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Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy film, drama film, satirical film
The most powerful man in the world races to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he unleashed destroys everything.
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Crime, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, police procedural film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee at Quantico, is recruited by Behavioral Science Unit chief Jack Crawford to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant and cannibalistic psychiatrist imprisoned at the Baltimore State Hospital for the …
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Action, Historie, Justice Drama, Swords and Sandals, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, melodrama, sword-and-sandal film
In 180 AD, the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius intends to return home after he leads the Roman army to victory against Germanic tribes near Vindobona. Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rul…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In the fictional city of Conyers, Pennsylvania, the Dover and Birch families celebrate Thanksgiving together. After dinner, girls Anna Dover and Joy Birch go missing after playing on a parked RV. Detective Loki responds to a police call ab…
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Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980s Boston, Irish mob boss Frank Costello introduces himself to a young Colin Sullivan. Years later, Sullivan has been groomed as Costello's spy inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and joins the Special Investigation Unit. Ano…
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Crime, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
thumb|upright|Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th century painting, Mona Lisa, is featured as a major plot point in the film. During the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Miles Bron, the co-founder of technology company Alpha, hosts a murder myste…
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Anti-War Film, Military Film, Political Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, thriller film, war drama, war film
In 1969, during the Vietnam War, jaded MACV-SOG operative Captain Benjamin L. Willard is summoned to I Field Force headquarters in Nha Trang. The officers there tell him that U.S.
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, black comedy film, drama film, thriller film
In 2006, scholarship student Oliver Quick struggles to fit in at the University of Oxford because of his inexperience with upper-class manners. He befriends Felix Catton, a popular student from a wealthy family who is sympathetic to Oliver…
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Action, Animation, Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film
Justice Drama, drama film, fantasy film, flashback film, magic realist film, prison film
In 1935, corrections officer Paul Edgecomb oversees "The Green Mile", the death row section of Cold Mountain Penitentiary, alongside officers Brutus Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, and the sadistic and despised Percy Wetmore, whos…
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Historie, Social Drama, anti-war film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, psychological drama film, war drama, war film
In German-occupied Kraków during World War II, the Nazis forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. He brib…
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Crime, Justice Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, film based on a literary work, film noir, flashback film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
The film starts with a Polaroid photograph of a dead man. As the sequence plays in reverse, the photo reverts to its undeveloped state, entering the camera before the man is shot in the head. The film continues, alternating between black-a…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, black comedy film, comedy horror, crime film, drama film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1987, New York City investment banker Patrick Bateman meticulously maintains a polished social façade while harboring violent impulses. He dines at trendy restaurants, obsesses over his physical appearance, and navigates a shallow circl…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
On their fifth anniversary, writing teacher Nick Dunne returns home to find that his wife, Amy, is missing. Amy's fame as the inspiration for her parents' Amazing Amy children's books ensures widespread press coverage. The media finds Nick…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Act Three: Thanks, Chuck Middle school teacher Marty Anderson notes unusual things happening around the world, from natural disasters to the worldwide loss of the Internet. Billboards and advertisements are popping up everywhere, displayin…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Southern Gothic film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Max Cady, a psychopathic rapist, is released from prison after finishing a full sentence for the rape and battery of a 16-year-old girl. During his trial in Atlanta fourteen years earlier, his public defender, Sam Bowden, was so appalled b…
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Biographical picture, Musical, drama film, historical film, musical film
Ann Lee is born in Manchester in 1736 ("The Testament of Ann Lee"). During childhood, she and her younger brother William work at a cotton factory. One night, she witnesses her parents having sex and associates the act with sin; during a m…
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Gothic film, Horror, body horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, gothic horror film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
In the early hours of August 18, 1973, a grave robber steals several corpses from a cemetery near Newt, Muerto County, Texas. The robber ties a rotting corpse and other body parts onto a monument, creating a grisly display that is discover…
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Destiny, Komödie, Melodrama
In 1981, a feather lands at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia; Forrest Gump collects it, then recounts his life story to strangers on a bus bench. In 1950s Alabama, Forrest is fitted with leg braces to correct a curved spine. His mother runs…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the fall of 1959, Todd Anderson begins his junior year of high school at Welton Academy, an Episcopal all-male preparatory boarding school in Vermont. He is assigned one of Welton's top students, Neil Perry, as his roommate, and meets N…
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Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2049 Los Angeles, bioengineered humans known as replicants are still used for slave labor. K (short for serial number, KD6-3.7), a Nexus-9 replicant, works for the Los Angeles Police Department as a "blade runner", an officer who hunts …
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film
In 1938 in Salzburg, at the end of the Federal State of Austria regime, Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey. However, her youthful enthusiasm and lack of discipline cause some concern. M…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, comedy drama
On March 31, 1943, Lorenz Hart slips away from the opening night of Oklahoma!, the new Broadway musical his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has written with Oscar Hammerstein II. Hart arrives at Sardi's restaurant, where preparatio…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, survival film
thumb|left|Ares III mission landing site (Acidalia Planitia region) In 2035, the crew of the Ares III mission to Mars is exploring Acidalia Planitia on Martian solar day (sol) 18 of their 31-sol expedition. A severe dust storm threatens th…
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