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Biographical picture, Forensic, biographical film, drama film
In 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. Her husband Martin Ginsburg, a second-year student, is diagnosed with testicular cancer. She attends both her classes and his, taking notes and transcribing lectur…
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Destiny, Drama, drama film
When the publicly held shipbuilding corporation Global Transportation Systems, or GTX, is downsized in the midst of the recession, many employees are fired, including Bobby Walker. Walker is a white-collar, corporate ladder-climbing employ…
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drama film, pornographic film, romance film, thriller film
Her & Him is a narrative-driven short film. Small Hands plays an unnamed character who is dating an unnamed girl played by Abella Danger. He finds out that she has been looking up how to murder her boyfriend and get away with it.
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Drama, Komödie, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
thumb|Forth Bridge in 2007 At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching "Mr. Memory" demonstrate his powers of fact recall by answering trivia questions from the audience, when gunshots are heard. In the ensuing panic, Hannay…
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Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, war film
At the close of the Easter Rising in 1916, the besieged Irish republicans surrender to the British Army at the republicans' headquarters in Dublin. Several key figures of the Rising, including Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke a…
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Drama, Fairy-Tale Film, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy film, monster film
In the medieval Kingdom of Cloister, monks craft magic beans that grow into a large beanstalk. They reach the realm of Gantua, home to a race of giants. The giants attack the Earth below, but through the use of a magical crown created from…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, drama film, female buddy film, girls with guns, heist film, hood film, thriller film
Los Angeles bank teller Francesca "Frankie" Sutton witnesses a robbery in the bank where she works. As a result, four people are killed, and Frankie is fired due to her recognizing one of the robbers from her Southern California neighborho…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Following a calamity referred to as "the Ruin," society has been reorganized, taking away any sense of emotion, good or bad. Babies are conceived through genetic engineering, and neuroleptic-like medications suppress strong emotions and se…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In 1945, after World War II, United States Army Sgt. Paul Sutton, a former candy salesman, returns to San Francisco to reunite with his wife, Betty, whom he married following a whirlwind courtship the day before he departed for the Pacific…
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Action, Animalhorror, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, natural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Michael "Mike" Brody, son of police chief Martin Brody of Amity Island, is working as a chief engineer at SeaWorld Orlando alongside his girlfriend, Kathryn "Kay" Morgan, the park's senior biologist. Among the attractions are new underwate…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, musical film
The story opens with the Muppets sitting down for a private screening of a movie that acts as an origin story of how they all met. Kermit the Frog lives a simple life in a Florida swamp. After he plays his banjo and sings "Rainbow Connecti…
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Arranged Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Political Documentary, documentary film
The documentary begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the election of 2000 by prematurely declaring Bush the winner. It then suggests that the handling of the voting controversy…
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, sex comedy
It is the fall of 2000. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school, where Father Murphy instructs her Morality class that any sexual activity not aimed toward procreation within a…
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black comedy, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Malik and Imani Jeffries, a young black couple, move into a new house in the fictional affluent suburban Atlanta community of Harvey Hill, named after Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill. Harvey Hill Homeowners Association president Kar…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Thriller, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film, thriller film
Medical student Nelson Wright convinces classmates Joe Hurley, David Labraccio, Rachel Manus, and Randy Steckle to help him discover what lies beyond death. Nelson flatlines for one minute before his classmates resuscitate him. While "dead…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy drama, comedy film, heist film, hood film, romance film
In 1918 Harlem, small-time gambling operator Sugar Ray is nearly killed by a disgruntled customer, but his young errand boy, Vernest Brown, shoots the man dead. Discovering that Vernest is an orphan, Ray takes him in and raises him as his …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
As her mother is a divorcee, young Tammy Faye LaValley is deemed a reminder of her mother's sins and subsequently denied entrance to the rural, chasmatic fundamentalist church where her mother plays piano; until Tammy sneaks in one day, re…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
In an unnamed war-torn European city in the "Age of Reason", as a large Ottoman army prepares an invasion outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre b…
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Mysterie, Obsession, drama film, horror film, thriller film
The plot is split into three timelines. The first two, "Rose" and "Joan", intercut between each other before a third timeline, "Kat", is introduced and comprises the film's climax. Rose In February, students at the prestigious Bramford Aca…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, romance film, war film
Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter, born and brought up in the small village of St. Radegund, is working his land when war breaks out. Married to Franziska, colloquially Fani, the couple are important members of the tight-knit rura…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
Walter Vale is a widowed Connecticut College economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. He fills his days by sometimes taking piano lessons in an effort to emulate his late wife, a classical concert pianist, and infrequentl…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper, growing up in the late 1960s in a poor South Yorkshire community dominated by the local coal mining industry, has little hope in life. He is picked on, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive olde…
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Erotic Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller
Bob Garvin, the founder and CEO of the technology company DigiCom, plans to retire following a merger with a textbook company. Manufacturing chief Tom Sanders expects to be promoted to run DigiCom after the merger. Instead, Meredith Johnso…
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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Twin brothers Elias and Lukas have stayed with their father following their parents' divorce. When they return home to live with their estranged mother, a former actress, they are disturbed to find that her entire head is covered in bandag…
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