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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, independent film, prison film
The film centers on a dialogue between two very different individuals who share a prison cell during the Brazilian military dictatorship: Valentin Arregui, who is imprisoned (and has been tortured) due to his activities on behalf of a left…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, trial film
In 1958, Margaret Ulbrich leaves her then-husband Frank and takes her young daughter Jane to North Beach, San Francisco, where she gets a job painting illustrations at a furniture factory. While doing portraits at an outdoor art show, she …
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
During a costume party, guest Karen Powell goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital by her husband Brian and their friends. The baby, named Jack, inexplicably looks full-term and healthy despite having been born in the 10th week of ge…
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
A Christian musical procession waits with a symbolic block of tofu outside a prison for the release of Lee Geum-ja, a reformed female prisoner. Convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old schoolboy, Won-mo, 13 years earlier, Geum-ja…
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Melodrama, drama film, flashback film, romance film
In a railway station refreshment room, a man and a woman are sitting glumly at a table. One of the woman's friends comes in and immediately begins chatting away. After some terse pleasantries, the man leaves to catch his train.
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Drama, Musical, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, musical film, romance film
On V-J Day in 1945, a celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, with music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. While there, selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player Jimmy Doyle meets small-time USO singer Francine Evans,…
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Drama, Musical, children's film, historical drama, musical film
In 1899, 17-year-old Jack "Cowboy" Kelly lives with other struggling newspaper hawkers ("newsies") in New York City, selling copies of the New York World on the Manhattan streets ("Carrying the Banner"). When David Jacobs and his younger b…
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Action, Historie, action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, medieval film
In 1304, outside the besieged Stirling Castle, John Comyn, Robert Bruce, and their allies, surrender to Edward I of England and pay him their homage. Afterwards, Bruce spars with the king's son, Edward, Prince of Wales, whom he had known a…
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Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
A group of criminals serving death sentences are sent on a mission in space to extract alternative energy from a black hole. Each prisoner is treated as a guinea pig by Dibs, a scientist, for her experiments; Dibs is fixated on trying to c…
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Drama, drama film
After freezing at home plate, professional baseball player Calvin Campbell retires from the Detroit Tigers and retreats to his hometown in Louisville, Kentucky where he puts his life on hold for years to nurse his damaged pride. Locked in …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to the Vatican after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a prominent German prelate, is elected Pope Benedict X…
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Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, tragicomedy
Mavis Gary is a 37-year-old divorced, alcoholic ghost writer of a series of young adult novels, on deadline with her editor to finish the last book of the soon-to-be-canceled series. Mavis receives an e-mail with a picture of the newborn d…
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American football film, Drama, drama film
On the evening of November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 chartered by Marshall University to transport the Thundering Herd football team back to Huntington, West Virginia following their 17–14 defeat to th…
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Drama, drama film, lesbian-related film
Sisters Katherine, Victoria and Georgina return to their family home in the English countryside to attend the wedding of their twice-widowed mother Diana, who is marrying her third husband, Geoff Loveglove. Diana's first two husbands were …
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Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener is a shy and unpopular seventh-grader living in a middle-class suburban community in New Jersey. Her older brother Mark is a nerdy high school student who plays clarinet in a garage band and shuns girls in order…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Twenty-four-year-old high school dropout Scott Carlin lives with his mother Margie and his sister Claire in Staten Island. His firefighter father Stan died fighting a fire when he was seven, a loss that continues to affect him; he also dea…
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comedy film, drama film
Madison "Maddie" Ralph works as a dishwasher at Gourmaybe, a Los Angeles test kitchen that produces short-form content, though she dreams of becoming a chef. One evening, Maddie's husband Jake films her preparing one of her vegetarian reci…
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Military Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
A coup d'état led by exiled General Mustafa Yakubu overthrows the President of Nigeria, Samuel Azuka, sending Nigeria into chaos and causing an ethnic conflict between Yakubu's tribe, the Fulani Muslims, and Azuka's Christian Igbo. Samuel …
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
A Cornish fishing village is in a state of economic decline. Three decades earlier, when the village was thriving, the fishing vessel Rose of Nevada and its crew were lost at sea. The loss of the crew still pervades the village and the com…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Arthur Bach is a spoiled, alcoholic man-child in New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central Park. Arthur is heir to a portion of his family's vast fortune, but only if he ma…
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1959, the Clutter family murders take place on their Kansas farm. After reading The New York Times, riveted by the story, Truman Capote calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy…
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Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In suburban Chicago, 15-year-old Jade Butterfield and 17-year-old David Axelrod fall in love after being introduced by Jade's older brother, Keith. The Butterfields' bohemian lifestyle, for which they're well known in their community, allo…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Vampirfilm, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, romance film, vampire film
In March 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a disfigured man is taken to the hospital. An unnamed police detective tries to question him about a recent murder. While the detective answers a call outside the room, the disfigured man jumps out…
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Drama, drama film, teen film
In 1951, Norman Dale arrives in rural Hickory, Indiana. His old friend, high school principal Cletus Summers, has hired him as the civics and history teacher and as head basketball coach. The townspeople, passionate about basketball, are d…
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