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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 186 films · Page 6.
Adventure, Destiny, War Film, drama film, war film
On 4 July 1776, fur trapper Tom Dobb and his young son Ned sail to New York City. They witness a riotous mob tearing down a statue of the King George III while declaring their independence from English rule. The mob seizes Dobb's boat and …
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Biographical picture, Destiny, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1792, the work of Francisco Goya, the Official Court Painter to Spain's royalty, disturbs the Spanish Inquisition. Brother Lorenzo Casamares hires Goya to paint his portrait. Lorenzo eventually is given power to intensify the Inquisitio…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film, romance film, thriller film
Three friends, Lewis McBride, Sheriff and Tony, are vacationing in Malaysia. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. They a…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film
Bernie LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors, including TV reporter Gale Gayley, at an airplane crash. At the same time, he also steals her purse, losing a shoe in the process. After his car breaks d…
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Christmas film, Destiny, War Film, drama film, war film
In the early phase of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, a small US Army intelligence and reconnaissance squad (selected for their high IQs) is sent to occupy a deserted chateau near the German lines to gather information on the ene…
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Destiny, drama film
Vivian Bearing is a professor of English literature known for her intense knowledge of metaphysical poetry, especially the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Her life takes a turn when she is diagnosed with metastatic Stage IV ovarian cancer. Onc…
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Destiny, Erotic Film, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
During the first day of the summer in June, Alba, a 30-year-old Spanish tourist in Rome, brings a younger Russian woman, Natasha, to her hotel room during the last night of both their vacations in Rome. The details of how they met are left…
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Destiny, drama film, mystery film
Walking over a bridge on the way to his school in Bern, Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of philosophy, notices a young woman in a red coat standing on the railing, about to leap. Dropping his briefcase, he runs and pulls her down. She…
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Destiny, drama film
Black and White converse about White's attempted suicide. White feels as though everything ends up in death, and that his life is minuscule in the throes of time. From White's point of view, no matter how great someone or something is, all…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Willem Dafoe) is fifty-three, and lives in the rowdy Rome of the 1970s. He has just finished shooting his latest film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a film that has shocked both critics and audiences. Pasolini is incr…
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Destiny, Melodrama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police captain Griff, who then commands her to leave town and refer…
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Destiny, drama film, romance film
In the summer of 1953, Canadian bush pilot Charlie Halliday, a brash, former Second World War bomber pilot based in Yellowknife, is flying a routine job in the Queen Maud Gulf on the Arctic Ocean when he encounters a small band of Inuit wh…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
In 1973, 43-year-old Philadelphia resident Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a down-on-his-luck salesman who desperately wishes to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie (Naomi Watts). A constant moralizer, he states that he stopped working at the…
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Destiny, drama film
thumb|left|Robert Donat and Elissa Landi in The Count of Monte Cristo In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ship's captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. Before dy…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After being sacked from his job at a museum, former security guard Sam Baily returns to the place with a shotgun and dynamite and takes his former boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.…
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Destiny, comedy film, drama film
Henry "Hank" Chinaski is working toward becoming a writer while struggling with alcoholism and holding various menial jobs. The film follows Chinaski as he works at, and gets fired from, various jobs, which include cleaning a massive sculp…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
During World War II, U.S. Army lieutenant Ken Wilocek is shot in the back by a sniper, injuring his spinal cord. In the years that follow, he faces a series of ongoing struggles in accepting his condition, in rehabilitation and in reenteri…
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Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Historie, Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
left|thumb|Screenshot of Charles Boyer and Bette Davis from the film's original trailer Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French woman, starts teaching at an American girls school. She is confronted by the tales and gossip about h…
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Destiny, Drama, exploitation film
Justine is a young virgin thrown out of a French orphanage and into the depraved world of prostitution. She slips into a life of debauchery, torture, whipping, slavery and salaciousness, while her brazen, flirtatious and libertine sister J…
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Destiny, Drama, Romance Film, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Big House (1930) Kent (Robert Montgomery), a drunk driver who carelessly kills a man, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is place…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, drama film
Marilyn Vine, from suburban Connecticut, is grieving the tragic death of her son Dale, which has caused a deep emotional rift in her marriage to Greg. This is because he died on a motorbike his father had gifted him on his 15th birthday. O…
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Destiny, drama film
In April 1957, engineer Walter Faber is waiting to board a flight from Caracas, Venezuela to New York City when he meets a German, Herbert Hencke, who reminds him of an old friend. Before takeoff, Walter decides not to board the airplane, …
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Destiny, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film
Trash follows Joe (Joe Dallesandro), a heroin addict wandering through New York City over the course of a single day. Living with his dramatic but devoted girlfriend Holly (Holly Woodlawn), Joe has a series of chaotic encounters. Their Low…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, drama film
Emily Ann Faulkner is born into poverty in the South, has no father, no friends, and is unloved by her indifferent mother, Laureen, who does not want to be tied down by a child. As a teenager, Emily is socially ostracized by the local town…
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