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Cartoon
After unfair treatment by his older siblings Linus and Lucy and getting in trouble at school, Rerun thinks that having a pet dog will cheer him up. He writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a dog, but is later discouraged by the expensi…
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The cartoon opens to a railroad yard where "all the trains are fast asleep". The sun rises, and engineer Casey Jones wakes from his slumber in the cab of his engine, an American Standard 4-4-0 tender engine No. 2, that is hauling a small, …
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Animal Documentary
The film takes place in the Cascade Mountains of Washington (despite much of the filming having been done in North Central Idaho). Charlie the cougar's mother lost her life when he was a cub, leaving him alone. Jess Bradley finds Charlie, …
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Christmas film, children's film, comedy drama
Sam Whipple, a broke lawyer who is nevertheless young at heart, meets Santa Claus and learns that he is upset because he has a new landlord named Phineas T. Prune, to whom Santa owes a great deal of rent. Prune has threatened to confiscate…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film
David Graham, a recovering alcoholic, returns to England having only one day in which to save his son Alec from hanging for the murder of Alec's girlfriend, Jenny Cole. Graham has been a neglectful, absentee father who missed the entire tr…
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Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
thumb|Original trailer Orville, the oldest orphan at the Hideaway Orphans Home, accidentally hides inside a truck headed to a top-secret laboratory. There he is placed under the supervision of lab worker Lester to help load supplies onto a…
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Social Drama, drama film, political drama, romance film, war film
Set in 1987, Carla's Song tells the story of love in a time of war. The plot follows the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan refugee living in Glasgow. George …
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Adventure, science fiction film
It is 1862 in England. The Jupiter, a manned balloon with a unicorn-shaped gondola, falls from the sky during its maiden flight. Passenger Sir Henry Vining (Richard Haydn) and his treasurer (Ronald Long) scream in horror.
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Drama, drama film
The story is about a woman who works as a housekeeper for a widower and his adult son.
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Family Drama, drama film
Robert Beckwith is a sensitive, intelligent family man who, in a brief affair long past, fathered Jean-Claude Guerin, a child whose sudden appearance threatens his happy life. Robert's wife Sheila is a strong, loving spouse and mother whos…
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Cannibal-Movie, Splatter Film, slasher film
The film opens in Tasmania in the 1800s. Alexander Pearce, a convict known as "the Pieman", has escaped into the wilderness, and he is being hunted by policemen with dogs. He is faced by a policeman who attempts to shoot Pearce, but his gu…
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children's film
Barbie's rock band completes a successful world tour and decides to perform one last concert in space to promote world peace.
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Animation, Christmas film
It's a very special holiday for Caillou when he learns about Christmas traditions around the world and the importance of giving and sharing. When Caillou wonders just how many days there are left until Christmas, his father gives him a Chr…
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Family Comedy, Romance Film, road movie
Colin lives with his girlfriend Zoe. His troubled sister JR visits him asking for a favor. JR is an aspiring news anchor and asks Colin to accompany her on a road trip to pick up her belongings from her ex-boyfriend, Neil Chadwick.
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Drama, adventure film, drama film
Little Pablito is the ten-year-old stepson of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the ge…
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Pirate Film, adventure film, pirate film
Jack Robinson decides to relocate his family, including his wife Anna, sons Shane and Todd, and daughter Elizabeth, from Hong Kong to Sydney, Australia, aboard a newly purchased sailboat named the Albatross. Before they depart, boat salesm…
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Komödie, children's film
Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich), a Los Angeles travel agent, receives the message that his grandpa has passed and left everything to him. However, he must go to Alaska in order to collect his inheritance. He leaves Canoga Park (Los Angeles), q…
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Fantasy, silent film
King Krewl (Raymond Russell) is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry off his niece, Princess Gloria (Vivian Reed), to an old courtier named Googly-goo (Arthur Smollett), but she is in love with Pon, a …
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adventure film, fantasy film
The movie starts with the history of how mighty fire-breathing dragons came to be. The dragons and their crystals of tremendous power came to the human world through a portal from their world of the dragons. But while the dragons brought k…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, animated film, comedy film, family film
Ratso, a success-starved city rat impresario, dreams of becoming a famous showman, despite his terrible shows. His assistant is a worm named Wesley, whom he passes off as the "longest worm in the world" by sticking him through a straw. Rat…
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Family Drama, drama film
The Pollitt family gathers at their Mississippi plantation. The head of the family, Big Daddy, is dying. Big Daddy's sons, Brick and Gooper, and Brick's sensuous wife, Maggie, are vying for his inheritance.
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Christmas film, romance film
When Nathan (Neil Patrick Harris), a doctor, loses a patient on the operating table, he decides that being a doctor isn't meant for him, and he wants to give it up. He decides to take a vacation to his hometown, and stay with his father (H…
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comedy film, family film
The story is about Alec McCall (Matthew Modine), a spy, who teams up with Clements, a chimp, to save the day. He has a change of heart when his boss, Flick, turns out to be bad and wants to perform experiments on the chimp. These experimen…
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comedy film
During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children—Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfi…
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