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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film
In 1973, 9-year-old Troy Carmichael and her brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, and Joseph live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with their parents Woody, a struggling musician, and Carolyn, a schoolteacher. The neighborhood…
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Historical drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Poet Paul Verlaine meets Arthur Rimbaud's sister Isabelle in a café in Paris. Isabelle and her mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of the deceased Rimbaud's poems so they can be burned. The film then shifts to an…
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Animation, Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film, historical film
One year after Vincent van Gogh's suicide, postman Joseph Roulin asks his son Armand to deliver Van Gogh's last letter to his brother, Theo. Roulin finds the death suspicious, as merely weeks earlier Van Gogh claimed through letters that h…
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War Film, drama film
Le Ly is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. Her life changes when communist insurgents show up in the village to defend against the forces of France and then the United States. During the American involvement, Le Ly is captured and…
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Classical Western, War Film, Western film, drama film, war film
Sam Houston leads the forces of Texas against Mexico and needs time to build an army. The opposing Mexican forces, led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna are numerically stronger as well as better-armed and trained. Nevertheless, the T…
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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
While attending a suburban Christian middle school, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos formed a bond over their interest in militaria, but were frequently in trouble with teachers and the school principal. On one visit to the principal's off…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film
Based in Portland, alcoholic quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan is honored for his work. After he introduces himself as an alcoholic, we see the events that led him here. On the morning before his accident, John wakes up still drunk and…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film follows the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance. He had love affairs with several men during the 1920s, married, had a s…
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BDSM-themed film, Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
The story is told in flashbacks set during a 1945 testimony that William Moulton Marston gives to representatives of the Child Study Association of America. In 1928, William and his wife Elizabeth taught and researched at Harvard and Radcl…
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Komödie, biographical film, buddy film, comedy film, teen film
Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo are two sweet-natured, ditzy teenagers living in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Betsy comes from a wealthy Georgetown family, while Arlene lives with her widowed mother in an apartment in the Watergate building. O…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical fiction, romance film
Mary Godwin is the daughter of the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband, the publisher William Godwin. Mary Wollstonecraft had died shortly after giving birth, and when the film opens 16 years later Mary Godwin is…
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Documentation, documentary film
In 1987, William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers, are recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly White high school with an outstanding basketball program. The team is le…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, sword-and-sandal film
In 63 BC, under General Pompey, the Romans conquer Jerusalem and the city is sacked. He arrives at the Temple and massacres the priests. In pursuit of the temple's treasures, he enters the Holy of Holies only to find the scrolls of the Tor…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In June 1959, Louis Simo, a sleazy Los Angeles private investigator, is spying on the wife of a man named Chester Sinclair to learn if she is having an affair. On a visit to his own ex-wife Laurie, Simo learns that his son is upset over th…
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Biographical documentary
Drama, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film
Richard Loving, a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia, falls in love with a local black woman and family friend, Mildred Jeter. Upon Mildred discovering that she is pregnant, they decide to marry. Knowing that interracia…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
In the 1940s, abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock exhibited paintings in occasional group art shows. He lives with his brother Sande and sister-in-law Arloie at a tiny apartment in New York City. With Arloie expecting a new baby…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Professor Alfred Kinsey is interviewed about his sexual history. Interspersed with the interview are flashbacks from his childhood and young-adulthood. The early years show his father, a lay minister of the Methodist church, denouncing mod…
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Drama, Musical, drama film
In April 1994, a young musician named Blake sneaks out of a rehab clinic and walks home through a forest, also swimming through a lake then lighting a fire for the night. The next day, he gets home and changes his clothes. He walks around …
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Melodrama, biographical film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
In the summer of 1942 on the fictional New England Packett Island (based on the real-life Nantucket Island), 15-year-old "Hermie" and his friends – jock Oscy and introverted nerd Benjie – are hanging out on the beach. They spot a young sol…
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Thriller, biographical film, crime film, horror film
Growing up on a farm in rural Wisconsin, Ed Gein is abused by both his Christian fundamentalist mother, Augusta, and his alcoholic father, George. George dies of a heart attack in 1940, and four years later, Ed kills his older brother, Hen…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In 1960, as the civil rights movement fights for racial equality across the United States, activist Bayard Rustin urges Martin Luther King Jr. to lead a protest ahead of the Democratic National Convention. New York Congressman Adam Clayton…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Justice Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, erotic thriller, romance film
In Paris, the incarcerated Marquis de Sade is confined to the asylum at Charenton, overseen by the Abbé du Coulmier. The Marquis has been publishing his work through laundress Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc, who smuggles manuscripts through an …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1956, Buddy Holly and his friends, drummer Jesse Charles and bass player Ray Bob Simmons, regularly performed at a local roller rink in Lubbock, Texas, as The Crickets. A local radio station broadcasts the show. Holly plays a country so…
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