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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Family Drama, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, katastrophe, science fiction film, thriller film
A narrator opens the film stating that extraterrestrials with immense intelligence have grown envious of humanity's dominion of Earth and are plotting against them. Charming but self-absorbed longshoreman Ray Ferrier works as a crane opera…
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Dark Comedy, Heist, Thriller, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Eight men planning to rob a jewelry store for a diamond shipment eat breakfast at a diner. To pull off the heist, boss Joe Cabot assembles six experienced robbers who are strangers to each other. Joe and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot, ha…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1975, a 19-year-old Anthony "Tony" Bourdain is a student at Vassar College who aspires to be a writer. He applies for a writing fellowship that would send him to New York City, and lies to his family, as well as his high school love int…
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, crime film, drama film
In 2013, Roberto Aguilar, a poor father of two from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is approached by a woman called Giselle. She offers to sign his young children, Rocío and Miguel Aguilar, to child modeling contracts. He accepts and takes them to …
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Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing human civilization to the brink of collapse. New York City ha…
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Western, Western film, anthology film, black comedy film, drama film
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy clad in white, arrives at an isolated cantina full of outlaws. He exchanges insults with another patron before shooting everyone as they reach for their guns. Buster …
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Gothic film, Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film, psycho-biddy, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, satanic film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent a recently vacated apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City, after the previous tenant, an elderly woman, fell into a coma and died. Guy and Rosemary ignore their friend Hutch's wa…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, cyberpunk, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1998, three years after the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah and John Connor have retreated to Livingston, Guatemala, where they are ambushed by a T-800 Terminator—one of several sent back through time by Skynet prior to its eras…
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Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1969, "the manager of Western Auto", Chase Andrews is found dead in the mud, at the bottom of a 63 ft tall metal fire tower from which he had fallen. The muddy bog floods at high tide, destroying any tracks from the killer and no finger…
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Destiny, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, biopunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the "not-too-distant" future, eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those so created as "valids" while those conceived naturally and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "in-valids". G…
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Historical drama, drama film, historical film
Twenty years after setting off to fight in the Trojan War and surviving many trials, Odysseus washes up naked on the shores of his home island Ithaca. He is found and tended to by the slaves Eumaeus and Yias. Odysseus is dispirited and tra…
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Drama, Horror comedy, comedy horror, flashback film, horror film
Arrogant best friends Wallace Bryton and Teddy Craft host a podcast called The Not-See Party, where they interview eccentric people. Wallace flies to Canada to interview the "Kill Bill Kid", who has become an internet sensation due to a vi…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film
Mark is a spy who returns home to West Berlin after a mission to discover that his wife, Anna, is seeing another man and wants to separate. Mark turns over their apartment and custody of their young son, Bob, to Anna. After a long drinking…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, romantic comedy
32-year-old Maddie Barker is an Uber driver and bartender in Montauk, New York. As she owes property taxes on the home she inherited from her mother, her car is being repossessed and she faces bankruptcy. Desperate to keep her home, Maddie…
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Dance Film, Musical, dance film, drama film, melodrama, musical film, romance film
In 1900 in Paris, Christian, a young writer depressed and grief-stricken about the recent death of the woman he loved, begins writing their story on his typewriter. A year earlier in 1899, he arrives in the Montmartre district of Paris to …
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Musical, Romantic Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film
In 1969 San Diego, child prodigy William Miller struggles to fit in with his peers. His mother Elaine, a widowed college professor, further complicates his life by starting him early in school and leading him to believe he is 13 years old,…
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Destiny, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, romance film
In 1992, five-year-old Jamal Malik, a resident of the Juhu slum in Mumbai, obtains Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's autograph after jumping into a cesspit; the crowds around Amitabh Bachchan are deterred by Jamal as he is covered head to …
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film, knight film, medieval film
While the plot of the film is portrayed in three separate chapters, each telling the same story from the perspective of the three main characters, the following description summarizes all three presentations into a single narrative: After …
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Zombiefilm, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
Former United Nations investigator Gerald "Gerry" Lane, his wife, Karin, and their two daughters, Rachel and Connie, are caught in traffic in downtown Philadelphia when a zombie outbreak hits. Escaping the ensuing chaos, they travel to New…
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Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Four lifelong friends from Charlestown, Boston—mild-mannered Doug MacRay, volatile James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy" MacGloan, and Desmond "Dez" Elden—rob a bank wearing latex skeleton masks. Against Doug's wishes, Jem takes bank mana…
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Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
In April 1997, 17-year-old White-American student Daniel "Danny" Vinyard antagonizes his Jewish history teacher Mr. Murray by writing an essay on Mein Kampf. School principal and outreach worker Dr.
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Cartoon, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Musical, Religious drama, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, romance film, sword-and-sandal film
In Ancient Egypt, the enslaved Hebrew people pray to God for deliverance. Pharaoh Seti, fearing that the growing numbers of Hebrews could lead to rebellion, orders a mass infanticide of all newborn Hebrew boys. Yocheved and her children, M…
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, time-travel film
After helping Bruce Wayne / Batman and Diana Prince / Wonder Woman stop a robbery in Gotham City, Barry Allen / The Flash revisits his childhood home, where he lived with his parents Nora and Henry, before Henry's wrongful imprisonment for…
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