Cliff Curtis
Also Known As: Clifford Vivian Devon "Cliff" Curtis, Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis, Κλιφ Κέρτις, 克利夫·柯蒂斯, کلیف کورتیس
Biography: Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis (born July 27, 1968) is a New Zealand-born actor. His film credits include Once Were Warriors (1994), Three Kings (1999), Training Day (2001), Whale Rider (2002), Collateral Damage (2002), Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard (both 2007), The Dark Horse (2014), for which he won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, Doctor Sleep (2019), Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). His television roles include NBC's Trauma, and ABC's Body of Proof and Missing. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed Travis Manawa on the AMC horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead. He is the co-owner of the independent New Zealand production company Whenua Films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Birthday: July 27, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Once Were Warriors
Overview: A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Whale Rider
Overview: On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Sunshine
Overview: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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Training Day
Overview: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Live Free or Die Hard
Overview: John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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The Piano
Overview: When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-18
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Blow
Overview: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-04
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Three Kings
Overview: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
Genres: Action Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-27
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Fracture
Overview: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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10,000 BC
Overview: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-04
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River Queen
Overview: An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Bringing Out the Dead
Overview: Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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The Insider
Overview: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Deep Rising
Overview: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Collateral Damage
Overview: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Push
Overview: After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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Inside Pandora's Box
Overview: A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-28
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Crossing Over
Overview: Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-10
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Colombiana
Overview: After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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A Thousand Words
Overview: Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-07
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Struggle Without End
Overview: Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: mi
Release Date: 2024-06-27
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Hercules in the Underworld
Overview: When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again comes to the rescue and faces one of his most difficult challenges, and must prove himself as a man as well as a god. "Hercules in the Underworld" is the fourth made for TV movie in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-07
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Meg 2: The Trench
Overview: An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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Desperate Remedies
Overview: In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Point of Origin
Overview: An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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Six Days Seven Nights
Overview: In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a small transport plane. While flying, a powerful storm forces Quinn to make an emergency landing on a nearby deserted island. The dissimilar pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Fracture
Overview: A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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Runaway Jury
Overview: After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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The Last Airbender
Overview: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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Chicken
Overview: On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one can get their hands on it because of the seven year waiting period before a missing person can be declared legally dead. However, a crazed animal rights terrorist, who knows he isn't dead, is trying to kill him, because of the singer's advertisements for fried chicken restaurants. Eventually, it turns out that the singer's manager is paying the terrorist to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-22
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The Dark Horse
Overview: One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-17
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The Raid
Overview: Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau, who must choose between duty to his badge or his people, when the Government invoke antiterrorism powers to launch an armed raid on Taffy’s remote Urewera community, on a school day. This gripping action drama is not a re-creation, but a response to the 2007 Tūhoe raids. MURU is a Māori concept for 'forgiveness’.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: mi
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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Spooked
Overview: Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers, until he looked at the data left on the discs. Was kevin murdered or did he simply get drunk and crash his car? Investigating journalist Mort Whitman says he will find out, even if it kills him. The film is based on material from the book 'The Paradise Conspiracy' by Ian Wishart.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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Jubilee
Overview: Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local former All Blacks Captain, an old flame of Pauline's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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Virus
Overview: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-14
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Last Knights
Overview: When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Risen
Overview: Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-18
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Rapa Nui
Overview: Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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Heinous Crime
Overview: Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-14
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True Spirit
Overview: When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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The Meg
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Avatar: The Way of Water
Overview: Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-14
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The Fountain
Overview: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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The Majestic
Overview: Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-21
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Overview: Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-01
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Doctor Sleep
Overview: Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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Reminiscence
Overview: Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Overview: Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The film addresses some of the deepest and most distressing issues Māori communities face, and shows how extraordinary creative solutions are being provided by Māori communities themselves. Mita asks Maori men to front up to some grim realities by talking openly and honestly about the violence and abuse that has plagued their communities for many years. The film is a personal response to this violence, with Mita making a case for a return to an older model of Maori manhood, when men were the ones who sweetly sang the children to sleep. “Merata intended the documentary to count in ways that mattered deeply to her and to change perceptions of abuse and violence by using themes of responsibility, redemption, revitalisation, forgiveness and, most of all, love.” - Carol Hirschfeld, Māori Television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-23
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Murina
Overview: A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Overview: In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-11
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Avatar 4
Overview: The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2029-12-19
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Avatar 5
Overview: The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2031-12-17
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A Journey to Sundance
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Last Breath
Overview: A true story about seasoned deep-sea divers who battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-27
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