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Animalhorror, horror film, zombie film
The Creed family—Louis, Rachel, their children Ellie and Gage and their pet cat Church—move from Chicago to rural Ludlow, Maine, after Louis accepts a job as a physician at the local university. They befriend neighbor Jud Crandall, who tak…
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Melodrama, Psychodrama, crime film, drama film
The story is told in a nonlinear manner. The following is a chronological summary of the plot: Jack Jordan is a former convict who is using his new-found religious faith to recover from drug addiction and alcoholism. Paul Rivers is a mathe…
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Drama
In 2010, entrepreneur Balram Halwai emails Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, requesting a meeting, and relating his life story. He states his belief that the Indian underclass is trapped in a perpetual state of servitude, like chickens in a chic…
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Drama
Mohan Bhargava is a successful Non-Resident Indian (NRI) working as a Project Manager on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) program for NASA in Washington, D.C. Mohan originally relocated to the United States for his higher educati…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
Usnavi de la Vega tells a group of children a story of Washington Heights. Ten years earlier, Usnavi is the owner of a bodega in the neighborhood. After chasing off street artist "Graffiti Pete", he introduces: Claudia, the neighborhood ma…
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Melodrama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
The film—the story of Dawson and Amanda—moves between alternate scenes of the couple's relationship in 1992, and their current separate lives. Dawson Cole works on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. An explosion on the job nearly kills…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the future year of 1964, World War III has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans there. The cobalt bomb's fallout is elevated compared to that of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. Air currents are slowly carrying the fal…
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Musical, Parodie, musical film, parody film
In Springberry, Alabama, 1946, young Dewey Cox accidentally cuts his brother Nate in half with a machete. His father blames him for Nate's death and the trauma causes him to lose his sense of smell. Dewey meets a blues guitarist who discov…
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Animation, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the near future, the United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful drug that causes bizarre hallucinations, has swept the country. Approximately 20 percent of the population is addicted.
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Thriller, thriller film
Jack and his lover, Ingrid, are relaxing in Sweden. As they walk in the wilderness outside their cabin, Jack becomes alarmed by a trail of footprints in the snow. A sniper's shots ring out, but Ingrid sees Jack pull a gun from his pocket a…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film
In the mid-1990s, the once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the workers have been made redundant. Former steelworkers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsfall resort to stealing scrap metal fro…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film
When 29-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in 1938, just weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed, he encounters families in Prague who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria. They are livin…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Carl Brashear leaves his native Kentucky and the life of a sharecropper in 1949 by joining the United States Navy. Carl promised his father that he would never quit and would fight for what he wants. As a crew member of the salvage ship US…
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Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, buddy film, horror film, science fiction film
Jonesy, Beaver, Pete, and Henry are four friends on an annual hunting trip in Maine. As children, they all acquired telepathic powers which they call "the line" after saving a boy with disabilities named Douglas "Duddits" Cavell from bulli…
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Erotic Film, drama film, erotic film, romance film
Elizabeth McGraw, a young employee at a SoHo art gallery, meets John Gray, a Wall Street arbitrageur, at a Chinese grocer, and later at a flea market where he buys her an expensive shawl. They start dating, but John's strange behavior esca…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, horror film, musical film
In the winter of 1996, a professional French dance troupe, led by manager Emmanuelle and choreographer Selva, rehearse an upcoming performance in an abandoned school. After completing the elaborate closing piece of the dance, the group com…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
Dakota Riley is a star wide receiver and rising senior at Middleton High School in suburban San Diego, living under intense pressure from his father, the school's head football coach, to secure a college scholarship. Though he presents him…
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Romance Film, drama film, erotic film, romance film
After marrying the baronet Sir Clifford Chatterley, Constance "Connie" Reid moves from London to the impressive Chatterley estate in Wragby. When her sister Hilda expresses disapproval of the marriage, Connie tells her that she loves Cliff…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Sy Parrish is a photo technician at a one-hour photo lab in big-box store SavMart. He lives alone with a pet hamster, has no friends or love life, and lives only for his work, which he considers a "vital service". His favorite customers ar…
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Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, comedy drama, drama film
At Camden College in New Hampshire, students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film student ups…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
Sisters Maggie and Rose Feller are very different, raised by their father Michael and their stepmother Sydelle, as their mother Caroline died in a car accident when they were young. Rose is an ostensibly plain and serious lawyer and, as th…
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Coming Of Age, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a bright and attractive 16-year-old schoolgirl who aspires to attend the University of Oxford. Her studies are controlled by her strict father, Jack. After youth orchestra rehearsals, Jenny waits at a bus st…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Police officer Charlie Lang is kind and generous. He loves his job and enjoys a strong rapport with the Queens neighborhood where he lives. His wife Muriel works in a hairdressing salon.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Nick Cavanaugh, an Atlanta surgeon, begins moving into his recently deceased mother Marion's lavish home with his girlfriend Anne Garrett. However, he remains fixated on his neighbor Helena—a beautiful but shrewish woman with whom he had o…
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