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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
On January 26, 2007, Leena Klammer, a 30-year-old Estonian psychiatric patient with the appearance of a 10-year-old, escapes the Saarne by seducing and killing a guard, then hiding in the car of art therapist Anna. After killing Anna in he…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the American Old West, card sharp and con artist Bret Maverick is en route to a major five-card draw poker tournament held aboard the paddle steamer Lauren Belle, intending to determine how skilled a poker player he really is. Short $3,…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In 1989 Laborde, Texas, Ann Dane, startled by the sound of a door window breaking, wakes her husband, Richard. He accidentally shoots the intruder, identified as Freddy Russel, a wanted felon. Richard is shaken by the experience.
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Biographical picture, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In early 1950, Lieutenant Tom Hudner transfers to Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, where he meets Ensign Jesse Brown, the only black member of the unit. Hudner integrates well into the squadron, which is assi…
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Animation, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy film
King William and his friend Queen Uberta each have a child; Uberta has a son named Derek and William has a daughter named Odette. The two want their children to marry when they grow up so they can unite their two kingdoms forever. However,…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Julia Banks is questioned by police after the body of her abusive ex-boyfriend Michael Vargas is found in her home. Despite Julia's restraining order against him, Detective Pope reveals intimate messages and photos from her on Michael's ph…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
In 1976, Philadelphia is in chaos as portions of the city protest the shutdown of several job sites while their NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, endure a string of losing seasons. Vince Papale, a 30-year-old substitute teacher, comes hom…
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Drama, buddy film, drama film
After his wife and daughters died in a plane that struck the World Trade Center on 9/11, Charlie Fineman lost everything important in his life. Five years have passed since his family died, and now the once-successful and sociable man has …
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, family film
In Chicago, Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV is a nine-month-old baby who lives in a mansion with his socialite parents, Laraine and Bennington Austin "Bing" Cotwell III. Just as Bink is about to appear in the social pages of the local …
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Drama, Historie, action film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film
In the Deep South of the United States before the American Civil War, Falconhurst is a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell and largely run by his son, Hammond. One of Hammond's female slaves, Pearl, reaches puberty and Hamm…
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Drama, Historie
After World War II ends, Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann disappears; other leaders of Nazi Germany take their own lives to avoid facing trials for war crimes. In 1954, Mossad agent Peter Malkin mistakenly kills the wrong person while …
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Drama, Historie, War Film, drama film, war film
Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union army as Virginia votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, beginning the Civil War. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of …
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, romance film
In 1991, Daniel, an awkward teenager, is sent by his mother to spend the summer with his aunt on Cape Cod after the death of his father. He is not excited about it at first, but soon he meets Hunter Strawberry, the bad boy in town. While w…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, survival film
An aircraft carrying 24 American military school cadet boys returning home ditches near an uninhabited jungle island in the Pacific Ocean. Captain Benson, the pilot of the plane and the only adult survivor, is seriously injured and delirio…
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film
American siblings Oscar and Linda live in an apartment in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and have vowed to stay together following the accidental death of their parents. Oscar deals drugs while Linda works as a stripper in a Tokyo strip cl…
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Drama, mockumentary
Set some time in the early 1970s, the film opens by describing the final day of Jake Hannaford, an aging Hollywood director who was killed in a car crash on his 70th birthday, with narration from an elderly Brooks Otterlake, who had been a…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Drama, crime thriller film, neo-noir
After Pennsylvania chemical company executive Tom Gruneman disappears, the police find an obscene letter in his office addressed to a New York City call girl named Bree Daniels, who had received several such letters. After six months of fr…
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Biographical picture, Justice Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, lesbian-related film
In 1970, pro-tennis player Billie Jean King and her manager, Gladys Heldman, confront promoter Jack Kramer, who has organized a tennis tournament for which the top prize for women is one-eighth of the men's prize despite equal ticket sales…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for portraying republican sympathies. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Specia…
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Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, romantic comedy, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 1985, Peggy Sue Bodell attends her 25-year high school reunion, accompanied by her daughter, Beth, rather than her husband, Charlie, who was her high-school sweetheart. She and Charlie married right after graduation when Peggy Sue becam…
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Concert film, art film, drama film, musical film
Pink is a depressed rock star touring the United States. As he is discovered motionless and near-catatonic in his hotel room, the traumatic experiences that have brought him to this state surface, each represented as a "brick" in a psychol…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Sport, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film, teen film
Shortly after his dojo's loss to Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 All-Valley Karate Tournament, a furious John Kreese attacks his student, Johnny Lawrence, in the parking lot over the loss after he stood up to him while the other pupils defend L…
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Political Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
While visiting the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells, her cameraman Richard Adams and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through a turbine trip and corresponding SCRAM…
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Horror, drama film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film
A woman named Pauline travels with her teenage daughters Beth and Vera to their recently deceased aunt Clarisse's secluded home after they inherited it in her will. Beth reads an article about a string of home invasions where parents are m…
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