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Melodrama, drama film
thumb|left|The beach between Slea Head and Dunmore Head on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, a location where scenes for Ryan's Daughter were filmed. In August 1917, Rosy Ryan, only daughter of the local publican, widower Thom…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, docudrama, drama film, war film
In February 1966, while on a combat mission, Lieutenant Dieter Dengler, a German-born U.S. Navy pilot in squadron VA-145, flying from the carrier USS Ranger, is shot down in his Douglas A-1 Skyraider over Laos. He survives the crash, only …
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Drama, drama film
In Charlotte, North Carolina, 19-year old Isaiah Wright plays basketball and video games with his friends, but is negligent in his home life with chores. His mother Cynthia insists he get a job or move out, as he's passed on attending coll…
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Romance Film, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, sport film
The story is divided into four quarters, each one representing a different period in the lives of the protagonists. The first quarter takes place in 1981, when Monica and Quincy are children and become friends due to their shared love for …
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Drama, Fantasy, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, fantasy film
The film is told from the perspective of Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), as they explain their experience with a boy named Timothy (CJ Adams) in an effort to persuade an adoption agency to allow the couple to adopt a…
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Animation, Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film details the marriage of Ethel and Ernest Briggs from the 1920s to the 1970s, as they live through extraordinary events occurring in that period.
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Drama, drama film
In a working-class part of South East London live Raymond; his wife, Valerie; little daughter Michelle; brother-in-law, Billy; mother-in-law, Janet; and grandmother-in-law, Kathy. Billy is a drug addict. He hangs out with his heroin-addict…
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drama film, teen film
Haley Macklin (Jodelle Ferland) is an academically advanced high school student. She sees herself as an outsider because she has skipped a grade. Her intelligence and well-articulated contributions to class discussions cause her classmates…
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, drama film, romantic comedy
The story is told in three main story arcs, with most of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties, held at The Langham, hosted by Hannah and her husband, Elliot. Hannah, a renowned actress who now …
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
59-year-old Mike Flynt gets a second chance to play college football, where he becomes a linebacker.
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film, vigilante film
Sometime in 2008, Omar Aijaz, a young Indian man living in the United States, is arrested by the FBI after weapons are found in the trunk of a taxi registered to him. He is interrogated by Agent Roshan, a South Asian origin officer who has…
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pseudo-documentary
Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15, 1961, outside of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father is a construction worker and his mother a boutique shop owner who both attend church every Sunday. Looking for a c…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, children's film, comedy film, romance film
In 1959 Los Angeles, jingle writer Manny Singer is a recent widower with a young daughter, Molly, who, grieving the death of her mother Annie, refuses to speak. Manny decides to hire a housekeeper-nanny to help fill the void of his wife's …
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Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, flashback film, musical film
Sir Lionel, a knight of the Round Table, is killed foiling an assassination attempt on King Arthur by the evil Sir Ruber, who is then driven off by Excalibur, Arthur's sword. During Lionel's funeral, Arthur informs Lionel's widow Lady Juli…
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Drama, crime film, documentary film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik dresses in a police uniform, loads a van with home-made explosives, and drives to Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter in Oslo, Norway. He leaves the van outside the office of Prime…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head inflicted by a child soldier, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, …
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy film, drama film, science fiction film
In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts William "Hawk" Hawkins and Frank Corvin are testing a modified Bell X-2 when Hawk decides to break speed and altitude records. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrow…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film, romance film
In a flashback, Carol Young kicks her husband Richard out of their house over his alcoholism, despite Tessa's pleas for him to stay. In the present, Tessa and her boyfriend Hardin Scott bring a now-homeless Richard to their apartment. Tess…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Kristen Connor, a friendly but naïve white woman from Orange County, California, and Malik Williams, a black high-school track star on an athletic scholarship, both incoming freshmen at the fictional Columbus University, attend a dorm part…
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Crime, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
thumb|left|William Powell, Myrna Loy and Skippy (Asta) in The Thin Man Dorothy Wynant informs her inventor father Clyde of her upcoming wedding. Later, Clyde discovers that bonds worth $50,000, intended as a wedding gift for Dorothy, are m…
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Action, Drama, Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
In downtown Los Angeles, an earthquake strikes. Michael "Mike" Roark, the new director of the city's Office of Emergency Management, insists on coming to work to help with the crisis even though he has been on vacation with his daughter, K…
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Komödie, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
In 1966, various pirate radio stations broadcast to the United Kingdom from ships in international waters, specialising in rock and pop music not played on BBC Radio. Seventeen-year-old Carl, recently expelled from school, is sent to stay …
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Family Drama, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, melodrama
In 1930s French Indochina, a 15-year-old French girl lives with her family in poverty in a rural area. Her mother, widowed and depressed, is a schoolteacher who lost all her savings in a failed agricultural venture after being swindled by …
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Christmas film, Drama, Komödie, Musical, musical film
Jim Hardy, Ted Hanover, and Lila Dixon have a popular New York City song and dance act. On Christmas Eve, Jim prepares for his final performance before marrying Lila and retiring to a farm in Connecticut. Lila tells Jim she has fallen in l…
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