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 7.8
 24K
Brother (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, rough, art house ...
Plot: russian mafia, organized crime, vigilante, brutality, mafia, life is a bitch, friendship, anti hero, gangster, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, st. petersburg russia
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Mr. Natwarlal (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Mr. Natwarlal is a 1979 Hindi Action comedy movie. Produced by Tony Glaad it is directed by Rakesh Kumar. Natwar is just a young boy when his beloved older brother and caretaker, police officer Gridharilal (Ajit), is framed for bribery by sinister ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: abduction, frame up, gangster, indians, rebel, con man, false accusation, revenge, quicksand, atheist, entrapment, brother in law sister in law relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: india
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 6.8
 517K
Aquaman (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
Style: exciting, entertaining, epic, action adventure, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: superhero, underwater, super powers, atlantis, ocean, princess, creature, half breed, muscleman, warrior, mermaid, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s, year 1985, 90s, 80s
Place: maine, boston, sicily, atlantic ocean, italy
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 5.7
 206K
The Meg (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, slasher, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot: shark, animal attack, giant monster, underwater, sea monster, ocean, giant creature, giant animal, killer shark, professor, survival, mission ...
Time: 2010s, jurassic, prehistory, 21st century
Place: shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Story: The young Arthur runs the back passages of Londonium with his crew, not knowing his royal lineage until he grabs Excalibur. Instantly confronted by the sword's influence, Arthur is forced to make up his mind. He joins the rebellion and a ...
Style: dark fantasy, exciting, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: king arthur, arthurian legend, one against many, medieval, chosen one, sorcerer, camelot, excalibur, giant snake, kingdom, brutality, mercilessness ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: england, london
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Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: When they can no longer stomach the ever-growing weed of suburban crime, Jay and Silent Bob take on the mantles of costumed avengers Bluntman and Chronic, smashing the super-villains they accidentally create! Can the Doobage Duo save their beloved ...
Style: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: stoner, buddies, jay and silent bob, superhero, disorder, fighting crime, escapades, rivalry, name calling, mature, multiverse, pegging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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Manorama Six Feet Under (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Rajasthan-based Satyaveer Singh Randhawa works as a Junior Engineer with Lahkot Municipality's Public Works Department and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Nimmi, and son, Raju. Satyeveer also authored a fictional novel ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense thriller ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, mistress, small town, conspiracy, blackmail, bribery, estrangement, scapegoat, dishonesty, corrupt cop, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style: saga, futuristic, scenic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: star wars, alien, space opera, space travel, obesity, resistance fighter, fantasy world, space, space and aliens, female protagonist, super weapon, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s
Place: space western
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 ...
Style: exciting, teen, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: distopia, strong female lead, rebellion, resistance, dystopia, chase, teenager, chosen one, revolution, good versus evil, tough girl, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, future, near future, year 2016
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 5.4
 7K
Nemesis (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorist group, cyberpunk, terrorism, conspiracy, dystopian future, police detective, chaos, man versus machine, female warrior, microchip ...
Time: future, year 1992, near future, 2020s
Place: usa, los angeles, rio de janeiro, brazil, new mexico ...
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 6.2
 7K
The Hunter (1980)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: chase, car chase, hostage, pregnancy, bounty hunter, stalking, dog, childbirth, tough guy, psychopath, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa
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 6.5
 24K
Hero (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who ...
Style: harsh, sentimental, inspirational, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: air disaster, mistaken identity, chase, corruption, happy ending, rescue, unlikely hero, escapades, dishonesty, petty criminal, custody battle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
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Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, horror comedy, scary, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, undead, werewolf, afterlife, vampire hunter, heroes, supernatural, private detective, zombie, good versus evil, investigation, friendship ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 8.2
 940K
Die Hard (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Witness in the War Zone (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, USA, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
Style: inspirational, independent film
Plot: journalism, lebanese civil war, journalist, terrorism, reporter, aid worker, correspondents, inspiration, dead child, reluctant hero, corpse, bombing ...
Time: year 1987
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, israel
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 7.1
 227K
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 261 min.
TV show
Story: A standalone Star Wars adventure focused on the character Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Style: captivating, exciting, disturbing, saga, retro ...
Plot: star wars, space opera, outer space, galaxy, space, space travel, jedi, alien, lightsaber, hunted, planet, fight ...
Place: space western
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 5.4
 6K
Two Much (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: twins, farce, greed, art, love triangle, switching roles, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity, screwball ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami
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Escape from New York (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: dystopia, cyberpunk, prison, race against time, escape, post apocalypse, hostage, dystopian future, end of the world, rescue, distopia, darkness ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1981, distant future ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, post apocalyptic, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, dystopian future, apocalypse, earthquake, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, one man army, danger ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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 4.4
 405
Mask of Death (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, fugitives, fistfight, fbi, timebomb, tattoo, plastic surgery, shootout, betrayal, undercover, assassination attempt, hitman ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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 6.4
 191K
Tomorrowland (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, France, Canada, UK, China, Italy, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and ...
Style: exciting, visually appealing, thought provoking, visually stunning, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: utopia, youth, young heroes, time travel, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, alternate reality, heroes, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, obsessive quest ...
Time: future, year 2015, 60s, 2010s
Place: florida, new york, paris france, houston texas, africa
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The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Style: scenic, exciting, visually stunning, fairy tale, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, manly, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot: tarzan, jungle, feral child, slavery, revenge, animal attack, animal, superhero, colonialism, monkey, lone hero, geopolitics ...
Time: victorian era, year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, future ...
Place: africa, congo, united kingdom, london, england ...
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The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, absurd, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, chick flick
Plot: magic, snow white, love, evil queen, witch, medieval, female warrior, sorceress, strong female lead, good versus evil, supernatural, revenge ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
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 7.4
 369K
The Nice Guys (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style: neo noir, entertaining, buddy comedy, detective, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, corruption, conspiracy, father daughter relationship, private investigator, bare breasts, buddy cop, buddy, single father, murder, justice ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 70s, 90s, year 1977 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.4
 67K
Blood Father (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Style: suspense, stylized, harsh, road movie, tense ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, teenage girl, ex convict, on the run, revenge, survival, redemption, road trip, alcoholic, race against time, gangster, chase ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: california, new mexico, santa monica california
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Hard Target 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Style: suspense, disturbing, brutal, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, jungle warfare, female warrior, jungle, muscleman, hunting, hunter, rescue, fight, one man army, courage ...
Time: 2010s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, burma, las vegas
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The notorious “One-Armed Swordsman” who has spent the last two years retired from the martial world as a simple farmer with his wife. Of course this idyllic life is about to be sliced to ribbons by Chang’s wicked imagination. He concocts a ...
Style: grindhouse, serious, realistic, offbeat
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, medieval, violent, swordplay, handicapped, master warrior, one man army, poison gas, ambush, hostage ...
Place: asia, china
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Awaken the Dead (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two down and out strangers are brought together by mysterious letters into a safe house as the world around them is infected by an experimental virus that transforms the living into the living dead. She is a former prostitute hiding from the world. ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, survival, riddles and clues, escapades, danger, dark humor, supernatural, prostitute, rivalry, zombie, hitman, clue ...
Time: 21st century
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Caravan to Vaccares (1974)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and ...
Style: semi serious, independent film, surprise ending, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassin, hitchhiker, gypsy, scientist, photographer, chase, intrigue, adventurer, gang, horse, secret agent, espionage ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe, south of france, provence
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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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