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Dark Comedy, Drama, black comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, Mildred Hayes is grieving over the rape and murder of her teen daughter, Angela. Angry over the lack of progress in the investigation, she rents three disused billboards near her home and posts on…
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Drama, Historie, action film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film
In the 1846 slum of the Five Points, two rival gangs, the Anglo-Protestant Confederation of American Natives, led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, and the immigrant Irish Catholic Dead Rabbits, led by "Priest" Vallon, engage in their…
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Drama, drama film
Jem Stoker is a retired veteran. He departs from his wife, Nessa, and son, Brian, to go in a remote forest. In the forest, he arrives at the hut of his brother Ray who is also a retired veteran having previously served in Northern Ireland.
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Drama, drama film, psychological drama film
In early 2016, Charlie is a super-morbidly obese recluse in Moscow, Idaho. Weighing , Charlie never leaves his apartment, where he teaches online English writing courses to college students, but keeps his webcam off, ashamed of his appeara…
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Cartoon, Coming Of Age, adventure film, drama film, family film, musical film
In the Pride Lands, a pride of lions rules over the kingdom from Pride Rock. King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi's newborn son, Simba, is presented to the gathered animals by Rafiki, the mandrill who is the kingdom's shaman and advisor. Mufasa's …
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, drama film
right|thumb|upright|Outline of the various characters in Magnolia and their relationships Los Angeles police officer Jim Kurring investigates a disturbance at a woman's apartment, finding a body in a closet. Dixon, a neighborhood boy, unsu…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, ex-convict Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in Miami as part of the Mariel boatlift with his friend Manny Ribera and their companions, Angel and Chi-Chi. Miami drug lord Frank Lopez arranges green cards for them in exchange for …
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, black comedy, comedy film, disaster film, drama film, satire, science fiction film
Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at Michigan State University, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her adviser, Dr. Randall Mindy, confirms that it will collide with Earth in approximately six months and is large enough t…
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Family Drama, Fantasy, Horror, horror film, mystery film
In 1630s New England, English settler William and his family—his wife Katherine, teenage daughter Thomasin, preteen son Caleb, and young fraternal twins Mercy and Jonas—are banished from a Puritan settlement over a religious dispute. They …
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Family Drama, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1979, Michael Corleone is approaching 60 years of age. Plagued with guilt over his ruthless rise to power, especially for having ordered his brother Fredo Corleone's murder, he donates millions to charitable causes. Michael and Kay Adam…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Family Comedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Cal Weaver is a middle-aged family man whose wife Emily asks for a divorce after she reveals an affair she had with co-worker David Lindhagen. The news stuns Cal, who jumps out of their moving car when Emily tries to talk about the affair.…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, epic film, science fiction film
In an alternate United States, New Rome is dominated by an elite group of patrician families. Although the Roman elite profess to live by a strict moral code, patricians decadently enjoy forbidden pleasures while ordinary Romans live in po…
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Family Drama, drama film, thriller film, war film
USMC officer Sam Cahill is about to be sent to war in Afghanistan in 2007. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Grace, with whom he has two young daughters, Isabelle and Maggie. Sam's younger brother, Tommy, is released from prison…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Nightmute, Alaska, teenager Kay Connell is found beaten to death, her body scrubbed of forensic evidence and dumped naked in a landfill. At the request of the local chief, LAPD detectives Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart are sent to assist w…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
After many years together, Alex and Tess have reached an amicable end to their marriage, thus beginning the awkward stage of figuring out how to live separately while raising two boys, Felix and Jude, and maintaining their friendships. Aft…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Parodie, Romantic Comedy, adventure film, buddy film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy comedy, fantasy film
Shrek is an asocial ogre who loves the solitude of his swamp and enjoys fending off mobs and intruders. One day, his life is interrupted after he inadvertently saves a talkative Donkey from some soldiers, prompting Donkey to forcibly stay …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
In Massachusetts, the Owens family have been persecuted for over three centuries because their ancestor Maria Owens survived an attempted execution for witchcraft. Heartbroken when the father of her unborn child left her, Maria cast a spel…
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Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, docudrama, drama film, mystery film, police procedural film
On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Only Mike survives and later disappears from the public eye. One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle recei…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy film, drama film
Agnes Ward is a graduate student in English at Fairport, a liberal arts college in rural Belfast, Maine. She lives with her best friend and fellow graduate student Lydie. Agnes and Lydie are part of a doctoral study group led by professor …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy drama, drama film, flashback film
Lester Burnham, a middle-aged media executive in suburbia, despises his job and is unhappily married to neurotic, status-obsessed Carolyn. Their 16-year-old daughter and only child, Jane, resents her parents and has low self-esteem. Retire…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, thriller film
Kevin Lomax is a defense attorney based in Gainesville, Florida who has never lost a case. While defending schoolteacher Lloyd Gettys against a charge of child molestation, he realizes his client is guilty. He proceeds with his defense, de…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Drama, Melodrama, biographical film, drama film, fiction film, flashback film, mystery film
On a vast palatial estate in Florida, elderly wealthy newspaper publisher and industry magnate Charles Foster Kane dies in his mansion, Xanadu, uttering his last word, "Rosebud". With Kane's death sensational news around the world, a newsr…
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Darry Curtis is left to raise his younger brothers, Sodapop and Ponyboy, after the deaths of their parents in a car crash eight months earlier. Youth subculture in the city is centered around two gangs — the afflue…
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