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 7.3
 249
240-Robert (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: helicopter, police, rescue, rescue team, search and rescue, paramedic, sheriff, deputy, boat
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100 Million BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, tyrannosaurus rex, lost world, time portal, experiment gone awry, heroes, chaos and mayhem, imaginary, fish out of water, creature feature, creature ...
Time: future, 1940s, prehistory, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: China, Australia, Russia, Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.
Style: suspense, intense, scary, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: giant spider, archaeology, monster, medieval, archaeologist, trap, betrayal, supernatural, mythology, cobweb, giant animal, spider ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china
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After the Storm (2019)
Genre: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lauren wants to rebuild her community, including her family home, in the aftermath of a devastatingly disastrous storm.
Style: romantic, touching, compassionate, sentimental, sweet
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, haunted by the past, love and romance, destruction, death, friendship, dog, damage, christian, wedding ring, school teacher, carpenter ...
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Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
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Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity.... Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, intense ...
Plot: animal attack, shark, ocean, shark attack, diving, found footage, underwater, danger, friends, fish, killer animal, water ...
Place: oceania, california, new zealand, australia
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Return to Christmas Creek (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, childhood friend, programmer, uncle niece relationship, homecoming, happy ending, ambition, character change, love and romance, small town life ...
Place: chicago, wisconsin
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12 Men of Christmas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high-powered New York publicist finds herself in Montana promoting a charity calendar after being betrayed by her boss and fiancé. Unfortunately, matters of the heart are just as complicated in the wilds as they are in the big city.
Style: entertaining, captivating, sincere, disturbing, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: tourism, christmas, holiday, christmas romance, male female relationship, rescue mission, rocky mountains, adaptation, lifestyle, nothing goes right, love affair, new job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, new york, usa
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 5.3
 47K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, epidemic, starvation, ice age, distopia, dehumanization, danger, dystopia, cannibalism, survival horror ...
Time: future, near future
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 7.1
 881
The White Dawn (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
Style: realistic, serious, vintage
Plot: wilderness, survival, arctic, snow, winter, wilderness survival, culture clash, seafaring, landscape, hiking, nature, frozen ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: canada
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 6.8
 25K
Capricorn One (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: conspiracy, mars, astronaut, nasa, conspiracy theory, spacecraft, desert, whistleblower, paranoia, investigative reporter, investigation, space ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, usa, arizona
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Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, aviation, space, disaster, escapades, rescue, save the day, heroes, danger, forces of nature, madness, airplane accident ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, greenland
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 5.8
 12K
Airport '77 (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, airplane, underwater, rescue, airport, survival, aviation, bermuda triangle, airplane accident, hijacking, airplane hijack, frogman ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: washington d.c.
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 6.1
 4K
Paw Patrol (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A group of six rescue dogs, led by a tech-savvy boy named Ryder, has adventures in "PAW Patrol." The heroic pups, who believe "no job is too big, no pup is too small," work together to protect the community. Among the members of ...
Style: colorful, multicultural, entertaining, talky, funny ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: rescue team, rescue, friendship, friends, pets, heroes, human animal relationship, partner, young heroes, save the day, teamwork, puppy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 3.3
 406
Deep Water (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: cruise ship, one against many, hostage, survival, conspiracy, terrorist group, kidnapping, fight, betrayal, ocean, teenage girl, disaster ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: san francisco, pentagon, san diego california
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 5.5
 81K
Volcano (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time: year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
Style: light, grindhouse, funny, action packed, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: ninja, superhero, martial arts, time travel, ninja turtle, comic book, female warrior, childhood, samurai, vigilante, villain, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2016, 17th century, 1900s, year 1993 ...
Place: japan, new york, astoria oregon, asia
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High Mountain Rangers (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: High Mountain Rangers was a weekly television series about a group of highly trained wilderness search and rescue/law enforcement officers in Tahoe, Nevada. It starred Robert Conrad as Jesse Hawkes and also starred his two sons, Christian Conrad ...
Audience: kids
Plot: rescue team, mountain, rescue, forest ranger, police, search and rescue, wilderness, family relations
Place: nevada
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 12K
Miracle Mile (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After 30 years of searching, Harry (Edwards) has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surreal, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: end of the world, nuclear war, night, apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, race against time, coffee shop, post apocalyptic, panic, danger, love affair ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
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 7.1
 26K
Catch-22 (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: world war two, anti war, satire, military, aviation, bomber, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war, rebellion, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century
Place: new york, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, alexandria egypt ...
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Scent of Danger (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: FBI agent Carol Blue was unwilling to take local help in the case of the kidnapping of little Zoe Hendricks, but ex-cop Chris Milos' private investigation bureau proves just too good. His dog handler, Brenna Shaw, and her Alsatian, Brie, find ...
Plot: german shepherd, woods, female protagonist, first kiss, ex cop, dog attack, fbi agent, home invasion, depression, assistant, private investigator, swat team ...
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 5.9
 2K
Mountain Men (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mountain Men is a comedy/drama that follows two estranged brothers, Toph and Cooper, as they journey to a remote family cabin in the mountains to evict a squatter. Buried resentment and bruised egos soon derail the plan and when the smoke clears ...
Style: exciting, light, disturbing, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: winter, snow, mountain, brother brother relationship, wedding, mountain cabin, rescue, sibling relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lie, homecoming, pregnancy ...
Place: canada, british columbia
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Eyes in the Dark (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Secret video files just discovered on an FBI server prove that the government has been hiding unexplained disappearances and a dangerous presence in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Style: mockumentary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: legend, forest, found footage, college student, survival, evil, group of friends, danger, murder, death, violence, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state
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Last Men in Aleppo (2017)
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Denmark, Syria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Winner of the Grand Jury Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad’s breathtaking work — a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage — follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White ...
Style: political
Plot: islam, world history, terrorist, terrorism, dead body, search and rescue, casualty of war, aerial bombardment, siege, volunteer, destruction, ruins ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: syria, iraq, middle east
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 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
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Two Rode Together (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot: american indian, rescue, hostage, cowboy, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, old west, civil war ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 1880s
Place: texas, usa
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 5.1
 56K
Stealth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Style: entertaining, action packed, action adventure, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, military, fighter plane, u.s. navy, aerial combat, aviation, warplane, robot, profanity, fighter pilot, airplane, computer game ...
Time: future, year 2005, 21st century
Place: north korea, seattle, alaska, russia, washington d.c. ...
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 6.6
 31K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
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 6.5
 59K
Ladder 49 (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in ...
Style: touching, sincere, sad, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: firefighter, disaster, friendship, rescue, death of protagonist, redemption, firefighting, fire, funeral, trapped, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
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 5.5
 107K
The Core (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with ...
Style: intense, apocalyptic, serious, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, survival, save the world, space, worldwide chaos, catastrophe, hacker, danger, heroic mission ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, bay area, chicago, pacific ocean, houston texas ...
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