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Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film, buddy film, drama film, prison film
In 1997, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, elderly convict Willie Long tells two inmates his friends' life stories at their burial. Ray Gibson and Claude Banks, vastly different New Yorkers, meet at the club Spanky's in 1932. Small-ti…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, teen film, tragicomedy
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation, with no plans for their future, other than to find jobs and live together. The girls are cynical social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than …
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coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1950, the affluent Di Sangro family awaits the birth of their daughter in the waters of Posillipo. The birth is attended by her wealthy godfather Achille Lauro, her older brother Raimondo, and Sandrino, the son of the family's housekeep…
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Horror comedy, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1964, in the town of Fairwater, Johnny Bartlett is executed for murdering 12 people at Fairwater sanatorium, driven by his desire to become the most prolific serial killer. His teenage lover, Patricia Ann Bradley, is sentenced to prison…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir
Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Los Angeles, is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood, who wants to resolve a series of debts his daughter Carmen owes to bookseller Arthur Geiger. As Marlowe leaves, Sternwood's older daughter…
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Coming Of Age, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
Buddy is a nine-year-old boy living with his family—mother "Ma", elder brother Will, and paternal grandparents "Granny" and "Pop"—in Belfast, while his father "Pa" works overseas in England. During the August 1969 riots, a group of Protest…
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Action, Dark Comedy, Detective Film, Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1998, called in to investigate the grievous assault of Trey Howard outside a restaurant, NYPD Detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr., the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon, after noticing blood on him. Wade claims self-defense. …
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Drama, Komödie, Satire, comedy drama
Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in a wealthy old man's townhouse in Washington, D.C., along with the man's African-American maid Louise, who is kind to him. He has spent his whole life tending the garden and never left the property…
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Mysterie, horror film, thriller film
Hospice aide Caroline Ellis quits her position at a nursing home and is hired as the caretaker of an isolated plantation house in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Violet Devereaux, the aging matron of the house, needs help looking after her h…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, Political Thriller, action thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Assassin Khamel kills two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg. Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing a motive for the murders. Her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan, a former clerk of Rosenb…
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Drama, Fantasy, Historie, cinematic fairy tale, horror film, romance film, speculative fiction film
thumb|upright=1.25|left|The Alcantara river in Sicily, the location for the scenes with the aquatic dragon The Enchanted Doe In the Kingdom of Longtrellis, the King and Queen cannot conceive a child. A necromancer suggests that if the Quee…
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Psychodrama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, comedy film, drama film
Prologue 1st Day Sequence: A helicopter transports a statue of Christ over an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome while a second, Marcello Rubini's news helicopter, follows it into the city. The news helicopter is momentarily sidetracked b…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, drama film, melodrama, romance film, tragicomedy
Vianne and her six-year-old daughter Anouk drift across Europe following the north wind, like Vianne's mother before her. In 1959, they arrive in the quiet French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, of which the Comte de Reynaud is mayor, a…
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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, detective film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Amidst a hot summer in New York City, the dismembered body parts of men begin appearing in the Hudson River. Police suspect a serial killer is targeting gay men at West Village bars such as the Eagle's Nest, the Ramrod and the Cock Pit, lu…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1999, Seth Davis runs a successful casino from his apartment, catering to college students. His father, federal judge Marty Davis, views him as a disappointment for his illegal activities and dropping out of Queens College. Cousin Adam …
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Action, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, drama film, girls with guns, vigilante film
In 1992, in Bogota, Colombia, drug baron Don Luis Sandoval sends his enforcer Marco and a gang of armed men to kill his gang member Fabio Restrepo and his family because Fabio has defied him by trying to leave his prolific drug crime activ…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Family Comedy, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film
After newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan relocate from Michigan to South Florida, they obtain reporter jobs at competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Flori…
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Drama, drama film
In 1954, Bernard Garrett moves to Los Angeles with his wife and son, wanting to get into real estate but encounters racism that prevents him from being a successful real estate investor. Garrett buys a building from an Irish immigrant name…
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Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, Thriller, drama film
After securing a research grant to study stellar structures, American applied mathematician David Sumner moves with his wife Amy to a house near her home village of Wakely on the Cornish moorland. Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie Venner, along w…
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Drama, Mysterie, Vampirfilm, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In the year 1536, an alchemist in Veracruz develops a mechanism that can give eternal life. In 1937, an old building collapses and the alchemist, who has marble-white skin, is killed when his heart is pierced by the debris. Investigators g…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
Kate Armstrong is the head chef at the trendy 22 Bleecker Street Restaurant in Manhattan's West Village. She runs her kitchen at a rapid pace as she coordinates the making and preparation of all the fantastic meals, and personally displays…
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Christmas film, Drama, Family Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In 1183 in the Angevin Empire, 50-year-old Henry II of England seeks to name a successor and summons his family for Christmas at his castle in Chinon, Touraine. Henry wants his youngest son, John, to inherit his throne. His estranged wife,…
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Drama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the early 1980s, Jaime Escalante becomes a mathematics teacher at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Latino students from working-class families have academic achievement far below their grade level.
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Biographical picture, drama film
H Is for Hawk chronicles Helen Macdonald’s experience of grief following the sudden death of her father and her decision to train a goshawk as a means of coping with that loss. The narrative interweaves two strands: Macdonald’s personal be…
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