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Crime, Crime Comedy, Drama, Police Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1972, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Assigned to work in the records room, he tires of being bullied and applies to be an undercover officer. He is assigned to infiltrate a …
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1975, a 19-year-old Anthony "Tony" Bourdain is a student at Vassar College who aspires to be a writer. He applies for a writing fellowship that would send him to New York City, and lies to his family, as well as his high school love int…
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Adventure, Political Drama, War Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
In the winter of 1941, amid Japan's invasion of China during World War II, Jamie Graham is a British upper class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the Shanghai International Settlement. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan begins …
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Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, thriller film
In 1913 Houston, eight-year-old Howard Hughes's mother gives him a bath and teaches him to spell "quarantine", warning him about the recent cholera outbreak. Fourteen years later, in 1927, he begins to direct his film Hell's Angels, and hi…
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy improvement over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Ch…
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
In Waterloo, Ontario in 1996, Research in Motion (RIM) CEO Mike Lazaridis and his best friend and co-founder Douglas Fregin prepare to pitch their "PocketLink" cellular device to businessman Jim Balsillie. Their pitch is unsuccessful, but …
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Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, katastrophe
Fire and Rescue Crew 7 of Prescott, Arizona, superintended by Eric Marsh, responds to the Cave Creek wildfire. Eric predicts that the fire will threaten a residential area, but is disregarded by the assigned superintendent. Eric's fear com…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, Western, Western film, biographical film, buddy film, comedy drama
thumb|Original release trailer of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) In 1898 Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-sho…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Mafia Film, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, melodrama, mystery film, romance film
In 1960, the nine-year-old Calogero lives in Belmont, a working-class Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx with his father Lorenzo, a Surface Transit (later MTA) bus driver, and his mother Rosina. Calogero becomes enamored of the Maf…
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2005, David Packouz, a massage therapist living in Miami, Florida with his girlfriend Iz, spends his life savings on an unsuccessful venture to sell bedsheets to retirement homes. David runs into his old friend Efraim Diveroli, whose co…
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Biographical picture, Coming Out, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, female buddy film
In 1989, after moving from Michigan to Daytona Beach, Florida, and on the verge of committing suicide, street prostitute Aileen "Lee" Wuornos meets a young woman, Selby Wall, in a gay bar. Although Aileen is initially hostile and states th…
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Destiny, LGBTQ-related film, Sex Film, Swords and Sandals, biographical film, drama film, erotic film, exploitation film, pornographic film
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius. After a blackbird flies into his room, interpreted by Caligula as a bad omen, a head of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro, tells Caligula that Tiberi…
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Drama, Historie, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1976, at a Boston Police station, two policemen discuss the arrest of Fr. John Geoghan for child molestation. A high-ranking cleric talks to the mother of the victims, assuring her that Geoghan will be removed from the parish.
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American football film, Family Drama, Social Drama, Sport, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, white savior film
17-year-old Michael "Big Mike" Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his biological mother's drug addiction, but every time he is placed in a new home, he runs back to her. His friend's father, on whose …
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Road Movie, biographical film, docudrama, drama fiction, drama film, road movie
In April 1992, Chris McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Noting McCandless's unpreparedness, the man who drops him off gives him gumboots. McCandless sets up camp in …
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Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
New York Times writer David Sheff's teenage son Nicolas "Nic" Sheff goes missing, reappearing in their home two days later. Seeing obvious signs of drug use, David takes Nic to a rehab clinic. Progress is made, and Nic transfers to a halfw…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1986, five-year-old Saroo lives with his elder brother, Guddu; his baby sister, Shekila; and his mother in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. Saroo accompanies Guddu to work, and they arrive at a nearby train station, where Saroo falls asl…
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Biographical picture, biographical film
In 1973, the young Donald Trump, after pointing out various wealthy people to his date, meets Roy Cohn, notorious at the time as former chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy, at a New York City social club. Trump complains that the federal gove…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, trial film, war film
In January 1865, US President Abraham Lincoln expects the American Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States Army. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war …
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Biographical picture, Military Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Growing up in Texas, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Chris has become a ranch hand and rodeo cowboy, and returns home early to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. After telling h…
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Family Drama, Social Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, musical film, war film
In September 1939, Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman plays live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during a Nazi German air raid against Warsaw. Szpilman and his family prepare to leave the city when they learn that B…
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Historie, biographical film, historical film, trial film, war film
In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Lawyer James B. Donovan, formerly general counsel to the Office of Strategic Services but now in private practice in insurance law, is appointed t…
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Crime, Documentation, Drama, documentary film
Kurt Kuenne and Andrew Bagby grew up as close friends in the suburbs of San Jose, California. Bagby acted in many of Kuenne's amateur movies and, as these films became more professional in quality, he invested in them with some of the mone…
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