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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, outlaw biker film
In 1965, Kathy Bauer meets Benny Cross, a hotheaded member of the Chicago-based Vandals Motorcycle Club, and marries him just five weeks later. Photography student Danny Lyon travels with and interviews the Vandals. He learns from Kathy th…
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Action, Drama, Historie, action film, drama film, epic film, historical film
In the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823, General Nanisca, leader of the all-female regiment of warriors, the Agojie, liberates Dahomean women who were abducted by slavers from the Oyo Empire. This provokes King Ghezo of Dahomey to p…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In Hamden, Connecticut, Kate and John Coleman's marriage is strained after the stillbirth of their third child, Jessica, whose loss is particularly hard on Kate, a recovering alcoholic. She and John then decide to adopt a 9-year-old Russia…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
An FBI bust of a smuggling operation in Tampa results in the deaths of Bobby Saint, the son of mafia boss Howard Saint, and Otto Krieg, an arms dealer. However, Krieg's death was faked, and he is later revealed to be undercover FBI agent F…
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Satire, drama film
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a Black elite writer and professor living in Los Angeles. His novels receive academic praise but sell poorly, and his publishers reject his latest manuscript for not being "Black" enough. His college superiors …
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Historie, Late Western, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, Western film, drama film
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, the…
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Biographical picture, Forensic, biographical film, drama film
In 1989, Harvard law graduate Bryan Stevenson travels to Alabama, intending to help defend poor people who cannot afford proper legal representation. Teaming with Eva Ansley, he forms the Equal Justice Initiative in the state capital, Mont…
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Mysterie, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain living a quiet and sheltered life. He spends his days leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island and is obsessed with catching an evasive giant yellowfin tuna whom he calls "J…
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Martial-Arts, Sport, children's film, comedy drama, drama film, martial arts film, sport film
12-year-old Dre Parker and his widowed mother Sherry move from Detroit to Beijing after she gets a job transfer at a car factory. Dre meets young violinist Meiying, and immediately becomes infatuated with her. However, Cheng, a rebellious …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, action film, apocalyptic film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film
The Archangel Michael falls to Earth in Los Angeles and cuts off his wings. After looting a weapons warehouse and stealing a police car from a possessed police officer, Michael travels to the Paradise Falls Diner, near the edge of the Moja…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, superhero film, war film
In present-day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate from Wayne Enterprises taken during World War I. It shows herself and four men, and prompts her to recall her past. Diana, the young daughter of Queen Hippolyta, is raised on…
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Destiny, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is a young albino man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abn…
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Forensic, Political Drama, Swords and Sandals, drama film, trial film, white savior film
The schooner La Amistad is transporting black slaves off the coast of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1839. A captive, Cinqué, leads an uprising against the crew, most of whom are killed. Two navigators, Pedro Montes and José Ruiz, are spare…
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Western, Western film
In 1881, a gunslinger known as "The Lady" arrives in the Old West town of Redemption, which is ruled by a ruthless outlaw-turned-mayor named John Herod. Herod has announced a fast-draw single-elimination shooting tournament with a large ca…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
A young woman in a white BMW 5 Series drives recklessly on a mountainous winding road; she collides with a truck and is killed instantly. Weeks earlier in Chicago, factory worker John Quincy Archibald and his wife Denise are behind on vari…
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Biographical picture, Computeranimation, Drama Documentary, Musical, biographical film, comedy drama, musical film
thumb|The opening of the film depicts the Williams' former home, a Burslem pub called the Red Lion. In 1982, in Stoke-on-Trent, eight-year-old Robert Williams is shamed as a loser in the playground. At home, he eagerly emulates his father,…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels, concealed in a sewage truck, and driven across the border to the United States where it is stored at a sewage treatment plant. A lawyer from Texas who is known only as the Counselor goes to Amster…
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Sport, action comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, sport film
Paul Crewe is a former National Football League (NFL) quarterback who was accused of shaving points. Though he was never convicted, he was placed on federal probation for five years. One night, dissatisfied with his life, he gets drunk dur…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical comedy, musical film
Dressed in a flamboyant devil's outfit, Elton John enters an addiction rehabilitation session, recounting his life in a series of flashbacks ("The Bitch Is Back"). Shy boy Reginald Dwight grows up in the suburbs of 1950s Britain, raised by…
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Action, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, mystery film, science fiction film
In October 1959, an elementary school in Lexington celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. Lucinda Embry fills her paper with numbers while being guided by whispering vo…
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Drama, drama film
A year after last seeing her, 31-year-old Margaret "Molly" Wheeler walks to her mother Deb's house remembering times before she suffered from addiction to drugs, which began when doctors gave her 75 oxycodone to treat a sprained knee. She …
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef at Gauloises, an upscale restaurant in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Though well-liked by his kitchen staff and hostess Molly, he frequently clashes with the restaurant's owner, Riva, who insists on a safe…
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Musical, Vampirfilm, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, vampire film
The sound of a nu metal band arouses the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt from a lengthy slumber, and he proceeds to take over as their lead singer. Achieving international success with the ensemble, which he names The Vampire Lestat, and havin…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In a quiet Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son, Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, w…
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