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Destiny, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film
In early 1950s Florida, decorated World War II veteran Lucas "Luke" Jackson drunkenly beheads several parking meters. He is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in a prison camp run by the Captain, a stern warden, and Walking Boss Godfre…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Melodrama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy, teen film
Novalee Nation—a 17-year-old with a seven-month pregnancy and an aversion to the number 5—is abandoned by her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens at a Walmart store in Sequoyah, Oklahoma when they stop to buy shoes. While stranded, she befriends …
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film
In 1963, Stephen Hawking, a postgraduate astrophysics student at the University of Cambridge, begins a relationship with literature student Jane Wilde. Although Stephen is intelligent, both his friends and fellow academics are worried abou…
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Destiny, Komödie, Political Drama, Satire On War, comedy drama, comedy film, war film
In 1965, Airman First Class Adrian Cronauer arrives in Saigon to work as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Service. Private Edward Garlick takes him to the radio station, where his attitude and demeanor contrast sharply with those of many st…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Social Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae.
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Destiny, Psychodrama, drama film, musical film
After Alex Marshall's suicide, his fellow University of Michigan alumni and close friends attend his funeral at the Tidalholm plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the visit, everyone stays with Sarah and Harold Cooper. His other …
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Destiny, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Indianapolis teenager Hazel Grace Lancaster is living with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. Believing she is depressed, her mother urges her to attend a weekly cancer patient support group. There, Hazel meets Augustus "Gus" Wat…
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Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, Justice Drama, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Psychodrama, Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
Jack Lucas, a narcissistic, misanthropic radio shock jock, dismisses a disturbed regular caller, Edwin, over his infatuation with a woman he met at a Manhattan restaurant. Jack brashly describes her social circle as a vain enemy to people …
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Crime, Destiny, Thriller, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, vigilante film
In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rus…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, biographical film, comedy film, drama film, teen film
In 1961, 11-year-old Beverly "Bev" Donofrio rides with her father, a police officer named Leonard, in Wallingford, Connecticut. She asks for a bra for Christmas to get the attention of a boy, but he tells her she is too young and to focus …
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Destiny, War Film, war film
The film begins with a narrated map showing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, crossing the Potomac River to invade the North in June 1863, marching across Maryland and into Pennsylvania. On June 30, Con…
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Destiny, Melodrama
thumb|upright|alt=A painting of an Inquisitor sitting on a throne before a large crowd|One of the film's narratives takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. Conquistador Tomás Creo in New Spain fights a band of Maya to gain entry into a…
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Destiny, drama film
Kate Parker is a classical pianist who is diagnosed with ALS. Her husband Evan finds out one morning that Kate has fired her previous caregiver, Mrs. Trotter, and is looking for a replacement.
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Destiny, Monster Film, drama film, flashback film, horror film, thriller film
A beautiful and conniving trapeze artist named Cleopatra seduces a carnival sideshow dwarf named Hans after learning of his large inheritance. This is much to the chagrin of Frieda, his fiancée, also a dwarf. Cleopatra also conspires with …
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Justice Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, white savior film
In the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace downplays his potential as a gifted student, preferring to play basketball with his friends. They are watched by William Forrester, a recluse who never leaves his apartment and has become a neig…
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Destiny, Thriller, buddy film, drama film, neo-noir
New York City law student and gifted poker player Mike McDermott dreams of winning the World Series of Poker. At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mobster Teddy "KGB", an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll…
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Destiny, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
On April 18, 1987, 24-year-old waitress Sarah Tobias is gang-raped by three men at a local bar while several patrons watch and cheer. District Attorney Katheryn Murphy is assigned to the case. Although there is strong physical evidence cor…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Police officer Charlie Lang is kind and generous. He loves his job and enjoys a strong rapport with the Queens neighborhood where he lives. His wife Muriel works in a hairdressing salon.
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, fantasy film
In 1903, following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, James Matthew Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) in Kensington Gardens. A strong friendship develops among them…
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American football film, Destiny, Psychodrama, Sport, drama film
The Miami Sharks, a once-great American football team, are struggling to make the 2001 Affiliated Football Franchises of America (AFFA) playoffs. The team is coached by thirty-year veteran Tony D'Amato, who has fallen out of favor with you…
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Action, Adventure, Destiny, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film
In 1898, Robert Beaumont, the primary financier of a railway project in Tsavo, Kenya, seeks out the expertise of Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, an Anglo-Irish military engineer, to get the project on schedule. Patterson travels from Eng…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1949, young Jim Morrison and his family are traveling on a desert highway in New Mexico where they encounter an auto wreck and see an elderly Native American dying by the roadside. In 1965, Jim arrives in California and is assimilated i…
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Destiny, Modern-Day Fantasy, Natural Disaster, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, romance film, romantic comedy
Pete Sandich is an aerial firefighter whose excessive risk-taking in the air deeply troubles his girlfriend, Dorinda Durston, a pilot who doubles as an air traffic controller for the firefighters. It also concerns Pete's best friend, Al Ya…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, drama film, romantic comedy
T.S. Garp is the out-of-wedlock son of a feminist mother, Jenny Fields, who wanted a child but not a husband. A nurse during World War II, she encountered a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp ("Garp" being all h…
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