| Armageddon (1998) | 6.7 | |
| Die Hard (1988) | 8.2 | |
| In Time (2011) | 6.7 | |
| Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) | 7.6 | |
| Source Code (2011) | 7.5 |
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32K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
natural disaster, father, hurricane katrina, hurricane, newborn baby, hospital, evacuation, race against time, exhaustion, childbirth, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, dark comedy, game show ...
Plot:
dystopia, survival, social commentary, fictional game show, violence, money problems, most dangerous game, race against time, megacorporation, media manipulation, escape, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
maine, boston, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, ...
Style:
dark comedy, scary, slasher, splatter, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, vampire, female vampire, sexy female vampire, supernatural, revenge, transformation, college, hallucination, race against time, showdown, rescue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, artificial intelligence, terminator, cyborgs, fight to the death, hand to hand combat, brutality, destiny, shootout, mind control, race against time, computer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be ...
Style:
spoof, parody, humorous, psychotronic, not serious ...
Plot:
butler, espionage, race against time, absurdism, ex husband ex wife relationship, villainess, killer animal, animal attack, vegetarian, spy, secret agent, spying ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, not serious, humorous, intense ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
talking animal, dog, spy, animal, talking dog, secret service, espionage, vengeance, secret agent, villainess, feud, gadget ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, san francisco, germany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, dutch angle, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, violence, slavery, escape attempt, danger, escapades, survival, rat ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, distant future
Place:
denver colorado, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand, France, Canada
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as ...
Style:
humorous, disturbing, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
team, raccoon, mad scientist, animal testing, alien planet, animal cruelty, animal experimentation, tragic past, animal abuse, rescue, friendship, spaceship ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
space western
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must ...
Style:
thrilling, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship, tsunami, vacation gone wrong, grasshopper, warning, race against time, little girl, premonition, gay slur, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oregon, philadelphia, hawaii, nashville tennessee, boston ...
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81K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
Style:
slasher, entertaining, not serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, body swapping, dark humor, body swap, gender bending, switching roles, masked killer, switching bodies, body transformation, friday the 13th, race against time, violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, action thriller, saga, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hacking, computer hacker, hacker, terrorism, conspiracy, gunfight, one man army, tough cop, lone hero, fbi, chaos, surveillance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., maryland, los angeles, new york, baltimore ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Style:
funny, fast paced, black and white, biting, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cold war, iron curtain, coca cola, satire, capitalist, secretary, communism, forbidden love, farce, voice over narration, corporate executive, race against time ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east berlin, germany, east germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, funny, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, fairy godmother, magic wand, good versus evil, villainess, race against time, witch, imaginary, rivalry, supernatural ability, down on your luck, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1997
Place:
nebraska, manhattan new york city, oklahoma city, new york, usa
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212K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, godzilla, giant monster, creature, experiment gone awry, giant, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lost world, military, disaster, human versus monster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, tahiti, manhattan new york city, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
nordic, police vigilantism, plot twist, police, telephone call, race against time, guilt, kidnapping, mission, police officer, revelation, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six ...
Style:
saga, epic, surprise ending, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, fight scenes, super powers, supernatural power, invasion, superhero team, good versus evil, tragedy, final battle, alien superhero, super villain ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, scotland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, detective, dark, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder investigation, murder mystery, haunted by the past, whodunit, maniac, strong female character, murder, serial murder, police officer, heroine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
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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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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
Style:
independent film, exciting, cult classic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, spy, assassin, vigilante, kung fu, conspiracy, korean war veteran, race against time, soldier, hitman, espionage, mentor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., korea
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Nepal
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Style:
entertaining, visually stunning, witty, breathtaking, saga ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, magic, parallel universe, wizard, sorcerer, fantasy world, time, good versus evil, time loop, multiverse, mentor, neurosurgeon ...
Time:
year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, hong kong, london, north america, nepal ...
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, detective, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
psychopath, kidnapping, violence, kidnapper, hostage, investigation, tv reporter, psycho killer, rape victim, race against time, serial killer, ghost ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing ...
Style:
sexy, scary, rough, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nudity, alien, deadly creature, evil alien, sex scene, quarantine, femme fatale, save the world, heroes, transformation, astronaut, dna ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, jurassic, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city, pentagon
Is relevant?
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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34K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a ...
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, alien invasion, alien, zombie, alien abduction, nude, mind control, sexy female vampire, apocalypse, sex scene, space shuttle, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, texas, europe, tower bridge london ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style:
exciting, clever, suspense, futuristic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time, time loop, teenager, alternate timeline, time paradox, time machine, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, butterfly effect, teleportation ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, distant future ...
Place:
usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot:
steampunk, martial arts, inventor, journey, friendship, road trip, on the road, chase, travel, valet, race against time, wager ...
Time:
19th century, year 2004, victorian era, 2000s, 1890s ...
Place:
paris france, london, china, turkey, scotland yard ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
80 minutes to live or die. Alex got injected with a high tech poison by his creditor and put on a time clock to pay his debt back in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Will he make it or even further will he stay loyal to his friends and relatives under a ...
Style:
surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
race against time, chase, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, gang, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, hospital, stoner, antidote, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
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