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Title: Mulan

Rating: PG-13

Director: Niki Caro

Cast: Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao, Cheng Pei-pei, Ming-Na Wen, Xana Tang, Ron Yuan, Jun Yu, Chen Tang, Doua Moua, Jimmy Wong, Nelson Lee

Release year: 2020

Genres: drama, action, fantasy, adventure

Blurb: When the emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honoured warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined, and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength to embrace her true potential.

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Title: Justice League

Rating: PG-13

Director: Zack Snyder

Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciarán Hinds, Amber Heard, Joe Morton, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, David Thewlis, Sergi Constance

Release year: 2017

Genres: science fiction, adventure, action

Blurb: Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the parademons, who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.

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Title: Vacation

Rating: R

Director: Harold Ramis

Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron, Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy, Frank McRae, John Candy, Christie Brinkley, Jane Krakowski, John Diehl

Release year: 1983

Genres: comedy, adventure

Blurb: Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation...but things don't go exactly as planned.

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Title: Karate Kid

Rating: PG

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Martin Kove, Randee Heller, Ron Thomas, Rob Garrison, Chad McQueen, Tony O'Dell, Israel Juarbe, William Bassett, Larry B. Scott, Juli Fields, Dana Andersen, Frank Burt Avalon, Jeff Fishman

Release year: 1984

Genres: adventure, action, drama

Blurb: New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense, and later preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

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Title: Honey Don't!

Rating: R

Director: Ethan Coen

Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day, Lera Abova, Jacnier, Gabby Beans, Talia Ryder, Kristen Connolly, Josh Pafchek, Don Swayze, Lena Hall, Alexander Carstoiu, Kale Browne, Christian Antidormi, Billy Eichner, Kinna McInroe, Sean J. Dillingham

Release year: 2025

Genres: comedy, crime

Blurb: Small-town private investigator Honey O'Donahue delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

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Title: Footloose

Rating: PG

Director: Herbert Ross

Cast: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Laughlin, Elizabeth Gorcey, Frances Lee McCain, Jim Youngs, Douglas Dirkson, Lynne Marta, Arthur Rosenberg, Timothy Scott, Alan Haufrect, Linda MacEwen

Release year: 1984

Genres: drama, romance

Blurb: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

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Title: The Last Unicorn

Rating: G

Director: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Cast: Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Lee, Angela Lansbury, Robert Klein, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, René Auberjonois, Theodore Gottlieb, Don Messick, Jack Lester, Nellie Bellflower, Ed Peck, Ken Jennings, Gerry Beckley

Release year: 1982

Genres: fantasy, adventure

Blurb: A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now-middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

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Title: The Naked Gun

Rating: PG-13

Director: Akiva Schaffer

Cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, Michael Beasley, Moses Jones, Chase Steven Anderson, Cody Rhodes, Busta Rhymes, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Jon Anik, Michael Bisping, Bruce Buffer

Release year: 2025

Genres: action, comedy, crime

Blurb: Only one man has the particular set of skills...to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr.

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Title: My Little Pony: A New Generation

Rating: PG

Director: José Luis Ucha, Mark Fattibene, Robert Cullen

Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Kimiko Glenn, James Marsden, Sofia Carson, Liza Koshy, Ken Jeong, Elizabeth Perkins, Jane Krakowski, Phil LaMarr, Michael McKean, Tabitha St. Germain, Tara Strong, Andrea Libman, Ashleigh Ball, Arturo A. Hernandez, Brooke Goldner, Gillian M. Berrow

Release year: 2021

Genres: adventure, family, fantasy, comedy

Blurb: Equestria’s divided, but a bright-eyed hero believes Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns should be pals...and, hoof to heart, she’s determined to prove it.

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Title: The Goonies

Rating: PG

Director: Richard Donner

Cast: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, John Matuszak, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Lupe Ontiveros, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker, Curt Hanson, Steve Antin, Paul Tuerpe

Release year: 1985

Genres: adventure, comedy

Blurb: Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition.

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Title: John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

Rating: NR

Director: Rhys Thomas

Cast: John Mulaney, Jake Gyllenhaal, Annaleigh Ashford, David Byrne, André De Shields, Richard Kind, Natasha Lyonne, Erin Quill, Shereen Pimentel, Tyler Bourke, Jacob Laval, Oriah Elgrabli, Alexander Bello

Release year: 2019

Genres: comedy, family

Blurb: John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches, and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.

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Title: Batman: The Killing Joke

Rating: R

Director: Sam Liu

Cast: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, Ray Wise, Robin Atkin Downes, Brian George, John DiMaggio, Rick D. Wasserman, Maury Sterling, Fred Tatasciore, Paul Dini, J.P. Karliak

Release year: 2016

Genres: drama, action, crime

Blurb: As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

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Title: Beverly Hills Cop

Rating: R

Director: Martin Brest

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, James Russo, Jonathan Banks, Stephen Elliott, Gilbert R. Hill, Art Kimbro, Joel Bailey, Bronson Pinchot, Paul Reiser, Michael Champion, Frank Pesce, Gene Borkan, Alice Cadogan

Release year: 1984

Genres: crime, action, comedy

Blurb: Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

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Title: Warm Bodies

Rating: PG-13

Director: Jonathan Levine

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Lio Tipton, John Malkovich, Dave Franco, Rob Corddry, Cory Hardrict, Vincent Leclerc, Daniel Rindress-Kay, Chris Cavener, Aaron Janke, Serge Alain Cambronne, Robert Reynolds, John Topor, Ayisha Issa, Debbie Wong

Release year: 2013

Genres: horror, romance, comedy

Blurb: After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

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Title: The Black Cauldron

Rating: PG

Director: Ted Berman, Richard Rich

Cast: Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, John Byner, Nigel Hawthorne, John Hurt, Freddie Jones, Phil Fondacaro, Arthur Malet, Lindsay Rich, Brandon Call, Gregory Levinson, Eda Reiss Merin, Adele Malis-Morey, Billie Hayes, Peter Renaday, James Almanzar, John Huston

Release year: 1985

Genres: adventure, fantasy

Blurb: Assistant pig-keeper Taran has boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge - an oracular pig named Hen Wen - is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.

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Title: The Breakfast Club

Rating: R

Director: John Hughes

Cast: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos, Perry Crawford, Mary Christian, Ron Dean, Tim Gamble, Fran Gargano, Mercedes Hall, John Hughes

Release year: 1985

Genres: drama, comedy

Blurb: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian, and Andrew (the jock). Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently...and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

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Title: Highlander

Rating: R

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Cast: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney, Alan North, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, Peter Diamond, Billy Hartman, James Cosmo, Celia Imrie, Christopher Malcolm, Ian Reddington, Alistair Findlay, Edward Wiley

Release year: 1986

Genres: action, adventure, fantasy

Blurb: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.