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Action, Cyberpunk, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
As 1999 nears its end, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. A Chinese restaurant is robbed by a group of criminals, with one recording the event with a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device), an illegal electronic devi…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, drama film
The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, first-generation immigrants from the state of West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia. The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, N…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Animation, Military Film, Musical, Satire On War, action film, marionette film, romantic comedy film, satirical film, war film
Team America, an international organization dedicated to counterterrorism, defeats a group of Islamic terrorists in Paris, but are very reckless and destroy the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre in the process. The team include…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows …
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Historie, Komödie, drama film
In London in 1957, war widow Mrs Ada Harris works as a cleaning lady. Though she is hardworking and generous, Ada's clients offer her little consideration in return. She has two close friends in Vi and Archie, both her own age.
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Drama, Political Drama, drama film, political thriller film
Anse Rainier, an American professor at Lahore University, is kidnapped and held for ransom. Bobby Lincoln, an American journalist in Pakistan, arranges to interview Rainier's colleague Changez Khan, who he suspects is involved in the kidna…
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Dark Comedy, Fake Documentary, Satire On Media, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In Little Hope, New Hampshire, young ambitious Suzanne Stone is obsessed with being on television, aspiring to become a world-famous broadcast correspondent. But today's headline reads, "Little Hope's own weather (girl) reporter is possibl…
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Gangster Film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, art film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
PROLOGUE (which introduces us to the town and its residents) Set in the isolated Rocky Mountain town of Dogville, near an abandoned silver mine, the film opens with a narrator introducing its 15 residents. Through the perspective of Tom Ed…
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
Ten-year-old Finnegan "Finn" Bell—an orphan being raised by his elder sister Maggie and her boyfriend Joe—is overpowered by an escaped convict while playing on a beach on the Gulf Coast. Finn brings him food, alcohol and bolt cutters to cu…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Motor-Bike Film, biographical film, drama film, road movie
In 1967, Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in Invercargill, known for his friendly easy-going personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. However, that …
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Komödie, Romance Film, fantasy film, magic realist film, romantic comedy
Calvin Weir-Fields is a novelist who found incredible success at an early age, but struggles to form relationships and to write his next book. His therapist tasks him to write about someone who likes his dog, Scotty. After a dream in which…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
At the end of the 21st century, chemical warfare has devastated the Earth. The only habitable land left consists of two territories: the United Federation of Britain (UFB), located on the British Isles and northwestern Europe, and the Colo…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
Dean Russell falls asleep at a diner and is attacked by Freddy Krueger, a burned man wearing a bladed gardener's glove on his right hand. In the dream, the burned man cuts Dean's throat; in reality, Dean cuts his own throat as his friends …
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Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film, transgender film
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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Dark Comedy, Family Drama, Melodrama, Musical, Psychodrama, Romance Film, Satire, drama film, romantic comedy
Socially awkward young Muriel Heslop is the target of ridicule by her shallow and snobbish friends, Tania, Cheryl, Janine and Nicole. A devoted ABBA fan, she often daydreams of a glamorous wedding to get her away from the dead-end beach to…
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Drama, Historie, Sport, drama film, sport film
In the early 20th century, as America enters the automobile age, Charles S. Howard opens a bicycle shop in San Francisco. He is soon selling automobiles, becoming the largest car dealer in California and one of the Bay Area's richest men.
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LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film
thumb|An illustration of Morrison's Hotel, Dublin from 1821. Albert Nobbs is an English butler at the Morrison Hotel in late-19th-century Dublin, Ireland; his boss is Mrs. Baker.
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Fairy-Tale Film, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film
In a Berlin divided by the Berlin Wall, two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants. They observe and listen to the thoughts of Berliners, including a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the wa…
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Dance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Tony Manero, a former disco king, is living in a Manhattan flophouse, working as a dance instructor and waiter at a dance club, searching for a big break in the modern dance productions on Broadway. The break from his Brooklyn life seems t…
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Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film
A car pulls up at night on a New York City street. Monty Brogan and his friend Kostya get out to look at an injured dog lying in the road. Monty intends to perform a mercy kill but changes his mind after looking the dog in the eye.
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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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Gothic film, Mysterie, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film
Hall Baltimore is a down-on-his-luck writer who specializes in novels based upon witch hunting. At a small-town book signing, he is approached by Sheriff Bobby LaGrange, an eccentric fan with two requests: that Hall read his latest work an…
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LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
In 1987 Los Angeles, Sherrie Christian arrives from Oklahoma with dreams of becoming a singer. Sherrie's suitcase is stolen, and barback Drew Boley gets her a job as a waitress at the Bourbon Room after the previous waitress quits ("Sister…
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