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Destiny, Family Drama, Justice Drama, drama film
Dede Tate is a young working-class woman of average intelligence and strong instincts, raising her seven-year-old son, Fred, alone. Fred shows every indication of being a genius. Fred's reading and mathematics abilities are remarkable, and…
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Destiny, drama film, romance film
John and Mickey Lubitch conceive a child. After multiple previous miscarriages and the death of their first son (who was born without a functioning immune system), Mickey fears the likelihood that something gravely wrong could happen to th…
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Destiny, Drama, Swords and Sandals, biographical film, historical drama, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In 391 C.E., Alexandria is part of the Roman Empire, and Greek philosopher Hypatia is a teacher at the Platonic school, where future leaders are educated. Hypatia is the daughter of Theon, the director of the Musaeum of Alexandria. Hypatia…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Romantic Drama, drama film
The story takes place in Thomas Hardy's Wessex during the 1880s. The events of the story are set in motion when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a chance conversation with John Durbeyfield, a simple villager. Tringham is a local historian…
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Destiny, Psychodrama, drama film
Max Klein survives an airline crash. The plane plummets, but he is strangely calm. This calm enables him to dispel fear in the flight cabin.
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Destiny, Political Drama, Social Drama, art film, drama film
The film is told in eight straight chapters: In which we happen upon Manderlay and meet the people there "The freed enterprise of Manderlay" "The Old Lady's Garden" In which Grace means business "Shoulder to Shoulder" Hard times at Manderl…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Justice Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, erotic thriller, romance film
In Paris, the incarcerated Marquis de Sade is confined to the asylum at Charenton, overseen by the Abbé du Coulmier. The Marquis has been publishing his work through laundress Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc, who smuggles manuscripts through an …
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Adventure, Destiny, Justice Drama, adventure film, drama film, monster film
In 1841, a sailor named Ishmael heads to the New England town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to sign on a whaling ship. In the inn where he is staying for the night, he is forced to share his room with a Pacific Islander and harpooner name…
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Destiny, adventure film, drama film
Lord John Clayton, heir to the 6th Earl of Greystoke, and his wife Alice are shipwrecked on the Congolese coast. John builds a home in the trees, and Alice gives birth to a son. She later grows ill from malaria and dies.
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Destiny, Family Drama, drama film, romance film
Ambitious, callous, narcissistic, and at times unethical, Henry Turner is a wealthy successful Manhattan lawyer whose obsession with his work leaves him little time for his socialite wife, Sarah, and troubled preteen daughter, Rachel. He h…
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film
Donald "Sully" Sullivan is a stubborn old reprobate living in the New York State village of North Bath. He freelances in the construction business, usually with his dim-witted friend Rub by his side. He is often at odds with Carl Roebuck, …
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Destiny, Historie, War Film, drama film, war film
Harry Faversham, a young British officer completing his training, celebrates his engagement to Ethne Eustace in a ball with his fellow officers and father. When the Colonel announces that the regiment is being dispatched to Egyptian-ruled …
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Coming Of Age, Dance Film, Destiny, Romantic Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
After a series of countrywide auditions, 12 young dancers gain entry to the American Ballet Academy (which is loosely based on the School of American Ballet), the affiliate school of the fictional American Ballet Company. Jody Sawyer is se…
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Destiny, Family Drama, drama film
In 1968, Justin McLeod has been living an isolated existence as a painter for seven years, after a car accident that disfigured his face. Chuck Norstadt is a young boy who endures a contentious relationship with his academically brilliant …
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Destiny, Drama, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, psychological thriller
Three men begin their six-week shift tending to the remote Flannan Isles Lighthouse. Donald, the youngest, is inexperienced and learning the trade of the lighthouse keeper from James and Thomas. James has a family waiting for him on the ma…
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Destiny, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
San Francisco police officer and widowed father Frank Conner is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his leukemia-stricken son, Matt. In desperation, he breaks into FBI headquarters and finds a perfect match. Unfortun…
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Destiny, Family Drama, drama film
In the small town of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus hits a patch of ice, runs through a barrier, and crashes into a lake, killing 14 children. The grieving parents are approached by an out-of-town lawyer, Mitchell Stephens, who i…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, drama film
Cindy "Cebe" Barnes is a rebellious adolescent tomboy being raised by her heroin-addicted mother, Kathy, in rural British Columbia. Cebe's father, Don, an abusive alcoholic, is serving a prison sentence for a road accident in which he drun…
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Destiny, Romance Film, drama film
Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England in the mid-1860s, the story features Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapp…
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Adventure, Destiny, adventure film, drama film, romance film
thumb|left|Harry Street recalls his memories from what he thinks is his deathbed in Africa The film begins with the opening words of Hemingway's story: "Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest…
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Destiny, Family Drama, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
Sergeant William "Dutch" Van Den Broeck is a seasoned police sergeant in the Internal Affairs Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, and Kay Chandler is a congresswoman for New Hampshire running for reelection. Dutch is married to…
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Destiny, Thriller, drama film
Tom Ripley is involved in an art forgery scheme in Berlin, in partnership with the British gangster Reeves. Learning that Reeves has attempted to cheat him, Ripley forces Reeves's client at gunpoint to give him the money intended for the f…
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Destiny, Romantic Drama, drama film
Immanuel Rath is a professor at the local Gymnasium (high school for students expected to proceed to university) in Weimar Germany. The boys disrespect and play pranks on him. Rath punishes several of his students for circulating photograp…
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Destiny, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In 1938, Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor of linguistics in Piatra Neamț, travels to Bucharest, where he met the love of his youth, Laura. Feeling that his fruitless search for the origin of human language has condemned him to a soli…
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