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Dance Film, Komödie, Romance Film, Social Drama, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
In 1962 Baltimore, overweight teenager Tracy Turnblad dreams of appearing on The Corny Collins Show, a popular local television program featuring a "council" of teenagers dancing to popular songs. One night, she and her best friend Penny P…
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Destiny, War Film, war film
The film begins with a narrated map showing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, crossing the Potomac River to invade the North in June 1863, marching across Maryland and into Pennsylvania. On June 30, Con…
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Psychodrama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1987 Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz speaks at an elementary school in place of his older brother Dave. Both won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, but Mark feels overshadowed by Dave. Mark is contacted by philanthropist a…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, crime film, drama film
Ben Campbell, a mathematics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 tuition. He applies for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship, which would cover the ent…
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Drama, drama film
Robin "Rob" Feld is a reclusive truffle-forager who was once a renowned chef in Portland. Living in a cabin deep in the Oregon forests, he hunts for truffles with the help of his prized foraging pig. Rob sells the truffles exclusively to A…
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film
Some time after the drowning of their young daughter, Christine, in an accident at their English country home, John Baxter and his grief-stricken wife, Laura, travel to Venice, where John has accepted a commission from a bishop to restore …
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Political Satire, black comedy film, satirical film
Four radicalised British Muslims living in Sheffield (three of whom are British Pakistanis) aspire to become suicide bombers: Omar, who is deeply critical of Western society and interventionism; his dim-witted and anxious cousin Waj; Barry…
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Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
thumb|Film trailer In the 23rd century, after more than a year's journey, the United Planets starship C-57D arrives at the distant planet Altair IV to determine the fate of the ship Bellerophon, sent there 20 years before. Dr. Edward Morbi…
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Drama, drama fiction, drama film, musical film
The film concerns two main characters: Lazarus Redd, a deeply religious farmer and former blues guitarist, and Rae Doole, a young sex addict. Lazarus' wife and his brother were having an affair, which has left him bitter and angry. Rae's b…
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
Ten-year-old Finnegan "Finn" Bell—an orphan being raised by his elder sister Maggie and her boyfriend Joe—is overpowered by an escaped convict while playing on a beach on the Gulf Coast. Finn brings him food, alcohol and bolt cutters to cu…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Recently widowed Berlin-based American aviation engineer Kyle Pratt is taking her husband David's body back to the United States. Traveling with their six-year-old daughter Julia, they board a new double-decker aircraft Kyle helped design.…
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Historie, biographical film, historical drama
In 1561, after the death of her husband King Francis II, nineteen-year-old Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France to take up her throne. She is received by her illegitimate half brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray. In neighboring En…
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Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
While vacationing in Switzerland, pediatrician Chris Nielsen meets artist Annie Collins. They marry and have two children, Ian and Marie. Their idyllic life ends when the children die in a car crash.
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Drama, drama film
In 2005, Divine G is incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and he discovers a sense of purpose through participation in a small theater group made up of fellow inmates. These inmates are part of the Rehabilitation Through the Ar…
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Fantasy, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In 1653 Salem, Massachusetts, Reverend Traske banishes a 16-year-old Winifred Sanderson after she "defied church authority" by refusing to marry John Pritchett. Rather than be away from her sisters, Mary and Sarah, Winifred takes them to a…
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Crime, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=2:20|right|The original trailer for Strangers on a Train Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife, Miriam, so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. On a train, wealthy smooth-ta…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. At their hotel, Harris realizes he left his briefcase at the airport so takes a taxi to retrieve it. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree…
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Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, thriller film
In the lower echelons of Parisian society in the 1860's, Thérèse Raquin is a beautiful, sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, whom she was forced to marry by her domineering aunt, Mada…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of the world's richest private citizen, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, where he lives, by the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-like organized crime group based in Calabria. A ransom o…
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Action, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film
El Mariachi is recruited by CIA officer Sheldon Jeffrey Sands to kill General Emiliano Marquez, a corrupt Mexican Army officer who has been hired by Mexican drug lord Armando Barillo to assassinate the President of Mexico and overthrow the…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
Dr. Peyton Westlake is a scientist developing a prototype for a new "synthetic skin" to help burn victims, but he cannot overcome a flaw that causes the skin to disintegrate after 99 minutes. His girlfriend Julie Hastings discovers an incr…
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Drama, drama film
Having spent the last 21 years in a Californian prison for possession of marijuana, a middle-aged man named Russell Earl Millings must find his way in a world that has changed completely since he was incarcerated in the 1990s. Upon his rel…
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Drama
Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1996, 13-year-old Stevie lives in Los Angeles with his physically abusive older brother Ian and single mother Dabney. One day, Stevie bikes past Motor Avenue Skateshop, admires the boastful camaraderie of the skateboarders outside, and …
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