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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops – men trained to perfection, skilled with a devastating array of weaponry – men who will track down their leader’s enemies and kill them. All assassination ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, educational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination, military, soldier, battles, greek, world spanning, ancient history, master warrior, war, graphic violence, ruse, training ...
Time:
middle ages
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumor that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy. Damn International Intrigue!
Style:
tense, neo noir, political thriller, crime thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
assassination, cold war, conspiracy, intrigue, political unrest, political intrigue, political corruption, race against time, cold war era, political conspiracy, international relations, wartime ...
Time:
60s
Place:
latin america, mexico city
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34K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, political thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, cia, father daughter relationship, spy, secret agent, undercover, hitman, secret service, conspiracy, on the run, lone hero, brutality ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
belgium, usa, antwerp, new jersey, brussels ...
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169
Genre: Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, haunted by the past, on the run, life is a bitch, prime minister, flashback sequence, rivalry, danger, society, escape, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Japanese adaptation of the American TV Series "24". Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job and a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
politics, assassination, hidden identity, terrorism, police department, father daughter relationship, attempted murder, gunfight, investigation, counter terrorism, terrorist, danger ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
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209K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, parody, dark comedy, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
hitman, vigilante, revenge, blood, machete, corruption, vengeance, violence, dark humor, tough guy, bodyguard, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, austin texas
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119K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, retro, grindhouse, grim ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
survival, street gang, gang, gang war, gang member, subway, violence, warrior, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1979, near future, 80s
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, north america ...
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184K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Style:
clever, satirical, political, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
media, journalism, satire, television, social commentary, media manipulation, adultery, corruption, murder, dark humor, business, assassination ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
usa, new york, california, manhattan new york city, middle east ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style:
political, suspense, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, politics, investigation, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, lawyer, spy, political corruption, corruption, secret service, fbi, surveillance ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., new orleans, southern usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
conspiracy, autism, assassin, fbi, murder, child in peril, secret service, boy, fbi agent, assassination, witness protection, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, bangkok thailand, south dakota
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style:
neo noir, touching, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, murder, loneliness, organized crime, redemption, sniper, loner, life philosophy, dark hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
imperialism, politics, assassination, intrigue, colonialism, capitalism, politician, greed, revolution, scapegoat, betrayal, political corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
africa, congo, belgium, south africa, tokyo ...
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Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in Russia, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, melancholic, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, widow, conspiracy, biopic, american history, controversy, trauma, mourning, grief, flashback, kennedy assassination, paranoia ...
Time:
60s
Place:
north america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Tyler is a restless, streetwise 21-year-old Hong Kong native who's had trouble gaining the trust of others all his life. He secretly fantasizes about living the good life in South America. After a while, he is forced to deal with the reality of ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, stylized, heroic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, assassination, gang war, danger, drug dealing, race against time, friendship, working undercover, fight, chinese mafia, shootout, car chase ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, asia, latin america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual ...
Style:
intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, tango, assassination, couples, assassin, love and romance, conspiracy, intrigue, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, south america, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, paris france, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, sex scene, hitman, haunted by the past, bomb, vengeance, femme fatale, murder, redemption, assassination, anti hero, ex cia agent ...
Time:
year 1994, year 1984, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, clever, tense, political ...
Plot:
conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, political corruption, assassin, politics, covert operation, senator, corporation, sniper ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2004, future, 90s ...
Place:
iraq, usa, new york, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Style:
political, suspense, political drama
Plot:
courtroom, politics, lawyer, death penalty, trial, guillotine, train, french politics, law, assassination, murder, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1975
Place:
paris france, france
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294K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.
Style:
epic, sexy, historical drama, sexual, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ancient rome, ancient history, roman empire, gladiator, sword fight, rebellion, battles, swords and armor, friendship between men, sex, slavery, medieval ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century, 2000s
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, spy, tough guy, one last job, secret organization, kung fu, conspiracy, assassin, ninja, martial arts, assassination, sword fight ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
usa, san francisco, california
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29K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Colombia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An ex special forces operative stuck in a dead-end desk job reluctantly takes on a gig to provide private security for a washed-up journalist as she interviews a ruthless—but impeccably dressed—dictator. When a military coup breaks out just as ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, exciting, tense, funny ...
Plot:
assassination, fictional country, survival, coup d'etat, interview, dictator, jungle, coup, military coup, interviewer, handgun, female nudity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night…
Style:
dark comedy, serious, realistic, black comedy, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, assassination, undercover, dark humor, president, political corruption, political conspiracy, state affairs, terrorism, assassination attempt, losing-it hero, intelligence agency ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, non-linear ...
Plot:
world war two, time travel, surrealism, existentialism, assassination, sent to the future, aerial bombardment, slaughterhouse, prisoner of war camp, stream of consciousness, alien abduction, soldier ...
Time:
future, 1940s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, indiana, europe, philadelphia, new england ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Style:
serious, exciting, epic, historical drama, political thriller ...
Plot:
ancient rome, ancient history, roman emperor, roman empire, ancient, roman, emperor, politics, medieval, betrayal, assassination, tragic hero ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, europe, macedonia, italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to ...
Style:
tense, captivating, political thriller, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, assassination, political unrest, father daughter conflict, haunted by the past, years of lead, daughter, father and daughter, social problems, teenager, insurgent, life is a bitch ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a ...
Style:
witty, humorous, political, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, assassination, president, satire, lone hero, happy ending, conspiracy theory, betrayal, assassination attempt, buddies, odd couple ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
washington d.c., usa, west virginia, ohio
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185K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style:
serious, exciting, breathtaking, action packed, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, revenge, fight scenes, assassination, conspiracy, gun fu, genetically altered ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, istanbul turkey, moscow russia ...
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546
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
assassination, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, true crime, gay, deathtrap, trap, political conspiracy, theft, biopic, film history ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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