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Action, Historie, Monumental Film, Romance Film, Swords and Sandals, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In 1184 BC, King Agamemnon unites the Greek kingdoms. Achilles, a mighty warrior, fights for Agamemnon but is sickened by his brutal leadership. Meanwhile, Prince Hector of Troy and his brother Paris forge a peace treaty with Menelaus, Kin…
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Documentation, documentary film
On June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, Ajike "AJ" Shantrell Owens was shot and killed by Susan Lorincz. The film explores disputes leading up to the shooting by using bodycam footage. It includes footage from a selection of the multiple times…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Melania covers the personal experiences of Melania Trump in the 20 days before the second inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. It begins with a voiceover by Melania, who says the purpose of the film is "to show the American pe…
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Drama, Found Footage, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Psychological Thriller, found footage film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction
In October 1994, film students Heather, Mike, and Josh set out to produce a documentary about the mythical Blair Witch. They travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, and interview residents about the myth. Locals tell them of Rustin Parr, a herm…
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, adventure film, mockumentary, time-travel film
In 2008, Toronto musicians Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol form Nirvanna the Band in the hopes of playing a show at the Rivoli. Seventeen years later, they have still not secured a show, with their schemes repeatedly failing. Matt proposes a…
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, mockumentary
Around forty years after the first film, director Marty DiBergi creates a documentary of the reunion/final show of legendary rock band Spın̈al Tap, including original members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls. He visits Hop…
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documentary film
Age of Disclosure includes interviews with former and present United States elected, military, and intelligence officials, along with ufologists, government associates, and fringe scientists who claim, in some cases for decades, that the U…
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Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
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Arranged Documentary, Dark Comedy, Fake Documentary, Road Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, mockumentary, parody film
At the behest of the Kazakh Ministry of Information, reporter Borat Sagdiyev leaves Kazakhstan to make a documentary about American society and culture. Leaving behind his wife Oksana, and accompanied by his producer Azamat Bagatov, and a …
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Fake Documentary, Thriller, drama film, mockumentary
In September 2024, at the tail end of the Brat Summer phenomenon and the apex of her fame, British pop artist Charli XCX prepares to begin rehearsals for her arena tour debut while still regularly promoting the Brat album. Despite the fact…
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Arranged Documentary, Mondo film, Shockumentary, Splatter Film, cannibal film, documentary film, exploitation film, horror film, snuff film
After performing an autopsy, pathologist Francis B. Gröss tells the viewer that he is interested in the transitional periods of life and death thanks to a recurring dream. At the same time, his experience as a pathologist has desensitized …
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Action, Fake Documentary, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, adventure film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, mockumentary, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1982, an extraterrestrial mothership arrives and hovers over Johannesburg, South Africa. Inside, an investigation team finds over a million starved insectoid and crustacean-like aliens and the South African government voluntarily reloca…
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Action, Found Footage, Monster Film, action-adventure film, disaster film, fantasy film, found footage film, kaiju, katastrophe, pseudo-documentary, science fantasy, science fiction action film, thriller film
The footage from a personal camcorder is recovered by the U.S. Department of Defense in the area "formerly known as Central Park", bearing a disclaimer about multiple sightings of a case designated "Cloverfield". On April 27, 2008, Rob Haw…
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Crime, Documentation, Drama, documentary film
Kurt Kuenne and Andrew Bagby grew up as close friends in the suburbs of San Jose, California. Bagby acted in many of Kuenne's amateur movies and, as these films became more professional in quality, he invested in them with some of the mone…
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Documentation, documentary film
The director, Dan Reed, described Leaving Neverland as a "study of the psychology of child sexual abuse, told through two ordinary families ... groomed for twenty years by a pedophile masquerading as a trusted friend." In the film, Wade Ro…
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Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime film, legal thriller, thriller film, trial film
Mitch McDeere, a top Harvard Law School graduate, accepts a lucrative offer from boutique law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke in Memphis, Tennessee. After he and wife Abby relocate there, he prepares for the Tennessee bar exam. Senior partne…
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Fake Documentary, Horror, crime film, found footage film, horror film
The film is presented as a documentary, featuring interviews with police and FBI officials. Police officers raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they discover over 800 videotapes created by serial killer Edward Carver, which prese…
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Coming Of Age, Found Footage, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, found footage film, pseudo-documentary, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
In Seattle, teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied in school, abused by his alcoholic father Richard, and his mother Karen has cancer. The family struggles with medical debt after Richard loses his firefighter job. Andrew’s only friend is his c…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
John Candy began his career on the sketch comedy series Second City Television before becoming one of the most popular and beloved stars of comedy films until his death of a heart attack in 1994. The film relies primarily on rare and never…
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Animal Documentary, Arranged Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Herzog used sequences extracted from more than 100 hours of video footage shot by Treadwell during the last five years of his life. He also conducted and filmed interviews with Treadwell's family and friends, as well as bear and nature exp…
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Five dogs and their owners, trainers, and handlers travel to Philadelphia to compete in the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. Gerry and Cookie Fleck are a middle-class couple from Florida who arrive at the Taft Hotel with their Norwich Terri…
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True Crime, crime film, documentary film
Biographical documentary, Concert film, documentary film
Drama Documentary, documentary film
As the film begins, Spurlock is in above-average physical shape, according to his personal trainer. He is seen by three physicians (cardiologist Stephen Siegel, gastroenterologist/hepatologist Lisa Ganjhu, and general practitioner Daryl Is…
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