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Biographical picture, Satire, buddy film, drama film
In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams lives in Torrance, California with his parents. His mother is an alcoholic who is emotionally and physically abusive. Eddie works as a dishwasher at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, wh…
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Political Drama, Political Satire, Social Drama, action film, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, mystery film, prison film, satirical film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
thumb|right|Human furniture from the Korova milk bar, where the "milk-plus" was served In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. They engage in an intoxicated evening of "ultra-violence"…
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drama film, science fiction film
American tourists Jenai and Riley arrive in Iceland and visit several landmarks. Riley has taken his father's Rolleiflex camera and plenty of film. When Jenai questions why he prefers it over a modern digital camera, Riley says he prefers …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 5000 BC, ten superpowered beings known as Eternals—Ajak, Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, Sprite, Phastos, Makkari, Druig, Gilgamesh, and Thena—are sent to Earth by Arishem, a Celestial, on the starship Domo. They are charged with exterminating in…
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Musical, Romantic Drama
While stuck in Los Angeles traffic ("Another Day of Sun"), jazz pianist Sebastian "Seb" Wilder has a moment of road rage directed at aspiring actress Amelia "Mia" Dolan. After a hard day at work, Mia's next audition goes awry because the c…
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Drama, Found Footage, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Psychological Thriller, found footage film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction
In October 1994, film students Heather, Mike, and Josh set out to produce a documentary about the mythical Blair Witch. They travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, and interview residents about the myth. Locals tell them of Rustin Parr, a herm…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, action film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1987, Jerome "Jerry" Lundegaard is the executive sales manager of a Minneapolis car dealership owned by his father-in-law, Wade Gustafson. Desperate for money, he plans to have his wife, Jean, kidnapped. On the recommendation of dealers…
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Gangster Film, Mysterie, action film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
While lying badly wounded on a ship docked in San Pedro Bay, career criminal Dean Keaton is shot dead by a shadowy figure whom he calls "Keyser." The police recover 27 bodies and two survivors from the ship: Arkosh Kovash ("Ákos Kovács"), …
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Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
In the present day, the elderly Duke reads a romantic story from a notebook to a female patient in their nursing home. It relates how, in 1940, at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, lumber mill worker Noah Calhoun sees 17-year-…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, romance film, speculative fiction film, vampire film
Prince Vlad of Wallachia renounces God and becomes Dracula after the murder of his wife Elisabeta during a battle with the Ottomans. Over four centuries, Dracula attempts to track down the reincarnation of his wife, creating vampiric agent…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Alice and Jack Chambers live in Victory, California, an idyllic 1950s desert company town. Every day, the men leave for work at Victory Headquarters in the surrounding desert, and their wives enjoy luxuries and leisure while the men are go…
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Anti-War Film, Crime, Historie, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, film noir, flashback film, romance film, war film
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca, then in French Morocco. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate…
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Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, Western, drama film, romance film
In Wyoming in 1963, cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer on grazing pastures on Brokeback Mountain. When they meet in camp for supper and breakfast, the two men graduall…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror, drama film, horror film, romance film, satirical film, slasher film
Camp Miasma is a long-running slasher franchise that originated in the 1980s. Its recurring villain is "Little Death", the ghost of a child who was purportedly raised as both a boy and girl by their parents. After being drowned by hateful …
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Gangster Film, Political Drama, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In a nursing home, elderly Irish American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran narrates his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some …
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, survival film
In the early 2010s Montreal, a writer meets Pi Patel, whom he has been told would be a good subject for a book. Pi tells the writer the following story: Pi is born in 1960, named Piscine Molitor Patel after Piscine Molitor, a famous French…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Following the death of their mother, Nawal, an Arab immigrant in Canada, Jeanne and her twin brother Simon meet with French Canadian notary Jean Lebel, their mother's employer and family friend. Nawal's will refers to not keeping a promise…
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Coming Out, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic drama
In the summer of 1983, Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old Jewish French-Italian boy, lives with his parents in rural Northern Italy. Elio's father, a professor of archaeology, invites a 24-year-old Jewish-American graduate student, Oliver, to liv…
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Biographical picture, Monumental Film, War Film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, war film
T. E. Lawrence dies in a motorcycle accident in 1935.
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Action, Adventure, Thriller, Western film, biographical film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
Fur trapper Hugh Glass watches as American soldiers burn down a Native American village on the Great Plains. Years later, in 1823, during the Arikara War, Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's trappers through the territory of the present-da…
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Military Film, Romance Film, action film, drama film, melodrama, romance film
U.S. Navy Naval Aviator Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Lieutenant Junior Grade Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, stationed in the Indian Ocean aboard , fly the F-14A Tomcat. During an interception with two h…
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Drama, Historie, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1935 England, 13-year-old Briony Tallis, the youngest daughter of the wealthy Tallis family, spies on her older sister, Cecilia, and the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, from a window. Cecilia and Robbie argue by the garden fountain, d…
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High Fantasy, Monumental Film, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, high fantasy
In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the lords of Elves, Dwarves, and Men each receive Rings of Power. Unbeknownst to them, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring, imbuing it with his power to control the other Rings and conquer Middle-ear…
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Drama, Social Drama, comedy drama, drama film, female buddy film, white savior film
In 1963, Aibileen Clark is an African-American domestic worker in Jackson, Mississippi, working for socialite Elizabeth Leefolt. She raises Elizabeth's daughter, two-year-old Mae Mobley, who is emotionally neglected due to postpartum depre…
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