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Adventure, Animation, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Following his usage in a "guess the weight" contest at an agricultural show, orphaned piglet Babe is brought home to the farm of the contest winner, Arthur Hoggett. There, he is taken in by Border Collie Fly, her irascible husband Rex and …
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Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
The El Royale, once popular with the wealthy until losing its gambling license, is a hotel that straddles the California–Nevada border. In 1959, Felix O'Kelly hides a money bag under the floorboards of his room. His accomplice arrives and …
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Cartoon, Drama, War Film, disaster film, drama film
Jim Bloggs and his wife Hilda are an aging couple, living in an isolated cottage in rural Sussex, England. Jim frequently travels to the local town to read newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation regarding …
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
In 1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener is attending an art show to support her husband, popular landscape artist and closeted trans woman Einar Wegener. Though Gerda is talented, she hasn't quite received the same success Einar…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
A bay Irish Hunter is born in Devon, England in 1912. Farmer Ted Narracott outbids his landlord Lyons for the colt at auction, to the dismay of his wife Rose who wanted a working horse that can plough, not an Irish Hunter. Their son Albert…
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Action, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, survival film
In 1850, author Herman Melville visits innkeeper Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the sunk whaleship Essex, offering money for his story. Nickerson initially refuses, then agrees after his wife intervenes. In 1820, a Nantucket whalin…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1956 Massapequa, 10-year-old Ron Kovic plays with his friends in a forest. On his Fourth of July birthday, he attends an Independence Day parade with his family and best friend Donna. In 1961, President John F.
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Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film, road movie, romantic comedy
Frank Goode, a recently widowed retiree whose career was making telephone cables, is getting ready for his children to visit him. They call to cancel at the last minute, so he decides to visit them instead. Despite warnings from his doctor…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, buddy film, cinematic fairy tale, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
In a sleepy village in Italy, Jiminy Cricket arrives at the shop of a woodworker and toymaker named Geppetto, who lives with his pet cat Figaro and fish Cleo. He creates a puppet that he names Pinocchio. As he falls asleep, Geppetto wishes…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
While working an undercover prostitute sting operation in a nightclub to arrest a pimp named Neptune, Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alo…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film, romantic comedy
In the animated fairy tale kingdom of Andalasia, the corrupt and ruthless Queen Narissa is determined to stay in power; her reign will end if her stepson, Prince Edward, ever gets married. Narissa enlists her loyal servant Nathaniel to hel…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, adventure film, crime thriller film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1891, a series of bombings blamed on political radicals bring France and Germany to the brink of war. Detective Sherlock Holmes narrowly intercepts one such bomb instead intended for expert surgeon Dr. Hoffmanstahl and Holmes' former lo…
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Drama, Mysterie, disaster film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Psychotherapist Claire Summers counsels five survivors of a recent plane crash: passengers Dean, Norman, Shannon, Eric, and flight attendant Janice. Eric, however, is unusually euphoric after the tragedy, and he asks that Claire meet with …
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lee, a martial artist and instructor from the Shaolin temple, is approached by British intelligence agent Braithwaite, who asks for his help in an undercover mission to investigate Han, a suspected crime lord, who was one of the students i…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, female buddy film, musical film
Cecilia Carol "C.C." Bloom, a New York actress and singer, receives a note during a concert rehearsal in Los Angeles and hurriedly leaves to be with her friend Hillary Whitney, a San Francisco heiress and lawyer. She drives overnight and r…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, political thriller film, thriller film
Congressman Phil Hammersley opposes a proposed counterterrorism bill that would significantly expand surveillance powers for American intelligence agencies, arguing that it poses a threat to civil liberties. In response, National Security …
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Drama, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Romantic Drama, horror film, science fiction film
In a castle on a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron praise Mary Shelley for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. She reminds them that her intention for writing the novel was to impart a moral lesson, the consequences …
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Horror, Obsession, Psychodrama, art film, drama film, erotic thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller film
An unnamed couple have sex in their Seattle apartment while their unsupervised infant son, Nic, climbs up to the bedroom window and falls out of it to his death. The mother collapses at the funeral and spends the next month in the hospital…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1956 Chicago, Leonard Burling is an English bespoke "cutter", with a shop in a neighborhood controlled by Irish Mob boss Roy Boyle. Roy's son and second-in-command, Richie, and his chief enforcer, Francis, use Leonard's shop as a stash …
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Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, an Israeli warplane carrying a nuclear bomb crashes. In 2002, Ghazi, a Syrian scrap collector, recovers the bomb from a field in the Golan Heights. He sells it to South African black market arms traffick…
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Dramedy, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Psychodrama, comedy film
Marlo is pregnant with an unplanned third child with her husband Drew. They have a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Jonah, who has an undiagnosed behavioral disorder. Trying to reduce his sensitivity to external stimuli, Marlo brushes his skin …
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Drama, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Ben Cash, his wife Leslie, and their six children live an isolated existence on ten acres in the mountainous Washington wilderness. They are left-wing anarchist activists disillusioned by capitalism and American life, who choose to instill…
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Melodrama, drama film, romance film
In 1972, dictator Idi Amin enacts a policy of forceful expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Jay, his wife Kinnu, and their daughter Mina, a family of Ugandan Indians residing in Kampala, reluctantly and tearfully leave their home behind and re…
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