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Cartoon, Pirate Film, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
In Edwardian London 1904, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, who are acting out a Peter Pan story told to them by their elder sister Wendy. An irritated Geo…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Justice Drama, Social Drama, drama film
Trevor McKinney begins the seventh grade in Las Vegas. His social studies teacher, Eugene Simonet, assigns the class to put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. Trevor calls his plan "pay it forward", which means t…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
A few weeks after their adventure on Spooky Island, Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, featuring an exhibit of monster costumes from their past cases. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a…
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Dance Film, Drama, Musical, coming-of-age film, dance film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
Chicago natives Ren McCormack and his mother Ethel move to the small town of Bomont, Utah, to live with Ren's aunt and uncle. At church he meets the strict Reverend Shaw Moore, his wife Vi, and their rebellious daughter Ariel. At school Re…
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Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, cinematic fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, melodrama, musical film, musical play, romance film
In 19th century France, Cinderella is the daughter of a widowed aristocrat living in the small but prosperous French kingdom. When she is a child, her father remarries Lady Tremaine, a cold-hearted widow with two daughters of her own, Driz…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru, but is attacked by…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The citizens of a medieval-futuristic kingdom are protected by the Institute for Elite Knights, established by the legendary heroine Gloreth, who vanquished a "Great Black Monster" and enclosed the kingdom with a high wall one thousand yea…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, teen film
Teenager Ruby Baker and her little brother, Rhett, lose their parents suddenly in a car accident and are placed under the guardianship of family friends and former neighbors, Terry and Erin Glass. Erin is a respected physician and Terry ru…
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Dark Comedy, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
A Jewish man in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Reb Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and the man he invited must be a dybbuk. Groshkover ar…
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Cartoon, Justice Drama, buddy film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In 12th century Medieval England amongst anthropomorphic animals, minstrel Alan-a-Dale narrates the story about an heroic outlaw named Robin Hood. He and his friend Little John live in Sherwood Forest, where they frequently rob rich people…
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Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, Social Drama, drama film
thumb|Original theatrical trailer (1951) Blanche DuBois, a middle-aged high school English teacher from Auriol, Mississippi, arrives in New Orleans. She takes a streetcar designated "Desire" to the French Quarter, where her sister Stella a…
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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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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, family film
Ronnie says to his class that his personal hero is his grandfather Parker Wilson's dog Hachi, whose story he starts narrating. Parker Wilson, a professor who commutes to Providence, Rhode Island, finds a dog lost on the railway station in …
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action-adventure film, heist film, screwball comedy film, treasure hunt film
thumb|270px|Left to right: Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett Smiler Grogan, a recently released convict, crashes his car on California State Route 74. With his dying brea…
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Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film
Newly elected to Congress, former television news reporter Evan Baxter leaves his hometown of Buffalo, New York and moves to Prestige Crest, located in the fictional town of Huntsville, Virginia, where his congressional campaign declares t…
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, adventure film, comedy film, family film
In New England, anxious Mack Mallard discourages his children Dax and Gwen from venturing beyond their home Moosehead Pond, to the displeasure of his wife Pam. One day, the pond is visited by a flock of ducks who are migrating south to Jam…
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, film noir, heist film, neo-noir
Frank is a jewel thief and ex-convict who was released from Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. With a pair of Chicago businesses, including a car lot, as fronts for his criminal enterprise, he sets out to fulfill the missing p…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, comedy horror, speculative fiction film
In New Orleans, Ben Matthias, an astrophysicist developing a camera to detect dark matter, marries Alyssa, a tour guide for the city's famously haunted places. Following Alyssa's death in a car crash, a despondent Ben gives up his career a…
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Animation, Cartoon, Fantasy, High Fantasy, adventure film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Early in the Second Age of Middle-earth, Elven smiths forge nine Rings of Power for mortal Men, seven for the Dwarves, and three for the Elves. Soon after, the Dark Lord Sauron makes the One Ring to control them and uses it to attempt to c…
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Family Comedy, Family Drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Seven months after the death of his wife Katherine, Benjamin Mee's 14-year-old son Dylan is expelled from school. Benjamin realizes the family could benefit from a fresh start, starting with moving to a new house. Benjamin and his children…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
George Jung and his parents Fred and Ermine live in Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is 10 years old, Fred files for bankruptcy but tries to make George realize that money is not important. In the late 1960s, an adult George moves to L…
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Super Hero, Teen Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, ninja film, science fiction film
April O'Neil, a television reporter investigating a crime wave terrorizing New York City, is attacked by thieves, but is saved by an unseen group of vigilantes, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raph…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, monster film, sword-and-sandal film
King Acrisius of Argos imprisons his daughter Danaë, jealous of her beauty. When the god Zeus impregnates Danaë, Acrisius banishes her and her newborn son Perseus to sea in a wooden chest. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Pos…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Social Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae.
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