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American football film, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 2002, retired Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster is found dead in his pickup truck, after years of self-mutilation and homelessness. Before his death, fellow former football player Justin Strzelczyk confides in Webster…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Drama, drama film
In 1911, Boy Charles, father to Boy Willie and Berniece, steals the piano from the Sutter family, the former enslavers of the Charles family. The piano, intricately carved with faces of African ancestors, represents the family’s heritage a…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Katie, a nurse, is unable to save the life of a patient in her care, despite attempting CPR. Some time later, Katie, referring to herself as Maud, has become a devout Roman Catholic and is working as a private palliative care nurse in an E…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, horror film, mystery film
Samantha "Sam" Kingston awakens on February 12, known as Cupid's day. She is picked up by her friends Lindsay, Ally, and Elody, who are excited about Sam's plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Rob that night. During a class lecture…
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Buddy Film, Coming Of Age, Criminal Comedy Film, Family Drama, Romance Film, Sitcom, Social Drama, buddy film, comedy film
Billy Hoyle is a former Tulane Green Wave basketball player who makes his living by hustling streetballers who assume he cannot play well because he is white. Sidney Deane is a talented but cocky player who is twice beaten by Billy. Billy …
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Historical drama
In the 17th-century Netherlands, young Petronella "Nella" Oortman moves into an Amsterdam home that her new husband, Johannes Brandt, shares with his sister, Marin, and their two servants Otto and Cornelia. She receives a cold reception fr…
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Erotic Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, struggling actor Jake Scully has recently lost his role as a vampire in a low-budget horror film after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. Upon returning home to discover his girlfriend Carol cheating on him, Scully splits…
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Biographical picture, biographical sports film, comedy drama, drama film
From a young age, Michael "Eddie" Edwards harbours Olympic aspirations. When his efforts to compete in the Summer Games fail, he tries out skiing in the Winter Games. Although skilled at the sport, he is rejected by British Olympic officia…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film
16-year-old Tyler Burnside lives with his Christian family in a small Kentucky town. The town and its residents are haunted by the memory of the Clovehitch Killer, an infamous serial killer who bound and strangled ten known female victims …
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, "Pelham 1-2-3," at different stations. Using their code names Mr. Blue, Mr.
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Drama, drama film
Left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife, Dad's life begins to unravel. Grief is messy and chaotic enough as it is, but when it takes the form of an unhinged and unwanted house guest—Crow—taunting him from the sh…
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Drama, drama film
Iris is a writer and college professor living in Manhattan coping with the recent suicide of her best friend and mentor, Walter. Through conversations between Iris, Walter's ex-wives, and his adult daughter, we learn of Walter's three trou…
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Crime, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
thumb|Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings 1966 After spending the night at a doss house, where he has taken pictures for a book of art photographs, photographer Thomas is late for a photo shoot with model Veruschka at his studio, which in …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, experimental film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, surrealist film, thriller film
In 1953, exterminator William Lee finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee is arrested by the police, and he begins hallucinating due to exposure to the insecticide. Lee believes he is a secre…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, Romance Film, drama film, hood film, romance film
Justice is a young African American woman living in South Central, Los Angeles, named by her deceased mother who became pregnant with her while attending law school. After her boyfriend Markell is fatally shot while they are on an outing a…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Vampirfilm, erotic film, erotic thriller, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
Miriam Blaylock is a vampire, seen in flashbacks drinking blood from victims in Ancient Egypt, who promises eternal life to humans chosen as her vampire lovers. Her current companion is John, a talented cellist whom she met in 18th-century…
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Crime, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1949, Los Angeles, crime boss Mickey Cohen has become the most powerful figure in the underworld in California and intends to expand his criminal enterprise to encompass the entire West Coast. The LAPD has not been able to stop his ruth…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film
Sophie is a young American woman who works for The New Yorker as a fact checker. She goes on a pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor to Verona, Italy. He is unmoved by the romance of Italy and monopolizes the holiday by using his time …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film
At dawn on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda members Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Ahmed al-Haznawi pray in a Newark, New Jersey hotel before boarding United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco. Among the passengers a…
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, Satire On Media, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In 1972, Larry Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go, a struggling strip club in Cincinnati. In a bid to improve his business, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club featuring nude photos of his strippers,…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film
In 1585, Catholic Spain, ruled by King Philip II, is the most powerful country in Europe. Seeing that the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth's life that occurred from the 1570s onwards had all failed, Pope Sixtus V approached King Phil…
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Biographical picture, drama film, musical film
In 1939, 16-year-old Judy Garland is told by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer on the set of The Wizard of Oz, that she has a gift other girls do not. Her singing talent is nearly unmatched while she is able to surpass the suc…
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Coming Of Age, Historical drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film
Several years after being expelled from Beecher Prep for his cruelty towards Auggie Pullman, 15-year-old Julian Albans has been transferred to Union Tech and Yates Academy. He is visited by his grandmother, from Paris; in response to Julia…
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