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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 344 films.
Adventure, Dance Film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
thumb|upright=0.8|Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and Terry as Toto Dorothy Gale lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Her dog Toto is seized by neighbor Almira Gulch, who has obtained a sheriff's order after being bitten b…
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Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
A young Butch Coolidge is visited by Captain Koons, an Air Force pilot. Koons reveals a gold watch to Butch and explains that the watch is a family heirloom and belonged to Butch's father, who served with Koons and died in a POW camp in th…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Act Three: Thanks, Chuck Middle school teacher Marty Anderson notes unusual things happening around the world, from natural disasters to the worldwide loss of the Internet. Billboards and advertisements are popping up everywhere, displayin…
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Family Drama, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1979, Michael Corleone is approaching 60 years of age. Plagued with guilt over his ruthless rise to power, especially for having ordered his brother Fredo Corleone's murder, he donates millions to charitable causes. Michael and Kay Adam…
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has made her Broadway debut. While he is on a date with her in Central Park, an extraterrestrial symbiote oozes out of a fallen meteorite and attaches to his moped. Harry Osborn, knowi…
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Horror, psychological horror fiction, slasher film
In 1918, Pearl is a young woman living with her German immigrant parents on their farm in Texas, while her husband, Howard, serves in World War I. Her father is infirm and paralyzed, and her strict mother, Ruth, insists that she help care …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1988, following his mother's death, the child Peter Quill is abducted from Earth by the Ravagers, a group of alien thieves and smugglers led by Yondu Udonta. In 2014, on the abandoned planet Morag, Quill steals a mysterious Orb but is a…
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Destiny, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Media mogul Bill Parrish is nearing his 65th birthday, and hears a mysterious voice that he tries to ignore. His eldest daughter Allison is planning an elaborate party for him, and his younger daughter Susan, a resident in internal medicin…
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Dance Film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, magic realist film, psychological horror fiction, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Nina Sayers, a young dancer with the New York City Ballet, lives with her overprotective mother, Erica, a former ballerina. The company is opening the season with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. After forcing the current , Beth, into retirement, …
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Dance Film, Family Comedy, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in Edwardian London after a suffragette rally and learns that her children, Jane and Michael, have run away, "for the fourth time this week"; this has prompted their nanny, Katie Nanna, to quit h…
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Dance Film, Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
During the summer of 1958, greaser Danny Zuko and straitlaced Australian girl Sandy Olsson fall in love at the beach. As Sandy prepares to return home, she worries that she will never see Danny again, but he comforts her by saying that the…
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, speculative fiction film
In August 2005, Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. She tells her daughter Caroline about blind clockmaker Mr. Gateau, hired to make a clock for a train station in 1918.
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Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
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Dance Film, Musical, dance film, drama film, melodrama, musical film, romance film
In 1900 in Paris, Christian, a young writer depressed and grief-stricken about the recent death of the woman he loved, begins writing their story on his typewriter. A year earlier in 1899, he arrives in the Montmartre district of Paris to …
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Jake Blues, a blues vocalist and petty criminal, is paroled from Joliet Prison after serving three years of a five-year sentence for armed robbery and is picked up by his brother Elwood in a battered former police car. Jake complains that …
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Dance Film, Romance Film, dance film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
In the summer of 1963, teenager Frances "Baby" Houseman is vacationing with her family—cardiologist father Jake, mother Marge, and older sister Lisa—at Kellerman's, an upscale Catskills resort in the Borscht Belt owned by Jake's sarcastic …
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, report for an all-day detention: socially awkward nerd Brian Johnson, jock Andrew Clark, shy loner Allison Reynolds, popular girl Claire Standish, and …
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy
Aspiring architect Tom Hansen works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. He meets Summer Finn, his boss Vance's new assistant. They bond over their similar musical tastes, and at a company-sponsored karaoke night, they di…
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Socially awkward 16-year-old Napoleon Dynamite lives in Preston, Idaho, United States, with his grandmother, Carlinda, and his technology-addicted older brother, Kip. Napoleon's school days are spent doodling mythical creatures, dealing wi…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, children's film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
Charlie Bucket, a 12-year-old paperboy from a poor family, passes by Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in Charlie's town, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever enters or exits the building. Charlie's grandfather, Joe, reveals that Wonka …
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Buddy Film, Destiny, Melodrama, Musical, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film
The film is told non-chronologically. The following is a linear summary of the plot. Past At the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE), Ranchoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad arrives as an academically gifted student, challenging professor…
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Coming Of Age, High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, drama film, romantic comedy, teen film
Matthew Kidman, an ambitious high school senior in suburban California, has been accepted to Georgetown University but lacks the funds to attend. As class president, he raises $25,000 to help a Cambodian student, Samnang Sok, study in the …
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Accident, Parodie, Satire, comedy film, disaster film, parody film, romantic comedy film, slapstick
Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking problem"—he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth—Ted has been unable to hold a resp…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
After the MI6 agent James Bond fails a routine training exercise, his superior M sends him to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses a nurse beating a male patient with a bandaged face. While the…
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