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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a patio home in suburban Pittsburgh. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a curmudgeonly, fastidious recluse. Pushed into retirement from his job at a st…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, buddy film, drama film
Maggie Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, enters the Hit Pit, a rundown boxing gym in Los Angeles operated by Frankie Dunn. Frankie is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer estranged from his daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her…
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Drama, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In Elk River, Minnesota, 16-year-old high-schooler Juno MacGuff discovers she is pregnant after sleeping with her friend and longtime admirer Paulie Bleeker. Originally intending to get an abortion, Juno visits a local women's clinic and e…
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In March 2018, amidst the war in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant John Kinley and his unit are caught off-guard by a truck bomb attack orchestrated by the Taliban during a routine vehicle inspection at Lashkargah, whic…
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Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
In Waterloo, Ontario in 1996, Research in Motion (RIM) CEO Mike Lazaridis and his best friend and co-founder Douglas Fregin prepare to pitch their "PocketLink" cellular device to businessman Jim Balsillie. Their pitch is unsuccessful, but …
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Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime fiction, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, romantic horror film, thriller film
Ten years after the death of serial killer Jame Gumb and the escape of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is blamed for a botched drug raid that resulted in five deaths. The event attracts the a…
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Computeranimation, Drama, adventure film, drama film, family film, musical film
Some time after Simba defeated his usurping uncle Scar and became King of the Pride Lands, he and Nala have a daughter, Kiara, and are expecting another cub. They leave for an oasis for the birth, leaving Timon and Pumbaa to watch over Kia…
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Coming Of Age, Horror, coming-of-age film, drama film, horror film, melodrama, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural horror film, teen film, thriller film
16-year-old Carrie White is a shy high school student who is frequently bullied by her peers. When Carrie experiences her first period while showering after gym class, she panics, having never been taught about menstruation. Her female cla…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Throughout the film, the main narrative is intercut with footage of an elderly janitor working at a high school, including scenes in which he sees students rehearsing Oklahoma! and watches a romantic comedy film. A young woman (whose occup…
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Christmas film, Fairy-Tale Film, Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Social Drama, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
One snowy evening, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter the story of a young man named Edward, who has scissor blades for hands. Many years earlier, Peg Boggs, a door-to-door Avon saleswoman, drives to the decrepit Gothic mansion where…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, independent film, romantic comedy film
After earning his bachelor's degree, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents' home in Pasadena, California. During his graduation party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's law partner, asks him to drive her home.
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Teen Horror Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
Teenager Tina Gray awakens from a terrifying nightmare in which a disfigured man wearing a bladed glove attacks her in a boiler room. Her mother points out the mysterious slashes on her nightgown. The following morning, Tina's best friend …
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Drama, Fantasy, Knights Tale, medieval film, speculative fiction film, sword and sorcery film
Gawain is awakened on Christmas morning in a brothel by his lover, a commoner woman named Essel. He returns to Camelot, following a scolding by his mother Morgan le Fay. Gawain attends a feast at the Round Table with his uncle the Lord, wh…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romance film
In 1948, longshoreman Frank Wheeler meets April at a party. He works as a cashier, and she wants to be an actress. Frank soon secures a sales position with Knox Machines, and he and April marry.
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, trial film
In 1993, Sam Dawson, a Starbucks barista with an intellectual disability, becomes the single father of Lucy Diamond Dawson, named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", following her abandonment by her mother, a homeless w…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy
Aspiring architect Tom Hansen works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. He meets Summer Finn, his boss Vance's new assistant. They bond over their similar musical tastes, and at a company-sponsored karaoke night, they di…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
In New York City, Nick Nikas struggles with a court-ordered therapy session in which Peter, a psychiatrist, attempts to determine the extent of his cognitive and social impairment, touching upon a violent incident with his grandmother. Nic…
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Family Saga, Melodrama, Western film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sick of betrayals the US government perpetrated on Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the Army, moving to a remote part of Montana. Along with One Stab, he builds a ranch and raises his family. Accompanying them are hired hand…
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Action, Historie, action film, historical drama, historical drama film
Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a rebellion against the tyranny of Richard II of England. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Socially awkward 16-year-old Napoleon Dynamite lives in Preston, Idaho, United States, with his grandmother, Carlinda, and his technology-addicted older brother, Kip. Napoleon's school days are spent doodling mythical creatures, dealing wi…
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Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, alternate history film, drama film, dystopian film, neo-noir, superhero film, vigilante film
In 1985, a man living in a Manhattan apartment watches news about escalating Cold War tensions and the response from five-term President Richard Nixon when an unknown assailant attacks and hurls him to the street below. Throughout the open…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
After an argument with her fiancé, a young woman named Michelle leaves her New Orleans apartment. That night, while driving through rural Louisiana, she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities. Suddenly, her car is struck o…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
In Los Angeles, Barry Egan is a bachelor who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. He has seven overbearing sisters who regularly ridicule and emotionally abuse him, and he leads a lonely life punctuat…
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Drama, Psychodrama, Romance Film, drama film, historical film, romance film
In December 1929, alcoholic World War I veteran Nick Carraway, undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, tells his doctor about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he ever met. The doctor suggests Nick tap into his passion and write dow…
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