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Historical drama, drama film
In late December 1985, Bill Furlong is a hard-working coal merchant living in the Irish town of New Ross with his wife and five daughters. He regularly delivers coal to the local convent, where one day he sees a teenage girl being forcibly…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film
13-year-old Tracy Freeland begins the seventh grade as a smart, mild-mannered honors student at a middle school in Los Angeles. Her divorced mother Melanie is a recovering alcoholic who struggles to support Tracy and her older brother Maso…
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Religious drama, drama film
In 1994 Louisville, Kentucky, successful hairdresser and co-owner of a salon Sharon Stevens finds new purpose in life after reading about 5-year-old Michelle Schmitt. The girl who has just lost her mom urgently needs a liver transplant due…
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Action, Drama, athletics film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Louis "Louie" Zamperini is a bombardier in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. An April 1943 bombing mission against Japanese installations on Nauru exposes him to danger. His B-24 Liberator is hit by enemy fire, a crewman i…
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Political Thriller, drama film, political film, thriller film
Vadim Baranov morphs from a young artist in 1990s Russia into an influential government official and spin doctor at the heart of the government.
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Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, romance film, sword-and-sandal film, war film
After the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, Julius Caesar goes to Egypt, under the pretext of being named the executor of the will of the father of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and his older sister and co-ruler, Cleopatra. Ptolemy and Cleopa…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, action film, thriller film
The film opens with a prologue that consists of four segments described by critics as "vignettes". They show the principal characters in different parts of the world and provide their backstories. Nilo, an elegantly dressed man, enters a f…
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, Sport, biographical film, black comedy film, drama film
In Portland, Oregon in the 1970s, a four-year-old Tonya Harding is forced to ice skate by her physically abusive mother, LaVona Golden. Tonya's parents eventually take her out of school to focus on her skating career as she trains under co…
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Destiny, Swashbuckler, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, historical drama, prison film, swashbuckler film
In 1662, the Kingdom of France moves toward revolution, facing bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch. The young and callous King Louis redistributes spoiling food supplies from the army to his starving citizens, and instr…
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Ghost-Movie, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, children's film, comedy drama, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, ghost film
Following the death of her father, neurotic and spoiled heiress Carrigan Crittenden discovers that she has been left only Whipstaff Manor, located in Friendship, Maine, in his will, while his vast wealth has gone to several charities. Carr…
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Drama, drama film
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in Lake Forest, a wealthy suburb north of Chicago. They are trying to return to normal life after experiencing the accidental drowning of their older teenage son, Buck, and the attempted suicid…
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Drama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, white savior film
Recently widowed Walt Kowalski is an ill-tempered and racially prejudiced Korean War veteran and retired Ford factory worker. His Rust Belt neighborhood in Metro Detroit has become ridden with gang violence among poor Hmong immigrants, inc…
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Drama, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, biopunk, horror film, science fiction film
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by splicing animal DNA to create hybrids for medical use at the company N.E.R.D. (Nucleic Exchange Research and Development). Their work has yielded Fred and Ginger, two lar…
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American football film, Coming Of Age, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the small town of West Canaan, Texas, Jonathan "Mox" Moxon is an academically gifted backup quarterback for the 3A high school Varsity football team, the West Canaan Coyotes. Despite his relative popularity at school, easy friendships w…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1931 Paris, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret lives with his widowed father, a clockmaker who works at a museum. Hugo's father finds a broken automaton – a mechanical man created to draw with a pen. He and Hugo try to repair it, documenting their…
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Historical drama
During World War II, Olivia "Livy" Dunne, a Denver minister's daughter, is pregnant by a United States Navy flight instructor on furlough. To cover up his daughter's unwed pregnancy, her father quietly compels the reluctant Livy to marry, …
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Musical, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film, musical film
In 1995, aspiring rapper Jimmy Smith Jr. performs under the stage name "B-Rabbit". A blue-collar worker, Jimmy has moved to the run-down Detroit trailer home of his alcoholic mother, Stephanie, after breaking up with his previous girlfrien…
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Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
In 1978, Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser work together as con artists. Sydney, posing as English aristocrat "Lady Edith Greensly", has improved the scams. Irving loves Sydney but is unwilling to leave his unstable, histrionic wife Rosa…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, drama fiction, family film, musical film
In the 1890s, a British couple and their infant son are shipwrecked in equatorial Africa. The couple build a tree house, but are killed by a leopard named Sabor. Kala, a local gorilla whose son was also killed by Sabor, finds the human inf…
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Biographical picture, Political Drama, drama film
In 1970, Nicholas Garrigan graduates from the University of Edinburgh Medical School. With dull prospects at home, he decides to seek adventure abroad by working at a missionary clinic in Uganda run by David Merrit and his wife, Sarah. Aft…
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LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, comedy film, road movie
After tying for the win in New York City's "Drag Queen of the Year" contest, Noxeema Jackson and Vida Boheme win a trip to Hollywood to take part in the even bigger "Drag Queen of America" pageant. Before they depart, Vida persuades Noxeem…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, drama film, musical film, psychological film
Lydia Tár, chief conductor of a Berlin orchestra, heavily relies on Francesca, her personal assistant and confidante. While being interviewed by Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival, Lydia promotes her upcoming live recording of Mahler's…
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Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
Thirteen-year-old Josh Baskin tries to impress a girl by going on a carnival ride but is rejected as he is too short. Dejected, he inserts a coin into an antique fortune-teller machine called Zoltar, and makes a wish to be "big". It dispen…
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Family Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
Royal Tenenbaum explains to his three adolescent children, Chas, Margot, and Richie, that he and his wife, Etheline, are separating. Each of the children achieved great success at a young age. Chas is a math and business genius, from whom …
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