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Destiny, Road Movie, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, female buddy film, girls with guns, road movie
Friends Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin. Thelma, a housewife, is married to disrespectful and controlling carpet salesman Darryl, while sharp-tongued Louise works as a waitress. When Lou…
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Documentation, Drama
Destiny, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, teen film
In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with her unemployed mother, Mary, who subjects her to constant physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. Precious has also been raped by her now-absent fa…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Weetabix IT staffer Tobias Durand, while purchasing a pen to sign divorce papers, is struck by a car driven by Almut Brühl, a former figure skater turned Bavarian-fusion chef. At the hospital, Almut offers to treat Tobias and his wife to a…
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Erotic Thriller, drama film
A young couple, Pippa and Thomas, move into their first apartment together in Montreal. They soon realize they can see directly into the apartment across the street, where a man with a professional studio is photographing a woman. Pippa an…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
James Dalton is a professional bouncer working security for a club in New York City. Although stoic and cool-headed, Dalton is tormented by memories of a man he killed in self-defense by ripping out his throat. Frank Tilghman, a businessma…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Charlie Simms is a scholarship student at Baird, an exclusive New England preparatory school. Karen Rossi hires him to watch her uncle, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, during Thanksgiving weekend. Charlie accepts so he can buy…
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Action, Drama, War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
During World War II, Allied POWs who have repeatedly escaped from camps in Germany are moved to a new camp under the command of Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. He warns the senior prisoner, Group Captain Ramsey, that escapees will be shot. Se…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, detective film, thriller film
In Chicago, vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble is arrested for the murder of his wife, Helen. Despite his claims that he caught a man with a prosthetic arm in the act, Helen's misinterpreted 911 call and substantial life insurance policy …
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy
Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year earlier. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, and was precocious about his in…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist for the NOAA, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf with his colleagues Frank and Jason. A large portion of the ice shelf splits away, but they manage to escape. At a United Nations conference …
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Super Hero, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Seeing Michael's potential, their adoptive father and ho…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor launches a final offensive against Skynet, an artificial general intelligence system seeking to eliminate the human race. Before the Resistance can triumph, Skynet activates a time displacement …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
As a child, Jeannette Walls lives a nomadic life with her painter mother Rose Mary, intelligent but irresponsible father Rex, older sister Lori, and younger brother Brian. While cooking unsupervised, Jeannette is severely burned. At a loca…
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Animation, Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, Romantic Comedy, buddy film, comedy drama, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy film
In 1926, New Orleans, a young woman named Tiana dreams of opening a restaurant. She works two waitress jobs to earn money, leaving no time for a social life. The arrogant Prince Naveen of Maldonia arrives in town, and intends to marry Tian…
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Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, drama film, fantasy film
In 1926, British wizard and "magizoologist" Newt Scamander arrives in New York City. He observes Mary Lou Barebone, the non-magical ("No-Maj" or "Muggle") head of the New Salem Philanthropic Society, preaching that witches and wizards are …
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Janiyah Wiltkinson is a single mother living in a dilapidated apartment with her frequently ill daughter, Aria. One morning, Aria expresses frustration over her inability to bathe herself and tells Janiyah that her teacher said she couldn'…
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Drama, drama film, metacinema
In 1959, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol—film critics for Cahiers du Cinéma—along with Suzanne Schiffman attend the film premiere of La Passe du diable, produced by Georges de Beauregard. At the afterparty, Godard har…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
During the summer of 1981, two eight-year-old Little League teammates, Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey, both experience life-altering events in Hutchinson, Kansas. Neil, the son of an irresponsible single mother and already discovering his…
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Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, swashbuckler film, thriller film, vampire film, werewolf film
In 1887 Transylvania, Doctor Victor Frankenstein, aided by his assistant Igor and Count Dracula, creates a monster. Dracula kills Frankenstein when he refuses to go along with the vampire's designs for the creature as Igor, revealed to be …
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Historie, Political Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, drama film, political thriller film, spy film
thumb|left|A scene from the film representing the Mossad team from 1972. From left to right: Avner Kaufman, Robert, Carl, Hans and Steve. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Palestinian militant group Black September carried out a t…
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Action, Adventure, Monumental Film, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film
In the year 10,191, the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most valuable substance in the empire is the spice melange, which extends life and expands consciousness. The spice also allows the Spacing Guild to fo…
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Horror, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film
On 29 April 1973, Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highlands Constabulary journeys by seaplane to the remote, verdant Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Rowan Morrison, about whom he has receive…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, sport film
In November 1987, Jamaican sprinter Derice Bannock trains to compete in the 100 metres race at the forthcoming Summer Olympics in Seoul, but fails to advance in the trials after fellow runner Junior Bevil accidentally stumbles and falls, k…
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