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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Michael "Mickey" Pearson is an American born into poverty who won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he began selling marijuana before dropping out and becoming a narcotics baron, building a criminal empire in blood and growi…
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Concert film, Komödie, Satire, comedy film, mockumentary, musical film, parody film
Filmmaker Martin "Marty" Di Bergi is filming a documentary about English rock band Spinal Tap's 1982 United States concert tour to promote their new album, Smell the Glove. The band comprises childhood friends David St. Hubbins and Nigel T…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, black comedy, comedy film, disaster film, drama film, satire, science fiction film
Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at Michigan State University, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her adviser, Dr. Randall Mindy, confirms that it will collide with Earth in approximately six months and is large enough t…
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, comedy film, detective film, lesbian-related film, neo-noir
In Bakersfield, California, private investigator Honey O'Donahue learns that Mia Novotny has been found dead in a wrecked car in Antelope Canyon. Mia had phoned Honey, afraid and unable to go to the police, and they were to meet the next d…
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Family Comedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Cal Weaver is a middle-aged family man whose wife Emily asks for a divorce after she reveals an affair she had with co-worker David Lindhagen. The news stuns Cal, who jumps out of their moving car when Emily tries to talk about the affair.…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
After many years together, Alex and Tess have reached an amicable end to their marriage, thus beginning the awkward stage of figuring out how to live separately while raising two boys, Felix and Jude, and maintaining their friendships. Aft…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, adventure film, buddy film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy comedy, fantasy film
Shrek is an asocial ogre who loves the solitude of his swamp and enjoys fending off mobs and intruders. One day, his life is interrupted after he inadvertently saves a talkative Donkey from some soldiers, prompting Donkey to forcibly stay …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
In Massachusetts, the Owens family have been persecuted for over three centuries because their ancestor Maria Owens survived an attempted execution for witchcraft. Heartbroken when the father of her unborn child left her, Maria cast a spel…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, supernatural horror film
In 1999, Captain Petey Shelburn attempts to return a wind-up drum-playing toy monkey at an antiques shop. Before he can do so, the monkey plays its drum, triggering a chain reaction that ends with a harpoon gun disemboweling the shop owner…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy film, drama film
Agnes Ward is a graduate student in English at Fairport, a liberal arts college in rural Belfast, Maine. She lives with her best friend and fellow graduate student Lydie. Agnes and Lydie are part of a doctoral study group led by professor …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy drama, drama film, flashback film
Lester Burnham, a middle-aged media executive in suburbia, despises his job and is unhappily married to neurotic, status-obsessed Carolyn. Their 16-year-old daughter and only child, Jane, resents her parents and has low self-esteem. Retire…
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Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Obsession, Teen Horror Film, comedy horror, desire horror fiction, female buddy film, horror film
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, once an insecure and studious teenager living in the small town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, has become a violent asylum inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement. Since childhood, …
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
Facing foreclosure of their homes in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon to an expanding country club, a group of boys who call themselves "the Goonies"—Michael "Mikey" Walsh, Richard "Data" Wang, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, and …
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Christmas film, Fantasy, Musical, Stop Motion, comedy film, dark fantasy, fantasy film, monster film, musical film
Halloween Town is a fantasy world populated by various monsters and supernatural beings associated with the eponymous holiday. Jack Skellington, the well-respected Pumpkin King, leads the town in organizing its annual celebrations. This ye…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime, Crime Comedy, Satire, comedy film, comedy of error, crime film, film noir
In 1991, slacker and bowler Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, is attacked in his Los Angeles home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, to whom a different Jeffrey Lebowski's wife owes money. One enforcer urinates on the Dude's rug…
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Drama, Sport, comedy drama, romance film, sport film
In 2006, best friends Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson win the boys' junior doubles title at the US Open. They watch Tashi Duncan, a rising star, win the girls' junior singles final, and both Patrick and Art become infatuated with her. Afte…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, flashback film
17-year-old Andy Davis, who has not played with his toys in years, is leaving for college, and intends to take Woody with him. Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the others are put in a bag to be stored in the attic, but Andy's mother mistakenly …
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Crime Comedy, Drama, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, romance film, tragicomedy
In a cemetery in the former nation of Zubrowka, a young woman visits the shrine of a renowned writer, known simply as "Author", carrying a copy of his bestselling novel The Grand Budapest Hotel. The book, written in 1985, recounts the auth…
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
SpongeBob SquarePants finds that he has grown tall enough to ride an intense roller coaster, but is too afraid to do so. He aspires to be as brave as Mr. Krabs, who tells him that he was a swashbuckler in his youth.
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Treasure Hunting, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, musical film, road movie, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In the summer of 1937, three convicts – Pete, Delmar, and Everett – escape from a Mississippi chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure hidden by Everett before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three are assisted by a blind man drivi…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror film, metafiction, slasher film
Twenty-five years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher's killing spree in Woodsboro, high school student Tara Carpenter is home alone when she is attacked by Ghostface and left hospitalized. In Modesto, Tara's estranged older sister Sam Carpe…
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Destiny, Political Satire, Romantic Comedy, drama film, tragicomedy
Viktor Navorski, a traveler from Krakozhia, arrives at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and learns that a coup d'état has occurred in his country while he was in the air. The United States does not recognize Krakozhia'…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. After critically wounding Rocket, Adam i…
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Justice Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, medical drama, prison film
In 1963, Oregon, Randle McMurphy is incarcerated for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl (which he claims he committed under the assumption that she was an 18-year-old), with five previous arrests for assault. He feigns mental illness…
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