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Dramedy, crime film, drama film, independent film, road movie, romantic comedy film
Having just served five years in the Gowanda Correctional Facility, Billy Brown returns home to Buffalo, New York, and is preparing to meet with his parents, who do not know he has been in prison. He kidnaps Layla, a tap dancer, and forces…
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Adventure, Drama, Military Film, War Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, war film
During World War II, MI6 officers Colonel Turner and Admiral Rolland assemble a commando team to rescue American Brigadier General George Carnaby, a chief planner for the Western Front, who is a prisoner at Schloß Adler (Castle of the Eagl…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from a Muslim, Urdu-speaking family in Agra, British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1888 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, teen film, thriller film
Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welc…
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Drama, drama film
Ruben Stone plays drums in the avant-garde metal duo Blackgammon, with his singer girlfriend, Lou. They live in an RV and tour the United States performing gigs. Ruben begins to lose his hearing, so seeks a diagnosis in a pharmacy.
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Drama, Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, historical film, sport film
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years in captivity. Four years later, he is elected President of South Africa at a time of enormous challenges in the post-apartheid era, including rampant…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows …
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Action, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, splatter film, war film
During the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads his Burmese Army forces in a campaign of fear. His soldiers pillage settlements, sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teena…
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Animation
At Orly Airport in Paris, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi prepares to board a plane to Tehran, but changes her mind at the last moment. She spends the whole day at the airport, reflecting on her life before her departure from France. During the 19…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Tessa Young begins her first year of college by moving into her dorm room with the help of her mother, Carol, and her boyfriend, Noah. During this process she meets her new roommate Steph and her girlfriend Tristan. The day after, Tessa sh…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Time Travel, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
A group of aliens disguised as humans arrive in St. Petersburg, Florida from their home planet, Antarea. They rent a house with a swimming pool and charter a boat, the Manta III, from local captain Jack Bonner, who helps them retrieve coco…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film, romance film
In the present, adult siblings Michael and Carolyn Johnson arrive at the Iowa farmhouse of their recently deceased mother, Francesca, to settle her estate. They are shocked upon learning that she had requested to be cremated and her ashes …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"Just Another Saturday Night" Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking The Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since …
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Drama, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film
Dr. Russell Oakes works at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and spends time with family as his daughter Marilyn prepares to move away. In nearby Harrisonville, farmer Jim Dahlberg and family hold a wedding rehearsal for his eldest daug…
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Social Drama, buddy film, drama film
Set in a gritty Brooklyn housing project, the film follows 13-year-old Mister (Skylan Brooks), a smart, tough, and fiercely independent boy with dreams of becoming an actor. He lives with his mother, Gloria (Jennifer Hudson), a heroin-addi…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, children's film, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, teen film
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. Witnessing Sputnik as it passes over the mining community of Coalwood, West Virginia, 17-year-old Homer Hickam is inspired to build his own rockets. His …
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Action, Natural Disaster, Thriller, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film
In 1993, USGS volcanologist Harry Dalton and his partner-turned-fiancée Marianne attempt to escape an ongoing eruption in Colombia. As they venture out, a lava bomb smashes through the roof of the truck, killing Marianne. Four years later …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film
Taylor, a prison cook who has been incarcerated for 13 years, is informed he is eligible for early release on the basis he maintains good behaviour. Taylor regularly does haircuts for fellow prisoners Gaz and Paul, from whom he buys drugs …
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Daffy Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, comedy drama, female buddy film, romantic comedy, sex comedy
Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda reunite to attend the wedding of their friends Stanford and Anthony. Three of the four women are now married, with Samantha remaining single at 52 and managing the effects of menopause while trying …
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Christmas film, Computeranimation, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, comedy film, fantasy film, jukebox musical, live-action/animated film, musical film
Talking chipmunk brothers Alvin, Simon, and Theodore reside in a fir tree, which is cut down and driven to Los Angeles after record label JETT Records purchases it as a Christmas tree. Meanwhile, struggling songwriter Dave Seville has his …
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
14-year-old Hayley Stark and 32-year-old photographer Jeff Kohlver engage in a sexually charged flirtatious online chat. They then meet at a coffeehouse before going to Jeff's home. When they arrive, Jeff makes them drinks, but Hayley refu…
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Biographical picture, Christmas film, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1990, Joy Mangano, an airline booking agent residing in Peconic, New York, struggles financially while juggling a complicated family life. Living with Joy are her two children and her single mother Terri, who spends all day in bed watch…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Bani…
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