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Drama, Family Drama, drama film
In St. Petersburg, Florida, seven-year-old Mary Adler, a mathematical genius, lives with her uncle and de facto guardian, Frank. Her best friend is her 43-year-old neighbor, Roberta Taylor.
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Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, drama film, girls with guns, science fiction film
Lucy is an American studying in Taipei. Her new boyfriend Richard coerces her into delivering a briefcase containing four bags of the highly valuable synthetic drug CPH4 to Mr. Jang, a South Korean drug lord, at the Regent Taipei.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
In 1928, a solitary mountaineer exploring the Karakoram mountains in India encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere is gone and there is a scar on his hand. In the present day, a rapidly moving obje…
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, thriller film
In 1993, wealthy Whidbey Island residents Libby and Nick Parsons appear to live an idyllic Pacific Northwest life with their four-year-old son, Matty. At a lavish private school fundraiser hosted at their waterfront mansion, Nick presents …
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Drama, drama film
After co-moderating the 2016 Republican debate, Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump, who is angry because she asked him about his offensive misogynistic comments. Under pressure from the network, and after receiving death …
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Monster Film, Mysterie, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, romantic horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 19th-century Pennsylvania, a small, remote village lives in fear of nameless humanoid creatures, known only as "Those We Do Not Speak Of", that inhabit the surrounding woods. Staffed watchtowers and tall poles with oil lamps line the vi…
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Animation, Coming Of Age, Komödie, children's film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy film, melodrama, musical film, romance film
Under the Atlantic Ocean, in the kingdom of Atlantica, the young mermaid Ariel is fascinated by the human world and collects human artifacts in her grotto. With her best friend Flounder, they both visit Scuttle, a dimwitted seagull who giv…
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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Erotic Film, Marital Tragedy, Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller
Constance "Connie" and Edward Sumner have a generally happy marriage together and live in upscale Westchester County, New York with their eight year old son, Charlie. While shopping in SoHo, the wind knocks Connie into a young, handsome Fr…
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
On a beach in Pigeon Creek, Alabama, 10-year-olds Jake Perry and Melanie Smooter inspect the result of lightning striking sand. He asserts they are soulmates who will be married. In the present, Melanie is a New York fashion designer using…
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Drama, Road Movie, drama film, road movie
In 2011, Fern loses her job after the closure of the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada; she had worked there for years along with her husband, who recently died. Fern sells most of her belongings for a van to live in and travels the countr…
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Fairy-Tale Film, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, dark fantasy, drama film, family film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic drama, teen film
Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm. As a child, she meets a human boy named Stefan, and they fall in love with each other. However, as they get older, they grow apart, with Stefan's love overshadowed…
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Biographical picture, action film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, neo-noir, period drama film, sport film
In 1941, Jake LaMotta is a young up-and-coming middleweight boxer who suffers his first loss to Jimmy Reeves after a controversial decision. Jake's brother Joey discusses a potential shot for the middleweight title with one of his Mafia co…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, drama film, romance film
On June 16, 1994, Jesse meets Céline on a train from Budapest, and they strike up a conversation. Jesse is going to Vienna with a Eurail pass to catch a flight back to the United States, whereas Céline is returning to university in Paris a…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy drama, comedy horror, horror film
Charlie Sanders and his girlfriend Lindsay get together to make a sex tape with over 20 cameras in his room. They do all sorts of bedroom antics, including gymnastics, riding a horse, and having clowns jump in. Charlie is pulled into the a…
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Sitcom, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, female buddy film
In 1988, Dottie Hinson attends the opening of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees many former teammates and friends playing a game, prompting a flashback to 1943. With World Wa…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film
The film depicts the last day of the life of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of January 1, 2009. It begins with actual footage of Oscar and his f…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, political film, thriller film
An American former Delta Force operator, Steven Younger, makes a videotape. Los Angeles-based FBI Special Agent Helen Brody and her team are summoned to a high school, commandeered by the military as a black site holding Younger (calling h…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, Washington, D.C., archaeo-linguist Milo Thatch obsesses over finding the legendary lost city of Atlantis, believed to have sunk thousands of years ago. His employers ridicule his theories, but he gains an unexpected ally in eccent…
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Classical Western, Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western, Western film, action film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, melodrama
A train arrives at the Old West town of Flagstone where a man with a harmonica (later dubbed "Harmonica") kills three men attempting to ambush him. Although Harmonica was expecting an outlaw named Frank, he concludes the men belonged to th…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Justice Drama, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, heist film
In September 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners, Luther Coleman and Joe Erie, con $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim in Joliet, Illinois. Hooker loses his share of the con on a rigged roulette …
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Horror, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, surrealist film
Deer Meadow Prologue A man smashes a television as a woman screams. In Deer Meadow, Washington, police discover the body of Teresa Banks. The FBI's Gordon Cole sends Agents Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley to investigate.
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Historie, Political Satire, black comedy film, drama film, political satire, satirical film
On the night of 1 March 1953, Joseph Stalin demands the director of Radio Moscow provide a recording of a live recital of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 after the show has concluded. The director recalls the audience and orchestra and reco…
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