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Adventure, Computeranimation, adventure film, drama film, family film
During the late 19th century, Buck, a large, gentle mix of Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd, lives contentedly with his master, Judge Miller, in Santa Clara, California. One night, Buck is abducted and shipped to the Yukon aboard a freigh…
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Family Comedy, High School Comedy Film, Sitcom, comedy film, family film
Preteen Greg Heffley illustrates his daily life in a diary for when he is "rich and famous". On Greg's first day of middle school, he quickly discovers the ups and downs, such as the missing stall doors in the boys' bathroom and the diffic…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Four years after his adventure in the center of the Earth, 17-year-old Sean Anderson is caught by police following a high-speed dirt bike pursuit that ends in a neighbor's swimming pool. His stepfather, Hank Parsons, intervenes to keep him…
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Animation, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
In the summer of 1948, English boy James Henry Trotter is a young orphan having ended up in the care of his two domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge after his parents were eaten alive by a rhinoceros. One day, after rescuing a spider from h…
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Cartoon, adventure film, children's film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
In a park in England, a young girl named Alice listens distractedly to her sister's history lesson. As she begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world, she spots a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit passing by, who complains of being late. Alice…
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
Six days after the end of the American Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen seek out cryptographer Thomas Gates and ask for his help in decoding a message copied into Booth's diary. Thomas recognizes the message as a Playfai…
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High Fantasy, action film, adventure film, family film, fantasy film
In Narnia, almost 1,300 years after the Pevensie siblings (King Peter, Queen Susan, King Edmund, and Queen Lucy) left Narnia and returned to their world, Caspian, a Telmarine prince, is awakened by his mentor, Doctor Cornelius. Doctor Corn…
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Drama, drama film
In 1935, during the Great Depression, the quiet town of Waxahachie, Texas is shaken when Sheriff Royce Spalding is accidentally shot and killed by a drunk Black teenager, Wylie, who believes his revolver is empty. That same day, a white ly…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
Former prosecutor Ray Breslin is the founder and co-owner of Breslin-Clark, a security firm specializing in testing the security measures of supermax prisons. Posing as an inmate to study facilities from within and exploit their weaknesses…
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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film
Mackenzie "Mack" Phillips endures a traumatic childhood marked by severe physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father, who also abuses Mack's mother. In a desperate attempt to end the violence, Mack confides in the pre…
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Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film
Having found an adopted home with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, London, Paddington begins working to buy a pop-up book of London in Samuel Gruber's antique shop for his aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, working as a window cleaner and sav…
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Animation, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Monster Film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, vampire film, werewolf film
During Hotel Transylvania's 125th anniversary party, Dracula plans to retire and leave the hotel to his daughter Mavis and her husband Johnny. After overhearing the news, Johnny enthusiastically shares his renovation plans, prompting Drac …
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
Skilled in academics, sports, and drama, and praised for his good work and obedience, 11 year old North feels unvalued by his own parents. The Easter Bunny—a man in a pink bunny suit at a shopping mall—recommends North simply explain his f…
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Fairy-Tale Film, Romantic Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
In the kingdom of Frell, the misguided and obnoxious fairy godmother Lucinda Perriweather bestows the "gift" of obedience on newborn Ella of Frell, causing her to instantly and literally obey any command she is given. On her deathbed, Ella…
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High Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, fantasy film
Three Narnian years and one Earth year after the events of Prince Caspian, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are staying with their irritating cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older siblings Peter and Susan are in America as World War II rages on.…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In Chicago, 30-year-old Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos is a member of a large, loud, overbearing Greek family. Her father, Costas "Gus" Portokalos, wants her to get married and have children as soon as possible. Toula lives with her parents an…
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Drama, drama film
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Decker's mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In the aftermath of the explosion, a dying man urges him to take a painting—The Goldfinch—and his engraved ring. Theo is …
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Biographical picture, Musical, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, musical film
The film begins in 1968 with Johnny Cash performing at Folsom State Prison. As the audience of inmates cheer him on, Cash waits backstage near a table saw, which reminds him of his early life. Two decades earlier, in 1944, 12-year-old John…
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Musical, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy
Sonny Malone, a struggling self-employed illustrator residing in Los Angeles, has failed to find passion in his art. He tears up one of his sketches and tosses the pieces out his studio window; the wind transports them toward a wall mural …
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
Joan Crawford is a dedicated and career-driven actress under a motion picture contract at MGM. Despite having achieved success in her career, she longs to have a child; however, she is unable to conceive and has suffered a series of miscar…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, adventure film, science fiction film
In the 23rd century, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien entity hidden in a massive energy cloud, moving through space toward Earth. The cloud easily destroys three Klingon warships and Epsilon Nine on its course…
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Family Drama, drama film
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 60 miles northwest of Tulsa. Beverly Weston, an alcoholic, once-noted poet, teacher and author, interviews and hires a young Cheyen…
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Computeranimation, Dark Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, family film
An angry mob of villagers, that rejects anything macabre in nature, disrupts the midnight wedding ceremony of Gomez Addams and Morticia Frump and drives them away with the rest of the Addams clan. During the chaos, Grandmama buys Uncle Fes…
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Drama
Dev Saran, a professional soccer player in New York City, lives with his wife Rhea, son Arjun, and widowed mother, Kamaljit ("Kamal"). Maya, a schoolteacher and orphan, is preparing to marry her closest friend, Rishi Talwar, who was raised…
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