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How To Train Your Dragon

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Plot The Viking village of Berk is frequently attacked by  dragons , which steal livestock and endanger the villagers. Hiccup, the awkward 15-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is deemed too weak to fight the dragons. Instead, he creates mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber, the village blacksmith, though Hiccup's inventions often backfire. Hiccup uses a  bolas  launcher to shoot down a Night Fury, a rare and dangerous dragon, but cannot bring himself to kill the creature and sets him free. Before leaving with his fleet to find and destroy the dragons' nest, Stoick enters Hiccup in a dragon-fighting class taught by Gobber with fellow teenagers Fishlegs, Snotlout, twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Astrid, on whom Hiccup has a crush. Failing in training, Hiccup returns to the forest and finds the Night Fury trapped in a cove, unable to fly because Hiccup's bolas tore off half his tail fin. Hiccup gradually befriends the dragon, naming hi...

The Last Witch Hunter

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  Plot: Eight hundred years ago, the Witch Queen unleashes the  Black Plague  to wipe out humanity. A band of knights, including a widowed Kaulder, whose family had died in the plague, storms her lair and in the ensuing battle, Kaulder manages to defeat her. Before dying, the Witch Queen curses Kaulder with  eternal life . In the present day, Kaulder prevents a teenage witch, Bronwyn, from unintentionally destroying an airplane with weather-controlling runes stored in her luggage. Kaulder is revealed to be working as a witch hunter for the Order of the Axe and Cross, an organization which aims to keep the truce between humans and witches (allowing witches to live freely providing they do not use magic on humans) and either executes or imprisons the witches who break the law. He is aided by a priest called "Dolan", a tradition carried from the first priest who fought in the battle to destroy the Witch Queen. The 36th Dolan tells Kaulder that he is retiring from his du...

Fearless

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Plot: Reid, who goes by the username "Fe@rLeSS_" is a teen video gamer who is an expert at the superhero action-adventure video game  Planet Master . While battling in the second to last level of the video game, the video game protagonist Captain Darius Lightspeed reveals he has three children, which he brought to the battle with him. In-game, Reid decides to drop them off at a daycare before he plays the final level of the game, where Lightspeed attaches an "interplanetary communicator" to one of the babies so the daycare workers can call Lightspeed in case of emergency. While in daycare, the antagonist Dr. Arcannis steals the babies and imprisons them on his spaceship in order to attempt to steal their  superpowers  so he can conquer Earth. While in captivity, the babies accidentally use their powers to escape, and end up mistakenly walking into an escape pod and launching it towards Earth in the real world. The  United States Armed Forces , headed by General Jayn...

Monster Hunter Legends Of The Guild

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Plot As the Fifth Fleet makes its way across the Great Sea to the New World, a group of young hunters aboard the flagship begin to brag about the upcoming battle against the Elder Dragon, Zorah Magdoros, only to be silenced by Aiden, a veteran hunter sitting nearby. Hoping to humble the youngsters, Aiden recounts his own tale of his first encounter with an Elder Dragon. Ten years ago, Aiden was a teenager living in a small mountain village. Since the village is so small and remote, the people cannot afford the time or zenny required to go to the nearest Guild-house whenever some minor monster makes a pest of itself. Aiden had taken it upon himself to hunt down these monsters for his neighbors. He is sent into the wild to find the monster that stole some livestock from the village, only to encounter a Velocidrome, a large, blue, raptor-like Bird Wyvern Monster. Aiden is almost eaten by the monster until Julius, a Hunter from the guild, saves him and escorts him back to the village. Soon...

Wrath Of Man

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Plot The movie is separated into four parts, each chapter circling back to one main event that sets off a chain reaction. Beginning with "A Dark Spirit," an  armoured truck  is robbed by heavily armed individuals dressed as construction workers. Two guards and a civilian are killed during the robbery. Five months after the robbery, a mysterious Patrick Hill applies to Fortico Security, an armoured truck company. In his interview, his soon-to-be superior, Terry, commends him for his references and warns him of the robbery. Hill is then introduced to Bullet, who nicknames him "H" and oversees his training and qualifying tests. "H" barely manages to pass the tests and gets off to a rocky start with his new colleagues, particularly "Boy Sweat" Dave. On his first official training day, "H," Dave, and "Bullet" are assigned to the same pickup. Dave, who has a "we are the prey" attitude about the job, tells "H" mor...

Quite Place 2

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Plot Over a year before the first film's events, the Abbott family attends son Marcus' baseball game. Mid-game, bewildered spectators look skyward as a flaming object hurtles towards the Earth. As people exit the park and attempt to drive away, the town is beset and attacked by hostile alien creatures possessing armored skin and extraordinary speed and strength. The blind creatures have a hypersensitive hearing to target and track victims. In the present, the aliens have killed much of the Earth's population, including Lee Abbott, who sacrificed himself to save his surviving family - wife Evelyn, deaf teen daughter Regan, adolescent son Marcus, and a newborn son. Regan discovered that high-frequency audio feedback can incapacitate the creatures, devising a makeshift method of transmitting the noise from her  cochlear implant  hearing aid through a microphone and speaker, allowing Evelyn to fatally shoot the creatures when they are vulnerable. With their isolated home now de...

Cruella

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Plot Estella Miller is a creative child with a talent for fashion but has a cruel streak, leading her mother Catherine to nickname her "Cruella". Due to Estella's rebellious nature, Catherine pulls her daughter from school and plans to move to  London . On the way there, she stops at a party hosted by the wealthy Baroness von Hellman to ask for financial assistance. Estella witnesses her mother being pushed off a cliff to her death by the Baroness' ferocious  Dalmatians . Orphaned, Estella makes her way to London and befriends two street urchins named Jasper and Horace. To go unnoticed, she dyes her black-and-white hair red. Ten years later, Estella is making ends meet alongside Jasper and Horace as thieves, while honing her fashion skills by designing their disguises. For her birthday, Jasper and Horace get her a job as a cleaner at the  Liberty department store . A drunken Estella remakes one of the window displays and lands a coveted job with the Baroness, who is a...