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Plot Summary:
In this ultra-violent, fantasy epic, ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. A group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: adult animation, suspense, exciting, tense, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, epic fantasy, weird
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Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Earthrealm heroes must journey to the Outworld and fight for the survival of their homeland, invaded by the forces of evil warlord Shao Kahn, in the tournament to end all tournaments: the final Mortal Kombat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anime, intense, exciting, captivating, rough, entertaining, suspenseful, stylized, brutal
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To Your Last Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: adult animation, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, anime, horror comedy, perverse, weird
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Highlander: Vengeance (2007)
Plot Summary:
Colin MacLeod hunts for the man responsible for the death of his love. He chases the immortal Marcus Octavius across centuries as his quest threatens to take over his life and heart. In his quest, he meets a woman who reminds him of his slain beauty. But it's his final battle with Marcus that will decide not only his fate, but also the fate of everyone in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, exciting, touching, serious, suspenseful, stylized, manga, adult anime, perverse
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Turok: Son of Stone (2008)
Plot Summary:
Turok is exiled from the village in which he was born, twenty years later he returns to find that a tyrant has slaughtered his family and friends. Seeking revenge Turok crosses into the Lost Land pursuing the ruthless warlord named Chichak.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, anime, captivating, tense, suspense, adult animation, serious, stylized
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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (2013)
Plot Summary:
A year has passed since Guts parted ways with the Band of the Hawks. Meanwhile, his former mercenary group is plotting a rescue mission to save an imprisoned Griffith.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, serious, dark, suspense, manga, brutal, humorous, grindhouse, fantasy anime
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: computer animated, anime, visually appealing, exciting, stylized, tense, suspense, adult animation, manga, dark
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Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009)
Plot Summary:
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: stylized, anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, surreal, suspense, bleak, tense, intense
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Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008)
Plot Summary:
After five years apart, searching the world of Krynn for proof of the existence of the true gods, a group of adventurers reach their goal in the form of a barbarian woman carrying a miraculous blue crystal staff. Soon they are thrust into war as an army of dragons overtakes their homeland.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, anime, adult animation, semi serious, mystical, cult film
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Heavy Metal (1981)
Plot Summary:
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anthology, atmospheric, erotic, futuristic, sexual, sexy, anime, grindhouse, stylized
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Fire and Ice (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this animated tale, a tiny village is destroyed by a surging glacier, which serves as the deadly domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. The only survivor is a young warrior, Larn, who vows to avenge this act of destruction. The evil continues, however, as Nekron's palace of ice heads straight towards Fire Keep, the great fortress ruled by the good King Jarol. When Jarol's beautiful daughter, Teegra, is abducted by Nekron's sub-human ape-like creatures, Larn begins a daring search for her. What results is a tense battle between good and evil, surrounded by the mystical elements of the ancient past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: adult animation, dark fantasy, epic, stylized, cult classic, adult cartoon, dark, serious, anime, surreal
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
Plot Summary:
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation … until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, manga, exciting, light, humorous, captivating, adult animation, shounen
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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: gothic, anime, adult animation, psychotronic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspense, dark, stylized
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Overlord: The Dark Hero (2017)
Plot Summary:
The second recap film of season 1 of the anime TV series Overlord, covering episodes 8 to 13.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, anime, unusual plot structure
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Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] I. presage flower (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shiro Emiya is a young magus who attends Homurahara Academy in Fuyuki City. One day after cleaning the Archery Dojo in his school, he catches a glimpse of a fight between superhuman beings, and he gets involved in the Holy Grail War, a ritual where magi called Masters fight each other with their Servants to win the Holy Grail. Shiro joins the battle to stop an evildoer from winning the Grail and to save innocent people, but everything goes wrong when a mysterious "Shadow" begins to indiscriminately kill people in Fuyuki.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are assigned to investigate the ghost-infested mansion of a publicity-hound billionaire, they uncover a plot to resurrect a beautiful yet monstrous vampire from Professor Bruttenholm’s past. But before they can stop her bloodbath, Hellboy will have to battle harpies, hellhounds, a giant werewolf, and even the ferocious goddess Hecate herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: adult animation, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, anime, manga, cult classic, fast
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Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Plot Summary:
Task Force X targets a powerful mystical object that they will risk their lives to steal.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, adult animation, tense, entertaining, absurd, psychotronic, exciting, bloody, 2d animation
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Justice League Dark (2017)
Plot Summary:
Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, epic, serious, perverse, dark
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Wonder Woman (2009)
Plot Summary:
On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess Diana. When an Army fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, crash-lands on the island, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: stylized, light, witty, humorous, entertaining, serious, exciting, anime, epic, adult animation
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The Death of Superman (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a hulking monster emerges from an underground resting place and begins a mindless rampage, the Justice League is quickly called in to stop the colossal force of nature. But it soon becomes apparent that only Superman can stand against the monstrosity that has been nicknamed Doomsday.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic, serious, captivating, intense, suspense, action adventure, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, detective
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Plot Summary:
When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found. Teaming with a grittier, more violent Dark Knight and Cyborg, Flash races to restore the continuity of his original timeline while this new world is ravaged by a fierce war between Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman’s Atlanteans.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: intense, anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, emotional, epic, adult animation, apocalyptic
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Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean Master’s half-brother Arthur Curry, a half-human with aquatic powers with no knowledge of his Atlantean heritage, to restore balance. Living with powers he doesn’t understand and seeing the danger around him, Curry takes steps to embrace his destiny, joining the Justice League, and with his new teammates he battles to save Earth from total destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: light, anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, lovecraft, colorful, fairy tale, humorous
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Major Lazer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, Major Lazer is a Jamaican superhero who fights against the dystopian forces that have ruined society that are led by President Whitehall and General Rubbish. Major Lazer is assisted in his fight by President Whitehall's daughter Penny and hacker Blkmrkt.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, adult animation, adult cartoon, tense, suspense, suspenseful, black comedy, fun
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Trese (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Manila, where dark supernatural forces pervade the criminal underworld, it’s up to Alexandra Trese to keep the peace — but there’s a storm brewing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
Duration: 33 min
Plot tags: anime, dark, adult animation, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel (2011)
Plot Summary:
While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful
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Thunder and Lightning (2013)
Plot Summary:
Growing up a superhero is hard enough, but it's even harder with a super dad and a super sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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THE REFLECTION (2017)
Plot Summary:
After The Reflection, some of the people in all parts of the world are discovered with super powers. Some become heroes, and others villains. How did the Reflection happen? What was the cause of it? With many unsolved mysteries, the world is led into turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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X-Ray and Vav (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dimwits Ray and Gavin become superheroes X-Ray and Vav!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Stan Lee's Mighty 7 (2014)
Plot Summary:
When seven aliens crash land in the desert night, Stan Lee discovers that they are being chased by a top-secret military force led by Mr. Cross and his Chinese technical assistant, Lily. Stan hides the distressed aliens in his Malibu beach house, but when the evil reptilian Taegons invade Planet Earth days later, Stan needs to act quick! He teaches the seven aliens how to become superheroes, and in a climactic battle, Stan and the Mighty 7 defeat the Taegon invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Justice League: War (2014)
Plot Summary:
The world is under attack by an alien armada led by the powerful Apokoliptian, Darkseid. A group of superheroes consisting of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Shazam must set aside their differences and gather together to defend Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, anime, entertaining, feel good, captivating, disturbing, epic, apocalyptic, surprise ending
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Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Slade Wilson-aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke-made a tragic mistake and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past-or will his family pay the ultimate price?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, adult animation, anime