Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with destiny genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 186 films.
Destiny, Komödie, Melodrama
In 1981, a feather lands at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia; Forrest Gump collects it, then recounts his life story to strangers on a bus bench. In 1950s Alabama, Forrest is fitted with leg braces to correct a curved spine. His mother runs…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, tech-noir film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1984 Los Angeles, an imposing man appears naked in an alley amid electric flashes and attacks some punks for clothes. Later, a man with scars appears in an alley the same way and evades police. The first man robs a gun shop, looks up ad…
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Crime, Destiny, Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller film
In 1975, Irish-American neighborhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle are playing street hockey in Charlestown, Boston. After the boys write their names in a patch of wet concrete on the sidewalk, two predators posing as p…
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Action, Destiny, Girls with Guns, Japanese Animation Film, Justice Drama, Martial-Arts, Psychological Thriller, Samurai Film, Yakuza Film, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, girls with guns, martial arts film, neo-noir, samurai cinema, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film, wuxia film
In 1999, the Bride, a former member of the Deadly Viper assassination squad, is rehearsing her marriage at a chapel in rural El Paso, Texas. The Deadly Vipers, led by Bill, attack the chapel, shooting everyone. As the Bride lies wounded, s…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, drama film
right|thumb|upright|Outline of the various characters in Magnolia and their relationships Los Angeles police officer Jim Kurring investigates a disturbance at a woman's apartment, finding a body in a closet. Dixon, a neighborhood boy, unsu…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Drama, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, fiction film, flashback film, mystery film
On a vast palatial estate in Florida, elderly wealthy newspaper publisher and industry magnate Charles Foster Kane dies in his mansion, Xanadu, uttering his last word, "Rosebud". With Kane's death sensational news around the world, a newsr…
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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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Destiny, comedy drama, drama film, female buddy film
Annelle Dupuy, a shy beauty school graduate, moves to Chinquapin Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where Truvy Jones hires her to work in her home-based beauty salon. Meanwhile, M'Lynn Eatenton and her daughter, Shelby, prepare for Shelby'…
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American football film, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film
In the spring of 1981, a group of former football coaches and players attend a funeral for a former football player. Ten years earlier, during the summer of 1971, head coach Bill Yoast of the newly consolidated T. C.
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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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Adventure, Destiny, Historie, Monumental Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, drama film, epic film, sword-and-sandal film
thumb|right|222px|A scene from the film. The Three Wise Men, including Balthasar, visit Bethlehem to worship the infant Jesus. Years later, in AD 26 Jerusalem, Judah Ben-Hur, a wealthy Jewish prince, lives with his mother Miriam and younge…
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Destiny, Drama, Social Drama, drama film
Ruth Slater is released from prison after serving twenty years for killing a sheriff who came to evict her and her five-year-old sister, Katie, from their home in Snohomish, Washington. Upon her release, she gets two jobs, and begins to se…
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Destiny, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the "not-too-distant" future, eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived naturally and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "in-valids". G…
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Destiny, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, romance film
In 1992, five-year-old Jamal Malik, a resident of the Juhu slum in Mumbai, obtains Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's autograph after jumping into a cesspit; the crowds around Amitabh Bachchan are deterred by Jamal as he is covered head to …
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Destiny, Family Drama, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Claire Bartel, a Seattle housewife pregnant with her second child, is sexually assaulted by her new obstetrician, Dr. Victor Mott, during a routine check-up. Her husband Michael encourages her to report Dr.
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Adventure, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Monumental Film, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader, dispatches probe droids across the galaxy in search of the Rebel Alliance. One probe locates the Rebel base on the ice planet Hoth. A wampa captur…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
Los Angeles Detective Graham Waters and his partner, Ria, are involved in a minor car collision with Kim Lee. Ria and Kim Lee exchange racially charged insults. Later, Waters arrives at a crime scene, where he discovers an unidentified cor…
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, trial film
In 1993, Sam Dawson, a Starbucks barista with an intellectual disability, becomes the single father of Lucy Diamond Dawson, named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", following her abandonment by her mother, a homeless w…
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Destiny, LGBTQ-related film, Sex Film, Swords and Sandals, biographical film, drama film, erotic film, exploitation film, pornographic film
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius. After a blackbird flies into his room, interpreted by Caligula as a bad omen, a head of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro, tells Caligula that Tiberi…
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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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Accident, Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, science fiction film
In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in Jharkhand, India, and learns that a previously undiscovered type of neutrino from a solar flare is heating the Earth's core. Returning to Washington, D.C…
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Action, Destiny, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
One year after Han Solo's capture and imprisonment in carbonite, C-3PO and R2-D2 enter the palace of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. They were sent as a goodwill gift from Luke Skywalker, who hopes to negotiate with Jabba for Ha…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, science fiction film
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway arrives at the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The film's prologue reveals that she was encouraged to pursue science by her father, who died in her youth.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic film
In 2035, twenty-nine years after a virus killed 99 percent of the global human population, James Cole is a prisoner in a compound underneath the ruins of Philadelphia. He is selected by scientists for a mission to travel to 1996 and collec…
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