Movies like M.A.N.T.I.S. 1994
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M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.
Plot:
superhero, scientist, african american, paraplegic
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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M.A.N.T.I.S. is an American science fiction television series that aired for one season on the Fox Network between August 1994 and March 1995.
The original two-hour pilot was produced by Sam Raimi and developed by Sam Hamm. It stars actor Carl ...
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rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 83 min.
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When a lab experiment goes wrong, Benjamin Knight is left invisible while his scientist friends trying to find a formula that will restore his visibility to last the rest of his life.
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scientist, cripple, invisible, superhero, multiple murder, machine gun, female nudity, gore, serial killer
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kyle Finn has the ultimate combat machine, a metal suit with super-human powers, and he uses it to defend the good and fight evil. That 'evil' comes in the form of Reed, his ninja henchmen and the Mecha Terror robot: has the Metal Man ...
Plot:
armor, parody, superhero
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
The maniacal Harley Quinn emerges ten years after the Joker's capture at the end of The Dark Knight, in search of him, leaving a now war torn caped crusader to combat the wave of death and anarchy she unleashes.
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
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A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her ...
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Duration: 81 min.
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Duration: 117 min.
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Genre: Action, Family, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Duration: 107 min.
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Country: USA
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