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Comedy, Comedy drama, teen film, Teen Comedy Film
Contemplating suicide, depressed teenager Craig Gilner seeks help at a local hospital. After telling a doctor named Dr. Mahmoud that he needs immediate help, Craig is admitted for five days at the hospital's adult psychiatric floor, due to the temporary closure of the psychiatric floor for adolescents.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Mysterie, trial film
Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony's Happy Valley region often led hedonistic lifestyles of indulgence in alcohol, drugs, and extramarital relationships. On 24 January 1941, Josslyn Hay, the philandering Earl of Erroll, was found dead in his car in a secluded area, with his reputation for adulterous relationships preceding him. One such married woman is Diana Delves Broughton, the beautiful wife of Sir John Henry Delves Broughton, known as "Jock", who is thirty years her senior, with whom she has a pre-nuptial understanding that, should either of them fall in love with someone else, the other party would not…
Drama, Family Drama
In Marin County, California, writer George Dunlap and his wife Faith are an unhappy couple who live with their daughters Sherry, Jill, Marianne, and Molly in a farmhouse that George has refurbished. George is preparing to attend an awards banquet in his honor, when he makes a phone call to Sandy, a single mother with whom he has begun an affair. Sherry, the oldest of the four children, picks up the phone and listens in on the conversation.
art film, Crime, Drama
Cosmo Vittelli owns and operates a strip club, Crazy Horse West, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Though Cosmo spends a great deal of time and effort designing and choreographing the venue's artistic burlesque act, he fears his customers are there only to see the naked bodies of his strippers. Cosmo makes the final payment on a seven-year gambling debt to a loan shark named Marty, and in return invites him and his mob associates to the club's night act.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Crime, Tragicomedy
College dropout Ross is a customer of Spider Mike, a methamphetamine dealer. Spider Mike and his girlfriend Cookie argue in their apartment while Ross strikes up a conversation with Nikki, a fellow addict, in the living room. Nikki takes Ross to meet her boyfriend, "The Cook", who supplies Spider Mike with drugs from a meth lab he has set up in a motel room.
Action, Adventure, Drama, medieval film, war film
A prologue describes how the barons of England, aided by the Knights Templar, fought against the tyrannical King John in a war that lasted more than three years. The war ended with King John signing Magna Carta, a document granting rights to all English freemen. John regrets signing Magna Carta and in retaliation hires an army of pagan Danish mercenaries under the leadership of warlord Tiberius to restore his absolute authority.
Comedy, Drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama
Time-and-motion study and efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. and his wife, psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth, raise 12 children in 1920s Providence, Rhode Island and Montclair, New Jersey. Frank employs unorthodox teaching methods with his children, who clash with their parents.
Action, Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, romance film
A prison bus flips on the road when it's cut off by a car driven by Billy, who frees prisoner and partner-in-crime Sam Gillen. They escape in the car but Billy is fatally shot by a guard. Sam buys some food from a roadside store and camps near a pond.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Pearl Kantrowitz and her husband Marty are a lower middle class Jewish couple in New York City. For the summer of 1969, the couple go on their annual vacation at Dr. Fogler's Bungalows in the Catskills with their family, which includes teen daughter Alison, young son Danny, and Marty's mother Lillian.
Biography, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
In 1929, in New York City, Maxwell Perkins is a successful editor at Scribner's and discoverer of great authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. He lives in a "cottage"—actually, a mansion—just outside the city with his wife and five daughters.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Martial arts
In London, British-Pakistani teen Ria Khan aspires to become a movie stunt performer like her idol, Eunice Huthart. Under an alter ego, "the Fury", Ria creates films of martial arts training with the help of her older sister, Lena, who has dropped out of art school and moved back in with their loving but traditional parents, Fatima and Rafe, both of them discouraging Ria's dreams. At school, Ria is inseparable from her friends Clara and Alba, but their disapproving teacher urges her to pursue a more "serious" career.
Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller
Christian is a wealthy young man who produces low-budget horror films. At the start of the film, he is having dinner with his girlfriend, Tara, his personal assistant, Gina, and her boyfriend, Ryan. Christian has recently secured a leading role for Ryan in one of his films.
Crime, Drama
Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
Iris Chapman is a timid young woman who takes a temporary job at Global Credit, a credit company. She soon befriends assertive and cynical fellow temp Margaret Burrell, who teaches Iris the many ways to deal with the crummy world of temping. She introduces Iris to two other temps: aspiring actress Paula eagerly awaits post-work happy hours and the chance to flirt with attractive men; and naive Jane, who is engaged to marry Derrick, a man who makes up for his abusive behavior by buying her gifts.
Animal horror, Drama, Horror, monster film, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Zombie
Dr. Jennifer "Jenny" Pailey brings her sister Lisa to Snowfield, Colorado, a small ski resort village nestled in the Rocky Mountains where Jenny works. There, the sisters find no one around but some corpses.
Drama, Western
"Johnny Guitar" Logan arrives in a remote Arizona cattle town and heads to a saloon to see its owner, Vienna, a strong-willed woman and his former lover. Shortly after his arrival, the town locals, who Vienna has a tense relationship with because of her support of a nearby railroad being built, confront her for her working relationship with the "Dancin' Kid" and his gang, who they have accused of robbing the town stagecoach and killing local Emma Small's brother. The Dancin' Kid is Vienna's former lover, while Emma desires the Dancin' Kid's affections and loathes Vienna because of this.
Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, historical film
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times. Noting similarities between statues found in South America and the Polynesian moai, Heyerdahl's theory about the origin of the Polynesian people is bolstered by Polynesian folklore that tells of an ancient tribe called the Hanau epe that are said to have once inhabited Easter Island.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
In Tanganyika, the Momella Game Company captures animals for zoos and circuses using off-road vehicles, lassos, and cages. The crew consists of French owner Brandy de la Court; Irish-American Sean Mercer, who heads the capture expeditions; retired German race car driver Kurt Müller; Mexican bullfighter Luis Francisco García López; Native American sharpshooter Little Wolf ( "the Indian"); zoophobic former New York City cab driver "Pockets"; and several native Tanganyikans. During the captures, Kurt and the Indian drive a herding jeep to force animals toward a larger capture truck driven by Pockets.
Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
Erica Benton works part-time at a SoHo art gallery and is in a seemingly happy marriage to Martin, a successful businessman. They live together with their teenage daughter Patti in an upscale apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Martin, however, has been having a year-long affair with a much younger woman named Marcia.
Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller
In 1997, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm testifies at the trial of suspected serial killer Jon Forster. Gramm's testimony and expert psychiatric opinion are crucial in Forster's conviction for the attempted killing of Janie Cates and the murder of her twin sister Joanie, who was drugged with halothane, hanged upside down and killed after the murderer invaded the sisters' apartment.
Drama
Part one David Copperfield is born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, three months after the death of his father, who was also called David Copperfield. On the night of David's birth, his great-aunt Betsey Trotwood arrives at the the Copperfield family and eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby girl. She insists that Clara Copperfield's baby must be called Betsey Trotwood Copperfield and that she will be her godmother.
Comedy, Drama, Heist, romance film, romantic comedy
Paxton and Linda, a disgruntled couple in London during the COVID-19 pandemic in London lockdown, face personal and professional challenges. Paxton's criminal past limits his job options, while Linda struggles with her role in laying off employees. They contemplate stealing a valuable diamond from Harrods but delay the decision until they have it in their possession.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Al Roberts, an unemployed pianist, arrives at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada after hitching a ride. He becomes upset at a customer for playing a song on the jukebox, as it reminds him of his time squandering his talent at a cheap nightclub in New York City. When his girlfriend and the nightclub's lead singer Sue Harvey quits her job and leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, Al becomes depressed.
Drama, Post-apocalyptic, romance film, Science fiction
Sometime beyond AD 2600, long after humanity has been wiped out by an unknown extinction event, a weather buoy awakens and makes contact with a passing satellite, left in orbit to greet any lifeform that encounters Earth. The lonely buoy declares itself a lifeform, and searches the satellite's petabytes of information to learn about human life. Using private browsing to hide the truth from the satellite, the buoy discovers its own origins as a smart device deployed in 2025, and comes across the social media channel of an influencer named Deja, with videos of her happy life with her husband, Liam.