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Plot Summary:
Kongwen Lu is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: captivating, dark fantasy, entertaining
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Troy the Odyssey (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this re-telling of Iliad, set in 1174 B.C. after ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, the Greek warrior Odysseus decides to travel for home, but instead finds a string of mis-adventures over the sea and land as he, along with a captive Trojan warrior named Circe as well as a group of loyal Greek soldiers, venture on the sea and land to get home to the island kingdom of Icarus and fighting sea sirens, and other mystical creatures to get home to his wife Penelope who is being hounded by a group of suitors hoping she will chose to make one of them their bride.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, dramatic, harsh, intense, mockbuster
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The Great Sage Sun Wukong (2019)
Plot Summary:
Because of the drought around the world, Mountain Huaguo with a water source is harassed by powerful monsters around. To investigate the cause of the drought and also obtain a suitable weapon to fight the powerful monsters, Sun Wukong and his good friend Chikaoma Monkey participate in the Treasure Competition in the East Sea, but they get involved in an intrigue. With the Little Dragon Princess' help, Sun Wukong defeats the evil dragon Aoluan that wants to destroy the human world, gets the Ruyijingu Cudgel, and saves the human world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity (2020)
Plot Summary:
Every few hundred years, the most powerful demon on earth—a snake demon—awakens, and the Yin-Yang Masters are summoned to the capital. Meanwhile, the Princess of the realm has her own plans, as she conspires to claim the demon’s power.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Power Rangers Samurai: Clash of the Red Rangers - The Movie (2013)
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The Samurai Rangers team up with the mysterious RPM Ranger Red to fight off Master Xandred's Mooger army and a robotic supervillain from the RPM Ranger's dimension. But when both Red Rangers get struck with hypnobolts, they turn against one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker is the film adaptation of the 2009 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Decade. As Decade is billed as the 10th anniversary series of the Heisei period run of the Kamen Rider Series, the film features all ten of the lead Heisei Kamen Riders, as well as all of the Shōwa period Kamen Riders, leading to a total of 25 Riders (with three secondary Riders and three Diend-summoned Riders).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, futuristic
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Armstrong (2017)
Plot Summary:
During her first night on the job, a rookie EMT and her partner pick up a wounded superhero and are pulled into his mission to save Los Angeles from a sinister organization.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Kamen Rider Movie War 2010: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider W & Decade (2009)
Plot Summary:
Movie War 2010 is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider Decade portion of the film, written by Shoji Yonemura, is titled Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story. It follows the series cliffhanger ending at the climax of the Rider War. The film is billed as the "True Ending" and was originally subtitled Decade vs. All Riders. The Kamen Rider W portion of the film, written by Riku Sanjo, is titled Kamen Rider W: Begins Night, taking place between episodes 14 and 15 of Kamen Rider W, investigates the origins of Kamen Rider Double as briefly shown in the cold opening of the series' first episode, referred to in the series as the "Begins Night". The film is described as the "True Beginning" and was originally subtitled Episode Zero. In the final portion of the film entitled Movie War 2010, a convergence of the two films that brings the casts and characters of Decade and W to finish the fight with Super Shocker together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four years after an alternate ending to the series, in which Blade seals the Joker, the characters have moved on with their lives: Kenzaki is a garbage man, Mutsuki has graduated high school, and Kotarō has published a book about the Kamen Riders to great success. The Undead have been re-released, and a new trio of Kamen Riders—Glaive, Larc and Lance—have emerged from BOARD, now led by Tachibana. After recapturing two of the Category Aces, Kenzaki and Mutsuki join with the new Riders. When all the Undead are sealed once more, Glaive reveals himself to be the Albino Joker, a white version of the original Joker, and captures Kotarō's niece to obtain the ultimate power, sealing her in the Vanity Card. In order to free Amane from the card, Hajime is unsealed from the Joker Card and the four Riders are again united, intent on saving Amane and stopping the Albino Joker.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai is a 2001 Super Sentai Series V-Cinema movie which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Super Sentai Series. It features a team up of the protagonists of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger with previous heroes of the Super Sentai Series over its twenty-five year history. It is the first vs. movie, followed by Boukenger vs. Super Sentai, in which the current team do not team up with the previous team, rather a veteran team composed of Rangers from various Sentai.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Iron Protector (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wu-Lin is the successor of an ancient, once powerful Chinese clan, the "Iron Feet." After the death of his master, Wu-Lin leaves his rural village for the City of Stone-Cold looking for his fellow apprentice Jiang Li. Along the way, he becomes the bodyguard of Fei-Fei, the daughter of Jia-Shan Li, the richest family in the city, and quickly gets drawn into a mob war in order to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Dynasty Warriors (2021)
Plot Summary:
Warlords, warriors and statesmen wage a battle for supremacy in this fantasy tale based on the hit video games and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms.".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, perverse
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Martial Universe (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lin Dong, a child from a small village isn't favored by his clan. By chance, Lin Dong obtains a mysterious artifact that is coveted by many clans in the martial world. Because of this artifact, Lin Dong is approached by many people of different clans and is forcibly involved in various events of the martial universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, xianxia, costume drama, exciting, period drama
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Kamen Rider Revice The Movie: Battle Familia (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Igarashi siblings travel to the forbidden Area 666 to rescue airjacking victims (including their parents!) from the dangerous criminal known as Azuma, who wishes to judge the fate of humanity himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pu Songling (Jackie Chan), a legendary demon hunter, is asked to investigate the mysterious disappearances of young girls from a small village. When he discovers evil forces are kidnapping the girls to feast on their souls, he sets out to save humanity from the inhuman invasion journeying through hidden worlds and colorful dimensions.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, visually appealing
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The Legend of Drona (2008)
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Aditya is an orphaned and lonely young man. He soon learns that he belongs to a family of ancestral warriors who guard a mystic source of cosmic energy, and he must now take up his responsibilities.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious
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Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield (2017)
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An imperial guard searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him and his partners. The proof of his innocence lies with a wanted woman named Bei Zhai... but will she reveal what she knows? In this intense prequel to BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES, the only thing he can truly trust is his sword.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized
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The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It is a final installment of a trilogy produced by Zhang Jizhong, preceded by The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. Unlike most of the previous adaptations, this remake is the first to be primarily based on the third edition of the novel. The series was first broadcast on Wenzhou TV in China in October 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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The Yin Yang Master (2021)
Plot Summary:
The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming assaults. On his journey, Qingming finds that the key to all the calamities is embracing his hybrid identity of both human and monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse
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Battle Through the Heavens (2018)
Plot Summary:
Xiao Yan is a genius child who suddenly loses all his powers. In a world governed by strength and power, Xiao Yan’s lack of talent is an embarrassment to his family. At the age of 15, Xiao Yan accidentally summons Yaochen from his mother’s ring. With the elder’s help, Xiao Yan’s skills improve by leaps and bounds. After his entire family is assassinated, Xiao Yan embarks on a journey to find his family’s killer and return peace to the Jianghu (martial world).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, xianxia
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Kamen Rider OOO, Den-O, & All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders (2011)
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Eiji and Ankh team up with Kotarou and Momotaros as they travel back in time to 1971 aboard the Den-Liner to stop three Mole Imagin. But Ankh’s desire to obtain Core Medals while in the past sets off a chain of events that alters the 40-year history of the Kamen Riders by allowing Shocker to take over the world. It’s up to OOO and New Den-O to restore the timeline!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure
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Kamen Rider Ghost: The 100 Eyecons and Ghost's Fateful Moment (2016)
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After chasing the mysterious Kamen Rider Dark Ghost, who had suddenly appeared, Takeru Tenkuji arrives at a strange village full of historical figures. Attempting to gather 100 Eyecons, Alain’s dead brother Argos - Kamen Rider Dark Ghost - wishes to create the Ultimate Eyecon and turn everyone on Earth into ghosts. Meanwhile, Makoto’s father Daigo Fukami is seen in the village. Transforming into Kamen Rider Zero Specter, is Daigo an ally or an enemy?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Kamen Rider Ichigou (2016)
Plot Summary:
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission has been protecting humanity and justice from the threat of Shocker. His name is Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. After a long battle overseas, Hongo hears a certain girl is in danger and immediately returns to Japan. He then meets Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Ghost, who had been investigating the girl's whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup! (2014)
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Kouta is taken into a new version of Zawame, where soccer teams aim to win the All Rider Cup. The reward: The golden fruit. A strange man named Kougane starts sending locusts to other Armored Riders, consuming them, leaving their Lockseeds intact in order to revive his Golden Lockseed. Along with a strange youth named Lapis who seems to have a relation to the new world, will the Beat Riders be able to stop him?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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How I Became a Super Hero (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, weird
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Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, dorama, captivating, suspense, manga, anime, tense, disturbing, psychological
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, intense, anime, exciting, suspenseful, manga, dorama, captivating, disturbing
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Mortal Kombat (1995)
Plot Summary:
For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes in this action/adventure movie based on one of the most popular video games of all time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, saga, motivational, sentimental, epic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, spooky
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Forbidden Warrior (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Gaia Za is a sacred tome that holds many ancient and powerful spells to be unlocked by a so-called Chosen One expected to be born to one of two leading families: the Khans or the Marajis. Unwilling to leave the clan's fate to the gods, Che Khan decides to take matters into his own hands by plotting the murder of a new Maraji baby, who may be the child in question. In doing so, he sets off a furious clash.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 17000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, scenic, heroic, breathtaking, visually stunning, cult classic