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Musical, Romantic Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
In 1870, a Parisian opera house prepares for the performance of the opera Hannibal, headed by soprano Carlotta Giudicelli. Theatre manager Monsieur Lefèvre plans to retire, leaving the building under the ownership of scrappers Richard Firm…
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Family Drama, Psychological Thriller, Southern Gothic film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In Southeast Georgia, Max Cady is released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for rape. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden, an attorney whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Bowden interrupted his at…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
In the fall of 1999, self-loathing screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired to write an adaptation of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. He struggles with anxiety, social phobia, depression, and low self-esteem. His twin brother, Donald, has mo…
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Christmas film, Family Drama, Fantasy, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
On the morning of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the man playing Santa Claus is drunk. An old man named Kris Kringle indignantly complains to event director Doris Walker. Doris persuades Kris to play Santa in the parade.
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Sydney Brown, a well-dressed senior gambler, finds John Finnegan, a homeless man, forlornly sitting outside a diner in Sparks, Nevada. Sydney offers John a cigarette and buys him a cup of coffee. John tells Sydney that he went bust in Las …
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Drama, drama film
Haunted by his father's ghost, Prince Hamlet descends from elite London society into the city's underground, moving between Hindu temples and homeless camps. In seeking to avenge his father's murder, he begins to question his own role in h…
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Anti-War Film, War Film, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1989, Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, whose father served in the earlier Vietnam War (1955–1975), attends United States Marine Corps recruit training before being stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. Claiming that he joined the military b…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1970, 11-year-old Margaret Simon is informed by her parents Barbara and Herb that they are moving from New York City to a New Jersey suburb, as Herb has received a promotion. Upset about leaving her friends and paternal grandmother Sylv…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
In the wealthy African nation of Zamunda, crown prince Akeem Joffer grows weary of his pampered lifestyle on his 21st birthday and wishes to do more for himself without servants at his every whim. When his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aol…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
In 2018, three years after his loss to "Pretty" Ricky Conlan, Adonis "Donnie" Creed, alongside his trainer Rocky Balboa who has beaten his cancer, has won six straight bouts, culminating in a victory over Danny "Stuntman" Wheeler to win th…
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Drama, Erotic Film, Romance Film, drama film, erotic film, melodrama, romance film
Murphy is an American film student living in Paris. On a rainy January morning, he receives a call at the small apartment he shares with Danish partner Omi and their 18-month-old son, Gaspar. The caller is Nora, the mother of his ex-girlfr…
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Drama, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
Hank Palmer is a trial lawyer in Chicago, acerbic and notorious for defending powerful clients he knows to be guilty. Before returning to his rural hometown of Carlinville, Indiana to attend his mother's funeral, he argues with his wife, L…
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Destiny, Drama, Police Film, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Recently retired tennis pro Chris Wilton is hired as an instructor at an upscale London club. He becomes friendly with wealthy club member, Tom Hewett. Tom's sister, Chloe, is smitten with Chris, and they begin dating.
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Coming Of Age, Dance Film, Family Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1984, Billy Elliot is an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in County Durham, England. He lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union delegate), and h…
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Eight-year-old Aurora lives in New York City with her parents. While she is lying on the fire escape at night, a firefly draws her attention to a neighbor in unit 5B. Intrigued, she follows him to Chinatown one night and witnesses him kill…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
In the 1910s Midwest, Roy Hobbs learns baseball from his father Ed, who suffers a fatal heart attack. Lightning strikes a nearby tree, from which Roy makes a bat that he brands with a lightning bolt and the legend "Wonderboy." In 1923, 19-…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Mexico story line In Mexico, police officers Javier Rodriguez and Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport. General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official, interrupts their arrest to offer Javier a special assignment: apprehending Francisco …
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
A United States Coast Guard vessel intercepts and boards an American yacht in the Caribbean Sea and finds evidence that the ship's owner and passengers, American businessman Peter Hardin and his family, were murdered by the piloting Colomb…
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Mourning Pope Pius XVI's sudden death, the Catholic Church prepares the papal conclave to elect his successor. Fr. Patrick McKenna, the Camerlengo, temporarily controls the Vatican during the sede vacante.
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Family Comedy, children's film, comedy film
Tom Baker is a football coach at a small rural college in the fictional town of Midland, Illinois, where he raised twelve children. His wife, Kate, has written her story in a book and hopes to send it to her friend for publication. One day…
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Romantic Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, romance film
Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley meet every 15 July—St. Swithin's Day—over 20 years. Dexter is from a southern, wealthy, upper-class family, privately educated at Winchester College whilst Emma is from a working-class family from northern Eng…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, sport film, teen film
Teenager Jim Carroll is a drug-addicted high school basketball player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school. Outside of basketball, Jim shows an artistic i…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film
In 1905, Percy Fawcett is a young British major who participates in a stag hunt on an Irish baronial estate for the visiting Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s benefit. A skilled horseman and marksman, he brings down the stag swiftly, but is snubb…
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Biographical picture, Conspiracy Thriller, Family Drama, Justice Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
CBS producer Lowell Bergman convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes. Wallace and Bergman firmly stand their ground against the Sheikh's armed and hostile bodyguards, who at…
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