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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
In the fall of 1964, 30-year-old Glenn Holland is a talented musician and composer living in Portland, Oregon. He decides to take a position as a music teacher at John F. Kennedy High School, so he can spend more time with Iris, his young …
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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In 1895, a young immigrant couple is refused entry into Manhattan because they have consumption (Tuberculosis). When their infant son is not allowed entry into the country without them, the family is forced to return to their ship named Ci…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, drama film, musical film
Yentl Mendel is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her c…
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Heist, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Lynn Kang is a gifted Thai American high school student who receives a scholarship to an elite private school. After helping her classmate Grace cheat on a test, Lynn is approached by other students who offer to pay her for answers. Using …
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Musical, Romance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film, war film
During World War II, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines are preparing a counteroffensive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the islands of the South Pacific.
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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film
In 1997, Rachel Singer is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah's book, based on the account Rachel, Stefan, and David gave of the events in 1965. Concurrently, David is escorted from his apartment by …
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, science fiction film, teen film
In Los Angeles, Dark and Mel are a bisexual couple in an open relationship. Mel is dating a girl named Lucifer, whom Dark hates, while Dark is interested in a mysterious boy named Montgomery. Dark, Mel, and Lucifer meet up at a café they f…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1958, in the fictional small Irish town of Tyrellin, County Cavan, Eily Bergin leaves her newborn baby, Patrick Braden, on the doorstep of the local parochial house, where the baby's father, Father Liam, lives. Patrick is placed with an…
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Biographical picture, Justice Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, satanic film
In 1993, in the working class and deeply religious community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore – go missing from their neighborhood. After an extensive search, their …
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Drama, Stop Motion, adventure film, drama film, family film, fantasy film
A single mother and her young daughter move to a new neighborhood. The mother imposes a coaching life plan for the girl that leaves no time for playing or making friends, all for her to enroll at the prestigious Werth Academy. The girl, ho…
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Military Film, Psychodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, flashback film, mystery film, thriller film, war film
While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the fri…
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Drama, thriller film
Alice is enslaved on a 19th-century style plantation in Georgia, owned by Paul Bennet. Attempting to escape, she runs through a vast forest and emerges onto a Georgia highway in 1973. She meets Frank, a truck driver who helps her adjust to…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, psychological thriller, thriller film
Waitress Agnes White works at a lesbian bar while living in a run-down motel in rural Oklahoma. Unable to move on after the disappearance of her young son Lloyd nearly ten years before, Agnes binges on drugs and alcohol with her lesbian fr…
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Political Drama, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Henry Burton, a young political idealist and grandson of a civil rights leader, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United St…
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Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1999, Tommy "Buns" Bundy and Sincere ("Sin"), two young street criminals from Queens, New York, murder five people during a violent nightclub robbery along with two associates, Mark and Black. After celebrating with the gang, Sincere re…
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Drama, Komödie, children's film, comedy drama, spy film
Eleven-year-old aspiring spy and writer Harriet M. Welsch lives a privileged life in New York City with her parents, Violetta and Ben, and her nanny, Catherine "Ole Golly," in whom she confides. Harriet and her best friends, Simon "Sport" …
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Action, Family Saga, action film, adventure film, drama film, medieval film, romance film, war film
Set in the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, Lord Marke of Cornwall plans to unite the tribes of Britain – Celts, Picts, Angles, Saxons and Jutes – against Irish domination. Lord Aragon of Tantallon Castle leads the treaty nego…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
Wealthy planter John "Jack" Robert Sommersby left his farm to fight as a Confederate officer in the early days of the American Civil War and is presumed dead after six years. Despite the hardship of working their farm in Vine Hill, Tenness…
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Psychodrama, drama film
Lynsey, a soldier in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the Afghanistan War, is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. She undergoes physical therapy with a kindly professional caretaker, Sharon, and gradually regains her …
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Drama, drama film
Norma Rae Wilson is a worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on her family's health for her to ignore their poor working conditions. She is also a single mother with two children by different fathers, one dead and the ot…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler"). In 1948, …
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Komödie, Musical, Teen Comedy Film, drama film, musical film, teen film
High school freshmen Olivia White, Mohini "Mo" Banjaree, Charles "Charlie" Delgado, Stella Yamada, and Wendell "Wen" Gifford meet while in detention. When Miss Reznick, the music teacher supervising detention, leaves briefly, they tap out …
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Drama, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Erik is a thirteen-year-old loner who has just moved to a small town in Stillwater, Minnesota. Accompanying Erik is his newly divorced, emotionally abusive and neglectful workaholic mother, Gail. Erik and his eleven-year-old neighbor Dexte…
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Komödie, Romance Film, drama film, romantic comedy
In Chicago, Harper Stewart is an up-and-coming author whose debut novel, Unfinished Business, has been selected by Oprah's Book Club. Harper's devoted girlfriend Robyn is frustrated by his unwillingness to commit to her. Harper travels to …
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