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Executive Decision (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, airplane, hostage, rescue, hijacking, terrorist, hand to hand combat, bomb, surveillance, military, special forces, senator ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
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Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of Manfred von Richtofen, the german air ace during the World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous german officers.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war one, fighter plane, fighter pilot, aerial combat, raf, soldier, aviation, great war, danger, military, military life, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 1910s
Place: germany, europe, france
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 5.5
 2K
Captain Nova (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: time travel, sent to the past, time traveler, girl heroine, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time jump, heroine, save the world, time warp, teamwork ...
Time: future
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 5.8
 256K
Battleship (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: alien invasion, alien, military, u.s. navy, ufo, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, invasion, sea battle, battles ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, year 2006, year 2005 ...
Place: hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
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 6.8
 51K
Enemy Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, survival, space wars, friendship, space travel, space opera, desert, space ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: space western
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 6.9
 30K
Memphis Belle (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before ...
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, bomber, military, war, soldier, battles, friendship, aerial combat, airplane, u.s. air force, heroic mission, luftwaffe ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: europe, america, england, united kingdom
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 5.9
 195
Macross Δ (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Macross Delta is set in the year 2067, 8 years after the events of the latest Macross TV series, Macross Frontier. The story focuses on Walküre, a team of talented idols and the Delta Squadron, a team of experienced Valkyrie pilots as they ...
Style: anime, mecha, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Plot: mind control, save the world, heroic mission, danger, refugee, intergalactic, rivalry, escapades, battles, androids and robots, hotshot hero, space and aliens ...
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Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, ...
Style: emotional, suspenseful, sad, suspense, mockbuster
Plot: sea battle, world war two, plane crash, aircraft carrier, aviation, war, bravery, u.s. military, courage, loss of friend, bombing, showdown ...
Time: year 1941
Place: honolulu hawaii
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, intense, talky ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, space travel, space, space battle, escapades, space opera, battlestar galactica, battles, man versus machine, space and aliens, good versus evil, human existence ...
Time: future
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky ...
Style: futuristic, saga, dark, visually stunning, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, family friendly, boys' night ...
Plot: star wars, space opera, outer space, sword fight, space travel, space and aliens, creature, space battle, good versus evil, jedi, alien, training ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: space western
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 3.7
 479
Freedom Strike (1998)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can stop! Cue an action-packed race against time to save the ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, die hard, world war, race against time, military, computer cracker, u.s. navy, escapades, confined, danger, undercover ...
Time: 90s
Place: mediterranean sea, washington d.c.
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 6.7
 20K
JAG (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: JAG is an American legal drama television show with a distinct military theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The first season was co-produced with NBC ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: military, legal, marines, lawyer, navy, army investigation, court martial, insubordination, courtroom drama, military life, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The sixth film in the "Terminator" series will pick up where the second film left off, ignoring all the subsequent sequels.
Style: action adventure, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, saga ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, cyborgs, technology, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, gunfight, killer robot, aeroplane, revenge ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 2020s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: mexico, mexico city, texas, guatemala
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 7.8
 733K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
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 7.7
 101K
Porco Rosso (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Porco Rosso, known in Japan as Crimson Pig (Kurenai no Buta) is the sixth animated film by Hayao Miyazaki and released in 1992. You're introduced to an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air ...
Style: anime, humorous, talky, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: aviation, cartoon pig, fascism, airplane, heroes, escapades, unrequited love, fighter pilot, haunted by the past, heroic mission, good versus evil, imaginary ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s, 1910s
Place: italy, tokyo, fictional island, europe, croatia ...
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Occupation: Rainfall (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: alien encounter, apocalypse, female warrior, good versus evil, invasion, violence, danger, death, destruction, fictional war, chase, fear ...
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Mexico, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the ...
Style: captivating, action adventure, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, monster, creature, giant lizard, destruction, giant animal, rescue, creature feature, giant bird, giant creature, humanity in peril ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 2014, 21st century
Place: boston, japan, antarctica, arizona, germany ...
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Tactical Assault (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this high-flying action thriller, an expert Air Force flyer finds himself forced to use every trick he has ever learned to stop a murderous, insane former colleague and friend from exacting deadly revenge upon him.
Style: independent film, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gulf war, fighter jet, air force, aviation, disaster, chase, military, soldier, battles, airplane, pilot, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: iraq, middle east, eastern europe
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 4.1
 390
Blue Tornado (1991)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While experimenting with a new flight maneuver, Colonel Alex Long and Phil encounter a mysterious light over a mountain range. Phil becomes transfixed, flies into the light and disappears. Alex barely manages to come back and is in shock. The ...
Style: mysterious
Plot: fighter jet, conspiracy theory, tornado, alien invasion, ufo, airplane, nato, love interest, happy ending, alien abduction, exploitation, warplane ...
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 6.4
 5K
633 Squadron (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, fishing, aviation, battles, air raid, world war, against the odds, danger, military, hopes, war, save the day ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: europe
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The Sky Crawlers (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a war as entertainment, organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the ...
Style: anime, exciting, dieselpunk, manga, entertaining ...
Plot: alternate reality, battles, airplane, military, danger, rivalry, society, supernatural, haunted by the past, mortal combat, eternal youth, teenager ...
Place: japan, seattle, asia
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 8.0
 24K
Fail-Safe (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style: tense, political thriller, political, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, nuclear threat, politics, military, u.s. air force, atomic bomb, nuclear, chaos, radio, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1967
Place: russia, new york, usa, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
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 8.2
 667K
1917 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style: tense, period piece, entertaining, sad, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, death, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time: year 1917, 1910s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2019
Place: persia, britain, los angeles, france
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 5.4
 202K
Godzilla (1998)
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: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, godzilla, monster, giant monster, disaster, experiment gone awry, giant, lost world, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, creature, human versus monster, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, tahiti, usa ...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The next installment in the franchise and the conclusion of the “Star Wars“ sequel trilogy as well as the “Skywalker Saga“.
Style: entertaining, saga, action adventure, tense, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: space opera, star wars, spacecraft, evil, space battle, robot, space travel, hand to hand combat, shame, super weapon, space, person thought dead is alive ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019
Place: space western
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 6.8
 35K
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From the mind behind Evangelion comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red ...
Style: suspense, tense, natural horror, serious, dark ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, monster, destruction, creature feature, giant, creature, danger, radioactivity, military, evolution ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: japan, tokyo
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Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A man copes with life after an assault by constructing a miniature replica version of a World War II era town in his backyard. Adapted from the 2010 documentary "Marwencol."
Style: psychological, uplifting, funny, sincere, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: court, photographer, fall in love, fear, friendship, loneliness, marriage proposal, psychological trauma, unrequited love, toy soldier, therapy, witch ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, 60s, year 1954, 20th century ...
Place: new york, belgium, new haven connecticut
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Style: suspense, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic, disgusting ...
Audience: family friendly, kids
Plot: robot, alien, alien invasion, shapeshifting, giant robot, culture clash, artificial intelligence, transforming robot, revenge, survival, alternate reality, violence ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future, medieval times, middle ages ...
Place: tower bridge london, detroit, havana cuba, pentagon, china ...
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 7.1
 382K
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: gunfight, christmas, airplane, fight scenes, airport, one man army, police, hostage, terrorism, lone hero, chase, commando ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: washington d.c., washington state, virginia, los angeles, usa
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 7.9
 1.1M
Iron Man (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Style: exciting, witty, entertaining, action packed, saga ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly, kids, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, technology, prodigy, self sacrifice, weapon system, billionaire, tony stark character, good versus evil, robot, millionaire, androids and robots ...
Time: year 2008, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, afghanistan, america, iraq, los angeles ...
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