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Coming Of Age, Forensic, Mafia Film, Social Drama, buddy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, prison film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, trial film
In the summer of 1967, Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan and John Reilly are childhood friends living in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. At that time, the boys start running small errands for local gangster "King" Ben…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1952, Haddon Township, New Jersey, Jewish couple Mitzi and Burt Fabelman take their young son Sammy to see his first film: The Greatest Show on Earth. Dazzled by a train scene, Sammy asks for a model set for Hanukkah, which he crashes l…
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War Film, drama film, war film
On 6 April 1917, aerial reconnaissance has observed that the Imperial German Army, which has pulled back from a sector of the Western Front in northern France, is not in retreat—as had been supposed—but has made a strategic withdrawal to t…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, satanic film, thriller film
During World War II, while serving in the Solomon Islands, U.S. Marine Willard Russell and his patrol find Gunnery Sergeant Miller Jones skinned and crucified by Japanese soldiers. As the patrol examines his dog tag, Jones becomes consciou…
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
Eight-year-old Carl Fredricksen idolizes famed explorer Charles Muntz, who is discredited when a giant bird skeleton he brought back from Paradise Falls in South America is deemed fake. Muntz travels back to the falls, vowing not to return…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, report for an all-day detention: socially awkward nerd Brian Johnson, jock Andrew Clark, shy loner Allison Reynolds, popular girl Claire Standish, and …
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Adventure, Animation, Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
A storm causes a Universal Dynamics cargo ship to lose six ROZZUM robots, which wash up on an uninhabited island. Only Unit 7134 survives and is accidentally activated by wildlife. "Roz" is called a monster by the frightened wildlife and i…
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Coming Of Age, Military Film, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. The platoon is commanded by the young and inexperienced Lieutenant Wolfe, wh…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Super Hero, action film, neo-noir, superhero film
Newspaper reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of "Batman", a masked vigilante targeting Gotham City's criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, who is secretly Batman, h…
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Horror, Social Drama, adventure television series, horror television series
During a heavy rainstorm in Derry, Maine, in the spring of 1960, George Denbrough plays in the streets with a paper sailboat made by his stuttering older brother, Bill. It falls into a storm drain, where Georgie encounters Pennywise the Da…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film
In 1947, young author Stingo moves to Brooklyn to write a novel and is befriended by neighbors Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau. Nathan is constantly jealous, and when he is in one o…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film
In a near future Los Angeles, Theodore Twombly is a lonely, introverted man who works for a business that hires professional writers to compose letters for people who are unable to write letters of a personal nature on their own. Depressed…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, magic realist film, melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy, science fiction film
thumb|A private home in Woodstock, Illinois, was used for exteriors of the Cherry Street Inn, the fictional location in which Phil awakens every morning in the film.|alt=A white house with a green roof. It is set back from a lawn and surro…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
Los Angeles Detective Graham Waters and his partner, Ria, are involved in a minor car collision with Kim Lee. Ria and Kim Lee exchange racially charged insults. Later, Waters arrives at a crime scene, where he discovers an unidentified cor…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film
Megan Stewart and Amy Herman are 14-year-old best friends from North Hollywood who went missing in January 2007. An unidentified, seemingly tech-savvy and omniscient narrator has assembled web-chat recordings, home movies, news reports and…
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Detective Film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film
Flashback to Belgium at the Yser Bridge on October 31, 1914, in the front lines of World War I. Hercule Poirot's captain has been given a mission considered certain death for all of his men. Poirot suggests his captain follow a strategy th…
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Dramedy, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
Tim Lake grows up in Cornwall with his father James, mother Mary, uncle Desmond, and younger sister Katherine ("Kit Kat"). The morning after a less-than-great New Year’s Eve party, James tells Tim that the men of their family can travel ba…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Melodrama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson and a fellow policeman chase a crook on the roofs of several houses; Scottie slips and nearly falls. His colleague attempts to rescue Scottie, but falls to his death. Some time later, Scottie…
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Mysterie, action film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, superhero film, suspense film, thriller film
Superhuman David Dunn and his son Joseph track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with multiple personalities called The Horde, to an abandoned factory near Philadelphia. Kevin holds four cheerleaders hostage to feed The Beast, a superhuman person…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
On May 10, 1998, in Richmond, Virginia, high school student Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object in the night sky at his astronomy club's star party. His picture is sent to Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on a collision co…
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Action, Historie, War Film, action film, drama film, historical film, war film
In 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Martin, a French and Indian War veteran and a widower with seven children, is called to Charles Town (Charleston, South Carolina) to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a …
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy film
NYU economics professor Rachel Chu and her boyfriend Nick Young fly to Singapore for his best friend Colin Khoo and Araminta Lee's wedding. Flying first class, Nick confesses his family is wealthy but insists they will love her. After they…
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy improvement over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Ch…
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Historie, Justice Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
In 1815, French prisoner Jean Valjean is released from the Bagne of Toulon after a nineteen-year sentence for stealing bread and attempting to escape the sentence. His paroled status prevents him from finding work or accommodation, but he …
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