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drama film, romantic comedy
In London, film student Sue McKinley discovers the diary of her grandfather, James, who served as a British Army colonel in the 1930s. James oversaw the execution of Indian freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajgur…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Tragic Comedy Film, apocalyptic film, black comedy film
Married couple Nell and Simon host a yearly Christmas dinner at their country estate for their former school friends and their spouses. This Christmas is a special occasion with everyone dressing in formal wear and the children being allow…
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Dark Comedy, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Con artist Marla Grayson makes a living by convincing the justice system to grant her guardianship over elders who she pretends cannot take care of themselves. She places them in an assisted living facility, where they are sedated and lose…
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Musical, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy
Sonny Malone, a struggling self-employed illustrator residing in Los Angeles, has failed to find passion in his art. He tears up one of his sketches and tosses the pieces out his studio window; the wind transports them toward a wall mural …
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Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
In 1994, ex-con and bodybuilder Daniel Lugo is hired by Sun Gym owner John Mese as a manager. Lugo befriends trainer and bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal, who was recently rendered impotent from steroids. He envies the earnings and lifestyle of …
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Family Drama, drama film
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 60 miles northwest of Tulsa. Beverly Weston, an alcoholic, once-noted poet, teacher and author, interviews and hires a young Cheyen…
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Computeranimation, Dark Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, family film
An angry mob of villagers, that rejects anything macabre in nature, disrupts the midnight wedding ceremony of Gomez Addams and Morticia Frump and drives them away with the rest of the Addams clan. During the chaos, Grandmama buys Uncle Fes…
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romantic comedy film
After spending a decade in a failed relationship, pragmatic couples’ therapist Ally is turning 40 and reluctantly dipping her toe back into the New York dating scene. But she gets more than she bargained for when she meets two men—one in h…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Three middle-class married couples – Jack and Kate Burroughs; Nick and Anne Callan; Danny and Claudia Zimmer – live in New York City and are close friends. Jack is a moralistic lawyer, Kate a Fortune magazine editor, Nick an insurance sale…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
In 1929, Tom Reagan is the right-hand man for Irish mobster Leo O'Bannon, a political boss who runs an unnamed U.S. city during Prohibition. Leo sets off a mob war when he extends protection to his girlfriend Verna's brother, a bookie name…
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Komödie, Road Movie, adventure film, comedy film, screwball comedy film, treasure hunt film
Donald Sinclair, the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casino's slot machines, and the winners are g…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Eccentric 15-year-old scholarship student Max Fischer participates extensively in extracurricular activities at the prestigious Rushmore Academy in Houston, but struggles academically. Max's middle-class background, which contrasts with th…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, comedy film, fantasy film, romantic comedy, satanic film, speculative fiction film
The Devil runs a computer simulation to analyze souls to determine individual weaknesses to exploit. The program settles on Elliot Richards, a sweet, geeky, over-zealous man working a dead-end job in a San Francisco computer company. He ha…
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Road Movie, Romantic Comedy, buddy film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film
Miles Raymond picks up his friend Jack Cole at the home of Cole’s fiancée to begin a week together in advance of Cole’s wedding. Miles, a school teacher and unpublished author, starts the trip at his mother’s house, ostensibly to wish her …
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Computeranimation, comedy film, flashback film
Long ago, in Ancient China, the peacock rulers of Gongmen City invented fireworks. However, their son, Lord Shen, discovered that the fireworks' gunpowder could be weaponized. Troubled by Shen's obsession, his parents consulted a Soothsaye…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy
Zack Brown and Miri Linky are roommates and have been friends since the first grade. Despite Miri's job at the local shopping mall and Zack's at a coffee shop, their utility bills have been unpaid for months. Their water is shut off before…
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Animation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film
A Jack Russell Terrier named Max lives with his owner Katie in a New York City apartment. While she is away, he socializes with other pets in the building: tabby cat Chloe, pug Mel, dachshund Buddy, and budgerigar Sweet Pea. One day, Katie…
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Drama, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, historical drama
Andy Kaufman is a struggling performer whose act fails in nightclubs because, while the audience wants comedy, he sings the Mighty Mouse theme song and refuses to tell conventional jokes. As the audience begins to believe that Kaufman may …
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, comedy film, sex comedy
Nine years after getting married, Jim Levenstein and his wife Michelle are in a sexual rut following the birth of their 2-year-old son. Kevin Myers is a househusband and architect, Chris "Oz" Ostreicher is a celebrity sportscaster dating M…
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Military Film, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, heist film
U.S. Army Special Forces Ranger John "Hannibal" Smith escapes from corrupt Federal Police officers working for renegade General Javier Tuco in Mexico, and returns to rescue his friend Templeton "Face" Peck with help from fellow Ranger B.A.…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film, science fiction film
Sherman Klump, a morbidly obese, kind-hearted professor at Wellman College, creates an experimental formula that reconstructs someone's DNA for weight to be lost easier. Sherman, during a date at a club with Carla Purty, a chemistry gradua…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, horror film, slasher film, vampire film, zombie film
The film takes place on Halloween night in the fictional town of Warren Valley, Ohio. The plot follows a nonlinear narrative, with characters crossing paths throughout the film. At the center of the story is Sam, a peculiar trick-or-treate…
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Drama, Komödie, black comedy film, buddy film, comedy drama
In September 1969, two unemployed young actors, flamboyant alcoholic Withnail and contemplative, neurotic Marwood, live in a squalid flat in Camden Town, London. Their only regular visitor is their drug dealer, Danny. One morning, the pair…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, adventure film
Chance, an immature American Bulldog and the narrator of the film, explains that he is the pet of Jamie Burnford, but expresses no desire in his owner or being part of a family. He shares his home with Shadow, a wise old Golden Retriever o…
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