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High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, romantic comedy film, teen film
After being homeschooled her entire life and having spent the last twelve years in Africa, 16-year-old Cady Heron begins her first day at North Shore High School. She has trouble making friends and is put down by the teachers on her first …
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Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film
In 1945, Grace Stewart resides in a remote country house in Jersey, a Channel Island formerly occupied by the Germans. As her young children, Anne and Nicholas, suffer from a severe sensitivity to light, Grace keeps the home darkened with …
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1979, World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) is owned by retired professional wrestler Fritz Von Erich, who once dreamed of winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Fritz has five sons with his wife Doris, from oldest to young…
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Drama, Satire, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, war film
During the latter stages of World War II, in the fictional city of Falkenheim, Nazi Germany, ten-year-old Johannes "Jojo" Betzler joins the Deutsches Jungvolk. Heavily indoctrinated by Nazism, he has an imaginary friend named Adolf, a buff…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In 1991, Charlie, who has suffered from clinical depression since childhood, has been discharged from a psychiatric hospital. Uneasy about beginning his freshman year of high school, he is painfully shy and only manages to make friends wit…
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Destiny, comedy drama, drama film, female buddy film
Annelle Dupuy, a shy beauty school graduate, moves to Chinquapin Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where Truvy Jones hires her to work in her home-based beauty salon. Meanwhile, M'Lynn Eatenton and her daughter, Shelby, prepare for Shelby'…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1958 New York City, shipbuilding magnate Herbert Greenleaf, believing Tom Ripley attended Princeton with his son, Dickie, pays Tom $1,000 to travel to Italy and persuade him to return to the United States. Taking an ocean liner first-cl…
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Fairy-Tale Film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, musical film, romance film
Snow White is a princess born to a benevolent king and queen, named for a snowstorm on the day of her birth. She grows up happily as her parents share prosperity with their subjects, but the queen dies of an illness and the king remarries.…
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Political Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, political film
In 2008, Ella McCay, the lieutenant governor of an unnamed state, is told by her mentor, Governor Bill Moore, that he is accepting a cabinet position in the forthcoming presidential administration. Moore resigns immediately, leaving Ella t…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film
Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives wit…
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Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film
Panem is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation divided into twelve districts ruled by the Capitol. As punishment for a failed rebellion 74 years earlier, each district must annually select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages…
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LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Alex and Marcus, a young couple, wake up together and discuss their relationship, as well as an upcoming party, while in the nude. Marcus voices concern about Alex's ex, Pierre, also being invited because he "stole his girl", to which Alex…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Cellular biology professor and former US Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She recounts her expedition to an anomalous zone known as the Shimmer. The Shimmer began expanding three years prior from a meteor that crash-landed at the …
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Drama, Japanese Animation Film, War Film
In March 1945, American bombers destroy most of Kobe during the waning days of the Pacific War. Seita and his sister Setsuko, children of an Imperial Japanese Navy captain, survive, but their mother dies. She is cremated in a mass grave ou…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, flashback film
Remy, a young anthropomorphic rat with heightened senses of taste and smell, dreams of becoming a chef like his human idol, the late Auguste Gusteau. Conversely, the rest of his colony, including his older brother Émile and their father, D…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1970, Farrokh Bulsara, a baggage handler at Heathrow Airport, sees Smile, a local college band, perform at a pub. Seeking them out after the show, he meets and is attracted to Mary Austin, who works at the boutique Biba. Farrokh finds d…
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Action, Auto Racing, Biographical picture, Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1963, Ford Motor Company vice president Lee Iacocca proposes to Henry Ford II to boost their car sales by purchasing Ferrari, who are dominant in the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans. Owner Enzo Ferrari uses Ford's offer to secure a deal with…
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker plans to propose to Mary Jane Watson, who has made her Broadway debut. While he is on a date with her in Central Park, an extraterrestrial symbiote oozes out of a fallen meteorite and attaches to his moped. Harry Osborn, knowi…
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Empire Awards - Winner, Exorcism Film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In northern Iraq, priest Lankester Merrin takes part in an archaeological dig in the ancient ruins of Hatra. During the dig, he finds a stone talisman of a winged being that evokes a concerned look on his face. He then visits an ancient st…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, tech noir, thriller film
In 2027, total human infertility has led to wars and global depression, pushing civilization to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The UK has transformed into a totalitarian police state in which asylum seekers are arreste…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, trial film, vigilante film
In 1984 in Clanton, Mississippi, ten-year-old African-American girl Tonya Hailey is abducted, raped, and beaten by two local white men, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, while on her way home from getting groceries. The duo dump her in a ne…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1981, Arthur Fleck is a party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian who lives with his mother, Penny, in crime-ridden Gotham City. He suffers from a neurological disorder that causes him to have random, uncontrollable laughing fits, for …
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BDSM-themed film, Drama, Erotic Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, erotic film, romance film
Twenty-one year old Anastasia "Ana" Steele is an English literature major at Washington State University Vancouver in Vancouver, Washington. When her roommate, Kate Kavanagh, catches a cold and is unable to interview Christian Grey, a twen…
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Military Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1992, a famine in southern Somalia induced by the civil war leads the United Nations Security Council to authorize a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. Conflict ensues between UNOSOM II and the Mogadishu-based militia loyal…
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