Best Movies of 21st Century by Rank
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2017
Alex Kurtzman
Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
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2001
Stephen Sommers
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, The Rock
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
NR
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2008
Rob Cohen
Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford
Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller / Fantasy / Comedy
Germany / Canada / USA
English
NR
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2017
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA / UK / Malta / Canada
English
NR
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2007
Jon Turteltaub
Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
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2019
Yu Yang
Yanting Lü, Joseph, Mo Han, Hao Chen, Qi Lü, Jiaming Zhang
Animation / Fantasy / Thriller
China
Mandarin
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2012
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
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2009
Shawn Levy
Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Christopher Guest
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA / Canada
English
NR
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2013
Louis Leterrier
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Isla Fisher
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
France / USA
English
NR
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2016
Jon M. Chu
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
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2018
Corin Hardy
Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Ingrid Bisu
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
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2007
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Elliott Gould
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
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2004
Steven Soderbergh
Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Ed Kross, Julia Roberts
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA / Australia
English
NR
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2013
Antoine Fuqua
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster
Action / Thriller
USA
English
NR
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2012
Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan, Oliver Ackland, Jamie Kristian
Comedy / Horror
Australia
English
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2018
Dante Lam
Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du, Luxia Jiang, Sanâa Alaoui
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure / Spy
China / Morocco
Mandarin
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2012
Susanna White
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
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2016
Morten Tyldum
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
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2014
Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
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2018
Will Gluck
James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Australia / USA
English
NR
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2006
Shawn Levy
Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Caper / Detective / Family
USA
English
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2009
Richard Curtis
Michael Hadley, Charlie Rowe, Lucy Fleming, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
UK / Germany / USA / France
English
NR
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2006
Gore Verbinski
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
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2017
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
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2011
Rob Marshall
Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
NR
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2001
Tim Burton
Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan
Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Drama
USA
English
NR
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2019
Rob Letterman
Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
USA / Japan / Canada
English
NR
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2010
Mike Newell
Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
NR
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2018
Phil Johnston, Rich Moore
John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Jack McBrayer
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Action
USA
English
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2018
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
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2018
Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Family / Fantasy / Tech-Noir
USA
English
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2016
Paul W.S. Anderson
Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
France / USA / Germany / Canada / Australia / Japan / South Africa / UK
English
NR
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2014
Carlos Saldanha
Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
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2011
Rupert Wyatt
James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
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2001
Brett Ratner
Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Ziyi Zhang, Roselyn Sanchez
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
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2015
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi
Action / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / Australia
English
NR
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2016
Yarrow Cheney, Chris Renaud
Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper
Animation / Comedy / Family
Japan / USA
English
NR
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2019
Chris Renaud, Jonathan del Val
Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
France / Japan / USA
English
NR
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2006
David Von Ancken
Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Angelica Houston, Michael Wincott, Jimmi Simpson
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Western / Period Film
USA
English
NR
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2006
John Cameron Mitchell
Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker
Drama / Adult / Comedy
USA
English
NR
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2010
Mike Mitchell
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
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2007
Chris Miller, Raman Hui
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
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2012
Ben Wheatley
Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Steve Oram, Roger Michael, Tony Way, Seamus O'Neill
Comedy / Thriller
UK
English
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2010
Baran bo Odar
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany
German
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2016
Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings
Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA / UK / Japan
English
NR
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2018
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Moller, Noah Taylor
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
NR
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2011
Raja Gosnell
Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Tim Gunn
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
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2013
Raja Gosnell
Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Katy Perry, Hank Azaria, Brendan Gleeson
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
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2007
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2015
Paul Tibbitt
Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
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2016
Justin Lin
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
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2012
Thymaya Payne
Documentary / Adventure / Crime
Estonia / Philippines / Denmark / USA / Somalia / Canada
English
NR
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2016
David Ayer
Will Smith, Jaime FitzSimons, Ike Barinholtz, Margot Robbie, Christopher Dyson
Action / Adventure / Crime / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
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2012
Olivier Megaton
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney
Action / Crime / Thriller
France
English
NR
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2014
Olivier Megaton
Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott
Action / Thriller
France
English
NR
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2006
Adam McKay
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan
Action / Comedy / Sports
USA
English
NR
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2014
Jonathan Liebesman
Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2015
Alan Taylor
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
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2011
Kenneth Branagh
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2013
Alan Taylor, James Gunn
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2014
Noam Murro
Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey
Action / Drama / Fantasy / War / Epic / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2012
Frank V. Ross
Anthony J. Baker, Allison Latta, Megan Mercier, Frank V. Ross, Rebecca Spence
Drama
USA
English
NR
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2001
Antoine Fuqua
Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA / Australia
English
NR
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2007
Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
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2014
Michael Bay
Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
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2011
Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
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2009
Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
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2017
Michael Bay
Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
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2016
Walt Dohrn, Mike Mitchell
Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
NR
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2010
Joseph Kosinski
Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA
English
NR
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2014
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens
Action / Comedy / Crime / Detective
USA
English
NR
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2011
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
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2012
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
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2010
David Slade
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
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2009
Chris Weitz
Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
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2012
Juan Solanas
Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Jayne Heitmeyer, Neil Napier
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi
Canada / France
English
NR
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2018
Ruben Fleischer
Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
China / USA
English
NR
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2019
Frant Gwo
Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li, Man-Tat Ng, Jin Mai Jaho, Mike Kai Sui
Sci-Fi
China
Mandarin
NR
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2016
Duncan Jones
Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
China / Canada / USA
English
NR
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2012
Michel Gondry
Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz
Drama / Comedy
UK / USA / France
English
NR
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2000
Nancy Meyers
Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Mark Feuerstein
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
NR
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2017
Jing Wu
Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Qian Yu, Nan Yu
Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Thriller
China
Mandarin
NR
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2013
James Mangold
Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
Australia / USA
English
NR
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2009
Gavin Hood
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will i Am, Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
NR
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2006
Brett Ratner
Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA / UK
English
NR
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2017
D.J. Caruso
Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
