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Adventure, Romantic Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
The Rivers (1839) left|thumb|300px|The settlers' raft is caught in rapids. Zebulon Prescott and his family set out west for the frontier on the Erie Canal. They are pulled through the first section on a barge and then build rafts to contin…
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Heist, action film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
After being nearly caught during a burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells considers retiring to live with his girlfriend Diane and run his Montreal jazz club as a legitimate businessman. He declines another job from his fence Max, and is…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Seasoned 9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner receives a call from 15-year-old Leah Templeton, fearing for her life as a man breaks into her home while her parents are away. Jordan calmly advises her to hide, which she does under the bed. After th…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film opens backstage at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, on February 26, 1995, right before Tejano superstar Selena plays to a sold-out crowd ("Disco Medley"). In 1961, young Abraham Quintanilla and his doo-wop group “The Dinos" are un…
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Drama, Found Footage, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller, screenlife
David Kim lives in San Jose, California with his daughter, Margot. His wife, Pamela, was diagnosed with lymphoma and died before Margot entered high school. Margot tells David that she is with a study group and will be there all night.
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Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2003, Amy Loughren is a single mother and nurse working in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, who is suffering from cardiomyopathy, unbeknownst to anyone at the hospital, and fears dismissal. Hav…
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Melodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sometime in the future, Elizabeth 'Daisy' Rybeck, an irritable, neurotic American teenager, is sent by her father David to the English countryside for the summer to stay with her Aunt Penn and her three cousins: Eddie, Isaac, and Piper. Da…
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Action, Animation, Fantasy, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, teen film, thriller film
After her mother dies, 17-year-old Mary Katherine ("M.K.") moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba in Danbury, Connecticut. Bomba spent his life researching the Leafmen, tiny humanoid soldiers who protect the neighbori…
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Action, Historie, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
At a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1863, a slave named "Peter" is praying with his family when his owner, John Lyons, and a group of white men drag him out of his home at gunpoint. As the wagon carrying him pulls away, Peter cries out to …
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
Dr. Will Caster is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in hi…
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Drama, Historie, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, historical drama
On July 23, 1967, the Detroit Police Department stage a raid on an unlicensed club during a celebration for some African American veterans returning from the Vietnam War. While suspects are being arrested, a mob forms and begins throwing r…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, teen film
Lily Schechner moves into the town with her therapist mother, Helen, to live with Helen's new boyfriend Adam Harrison and his three sons, Jacob, Isaiah, and Abe. At the new school, she begins her period and bleeds through in class, and is …
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Family Drama, Romance Film, drama film
In Lake Luzerne, New York, teenagers Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one winter's morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Both horses fall, dr…
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Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
left|200px|thumb|Shane (Alan Ladd) and Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur) Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as…
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Vampirfilm, drama film, horror film, vampire film
Renfield is a solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania on a business matter. The local village people fear that vampires inhabit the castle and warn Renfield not to go there. Renfield refuses to stay at the village inn…
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Horror, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vigilante film
The Shadow Mountains In 1983, in the Pacific Northwest, recovering alcoholic war veteran (former MACV-SOG unit) lumberjack Red Miller lives with his girlfriend, artist and author Mandy Bloom, who had an abusive childhood. Mandy works as a …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, mystery film, science fiction film, time-travel film
A spacecraft presumed to be of alien origin is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for nearly 300 years. A team of experts, including marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin, mathematician Dr.
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Drama, action film, drama film, survival film
On January 16, 1942, US Navy airmen pilot Harold Dixon, bombardier Tony Pastula and radioman Gene Aldrich, flying a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, encounter problems on a patrol mission over…
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Romance Film, drama film, rape and revenge film, romance film
The story is narrated by Blanca Trueba, a young woman from a powerful Chilean family. 1926 Blanca's mother, Clara del Valle is a child from a well-off family in Santiago whose father is running for the Senate. Clara possesses clairvoyant a…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1958 in Kenya, Robin Cavendish falls ill from polio at age 28, not long after meeting and marrying his wife Diana. Paralysed from the neck down and unable to breathe without the assistance of a respirator, he is given only three months …
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Historie, Romance Film, drama film, melodrama
In 1951, in Enniscorthy, a small town in south-east Ireland, Eilis Lacey lives with her mother and older sister, Rose. Unable to find full-time employment, she works part-time for the spiteful Miss Kelly at her grocery shop. Eilis attends …
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High School Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romance film, romantic comedy
Elizabeth Halsey is a lazy and immoral teacher at John Adams Middle School in Chicago. She curses at her students, drinks heavily, smokes marijuana, and lets her students watch movies so she can sleep through class. She plans to quit teach…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Political Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film
In a house near the Pentagon, Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell of the Office of Naval Intelligence is under interrogation, asked how he came to meet Secretary of Defense David Brice. Six months earlier, Farrell is invited to an inaugural b…
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Horror, body horror film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Four years after his wife Becca's death from cancer, businessman Karsh has invented "GraveTech", a tombstone that broadcasts a live, interactive 3D image of the deceased's decomposing corpse. The image is created by a modified shroud, and …
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