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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Welcome to one day in the life of Eliza Welch (Uma Thurman), former fiction writer now wife, mother and blogger. A single day that just about pushes Eliza to her absolute tipping point. After putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold t…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama
Seventeen-year-old Phil returns home from summer camp to the secluded Villa Visible, an old mansion where he lives with his mother, Glass, and his twin sister, Dianne. The family, viewed as eccentric by their remote community, maintains li…
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Drama, drama film
Dominick Luciano ("Nicky", Tom Hulce) and Eugene Luciano ("Gino", Ray Liotta) are fraternal twin brothers. Nicky has a mental disability, and Gino cares for him. Nicky is a trash collector employed by Mr.
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Eleven-year-old Lonnie and fourteen-year-old Karen live on the same street in New York’s Lower East Side, but they come from different worlds. Lonnie lives with her well-off family in an upscale townhouse with her parents and little sister…
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Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, biographical film
Sexually abused by her brothers, Kate Barker runs away to become involved in bootlegging. She marries decent George Barker and gives birth to four sons, Herman, Arthur ("Doc"), Lloyd and Freddie. However, when George's law-abiding ways fai…
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Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
A boy named George is magically transformed into a pig. In a dangerous and crazy adventure, the boy, his sister Kathy, his best friend Freud, and their housekeeper Matilda leave for Mexico to try to undo the witchcraft spell before their p…
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Drama, drama film
Laura Danner is a mentally ill, single mother who takes illegal drugs and is unable to care for her 10-year-old son Davey. Driven to despair, she decides to die by suicide by driving a car on to a railway track, taking Davey with her. She …
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Komödie, drama film, musical film
Rebecca and her stepfather Henry Kipper (William Demarest) are among a crowd of parents and daughters hoping to win a singing contest aimed at finding "Little Miss America." The winner will represent a cereal company in an advertising camp…
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coming-of-age film
The first half of the movie centers around Elaine Cheng (played by Cindy Cheung), a single mother and immigrant living in the Boston suburbs, and the life she provides for her two children (played by Michael Chen and Crystal Chiu). As a wa…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
Captain C. F. "Hawk" Hawkens (Vince Edwards), a former Space Service Colonel turned pirate, leads his crew on a mission to steal a freighter owned by an interstellar corporation simply referred to as "The Company".
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Adventure, Komödie, children's film
15-year-old Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting into trouble. Rick's single mother, Margaret, is a behavioral scientist at University of California, Berkeley, and she is studying interspecies communication between humans…
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Family Comedy, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|Seven Chances (1925) Jimmie Shannon is the junior partner in the brokerage firm of Meekin and Shannon, which is on the brink of financial ruin. A lawyer (whom they dodged, mistakenly believing he was trying to add to…
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children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Geppetto, an old inventor, creates Pinocchio, a robot, as his son. Meanwhile, evil mayor Scamboli is building the technological city "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene.
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Cartoon
On a snowy night, a quartet of ghosts named Jasper, Boo, Moss and Grubb are alone inside a haunted house, complaining about how there is no one remaining inside the house to scare. Moss finds an advertisement in a newspaper for the Ajax Gh…
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Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, drama film, fantasy film
When Prosper and Boniface's parents die, their aunt Esther plans to adopt six-year-old Bo and send 12-year-old Prosper away to boarding school. But before she can separate the two, Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the city about which their mot…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, magic realist film, science fiction film
Sophie and Jason are a couple in their 30s. Each works a dead-end job, he as a tech support agent and she as a children's dance instructor. Feeling stuck in their lives, they plan to adopt a cat expected to die within six months due to ter…
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comedy film, family film
Fantasy, family film, fantasy film
The film opens with a mother reading Through the Looking Glass to her daughter, Alice. The mother then finds herself travelling through the bedroom mirror into Looking-Glass Land and becoming Alice, but remains an adult. Alice finds a book…
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children's film, science fiction film
Brian Foster (Wesley Eure), a young inventor, creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "Canine HOMe Protection System".
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action film, comedy film, science fiction film
A research and production company is performing a live human trial for a machine called the "Augmentor 1000". The device is designed for medical use, with an ancillary benefit of enhanced strength. The machine's creator, workaholic Pat Utl…
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Drama, adventure film, drama film, family film
A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies - brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia - who must find his place amongst his kind, while avoiding The Man who always seems to be hunting him. The plot sh…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Zombiefilm, zombie film
Sometime after a zombie-like infection decimates the world's population, Ann (Lucy Walters) struggles to survive in the woods. There are few resources and she is forced to live off the land, as abandoned houses attract dangerous, infected …
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Family Comedy, teen film
Ready to Run is the story of 14-year-old Corrie Ortiz (Krissy Perez), an energetic girl who dreams of becoming a jockey in the predominantly male sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. Although her father died in a racing-related accident, an…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Carolina Mirabeau was raised 'free-spirited' with her two sisters Georgia and Maine by eccentric, domineering, paternal grandma Millicent in the countryside. When she grows up, she moves into LA, although regularly keeps in contact with th…
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