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Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
Joe is a traumatized hired gun who specializes in rescuing trafficked girls, using brutal methods against their captors. He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City. Joe has flashbacks of the abuse he and his mot…
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Drama, Musical, drama film
Recent Radcliffe graduate Anne Welles is hired as a secretary at a theatrical agency which represents Helen Lawson, a cutthroat Broadway diva. Helen fears newcomer Neely O'Hara will upstage her, so she has Anne's boss pressure Neely to qui…
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Mysterie, action film, drama film, police film, science fiction film, thriller film
In a therapy session, Austin Police Detective Danny Rourke recounts the abduction of his seven-year-old daughter, Minnie, three years earlier. He and his partner, Nicks, act on an anonymous tip that a safe deposit box will be robbed, and w…
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Detective Film, Drama, Historie, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, horror film, medieval film, mystery film, thriller film
Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice, Adso of Melk, arrive at an early 14th-century Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. A mysterious death has occurred ahead of an important theological Church conference—a young illumina…
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Drama, Musical, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
The film takes place in 1905, in the fictional village of Anatevka, a typical shtetl somewhere in Ukraine, part of the Pale of Settlement in Imperial Russia. Tevye is Anatevka's poor Jewish milkman; he and his bossy, sharp-tongued wife Gol…
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Action, Fairy-Tale Film, action film, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film
While admiring a bright red rose blooming during a white winter, Queen Eleanor of Tabor pricks her finger on its thorns. Three drops of blood fall onto the snow, and she wishes for a daughter with skin as white as snow, lips as red as bloo…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, comedy drama, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
A skyrocketing crime rate leads the dystopian city of Johannesburg, South Africa to buy a squadron of scouts—state-of-the-art armor-plated attack robots—from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. These autonomous androids were developed by Briti…
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Drama, comedy film, drama film
Once the chef at a high-class Parisian restaurant owned by his mentor Jean-Luc, Adam Jones' drug use and temperamental behavior destroyed his career and the restaurant. Exiling himself in New Orleans, he shucked a million oysters to sober …
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
thumb|The Sharp GF-7600 boombox that Cusack held above his head At the end of their high school senior year, noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler is smitten with valedictorian Diane Court. He plans to ask her out, although they belong to diffe…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy drama, fantasy film
In the 1950s, a feral puppy wonders about life's true purpose. Weeks later, he is caught by dog catchers, taken to the pound, and euthanized. The dog is reborn as a Red Retriever in 1961.
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Marital Tragedy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy film
Jane, who owns a successful bakery in Santa Barbara, California, and Jake Adler, a successful attorney, have been divorced for 10 years. They had three children together, two girls and a boy, the youngest of whom has just left for college,…
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Adventure, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, drama film
Ricky Baker, a child in the New Zealand foster care system who has frequently run away or been let go by other foster homes, is taken in by Bella and her husband Hector. Though Hector remains distant from Ricky, interested only in hunting,…
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Gangster Film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, art film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
PROLOGUE (which introduces us to the town and its residents) Set in the isolated Rocky Mountain town of Dogville, near an abandoned silver mine, the film opens with a narrator introducing its 15 residents. Through the perspective of Tom Ed…
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Splatter Film, Western film, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
On May 18, 1978, Texas Sheriff John Quincey Wydell and a large posse of state troopers issue a search and destroy mission on the Firefly family, who are responsible for over 75 homicides and disappearances over the past several years. The …
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Ghost-Movie, Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film
In Crythin Gifford village in 1889, three young girls playing in their nursery notice a presence in the room; hypnotised and entranced, they jump to their deaths from the window. In 1906, in Edwardian London, lawyer Arthur Kipps's wife, St…
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Crime, Destiny, Thriller, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, vigilante film
In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rus…
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film
During the American Civil War, teenaged Wyatt Earp lives on his family's farm in Pella, Iowa, while his older brothers Virgil and James serve with the Union Army. Wyatt attempts to run away, intending to lie about his age and join his brot…
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
During the final stages of the Bosnian War in 1995, U.S. Navy flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse are stationed on the aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea. Fed up with the battle readiness routin…
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
During World War II, the II Corps suffers a severe defeat at the Battle of Kasserine Pass in North Africa. Hard-charging General George S. Patton is sent to take command; he reorganizes the corps, and imposes strict but necessary disciplin…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Crime, adventure film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
In an abandoned riverboat in Devil's Bayou, Louisiana, a small orphan girl named Penny drops a message in a bottle, containing a plea for help, into the river. The Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization inside the United N…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, biographical film, comedy film, drama film, teen film
In 1961, 11-year-old Beverly "Bev" Donofrio rides with her father, a police officer named Leonard, in Wallingford, Connecticut. She asks for a bra for Christmas to get the attention of a boy, but he tells her she is too young and to focus …
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Historie, Justice Drama, action film, biographical film, historical film, period drama film, war film
Newton Knight, a soldier in the Confederate Army, deserts after learning of the Twenty Negro Law and witnessing the death of his nephew Daniel during the Second Battle of Corinth. Knight brings Daniel's body home to Ellisville and reconnec…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, science fiction film, thriller film
Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a meeting of the fugitive Nazi organization Kameraden in Paraguay. At this meeting, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele provides instructions for the assassinations of 94 civil servan…
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Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy is a history student and distance runner at Columbia University in New York City who seeks to rehabilitate the memory of his father, who committed suicide during McCarthyism. A fiery car accident kills Klaus Sz…
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