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Drama, Romantic Comedy, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film
In a near future Los Angeles, Theodore Twombly is a lonely, introverted man who works for a business that hires professional writers to compose letters for people who are unable to write letters of a personal nature on their own. Depressed…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, magic realist film, melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy, science fiction film
thumb|A private home in Woodstock, Illinois, was used for exteriors of the Cherry Street Inn, the fictional location in which Phil awakens every morning in the film.|alt=A white house with a green roof. It is set back from a lawn and surro…
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Animation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, heist film
Minions are small, yellow pill-shaped creatures which have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings which exist only to serve history's most despicable masters, but they are very clumsy and end…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, action comedy film, adventure film
Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority (MORA) is a clandestine, multilateral, military organization that protects a secret peace treaty between humans and mythological creatures. Callum Drift, head of Santa Claus's security detai…
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Dramedy, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
Tim Lake grows up in Cornwall with his father James, mother Mary, uncle Desmond, and younger sister Katherine ("Kit Kat"). The morning after a less-than-great New Year’s Eve party, James tells Tim that the men of their family can travel ba…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy film
NYU economics professor Rachel Chu and her boyfriend Nick Young fly to Singapore for his best friend Colin Khoo and Araminta Lee's wedding. Flying first class, Nick confesses his family is wealthy but insists they will love her. After they…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a patio home in suburban Pittsburgh. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a curmudgeonly, fastidious recluse. Pushed into retirement from his job at a st…
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Komödie, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In New York City, FBI agent brothers Marcus and Kevin Copeland inadvertently ruin a drug bust. Their boss, Chief Elliott Gordon, offers them a reprieve if they safely escort sisters Brittany and Tiffany Wilson - the rich, shallow socialite…
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Drama, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In Elk River, Minnesota, 16-year-old high-schooler Juno MacGuff discovers she is pregnant after sleeping with her friend and longtime admirer Paulie Bleeker. Originally intending to get an abortion, Juno visits a local women's clinic and e…
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Sci-Fi, action comedy film, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
U.S. Army colonel Sattler, head of a secret branch of the Pentagon specializing in new technologies, gives a demonstration of AMELIA, an android designed for infiltration and assassination missions and built using technology copied from th…
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Crime, Fantasy, Komödie, Splatstick, comedy film, fantasy film, gangster film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In Edge City, insecure bank teller Stanley Ipkiss is frequently ridiculed by everyone except for his co-worker and best friend, Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell plots to overthrow his boss, Niko, who owns the Coco Bongo…
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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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Christmas film, Fairy-Tale Film, Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Social Drama, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
One snowy evening, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter the story of a young man named Edward, who has scissor blades for hands. Many years earlier, Peg Boggs, a door-to-door Avon saleswoman, drives to the decrepit Gothic mansion where…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, independent film, romantic comedy film
After earning his bachelor's degree, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents' home in Pasadena, California. During his graduation party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's law partner, asks him to drive her home.
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Action, Gangster Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Splatter Film, Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, monster film, splatter film, thriller film, vampire film
At a Texas roadside liquor store, fugitive bank robber Seth Gecko and his deranged brother Richie kill the clerk and a Texas Ranger and destroy the building. Richie nurses a gunshot to his hand as they drive down the highway to a motel and…
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, trial film
In 1993, Sam Dawson, a Starbucks barista with an intellectual disability, becomes the single father of Lucy Diamond Dawson, named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", following her abandonment by her mother, a homeless w…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy
Aspiring architect Tom Hansen works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. He meets Summer Finn, his boss Vance's new assistant. They bond over their similar musical tastes, and at a company-sponsored karaoke night, they di…
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Socially awkward 16-year-old Napoleon Dynamite lives in Preston, Idaho, United States, with his grandmother, Carlinda, and his technology-addicted older brother, Kip. Napoleon's school days are spent doodling mythical creatures, dealing wi…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
In Los Angeles, Barry Egan is a bachelor who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. He has seven overbearing sisters who regularly ridicule and emotionally abuse him, and he leads a lonely life punctuat…
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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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Fantasy, Parodie, Pirate Film, Romantic Comedy, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film, treasure hunt film
About one year after Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann helped Captain Jack Sparrow escape from Port Royal, their wedding is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who arrives with arrest warrants. Commodore Jam…
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Christmas film, Fantasy, Horror comedy, comedy horror film, monster film
Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store to find a Christmas present for his son, Billy. In it, Randall uncovers a small and furry creature called a (Cantonese: , 'devil'). The owner, Sam Wing, refuses to sell i…
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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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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
Six-year-old Matilda Wormwood is neglected and mistreated by her parents, Harry and Zinnia, who even refuse to enroll her in school, and her older brother, Michael. Smart and independent, Matilda finds solace in books at the public library…
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