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Biographical picture, Blaxploitation, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
One night shortly before Malcolm Little is born, a party of Klansmen surround the Little family home in Omaha, Nebraska, break all the windows, and ride off into the night. Malcolm has a Grenadian mother and African-American father. His fa…
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Biographical picture, drama film
In 1940, Orson Welles is given complete creative freedom for his next project by RKO. For the screenplay, Welles recruits Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is in Victorville, California, recovering from a broken leg he sustained in a car crash.
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Komödie, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
American video game designer Roger Dearly lives with his pet Dalmatian Pongo in London. Roger develops a video game featuring a dog chase, but it is rejected because the villain is inadequate. His attempts to redesign the game prove unsati…
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Drama, drama film
Billionaire oil magnate and grandfather, Howard "Red" Stevens, has passed away due to illness. His grandson, Jason Stevens, a self-centered, unemployed individual in his mid-20s who relies on his trust fund, does not anticipate inheriting …
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Karen and Mack McCann are happily married with two daughters, seventeen-year-old Julie (from Karen's previous marriage) and six-year-old Megan. One afternoon while Karen is out shopping, Julie is violently raped and murdered after answerin…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was las…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, drama film, musical film
Rick Power is the American lead singer in a Dublin-based wedding band, The Bride and Groove, who has given up his dreams of musical stardom after marrying his Irish girlfriend, Rachel, and having a daughter, Aja, with her. While performing…
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Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1959, Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly mee…
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Drama, Thriller, Western, thriller film
In 1961 Montana, retired sheriff George Blackledge lives on a ranch with his wife Margaret, their son James, James's wife Lorna and infant son Jimmy. One afternoon, Margaret sees James's horse return without him. George finds James's body …
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LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, Musical, drama film, musical film
In 1931 Berlin, a young, openly promiscuous American, Sally Bowles, performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian must…
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Fantasy, Horror, Komödie, comedy film, comedy horror, dark fantasy, fantasy film, ghost film, vampire film
In 1760, a young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy family immigrated from Liverpool to Maine to expand their family’s empire in the fishing industry, where they established the town of Collinsport and constructed the Collinwood Mansion. Six…
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1774, the young Georgiana Spencer is contracted in marriage to William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, with the expectation that she produce his male heir. She is quickly disillusioned by her husband, especially when Charlotte, William’s…
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Anti-War Film, Political Drama, Psychodrama
Lieutenant Werner, a war correspondent on the in October 1941, is driven by his captain and chief engineer to a French bordello, where he meets some of the crew. Thomsen, another captain, gives a drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Krug Stillo, a notorious killer, is being transported to a max security prison. When he asks the transporting officers for a restroom break, the two refuse knowing he is a flight risk. While stopped at a railroad crossing, the two officers…
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Drama, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
An adult Joe Wenteworth visits the grave of his late friend, Simon Birch. He narrates over as the film transitions to their childhood in 1964. Simon is the smallest child in the history of Gravestown.
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Computeranimation, adventure film
A Carnotaurus ambushes a herd of dinosaurs and tramples an Iguanodon nest. One surviving Iguanodon egg journeys to a tropical island inhabited by prehistoric lemurs by the flight of a pterosaur. Plio, the daughter of lemur patriarch Yar, n…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film
A young boy named Solomon narrates the events of the tornado that devastated the city of Xenia, Ohio. A mute adolescent boy, known as Bunny Boy, wears only pink bunny ears, shorts, and tennis shoes on an overpass in the rain. A boy carries…
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drama film, musical film, romance film
In 1893, the farmers of the village of Champaner, located within the British Central India Agency, endure an oppressive colonial administration. Despite a devastating drought and a failed harvest, British officials demand the regular lagaa…
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Destiny, Romantic Comedy, Satire On Media, Splatstick, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
Bruce Nolan is a television field reporter for Eyewitness News on WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, who wants to move on from his field reporting job and become an anchorman. He is sent on assignment in Niagara Falls where he learns that his r…
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Drama Documentary, documentary film
As the film begins, Spurlock is in above-average physical shape, according to his personal trainer. He is seen by three physicians (cardiologist Stephen Siegel, gastroenterologist/hepatologist Lisa Ganjhu, and general practitioner Daryl Is…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film, thriller film
In 1933, John Dillinger infiltrates Indiana State Penitentiary, jailbreaking his crew. During the firefight, his mentor Walter Dietrich is shot and killed. Dillinger and company change clothes and eat at a nearby farm before driving to a s…
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Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, heist film
As Dominic Toretto is being transported by bus to Lompoc Prison, his sister Mia Toretto and friend Brian O'Conner lead an assault on the bus and free Dom. While the authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting D…
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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, Sword And Sorcery, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
The evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda of Nockmaar hears of a prophecy that a child with a special rune birthmark will bring about her downfall. She imprisons all pregnant women in her realm. The child is born, but her mother persuades the midw…
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