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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, docudrama, historical film, thriller film
In 1975 Khmer Republic, Loung Ung is the five-year-old daughter of an officer of the Khmer National Armed Forces, known as "Pa" to his seven children. During the Vietnam War, the fighting spills over into neighboring Cambodia when the Unit…
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Biographical picture, Drama, drama film
thumb|upright=1.15|Rescuing a suicidal Anna Anderson, to convince her to join his hoax, Bounine encourages her delusion that she might be Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, who survived the assassination of her family. thumb|upright=…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
Dave Fishwick is a successful businessman in Burnley, a depressed town in the north of England. During a recent recession, he began lending his own money to customers who were having trouble making payments, as well as to local families an…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Ferruccio and his friend, Matteo, return to their hometown of Cento, Italy, after the end of the Second World War serving in the Italian Army. Ferruccio reunites with his girlfriend, Clelia Monti, and returns to his family's farm in the co…
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Biographical picture, drama film
The plot follows the life story of teenage Syrian refugees Yusra Mardini and her sister Sarah Mardini, who swam alongside a sinking dinghy of refugees to lighten it, and eventually help 18 refugees reach safety across the Aegean Sea while …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In Littleton, Colorado, a young Rachel Joy Scott witnesses her father leave her family in the middle of the night. Her mother then struggles financially and encourages her children to pray for financial help. Rachel begins to embrace the C…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, independent film, musical film, white savior film
In 1981 New York City, violinist Roberta Guaspari has recently divorced her U.S. Navy officer husband Charles Demetras, who has instead decided to pursue a romantic relationship with a friend of hers named Lana Holden. Encouraged by her mo…
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Bible Film, Drama, biographical film, drama film
In the year AD 30 when Judea was under the control of the Roman Empire, a woman named Mary from the small town of Magdala begins to follow Jesus of Nazareth. Her family and father try to interfere with her departing from her home, but she …
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Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 1987, Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier fighting in the Iran–Iraq War, is called to become a "fedai" ("body double" or political decoy) for Uday Hussein, the son of president Saddam. Latif comes from an upper-class family and attended schoo…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, medieval film
Thomas Becket is an advisor and companion of the carousing King Henry II. Henry appoints Becket as Lord Chancellor to have a close confidant in this position whom he can completely control. Henry is less interested in his royal duties than…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, erotic film
In 1931 in Paris, France, Anaïs Nin is in a stable relationship with her husband Ian Hugo, but longs for more out of life. When Nin first meets Henry Miller, he is working on his first novel. Nin is drawn to Miller and his wife June, as we…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan is a writer for The New York Post who lives with her new boyfriend Stephen. Susannah becomes ill suddenly, initially showing symptoms of a common flu like a cough and fatigue, but later begins presenti…
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Biographical picture, Dramedy, Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, comedy drama
In 2003 New York City, Kim Baker is a struggling television journalist covering low-profile stories. To help her career, she takes a short assignment as a war correspondent in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, to the disappoin…
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Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
Ed Horman, a conservative businessman from New York, arrives in Chile to search for his son Charlie, a journalist who disappeared during the recent military coup. Ed meets his daughter-in-law, Beth, with whom he has a strained relationship…
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Historical drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film
In 1956 Del Rio, Texas, Mexican-American teenager Joe Trevino fights with three white boys in an alley, later rescued by his friends Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas, Gene Vasquez, and Lupe Felan. Meanwhile, J.B. Peña, a former Marine and the ne…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The film centers on Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist who terrorized the United States for nearly 20 years. It alternates between two timelines: Kaczynski's time attending Harvard University and his prolonged…
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, action film, biographical film, drama film
Young Rio Cutler kills his alcoholic and abusive father one night in an unsuccessful attempt to save his mother from being beaten to death. Grant Cutler, Rio's uncle, hears the gunshot and enters the house. Furious over his brother's murde…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Family Drama, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Sarah, a woman addicted to alcohol and drugs, is the mother of three abused and neglected daughters, 14-year-old Agnes, 12-year-old Bee, and 8-year-old Cammie. She has been coerced into prostitution to support her pimp, Duval. Sarah is una…
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Detective Film, Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, crime film, docudrama, documentary film, drama film, mystery fiction
A body is discovered on a collective farm during harvesting in 1982. A subsequent search of adjacent woods, authorized by the new forensic specialist, Viktor Burakov, turns up seven more bodies in varying stages of decomposition. The film …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1881, after his father's death, Louis Wain, the only male member and eldest of the Wain family, supports his five sisters and his mother as a part-time illustrator for The Illustrated London News under editor Sir William Ingram. Wain de…
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biographical film, comedy film, parody film
Director Ron Howard begins by saying that he has discovered a long-lost movie of the week based on Donald Trump's bestselling book The Art of the Deal that was written by, directed by and stars Trump himself. The film starts in 1986, where…
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Biographical picture, War Film, drama film, war film
In September 1942, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Leslie Groves, who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon, is assigned to head the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, to beat the Germans, who have a similar nuclear weapons program. G…
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biographical film, drama film, political thriller
The film chronicles the political ascension of Jair Bolsonaro during his 2018 presidential campaign, focusing on his assassination attempt in Juíz de Fora, Minas Gerais. It portrays Bolsonaro as an electoral "dark horse", chronicling his h…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film explores the lives of the Kray twins from childhood to adulthood. The plot focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother (Whitelaw). Ronald (Gary Kemp) is the dominant one, influencing his brother Reginald …
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