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Monster Film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. U.S. Army Col.
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Drama, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who travels to Earth from a distant planet. Landing in New Mexico, he appears as an Englishman. Newton has arrived on Earth on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing …
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Adventure, Animalhorror, Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Frederick Wilson, an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms an expedition based on infrared imagery, which reveals a previously undiscovered Indian Ocean island hidden by a permanent cloud bank. Wilson believes the island has a huge oi…
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American football film, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Brandon Lang is a former college football star based in Las Vegas who, after sustaining a career-ending knee injury, takes a job handicapping football games to support his mother and younger brother. His success at selecting winners catche…
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Christmas film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, transgender film
Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day jail sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra reveals that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp Ch…
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Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Irish-American Terry Noonan returns to Hell's Kitchen in New York City after a long absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery is involved in an Irish crime organization run by older brother Frank. Terry rekindles an…
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Action, Destiny, Family Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Melodrama, Musical
Deep within the secluded island village of Mandwa, the village chief aspires to set up a drug empire by borrowing land from villagers (after lying to them that it will be used to expand the local salt industry). The villagers are warned of…
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Crime, Family Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In April 1969, Lou Jean Poplin visits her incarcerated husband, Clovis Michael Poplin, to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster parents. Even though he is four months away from being released from prison, she co…
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Musical, drama film, musical film, romance film
Esther Blodgett is an aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former matinée idol whose career is beginning to decline. When he arrives intoxicated at a function at the Shrine Auditorium, studio publicist Matt Libby attempts to …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Justice Drama, drama film, hood film, prison film, sport film
Jesus Shuttlesworth, the top high-school basketball player in the United States, is being pursued by the top college basketball programs in the nation. His father, Jake, is a convicted felon serving time at Attica Correctional Facility for…
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Gangster Film, Musical, Thriller, crime film, drama film, musical film
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero, the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. Sandman Williams, a dancer from Dixie's neighborhood, and his brother Cla…
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Animalhorror, Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Cujo, a friendly and easygoing St. Bernard, chases a wild rabbit and inserts his head into a cave, where a rabid bat bites him on the nose. The Trenton family—advertising executive Vic, housewife Donna, and young son Tad—take their car to …
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drama film
In 1908, Grete, a determined young German woman, applies to become one of the first female students admitted to the Marburg University. During her entrance examination, the botanic department professor's board attempts to humiliate her wit…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1952, 10-year-old Aretha Franklin lives with her father C.L., pastor of Detroit's largest Baptist church, and her siblings Cecil, Erma, and Carolyn. Aretha's father often has her sing for parties at their home, while her mother Barbara,…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Komödie, Romantic Comedy
The story revolves 3 roommates, journalist Tashi Lhatoo, photographer Nitin Berry and cartoonist Arup Rather, leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shady apartment in Delhi. Tashi's ditzy fiancée, Sonia, is a flight attendant who ag…
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Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, romantic comedy
Advertising executive Marcus Graham is a serial womanizer, prone to lying to seduce women but unwilling to commit until he finds the "perfect woman." His friends Tyler and Gerard tell him his standards are too high, particularly his habit …
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Drama, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
In Billings, Montana, a quiet, elderly man named Woody Grant is arrested for walking on the Interstate. He is picked up by his son, David, who learns that he was attempting to walk to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect a one-million-dollar swee…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, war film
Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old US Army specialist from Texas, is caught on camera dragging mortally wounded, Sergeant Virgil "Shroom" Breem, to safety during an intense firefight in Iraq, on October 23, 2004. This act of courage earns Lynn the …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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Komödie, Musical, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, musical film, romantic comedy
Lalita Bakshi, a young woman living in Amritsar, India, is invited with her family to a friend's wedding. There Lalita meets Will Darcy, a handsome and wealthy American, long-time friend of the Indian-British barrister Balraj and his siste…
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Drama, contemporary Western film, drama film
By 1979, Texan rodeo star Mike Milo has retired due to a severe back injury. The following year, his former boss Howard Polk, a ranch owner, hires him to travel to Mexico City and bring Howard's 15-year-old son, Rafo, to live with him. He …
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Crime, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In 2015, TifAni "Ani" FaNelli, a respected New York women's magazine columnist, appears to have a picture-perfect life. As she prepares to marry her fiancé Luke Harrison, Ani meets with Aaron Wickersham, a documentary director who is makin…
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Romance Film, romantic drama film
The film follows Charlotte, a woman searching for a spark in her life, who experiences a whirlwind night of romance with a man she meets. The next morning, she notices him acting weird and asks him about it, but he lashes out at her and sh…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film, war film
British Army Colonel Katherine Powell discovers an undercover British/Kenyan agent has been murdered by the Al-Shabaab group. From Northwood Headquarters, she takes command of a mission to capture three of the ten highest-level Al-Shabaab …
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