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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 186 films · Page 2.
Destiny, Road Movie, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, female buddy film, girls with guns, road movie
Friends Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin. Thelma, a housewife, is married to disrespectful and controlling carpet salesman Darryl, while sharp-tongued Louise works as a waitress. When Lou…
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Destiny, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, teen film
In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with her unemployed mother, Mary, who subjects her to constant physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. Precious has also been raped by her now-absent fa…
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Adventure, Destiny, Melodrama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film, war film, white savior film
In 1863, 1st Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, serving with the Union army, is wounded in a stalemated battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee.
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Coming Of Age, Crime, Destiny, Melodrama, Psychodrama, comedy drama, drama film, romance film
Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of French literature, arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, searching for summer accommodation before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. Charlotte Haze, a sexually frustrate…
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Destiny, Forensic, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, trial film
In the early 1990s, Andrew Beckett is a senior associate at Philadelphia's law firm Wyant, Wheeler, Hellerman, Tetlow, & Brown. He conceals his homosexuality and his status as an AIDS patient from others in the office. A partner in the fir…
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Destiny, Melodrama, drama film
In 1969, Dr. Malcolm Sayer is a dedicated and caring physician at a local hospital in the New York City borough of the Bronx. After working extensively with the catatonic patients who survived the 1919–1930 epidemic of encephalitis letharg…
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Action, Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1999, Sierra Leone is ravaged by civil war. The Revolutionary United Front terrorizes the countryside and enslaves many locals to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman fr…
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, action thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
William Foster is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a hot day. After his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking, carrying his briefcase. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone …
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Bible Film, Destiny, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, thriller film
Jesus of Nazareth is a carpenter in the Roman client state, Judea. He is torn between his own desires and his knowledge of God's plan for him. His friend Judas Iscariot is sent to kill him for collaborating with the Romans to crucify Jewis…
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Destiny, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, historical drama, prison film, swashbuckler film
In 1662, the Kingdom of France moves toward revolution, facing bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch. The young and callous King Louis redistributes spoiling food supplies from the army to his starving citizens, and instr…
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Destiny, Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, drama film, romance film
In the mid-19th century, Ada McGrath, a Scottish woman with elective mutism, travels to colonial New Zealand with her daughter Flora for an arranged marriage to settler Alisdair Stewart. Ada has not spoken since the age of six, and the rea…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Historie, Monumental Film, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film
By 1950, the 44-year-old Puyi, former Emperor of China, has been in custody for five years since his capture by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. In the recently established People's Republic of China, Puyi arrives as a…
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Destiny, Family Drama, Forensic, drama film, flashback film
Young Kate Fitzgerald is diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, devastating her parents, firefighter Brian and lawyer Sara. As neither of them nor Kate's older brother Jesse are genetic matches for her, Brian and Sara conceive a savi…
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Action, Destiny, Drama, action film, boxing film, drama film
Sixteen years after his street fight with Tommy "The Machine" Gunn, Rocky Balboa, now approaching sixty years of age, is long retired from boxing and lives a quiet life in Philadelphia as a widower, having lost his wife Adrian to cancer fo…
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Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In Los Angeles, California, Seth is one of many angels who watch over humans, protecting them in unseen ways. His main responsibility is to appear to those who are close to death and guide them to the next life. During this task, Seth and …
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Destiny, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sport film
During a 1978 funeral service in London in honour of the life of Harold Abrahams, presided over by his former colleague Lord Andrew Lindsay, there is a flashback to his youth, when he was running along a beach with a group of athletes. In …
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, film based on a book
In 1932, Christy Brown is born into a Dublin family of 15. Doctors discover he has severe cerebral palsy. Christy is unable to walk or talk.
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Destiny, Drama, Police Film, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Recently retired tennis pro Chris Wilton is hired as an instructor at an upscale London club. He becomes friendly with wealthy club member, Tom Hewett. Tom's sister, Chloe, is smitten with Chris, and they begin dating.
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, sport film, teen film
Teenager Jim Carroll is a drug-addicted high school basketball player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school. Outside of basketball, Jim shows an artistic i…
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Destiny, Romantic Comedy, Satire On Media, Splatstick, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
Bruce Nolan is a television field reporter for Eyewitness News on WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, who wants to move on from his field reporting job and become an anchorman. He is sent on assignment in Niagara Falls where he learns that his r…
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Destiny, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is a young albino man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abn…
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Destiny, Romance Film, drama film, erotic film, romance film
Ben Sanderson is an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who has lost his job, family, and friends. With nothing left to live for, and with a sizable severance check from his boss, he heads to Las Vegas where he plans on drinking himself to de…
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Crime, Destiny, Justice Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1985, Bud Fox is a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co. in New York City. He wants to work with his hero, Gordon Gekko, a legendary Wall Street player.
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