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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
In 1997, Sarah Huttinger, an obituary and wedding announcement writer for The New York Times, returns to her hometown of Pasadena, California, for her younger sister Annie's wedding, accompanied by her fiancé, lawyer Jeff Daly. There, she …
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Classical Western, Western film, revisionist Western
In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane, newly married to Amy Fowler, prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank…
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Daffy Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In the San Fernando Valley in 1962, eccentric scientist Dr. Calvin Webber believes a nuclear war with the Soviet Union is imminent, so he builds a secret fallout shelter beneath his backyard. Alarmed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Calvin tak…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, hood film, teen film
Teenage filmmaker Eric attempts to document the wannabe lifestyle of Allison Lang and her boyfriend Toby's gang of white upper-class teenagers living in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Later that night, Toby's gang goes …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Thirteen-year-old John Shay comes from an affluent family, living in a luxurious suburban home with his parents, Brad and Anna, and his older sister, Laurie. On the surface, John's life appears picture-perfect, but deep inside, he feels di…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Washington D.C. Detective and forensic psychologist Dr Alex Cross is devastated to learn that his niece, Naomi, a college student in Durham, North Carolina, has been missing for four days, and he travels to Durham to investigate. Upon arri…
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Gross Out Film, buddy film, comedy film, drama film
On his day off, Dante Hicks, a retail clerk at the Quick Stop Groceries convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey, is instructed by his boss to cover another employee's morning shift. Dante arranges to finish at noon to play a hockey game …
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Vampirfilm, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, teen film, vampire film, werewolf film
Several months after the events of the previous film, human Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen are getting married. During the reception, werewolf Jacob Black, who had left town upon receiving his invitation to the wedding, returns, much…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, drama film, kaiju, speculative fiction film
As a young girl, Nora Tidemann listens to her father Tobias narrating the mythology of trolls and the origin of their local mountains. During one story, Nora almost "sees" the faces of trolls turned to stone in the rock face. Years later, …
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
On the morning of the 2014 NFL draft, Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver Jr. must decide how to use the seventh overall pick to improve the team, but he has other problems on his mind. His semi-secret girlfriend Ali Parker, the …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
In 1984, down-on-his-luck ice cream truck driver Michael Larson slips into an audition for the game show Press Your Luck when another contestant is late for his appointment. Larson explains his background to the interviewers, contestant co…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In Stillwater, Oklahoma, Bill Baker is a laid-off roughneck scraping by with odd construction jobs. Working disaster cleanup after a tornado in Shawnee, he struggles to find another oil rig position. Bill meets with Sharon, his late wife's…
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Coming Of Age, Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, Teen Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Simon Spier is a closeted gay teenage boy living in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. He has a close and loving family—parents Emily and Jack, and sister Nora—as well as three best friends: Nick and Leah, both of whom he has known since kinder…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film tells the story of the 34-year partnership that begins in Depression era Nashville in 1930 when Dr. Alfred Blalock hires Vivien Thomas as an assistant at his Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him to perform janitorial work. Tho…
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Christmas film, Musical, Romantic Comedy, drama film, musical film
thumb|300px|left|Margaret O'Brien and Judy Garland perform the song "Under the Bamboo Tree" in Meet Me in St. Louis The backdrop for the film is St. Louis, Missouri, in the year preceding the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair.
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Biographical picture
In 1951, in the village of Idar, Gujarat, Gurukant "Guru" Desai is an ambitious young man who dreams of achieving financial success, despite the discouragement of his pragmatic father, Kantilal, the village school headmaster. Driven to mak…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, thriller film
Former Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan learns, in a routine investigation, that a mysterious man, who calls himself "Booth", is planning to assassinate the President of the United States (unnamed in the film). Booth soon makes a phone …
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Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Kaydee "Caine" Lawson and his best friend Kevin "O-Dog" Anderson enter a liquor store to buy some malt liquor, but a Korean cashier and his wife pressure them to quickly purchase their drinks. As they depart, the cashier deliberately insul…
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Crime, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Two young sisters, Camilla and Lisbeth Salander, play chess at the home of their abusive father, crime lord Alexander Zalachenko. One day, when Zalachenko attempts to molest Camilla, Lisbeth tries to drag her away, to no avail. She eventua…
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Drama, Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical film
In 1947, over the Muroc Army Air Field in California, a number of test pilots are killed while flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot, Slick Goodlin, demands $150,000 () to attempt to break the …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, romance film
In Yorkshire, Johnny lives on the family farm with his father, Martin, and grandmother, Deirdre. Because his father had suffered a stroke and because of his grandmother's age, much of the day-to-day running of the farm falls to Johnny. In …
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Drama, drama film, musical film
Washed-up, alcoholic country singer-songwriter Mac Sledge awakens at a run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee, and offers to perform maintenance work …
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Dramedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, comedy drama, vigilante film
In 1926, in the fictitious outback town of Dungatar, State of Victoria, 10-year-old schoolgirl Myrtle Dunnage is blamed for the death of classmate Stewart Pettyman. A sympathetic policeman, Sergeant Horatio Farrat, sends her away. Twenty-f…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
Staff Sergeant John Tyree is shot in Afghanistan while serving in the United States Army Special Forces in 2003. In voice-over, he recalls a childhood trip to the U.S. Mint and compares himself to a coin in the United States military befor…
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