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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 189 films · Page 6.
Fantasy, Horror, drama film, fantasy film
While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, Anna has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dre…
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Komödie, comedy film
Robert Leaf is an American college professor and accordionist, who won a Pulitzer for poetry and prizes the arts. Robert and his wife Vina are dedicated to the arts and prompt their children Pandora and Erasmus to develop artistic skills. …
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Musical, Road Movie, Sitcom, adventure film, comedy film, music-themed film
The Leningrad Cowboys, a band with foot-long quiff hairstyles and long Winklepicker shoes to match, live in the tundra. Their manager Vladimir tries to promote them, but nobody seems to like their music, except for the mute village idiot, …
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Drama, Family Drama, Fantasy, Marital Tragedy, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
The residents of the small town of Grover's Corners in New Hampshire live peacefully and in harmony. Dr. Gibbs, his wife Julie, and their two children George and Rebecca are the neighbors of the Webbs, who have a lovely daughter, Emily, an…
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Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, drama film
The film opens by following two American high school acquaintances, a few years after graduation. They are now suffering from deep anger and anguish, because they are less successful than they hoped to be. David Hancock is the high school …
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LGBTQ-related film, Silly Movie, comedy film, queer film
Dallas Adair is an American consultant brought to Australia to advise on a new golf course project. On the plane from L.A. she meets Charlie Sommers, the 18-year-old son of one of her bosses when there's a near crash landing, after which D…
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film
Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father Caspar, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the tw…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film
Jimmy "Fingers" Angelelli is an outstanding pianist who dreams of a musical career, but he grew up in a gangster family. His elderly father, Ben, is an illegal loan shark. The son must help him collect debts from defaulters.
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, drama film, horror film
Jamie Morgan is a lonely, troubled photographer with a large heart-shaped birthmark that covers nearly half of his face. He is still a virgin at 25 because a lifetime of alienation and bullying have left him unable to make friends or attra…
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Fantasy
Alice follows a large white rabbit down a rabbit hole. She finds a tiny door but cannot fit through it. When she finds a bottle labeled "Drink me" she does so and shrinks, but not enough to pass through the door.
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Crime, Drama
In 1955 Munich, Veronika Voss is a neurotic, faded UFA film star who is said to have slept with Joseph Goebbels but is now struggling to get roles. While riding the U-Bahn, she meets sports reporter Robert Krohn and is intrigued that he do…
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Dance Film, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Sport, romance film, sport film
Lexi Winston lives on an Iowa farm with her father Marcus Winston. She has a boyfriend named Nick Peterson who plays hockey in college. Lexi's skating talent attracts the attention of Aiden Reynolds, a coach who wants to take her to Boston…
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Erotic Film, Sex Film, comedy drama, drama film
17-year-old Justine (Laura Fraser) bemoans being a virgin so, after being stood-up on a date, goes to a virtual reality exhibition with her geeky friend Chas (Luke DeLacey). There she encounters a virtual makeover machine which she uses to…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romance film
American fund manager Millie Cantwell, whose life-long dream is to become an opera singer, quits her lucrative job in London just after being offered a promotion. Deciding to take a year to make it, she moves away from her boyfriend Charli…
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Musical, Mysterie
Crime, Komödie, comedy film
Mike Bronco believes a degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a ticket out of life in a trailer park. He is determined to rise above his humble southern Illinois roots and broken home to become a clinical family therapist. …
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Jim (Brendan Cowell) is a thirty-three-year-old, emotionally stunted man who works at a miniature railway, and refuses to grow up. He lives in the granny flat at the back of his sister's house. Jim's pregnant sister Marie (Bridie Carter) s…
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Drama, drama film
Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) is a divorced Palestinian Christian mother raising her teenage son Fadi (Melkar Muallem). She works for a bank in Ramallah, part of the West Bank, Palestinian territories. Each day after work, Muna picks up Fadi …
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
Kay is an abstract visual artist plagued by disturbing dreams since childhood. The intensity and frequency of the dreams have fluctuated throughout her life, as has their content; some of her dreams are simply glimpses of desolate location…
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Mysterie, thriller film
Since the suicide of her husband, Jonathan Grey, college student Sarah Foster experiences sleepwalking. Her former professor, Dr. Elaine Cooper, advises her to visit a sleep clinic.
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Documentation, documentary film
The film depicts the lives of people chasing the dream of high salaries in the North Dakota oil boom, only to discover that affordable housing is almost impossible to find. Much of the focus is on the efforts of local Lutheran pastor Jay R…
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Action, Fairy-Tale Film, Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, fantasy film, science fiction film
The film begins with a businessman, John Sullivan (Chris Kelly), in a hurry to get into his car. He appears to be severely stressed as he begins driving down the city streets. When he goes through a lighted intersection he is broadsided by…
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Christmas film, Drama, drama film, melodrama
Dawn and Peter O'Neil live together with their children (three boys and a girl), on the outskirts of a small country town. Next to their rambling house stands the kids' favourite playground: a giant Moreton Bay fig tree (now known in real-…
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