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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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2025 · Comedy
The British prime minister and a US president who used to be an action star cannot stand each other, then end up parachuting out of Air Force One into Belarus together. Chases and bickering the whole way.
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2025 · Drama
Two Delhi lawyers who share a nickname and cannot stand each other end up on opposite sides of a case about farmers losing their land to a huge development. A long courtroom comedy, and the sparring is the point.
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2025 · Romance
Two Japanese ballroom champions, one in standard dances and one in Latin, agree to train together for a competition that needs both. Rivals to start with, and the practice sessions get charged.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2017 · Comedy
In 1973 the top woman in tennis agrees to a televised match against a loud former champion who says no woman can beat him. Half of it is the circus, half is her private life.
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2025 · Comedy
A viral brawl outside a boxer's house drags a washed-up actress back into the public eye, and a businesswoman challenges a Muay Thai champion to a fight. A Hong Kong comedy with a big cast and several stories at once.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
A kung fu prodigy moves from Beijing to New York with his mother, having promised her he is done with fighting, and lands straight in the way of the local karate champion. It runs on training scenes and a tournament, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An architect and a chef move to California, and then her restaurant takes off in the same week his building falls down. The marriage sours from there, in very sharp dialogue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
An Indian intelligence agent who went rogue years ago is recruited by a cartel setting out to take over the government, and a special units officer is sent to bring him down. Nearly three hours of chases, fights and set pieces.
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2025 · Crime
A 1950s New York mob boss survives an assassination attempt ordered by his own underboss, and tells him he only wants to retire. The underboss does not believe him, and it goes from there.
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2025 · Drama
The son of a Nagasaki yakuza boss is taken in as an apprentice by a great kabuki actor and grows up performing women's roles alongside the master's own son and heir. It runs close to three hours and covers decades.
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2025 · Comedy
A widowed father and a Los Angeles television producer have booked the same small island inn, on the same weekend, for weddings in their own families, and neither will give it up. Broad comedy with two wedding parties in one place.
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2025 · Thriller
A shop assistant in Los Angeles gets talking to a rising pop star who comes into the store, and within weeks he has quit his job to film the star's album campaign from inside his circle. It is tense rather than loud.
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2011 · Comedy
A woman whose bakery and love life have both fallen apart is made maid of honour, and ends up competing with a richer, smoother bridesmaid. Broad jokes and long scenes that look improvised.
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2026 · Comedy
Twenty years on, Andy's newsroom is laid off by text message and she is hired into Runway as features editor over Miranda's objections. The magazine is losing to clickbait, and the two of them have to deal with it.
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2026 · Comedy
Two men who cannot stand each other are sent to Brazil to sell a new condom as the official condom of the World Cup, and end up locked up in a country that takes football seriously. Broad and loud throughout.
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2026 · Comedy
An introvert hoping to reinvent herself at college picks the friendliest girl at orientation as her roommate, and the year sours from there. A dean tells the whole story to two students who think they have it bad.
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2026 · Musical
A teenager arrives at Camp Rock with the younger brother whose band she broke up, just as Connect 3 turn up looking for an opening act. Songs, a competition and a summer camp.
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2026 · Musical
A Dublin wedding singer plays a visiting pop star one of his own songs over a late night of drinking, then hears it everywhere six months later under somebody else's name. He sets out to prove he wrote it.
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2024 · Drama
A tennis coach enters her slumping husband in a small tournament, where he draws his oldest friend across the net. The match keeps cutting back through thirteen years of the three of them.
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2026 · Comedy
A failed tennis pro working at his father's club injures his wrist again and is told to play pickleball while it heals, which is the sport his father is fighting to keep off the courts. He is partnered with a woman getting over a divorce.
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2026 · Comedy
A narcotics detective and his ex-wife's new husband, a vet, cannot stand each other, and then she and their daughter are taken by a drug gang. The two of them bicker their way through the rescue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
A retail company announces job cuts and then sends the whole office off for a week of teambuilding in the Carpathians, where it will be decided who stays. Office comedy, broad and quick.
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2007 · Drama
A silver miner turns oilman in California at the turn of the century and buys up a small town's land, running into a young preacher with a following of his own. It follows him across three decades of getting what he wants.
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2026 · Comedy
In 2012 the last nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui East is going under, and the company buying it sends in a CEO who is also the manager's ex-wife. He wants to save his hostesses' jobs; she wants them replaced.
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2025 · Action
A driver whose Formula One career ended in a crash in the eighties is brought back decades later to rescue a last-place team and its rookie. Huge engine noise, big screens, simple story.
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2019 · Drama
Ford hires a car designer and a difficult British driver to build something that can beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Half of it is engineering arguments in a workshop and half is cars at speed.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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1995 · Animation
A boy's toys come alive when he leaves the room, and the cowboy who has always been his favourite is shoved aside by a new space ranger. The two of them end up lost together, some way from home.
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2025 · Animation
A K-pop girl group sell out arenas by day and hunt demons at night, until a rival boy band turns up with a suspiciously good debut. Animated, fast, and packed with full-length songs.
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2004 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old raised in Kenya starts at an American high school and gets adopted by the three most popular girls in it. Fast, quotable, and a joke every few seconds.
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2013 · Drama
Two Formula One drivers in the 1970s, one reckless and charming, the other precise and unloved, spend a season trying to beat each other. It cuts between their private lives and the races, and the races are loud.
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2010 · Documentary
Ayrton Senna's decade in Formula One, told with footage from the time: races, press conferences and the arguments between drivers. No narrator on camera, no interviews shot afterwards.
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2022 · Comedy
On a small Irish island in 1923, a man is told by his only friend, with no warning and no reason given, that they are not friends any more. Two men, a pub and a lot of talking, and it gets darker as it goes.
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2018 · Drama
A sick and unpredictable Queen Anne is managed by her closest friend, until a ruined cousin turns up at court as a scullery maid and starts climbing. Filthy jokes, wide lenses, three women circling each other.
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2006 · Mystery
Two London stage magicians fall out after an accident and spend years trying to work out and wreck each other's best trick. Told in pieces, out of order, out of the two men's notebooks.
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2022 · Action
A test pilot who never got promoted is sent back to the Navy's fighter school to train young pilots for one very hard mission. Most of it is flying, shot in real jets with the actors actually up there.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2011 · Action
Two brothers who have not spoken in years both enter the same winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament, one to save his house and one for reasons he keeps to himself. Half family drama, half fight film.
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2010 · Thriller
A ballerina gets the lead in Swan Lake and has to find a wildness in herself that her mother and her training removed. It stays very close to her as the pressure builds.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman given a terminal diagnosis commissions a clone to replace her for her family, then recovers and has to fight it in a legal duel. Flat, deadpan and very dry.
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2025 · Drama
A table tennis player in the 1950s who is certain he is a genius will do anything to be taken seriously. Loud, fast and relentless.
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1975 · Drama
A convict fakes madness to serve his sentence in a hospital instead, and finds the ward run by a nurse who never raises her voice. All of it is the one ward.
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1986 · War
A volunteer arrives in Vietnam in 1967 and finds his platoon split between two sergeants who hate each other. Muddy, exhausting, and narrated in letters home.
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1992 · Animation
A First World War pilot who has somehow become a pig flies bounty jobs over the Adriatic between the wars. Light, wistful, and largely about aeroplanes.
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1995 · Thriller
Two detectives in a city where it never stops raining work a series of murders organised around the seven deadly sins. Dark, wet and steadily worse.
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2009 · Science fiction
A young Kirk and a young Spock are thrown together on the Enterprise when a Romulan mining ship arrives from the future. Fast, bright, and built on the rivalry.
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2017 · Science fiction
A rebel fleet runs low on fuel with the enemy right behind it, while a young woman tries to talk an old hermit into coming back. Long, and it goes against expectations.
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2020 · Drama
Seven men are tried for conspiracy after the protests at the 1968 Democratic convention, in front of a judge who has already decided. Fast, funny and mostly courtroom.
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