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Drama, Musical, coming-of-age film, drama film, historical film, musical film
In 1909 Georgia, teenager Celie Harris lives with her sister Nettie and abusive father Alfonso. After her mother dies, he starts raping Celie, causing her to become pregnant twice. Alfonso takes away each of the babies, first Olivia and th…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, a likeable Chicago-born dentist from Montreal, is despised by his wife Sophie and mother-in-law. His assistant Jill jokingly asks him to name a price to have Sophie disappear. Oz meets a new neighbor and realizes h…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Will Freeman lives a carefree lifestyle in London without any responsibility or commitments, thanks to royalties left to him by his father's successful Christmas song. He rejects the common phrase, "No man is an island," insisting that he …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film tells the story of John Allen Chau, a missionary who attempted to evangelize to the Sentinelese, an intentionally self-isolated tribe living on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean.
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Documentation, Drama Documentary
Biographical picture, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
In 1966 Southern California, Richard Montañez grows up as a hard-working child with a strict father and supportive grandfather. He meets his future wife Judy in school where he sells burritos to other children. He is arrested at a young ag…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
On the morning of 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch walks to school alone and angry after her mother slaps her during an argument. On the way, she is dragged into a van and later wakes up in a cellar. Her captor is 35-year-old te…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
After bombings in Sheffield, UK, police raid an apartment in Manchester, but the terrorists inside trigger an explosion, destroying the building. In Samarra, Iraq, CIA officer Roger Ferris is tracking Al-Saleem, the elusive leader of the t…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Detective Film, Historie, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1888, Mary Kelly and a small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. Their friend Ann Crook is a former prostitute now married to a wealthy painter named Albert, and she has recently given birth to a daughte…
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Adventure, Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Set in the South Pacific Ocean in the year 1897, beginning right where the original film left off, a ship finds a little dinghy with three passengers. They quickly find out that the two adults, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, are dead, but…
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Action, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Mitch Nelson, a U.S. Army captain with Green Berets Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595, is moving into a new home with his wife and daughter on September 11, 2001, after receiving an assignment to staff duty under Lieutenant Colonel Bo…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Maud Dowley lives with her Aunt Ida and brother Charles in the 1930s. She has severe arthritis and is shocked to learn that Charles has sold their family home, which their parents had left to him. In the meant…
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Family Drama, Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After his mother overdoses, 18-year-old Joshua "J" Cody asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her h…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1944, eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter lives in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union turns the Baltic region into part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and their …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Marty is an alcoholic writer in Los Angeles stuck on his new screenplay, Seven Psychopaths—he has the title, but not the title characters. His best friend Billy is a struggling actor who makes a living kidnapping dogs and collecting reward…
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Adventure, Historie, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, historical drama film, romance film
In 1607, Pocahontas, the adventurous daughter of Chief Powhatan, and others from her tribe witness the arrival of three ships sent by English royal charter to found a colony in the New World. Aboard one ship is Captain John Smith, sentence…
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Action, action film, drama film, survival film
A man narrates a letter addressing people he will miss. In the Indian Ocean eight days earlier, the man wakes to find water flooding his boat. It has collided with a wayward shipping container, ripping a hole in the hull.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
After their mother dies from an overdose, sisters Spider and Jessie, hide her body out of a fear that they will be separated by the foster care system.
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Justice Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, white savior film
In the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace downplays his potential as a gifted student, preferring to play basketball with his friends. They are watched by William Forrester, a recluse who never leaves his apartment and has become a neig…
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Buddy Film, Dark Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Satire On Media, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, independent film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1941, up-and-coming Broadway playwright Barton Fink accepts a contract from Capitol Pictures in Hollywood to write film scripts for a thousand dollars per week. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Fink settles into the cheap Hotel Earle. His ro…
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Marital Tragedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Manhattan food writer Rachel Samstat and Washington, D.C., political columnist Mark Forman meet at a mutual friend's wedding. Both have been married before and Mark has a reputation for being a serial womanizer. Despite being warned, Rache…
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Justice Drama, Late Western, Western film
In the Old West, outside LaHood, California, in Carbon Canyon, mining baron Coy LaHood is waging a war of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families — including Hull Barret, who is courting Sarah Wheeler. Sarah's teena…
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Drama, drama film
Jill Tyler and her minister husband Rob Tyler adopt two children, Catherine and Eric. Eric is a sweet and timid child. Catherine, nicknamed "Cat", initially seems to be the same but soon displays outbursts of violent rage for no apparent r…
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Buddy Film, Komödie, Sitcom, buddy film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Mike Peters is a struggling comedian who left New York to find success in Los Angeles and is still upset over the break-up with his girlfriend of six years, Michelle, six months prior. To help Mike with his depression, his womanizing frien…
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