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Fantasy, Historie, Mysterie, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, mysticism, romance film, thriller film
In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.…
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Horror, Mysterie, Splatter Film, arthouse science fiction film, body horror film, desire horror fiction, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalist programming. Harlan, the operator of CIVIC-TV's unauthorized satellite dish, shows Max Videodrome, a plotless show purportedly broadcast…
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Film Noir, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
thumb|300px|left|Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession …
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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe
The Poseidon, a luxury cruise ship, is making a transatlantic crossing from London. Former New York City Mayor and firefighter Robert Ramsey is traveling with his daughter Jennifer and her boyfriend Christian Sanders to New York, soon to b…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 1899, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen is an inventor teaching at Columbia University in New York. Unlike his friend David Philby, Alex would rather do pure research than work in the business world.
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
A montage depicts the end of the Second World War and the importance of baseball in the United States, a sport where African Americans play in segregated Negro leagues. The 1946 Major League Baseball season, meanwhile, featured 400 white p…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Ray Charles Robinson is raised in poverty in Florida by his mother, Aretha. Learning to play piano at an early age, Ray is haunted by the accidental death of his younger brother George, who drowns in their mother's washbasin. Ray loses his…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD in Moscow leads to the demise of the younger brother of Azerbaijani mafia kingpin Terek Murad. Intending to retaliate, Murad hires an ex-KGB asset, an international hitman operating under the c…
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Heist, Splatstick, comedy film, heist film
As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah: the "Pink Panther", the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: by looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discol…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
On November 5, 1975, in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his five co-workers—Mike Rogers, Allan Dallis, David Whitlock, Greg Hayes and Bobby Cogdill—head to work in the White Mountains. Driving back towards town that night, th…
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Historie, Komödie, drama film
In London in 1957, war widow Mrs Ada Harris works as a cleaning lady. Though she is hardworking and generous, Ada's clients offer her little consideration in return. She has two close friends in Vi and Archie, both her own age.
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Drama, Melodrama, Romance Film
In 1988 Rome, Salvatore Di Vita, a famous film director, returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore shies from committed relationships and …
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Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1884 Arizona Territory, Dan Evans is a poor rancher and Civil War veteran who owes money to Glen Hollander, a local banker in the town of Bisbee. Hollander's men burn down his barn and scatter his cattle as a warning to pay his debts. T…
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Classical Western, Romance Film, Social Drama, Western film, drama film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=3:37|Trailer for Giant In the mid-1920s, wealthy Texas rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr. travels to Maryland to purchase a prized stallion and meets socialite Leslie Lynnton. The two marry and return to t…
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Crime, Drama, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
On the evening of February 3, 1971, NYPD Detective Frank Serpico is rushed to the hospital, having been shot in the face. Police Chief Sidney Green fears that Serpico was shot by another cop. Serpico's story is shown in a flashback.
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Ghost-Movie, drama film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, slasher film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|left|John Houseman as Mr. Machen in The Fog On the eve of the centennial of the small coastal town of Antonio Bay in Northern California, old Mr. Machen tells ghost stories to children by a campfire on the beach.
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Historie, Political Drama, historical drama film, political drama
Amidst the Cold War in 1986, U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agree to an informal summit at Reykjavík, Iceland, with the aim of managing simmering geopolitical tensions and nuclear proliferation.…
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Biographical picture, Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
In 1969, Hunter "Patch" Adams, after developing suicidal thoughts, admits himself to a mental institution. There, he finds that using humor, rather than doctor-centered psychotherapy, better helps his fellow patients and provides him with …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Theresa Dunn, a young schoolteacher in an unnamed American city, experiences her sexual awakening while searching for excitement outside her ordered life. While in college, she lives with her repressive Polish-Irish Catholic parents and su…
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Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
Now living in Amsterdam, 46-year-old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Though two decades sober from heroin, he is now undergoing divorce and facing imminent redundancy. He decides to take a nostalgic trip back to Edinburgh.
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Hannah Faber, a smokejumper, is struggling after failing to prevent the deaths of three young campers and a fellow smokejumper in a forest fire. She is now posted in a fire lookout tower in Park County, Montana. Owen Casserly, a forensic a…
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Drama, High School Comedy Film, Sport, romantic comedy, teen film
Britney Allen is the new captain of her high-school cheerleading squad, the Pacific Vista Pirates. She is the girlfriend of Brad Warner, the star quarterback at Pacific Vista High School, and one of the richest girls in school. When her fa…
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Drama, Thriller
Ava returns to her hometown with her husband Dallas to attend the funeral of his oldest brother. At the service, tensions rise when Ava's father, Clarence, a local preacher, offends Dallas's mother, Linda. After a heated argument, Linda or…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
During the summer of 1957 in Northern California, Richard "Richie" Steven Valenzuela is a 16-year old Mexican-American boy who lives with his mother, Concepcion "Connie" Valenzuela, and his younger brothers and sisters. His family is poor,…
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