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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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Plot In 1891,  Irene Adler  delivers a package to Dr. Hoffmanstahl, payment for a letter he was to deliver. Hoffmanstahl opens the package, triggering a hidden bomb that is prevented from detonating by the intervention of  Sherlock Holmes . Holmes takes the letter while Adler and Hoffmanstahl escape. Holmes finds Hoffmanstahl assassinated moments later. Adler meets with  Professor Moriarty  to explain the events, but Moriarty, deeming her position compromised by her love for Holmes, seemingly poisons and kills her. Later, Dr. Watson arrives at  221B Baker Street , where Holmes discloses that he is investigating a series of seemingly unrelated murders, terrorist attacks and business acquisitions around the globe that he has connected to Moriarty. After meeting up with his brother  Mycroft  at Watson's bachelor party, Holmes meets with a Rom fortune-teller named Simza, the intended recipient of the letter he took from Adler, sent by her brother Rene...

Sherlock Holmes

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Plot In 1890  London , private detective  Sherlock Holmes  and his partner  Dr. John Watson  prevent the ritualistic murder of a woman by Lord Henry Blackwood, who has killed five other young women in a similar manner.  Inspector Lestrade  and the police arrest Blackwood. Three months later, Watson is engaged to  Mary Morstan  and moving out of  221B Baker Street ; while he enjoys their adventures together, Watson looks forward to not having to deal with Holmes' eccentricities. Meanwhile, Blackwood, who claims to have supernatural powers, has been sentenced to death and requests to see Holmes, warning him of three more unstoppable deaths that will cause great changes to the world. Blackwood is subsequently hanged. Holmes is visited by  Irene Adler , a former adversary who asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. After her departure, Holmes follows her as she meets with her secret employer, and only learns that the man is a...

Aquaman

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Plot In 1985  Maine , lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry rescues  Atlanna , the queen of the underwater kingdom of  Atlantis , during a storm. They fall in love and have a son named  Arthur , who has the power to communicate with sea creatures. When Atlantean soldiers are sent to retrieve Atlanna, who fled her arranged marriage in Atlantis, she is forced to abandon her family and returns to Atlantis, entrusting her advisor,  Nuidis Vulko , to train Arthur. Becoming a skilled warrior, Arthur rejects Atlantis upon learning that Atlanna was executed for loving a human and having a half-breed son. In the present day, sometime after the death of  Steppenwolf , Arthur confronts pirates hijacking a  Russian   Akula-class submarine . Their leader, Jesse Kane, is killed in a failed attempt to kill Arthur, and his son  David  vows revenge.  Orm Marius , King of Atlantis and Arthur's half-brother, attempts to convince  King Nereus  of...

Robin Hood

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Plot Lord  Robin of Loxley  lives in  Nottingham  and enjoys a good life with his lover  Marian , before he is drafted by the corrupt  Sheriff of Nottingham  to fight in the  Third Crusade  against the  Saracens . After four years away from  England , Robin becomes disillusioned with the Crusades when he fails to prevent his commander,  Guy of Gisbourne , from executing prisoners, including a young boy, despite the pleading of the boy's father, which prompts Gisbourne to send Robin back home. When he returns to Nottingham, Robin learns from his old friend  Friar Tuck  that the Sheriff had him officially declared dead two years prior in order to seize Robin's land and wealth to continue funding the war effort at the behest of the corrupt  Cardinal , exiling the citizens from the city and into the coal mine town across the  river . Investigating "the Slags", Robin witnesses the commoners planning to rise again...

mystery of the dragon seal

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Plot Early 1700: Cartographer Jonathan Green from Forbidden Kingdom is back to map the Russian Far East. He's forced on to China, where he confronts the Dragon Master et al. The iron masked Russian Czar escapes the Tower of London to a Russian ship.