyta, is raised on…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film
In 1962, 14-year-old Walter's irresponsible mother, Mae, sends him to live for the summer on the ramshackle Texas farm of his reclusive, bachelor great uncles, Hub and Garth. They are said to have a secret fortune amassed from past adventu…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, sword-and-sandal film
When the Twelve Olympians imprisoned the traitorous Titans beneath Mount Tartarus, they lost the Epirus Bow. In 1228 BC, the genocidal king Hyperion searches for the bow to release the Titans; to this end, he captures the virgin oracle Pha…
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Fugitive Drama, Social Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film
In April 1994, Rwanda is engulfed in a civil war between the Hutu-controlled government and Tutsi rebels. In Kigali, Paul Rusesabagina manages the Belgian-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives with his Tutsi wife Tatiana. The Tutsi are …
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Drama, Historie, Social Drama, drama film, trial film
A military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, involves four German judges and prosecutors standing accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. Dan Haywood heads a panel of A…
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Buddy Cop, Christmas film, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
Following the recent death of his wife, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) narcotics Sergeant Martin Riggs, a former Special Forces soldier, has become suicidal and erratic. Despite the protests of police therapist Stephanie Woods, Capta…
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Cartoon, Drama, War Film, disaster film, drama film
Jim Bloggs and his wife Hilda are an aging couple, living in an isolated cottage in rural Sussex, England. Jim frequently travels to the local town to read newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation regarding …
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Anti-War Film, Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
A bay Irish Hunter is born in Devon, England in 1912. Farmer Ted Narracott outbids his landlord Lyons for the colt at auction, to the dismay of his wife Rose who wanted a working horse that can plough, not an Irish Hunter. Their son Albert…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1956 Massapequa, 10-year-old Ron Kovic plays with his friends in a forest. On his Fourth of July birthday, he attends an Independence Day parade with his family and best friend Donna. In 1961, President John F.
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Adventure, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The cast of the 1980s space-adventure series Galaxy Quest attend fan conventions and make trivial promotional appearances. Though the series' vain former star, Jason Nesmith, thrives on the attention, his co-stars Gwen DeMarco, Alexander D…
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Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, an Israeli warplane carrying a nuclear bomb crashes. In 2002, Ghazi, a Syrian scrap collector, recovers the bomb from a field in the Golan Heights. He sells it to South African black market arms traffick…
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