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Christmas film, Family Drama, Fantasy, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
On the morning of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the man playing Santa Claus is drunk. An old man named Kris Kringle indignantly complains to event director Doris Walker. Doris persuades Kris to play Santa in the parade.
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, comedy film, sport film
Peter LaFleur is the owner of Average Joe's, a small, dilapidated and understaffed gym. When he defaults on the gym's mortgage, his cocky and vindictive business rival White Goodman, who owns the high-end Globo Gym across the street, purch…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1970, 11-year-old Margaret Simon is informed by her parents Barbara and Herb that they are moving from New York City to a New Jersey suburb, as Herb has received a promotion. Upset about leaving her friends and paternal grandmother Sylv…
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Crime Comedy, crime comedy film, mystery film, thriller film
Five years after the first film, Stephanie Smothers is a famous true crime vlogger, an amateur detective and has written a book about her friendship with Emily Nelson and Emily’s subsequent imprisonment. At a book signing, Emily appears, a…
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Caper-Movie, Komödie, action film, comedy film, heist film
Reuben Tishkoff builds a hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Against advice from his friend and erstwhile criminal partner Danny Ocean, he becomes involved with investor and casino mogul Willy Bank, whose thugs strongarm Reuben into signi…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
In the wealthy African nation of Zamunda, crown prince Akeem Joffer grows weary of his pampered lifestyle on his 21st birthday and wishes to do more for himself without servants at his every whim. When his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aol…
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Drama, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
Hank Palmer is a trial lawyer in Chicago, acerbic and notorious for defending powerful clients he knows to be guilty. Before returning to his rural hometown of Carlinville, Indiana to attend his mother's funeral, he argues with his wife, L…
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Coming Of Age, Dance Film, Family Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1984, Billy Elliot is an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in County Durham, England. He lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union delegate), and h…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Kenya with her mother and attends North Shore High School. She befriends Janis Imiike and Damian Hubbard, who introduce her to the various cliques, warning her t…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Three weeks before her 28th birthday, New York City food critic Julianne "Jules" Potter receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal, a Chicago sportswriter. Years earlier, the two agreed that if they were both unmarried by age …
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Computeranimation, comedy film, superhero film
A villainous orange cat named Petey constantly terrorizes Ohkay City, with one of his schemes involving planting a bomb to destroy an abandoned warehouse. Famed cop Officer Knight and his dog Greg chase Petey down until they reach the ware…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction film
At the 1964 New York World’s Fair, young inventor Frank Walker attempts to showcase his homemade jet pack, but it fails and does not impress the judges. However, a mysterious girl, Athena, sees potential in him. She gives him a lapel pin m…
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Animation, Komödie, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, musical film
Twelve-year-old Theodore "Ted" Wiggins lives in Thneedville, a walled city where all vegetation is artificial. Ted's love interest Audrey longs to see a real tree, so Ted undertakes to find her one. His grandmother Norma tells him about a …
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action comedy film, adventure film, fantasy film, swashbuckler film, sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film
Before the time of the pyramids, a horde of warriors from the East, led by Memnon, conquers most of the local tribes. No tribe is willing to fight Memnon, as his sorcerer can foresee any attack. Mathayus, along with his half-brother Jesup …
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Komödie, Road Movie, Thriller, comedy film, road movie
At a bar in Philadelphia in 1999, a man named Santos sits in a booth while nervously clutching a briefcase. He exits in a hurry and is followed by the bartender, who murders and decapitates him in an alley. Elsewhere in Philadelphia, Jamie…
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Family Comedy, children's film, comedy film
Tom Baker is a football coach at a small rural college in the fictional town of Midland, Illinois, where he raised twelve children. His wife, Kate, has written her story in a book and hopes to send it to her friend for publication. One day…
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Romantic Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, romance film
Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley meet every 15 July—St. Swithin's Day—over 20 years. Dexter is from a southern, wealthy, upper-class family, privately educated at Winchester College whilst Emma is from a working-class family from northern Eng…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, black comedy film, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Spencer and Laura Peterson, with their children Luke and Anna, are coping with the loss of their elder son, Caleb, to the war in Afghanistan. They are visited by David Collins, a former U.S. Army sergeant who claims he was Caleb's best fri…
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Romantic Comedy, Slasher Horror, comedy horror film, romance film, slasher film
Each of the past few years on Valentine's Day, a serial killer known as the Heart Eyes Killer, or HEK, has targeted couples in a different American city. On Valentine's Day of the present year, HEK murders two couples in Seattle and a wedd…
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Computeranimation, comedy film
Set in the 2000s, told through the framing device of a firefly named Pippa telling a story to her son, Jeremy, inside Mr. Twit's beard, she presents Mr. and Mrs.
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, black comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
Long-time friends and small-time London criminals Eddie, Tom, Soap, and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddie, a card sharp, can participate in one of "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale's high-stakes three-card brag games. The game, however, is …
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In 1962, overweight 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad lives in Baltimore. She and her shy best friend Penny Pingleton frequently watch The Corny Collins Show, a local teen dance television show broadcast live on the WYZT station. Several of the d…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
In 1978, childhood friends Lenny Feder, Eric Lamonsoff, Kurt McKenzie, Marcus Higgins, and Rob Hilliard win their junior high basketball championship and celebrate at a lake house with their coach Robert "Buzzer" Ferdinando. Thirty years l…
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Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film
Craig Jones, a recently fired and unemployed slacker living in South Central Los Angeles, spends Friday with his best friend Smokey, a small-time drug peddler. The pair smoke a brokered consignment of marijuana, which Smokey was tasked to …
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