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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 4.
Drama, Komödie, drama film, romantic comedy, trial film
Casey Brodsky has decided to divorce her parents and have her nanny, Maria Hernandez, appointed as Casey's legal guardian. It results in media attention, and her parents, Albert and Lucy Brodsky, are both brought out of their respective se…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, rape and revenge film
Christine "Chris" McCormick is a highly paid fashion model whose image serves as the driving force of the ad campaign for a popular brand of lipstick and can be seen in magazines and on billboards all around the world. Gordon Stuart, a par…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Following the murder of Diana Floss in a restaurant in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1972, her fiancé, Joe Nast, elects to stay with her parents. Her father, Ben, is a realtor whose business partner has recently left. Ben and Joe go into bus…
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Family Drama, Forensic, drama film, prison film, thriller film
In April 1967, the office of Marvin Kramer, a Jewish civil rights lawyer in Indianola, Mississippi, is bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing Kramer's young twin sons Josh and John and leading to the amputation of Kramer's legs and his later …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Reporter C.J. Nicholas built his career on an award-winning documentary about a pregnant teenage prostitute in Buffalo, New York, who died of an overdose after the death of her baby. Now a TV reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, he works to …
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romance film, trial film
Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the Washington state coast in 1950, the plot revolves around the murder case of Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American accused of killing Carl Heine, a white fisherm…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, Kevin Lane witnesses Stacy Lockwood, whom he gave a ride home, being stabbed by an unseen girl who quickly flees. Stacy is rushed to the hospital, where she later dies. In a flashback to ten…
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Family Drama, drama film
Nine-year-old Evelyn Doyle and her two brothers, Maurice and Dermot, are left motherless when their mother leaves their drunkard, out-of-work father Desmond Doyle. When Desmond's mother-in-law reports the situation to the authorities, a ju…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, trial film
In 1976, in South Africa during apartheid, Ben Du Toit is a South African school teacher at a school for whites only. One day, the son of his gardener, Gordon Ngubene, gets beaten by the white police after he gets caught by the police duri…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
Anna Dunlap (Keaton), is a Boston piano teacher, working part-time at a college laboratory who recently divorced her husband Brian (James Naughton) and has custody of her six-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). Soon, Anna meets and falls…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Candy Morrison is a well-respected member of her church and community. After teaching a children’s Bible study, she leaves to pick up a bathing suit at the home of her friend, Peggy Blankenship, for Peggy’s daughter, Meg, who is staying th…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Prompted by the plight of David Rivlin, a quadriplegic who litigated to be removed from his respirator so that he could die, the sight of a dying woman in a hospital bed, and the memory of his mother Satenig's death more than two decades a…
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Forensic, Political Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Wealthy American businessman Jack Moore (Richard Gere) is on a trip to China attempting to put together a satellite communications deal as part of a joint venture with the Chinese government. Before the deal can be finalized, Moore is fram…
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Drama, biographical film, docudrama, drama film, trial film
On his wedding night in 1953, an errant champagne cork renders Detroit college engineering professor Robert Kearns almost completely blind in his left eye. Ten years later, he is happily married to Phyllis and the father of six children. A…
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Drama, drama film
An isolated and lonely farmer named Fentry, in rural Mississippi takes in a pregnant drifter who has been abandoned by the father of her child. Told in flashback, twenty years later, the farmer is on a jury and the film, narrated by the de…
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Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Hungarian immigrant Michael J. Laszlo faces a trial and having his U.S. citizenship revoked after being accused of war crimes during the Second World War.
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The movie is about the final nine months of the life of Gary Gilmore, beginning with his release from prison at the age of 35 after serving 12 years for robbery in Indiana. He is allowed to fly to Utah to live with Brenda Nicol, a distant …
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Crime, Western, Western film, trial film
In 1881, Sergeant Braxton Rutledge of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, one of four colored regiments in the U.S. Army, is on trial for rape and murder.
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Drama, drama film, trial film
David Merrill, a successful director in 1950s Hollywood, returns from film-location scouting abroad to find that a rising tide of McCarthyism and the Red Scare is creating havoc among his colleagues in the film industry. His friend Larry N…
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teen film
In the fictional town of Tate, Oklahoma, 14-year-old Amy Dustin starts high school along with her two best friends, Kelly and Kimberley. Amy’s mother is going to interior design school and her dad works at an auto dealership. Amy feels est…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, trial film
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur Kirk attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent by Dr. Herbert Morrison in order to avoid a public scandal. Claudia knows …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
NYPD detectives Liam Casey and Joey Allegretto, assigned to the 74th Precinct, are conducting surveillance against notorious drug dealer Jordan Washington. On a tip from an informant, they venture into an apartment block where Jordan is re…
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Drama, drama film
Attorney Kent "Mac" McClain, after losing his wife and kids in a car crash, experiences grief of the loss and attempts suicide with a revolver. However, he is interrupted by a phone call inviting him to defend the accused man, instead of t…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
thumb|Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson En route to meet his fiancée Katherine Grant, gas-station owner Joe Wilson is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing mo…
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