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Drama, drama film
Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Saturday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A f…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Frank O'Brien, a small-time thief, and his longtime girlfriend Roz have stolen a Matisse painting and are bickering in their stolen getaway car as they casually evade a string of police cars pursuing them, which can be considered a miracle…
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Crime, Thriller, thriller film
During a weekend excursion in the woods, three friends, Victor (Ellar Coltrane), his ex-girlfriend Lynn (Willa Fitzgerald) and Jeff (Jacob Artist), who's been secretly sleeping with Lynn, discover four bags full of money. The trio discover…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film
Lulu Danger is a waitress in a coffee shop managed by her husband, Shane, in a small town. One evening while watching television, Lulu sees an advertisement for a mysterious, upcoming live show to be held at the town's hotel called An Even…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
The film opens in the Poppy Club, a nightclub in Phenix City, a corrupt Alabama town near the Army's Fort Benning, where singer Meg Myles performs “Phenix City Blues” as soldiers drink and gamble. The club, managed by mob moll Cassie and c…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1964, in the Bronx, a high school teacher is fatally shot in the back with an arrow. A man offers two seemingly intoxicated young women to two teenage boys, even offering cash to take the women off his hands. Later, these women awaken i…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
On June 9, 1970, at a hospital in Southern California, three women give birth at the same time during a solar eclipse. Two boys and a girl are born - Curtis Taylor, Debbie Brody, and Steven Seton. Ten years later, on June 1, 1980, Annie Sm…
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action film, comedy film, heist film
At the start of the film, Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (then operator of Melbourne's trams). Malcolm, who has autism (see "Development & Production" section below), is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mech…
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Forensic, Thriller, erotic film, erotic thriller, trial film
Jennifer Haines is an up-and-coming Chicago attorney. She wins a big case, celebrates with the man in her life, Phil Garson, and returns to work to a hero's reception. Into her life walks David Greenhill, who was seated in the gallery duri…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood. Nathaniel Hamilton is a star basketball player from the neighborhood, nicknamed "Cornbread." In the film, he epitomizes the dream of the neighborhood to be …
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Crime, Thriller, thriller film
As a family of immigrants who moved to Canada, the Danyliuk's subsequently struggle for money and have to live on welfare. Alex grew up with no friends and spent his time online, playing games. He later started making money as a "Clicker" …
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Drama, drama film
Kate Bosworth is a sincere, demure artist who misses her boat to an island off New England, where she intends to meet her twin sister Patricia and her cousin Freddie. She persuades Bill Emerson to take on the two-hour journey in his boat. …
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Komödie, comedy film, crime literature
Kid Sally Palumbo grows jealous of his older, mobster boss Baccala, who has little respect for the crew that Palumbo commands. Baccala allows Kid Sally to supervise a six-day bicycle race (for the purposes of keeping the money generated), …
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film, screwball comedy film
Nicky Wilson and Oscar Sullivan are inept 1920s scam artists in the Northeastern United States who see pay dirt in the guise of Fredericka Quintessa "Freddie" Bigard, the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune. She loves the alre…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film
Nick Barrow plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn't had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Luc…
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crime film
Drama, War Film, drama film, propaganda film, spy film, war film
A silhouetted narrator connects the film to recent events, beginning in a quiet corner of Scotland in 1937. A postman delivers letters from all over the world to a Mrs. MacLaughlin, who forwards the contents of one envelope to Dr.
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Glenn Griffin is the leader of a trio of escaped convicts who invade a randomly selected suburban home in Indianapolis and hold four members of the Hilliard family, who live in the home, hostage. There they await the arrival of a package, …
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comedy film, mystery film
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. His wife is generally disgruntled and wants a better life.
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Action, drama film
Avner, an adept Israeli military officer, is interrupted from his service in the IDF by a special request from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to join Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Despite warnings from his father, he agrees to j…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Three prisoners escape from a chain gang, and two of them, Wayne and Harry, steal an RV. They discover that the RV actually belongs to two gay men who travel around Texas as consultants for beauty pageants. They are apprehended by Chappy D…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, mystery film
Susan Selky, an English professor at Columbia University, lives in a Brooklyn brownstone with her 6-year-old son Alex. One March morning, she sees Alex off to his school, two blocks away. Returning home after work, Susan becomes increasing…
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Action, Anarchic Comedy Film, Crime, Silly Movie, action film
Alex is a waiter in high-class London restaurant Bastards, subject to the upper-class customers' daily contempt. He is fired for being rude to the clientele. After witnessing a terrorist act on an embassy, he robs a benefits office and goe…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, thriller film
The film takes place in India in 1825. The country is being ravaged by Thuggee, a Kali-worshiping cult also known as "Deceivers", who commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Captain William Savage, an honorable district administrator for th…
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