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comedy drama
The film covers the four days before Halloween as Kenny and his best friend Doug (both 12 years old) and awkward 11-year-old Sherman prepare for the holiday. They spend time playing flag football and skateboarding. The three boys must deal…
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biographical film, family film, historical film
In Israel, then known as Judea (Roman province) of the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ of Nazareth travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls. As prophesied in the Old Testament …
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adventure film, family film
Whitney Brown (Sammi Hanratty), a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager, nominates herself and her best friend, Lindsay, for class president (which they win because they promised to throw the best school formal). Her mother, Joan (B…
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family film
Jack McCarthy, an 11-year-old boy from upstate New York, enjoys a comfortable life centered on his family's devotion to the New York Yankees. He and his parents frequently attend games, sharing a deep enthusiasm for the team. One evening, …
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drama film
Rusty is a two-year-old beagle who lives in an animal shelter with his mother Malley, his father Cap, his newborn siblings and a variety of other animals, including a cat, some chickens, a goat, some ducks, a rabbit, a snake, a pair of tur…
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fantasy film
In a 19th-century English manor, the bedridden matriarch Sophy spends her time continually fortified with wine. She is attended by a strict housekeeper and an elderly groundskeeper. They are unaware of the few-centimeters-tall Clock family…
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Drama, drama film
The movie is set during the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disa…
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Drama Documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Award-winning director Clio Barnard's faux-documentary portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
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thriller film
After four years away, Cliff Harnish (Michael Dolan) returns to his hometown of Pocahontas, Virginia in a bid to stop his parents' divorce. Unsuccessful, he finds that his mother, Martha (Tess Harper), has turned to alcohol while his fathe…
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Ghost-Movie, horror film
Married couple Sarah (King) and Jason (Chen), and son Sammy (Oey), travel to Vancouver for the funeral of Uncle Raymond (Foo). During this time, Sammy begins to see ghosts and falls gravely ill, his illness coinciding with the Chinese fest…
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Drama, Family Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1970, Tom Leary takes his fiancée Susie Sharp Newsom home to Louisville, Kentucky to meet his parents. Tom is a dental student while Susie is a spoiled Southern belle from a prominent North Carolina family. Despite the disapproval of hi…
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Family Drama, comedy film, drama film
Jason Lair lives with his ailing grandfather Henry, son Zach, and a live-in nurse, Katrina, from Denmark. Jason's thieving musician father Turner darkens their doorstep after having abandoned him 30 years ago, when he was two years old and…
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Komödie, comedy film
Scooter is a teen from a wealthy Beverly Hills family. After his plastic surgeon father remarries, Scooter is virtually ignored by his father and stepmother, and treated badly by his two other spoiled siblings, Sterling and Tiffany. Scoote…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Set in the summer of 2000, Mona (Clara Khoury), a young Druze woman living at Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, is about to marry a successful Syrian actor. Following the hostilities between Israel and Ba'athist Syria there is now a zone …
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Moondance (Kay Panabaker) is faced with the difficulties of her father's passing and her overprotective mother (Lori Loughlin). When she finds a lost pinto horse and discovers his jumping abilities, she convinces his owner Dante Longpre (D…
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comedy film
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later, you find out that it was a just a loan and it is due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighb…
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Documentation, documentary film
The documentary shows the story of a normal family guided by parents who are aware of the need to improve the world around them, and encourage their children to acknowledge those needs and do something about it. Scenes include the early ye…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, family film
In Australia, a white koala named Johnny is teased about his color, so he joins a traveling circus with the help of Hamish the Tasmanian Devil, and Higgens the spider monkey photographer. He is disappointed that he is part of the freak sho…
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adventure film, drama film
The film starts with an old man, Harry Bankston telling his grandson Joshua Jr. and granddaughter Jennifer about his life as a young boy in the early 20th century. The tale begins: Harry as a boy is in his pre-teens.
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family film
The plot involves a depressed witch who is 'summoned' by a pair of children, named Small and Tender, who are upset at not being able to scare anyone on Halloween. The witch turns them into a werewolf and ghost (previously their Halloween c…
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Drama, drama film
The film spans several decades in the unconventional life of feisty nonagenarian Hagar Shipley, who sets off on a journey to reconcile herself with her past when she discovers her son Marvin and daughter-in-law Doris are moving her into a …
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
In a small town bordering a swampy region, unexplained murders and rumors of mysterious happenings surround the swamp-based home of the reclusive but respected Kurt Ingston. Ingston uses a wheelchair and has invited to his home the three d…
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Drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Laura Pehlke is married to Bob and together they raise their 12-year-old son, Dennis. Laura is a dental hygienist and Bob works in a real estate office and often comes home late. The family goes to a birthday barbecue for Laura's twin niec…
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Family Comedy, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Teen Comedy Film, queer film
Milly Niceman is a fourteen-year-old girl who has grown frustrated with her mother's attempts to curtail her tomboyish nature. Her mother, Doris, believes that Milly's actions are inappropriate for a girl, and that she'd be better off show…
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