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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, science fiction comedy, teen film
After the death of his mother, 13-year-old Ben Cooper takes it upon himself to take care of his widowed father Nick and younger sister Angie in Monroe County, New York. Ben enters a contest to win a smart house. The family wins and moves i…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
A prologue introduces the Nicklebys, country gentry who enjoy a comfortable life in the Devon countryside until the father dies and leaves his family with no source of income. Nineteen-year-old Nicholas, his mother, and his younger sister,…
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Family Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, Sport, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Dan Foreman, a 51-year-old advertising executive, is head of sales for a national sports publication. When Sports America is bought out by Globecom, an international corporation promoting “synergy”, Dan, his wife and two daughters, 16-year…
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Komödie, comedy film
At a Catholic school in 2050, elderly priest Father Clifford Daniels catches a boy named Roger attempting to run away after blowing up the gym because he was not allowed on a basketball team, as his parents forbid Roger from partaking in a…
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Komödie, comedy television program, teen film
Kelly Collins is a free-spirited high schooler whose mother marries Brigadier General Joe "Sir" Maxwell. When her new stepfather becomes the Commandant of a military school, George Washington Military Academy, Kelly and her mother move ups…
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Family Drama, Historie, drama film, romance film
The film largely follows the plot of the original play, albeit omitting certain dialogue and minor characters to fit the average length of a feature film. This version also makes no modern adaptations.
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Computeranimation, family film
Edda is a young female mouse with a talent for racing who works at her family amusement park on the outskirts of Paris and dreams of racing in the Grand Prix of Europe. Her particular hero is racing legend Ed, a male mouse who has won the …
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Family Drama, Melodrama, drama film
Insecure, alcoholic playboy Kyle and his self-destructive sister Marylee are the children of Texas oil baron Jasper Hadley. Spoiled by their familial wealth and crippled by their personal demons, neither is able to sustain a personal relat…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
On Halloween 1950, 11-year-old Harvey Pekar refuses to dress up as a superhero for trick-or-treating. Years later, Harvey is seen walking the Cleveland streets, and the real Harvey Pekar appears in a documentary-style setup. In 1975, Harve…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
A young pregnant woman limps through a thunderstorm to Parish Workhouse, giving birth before dying. Her nurse, "Old Sally", covetously eyes her gold locket. The delivering doctor sighs, "The old story.
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Adventure, Biographical picture, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, family film, teen film
In 2009, 16-year-old Jessica Watson dreams of becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and unassisted, which means she must sail alone and not dock at any port along the way. The journey is estimated to take 200 da…
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Drama, Family Drama, drama film
It is the late 1940s and early 1950s and much has happened to the family of Polish Jewish immigrant Sam Krichinsky since he first arrived in America in 1914 and eventually settled in Baltimore. Television is new. Neighborhoods are changing…
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Accident, Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Baltimore City firefighter Jack Morrison saves a man's life in a massive four-alarm fire in a 20-story concrete grain elevator/warehouse in the Canton waterfront neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. However, the grain stored in the warehou…
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Family Drama, drama film
In Marin County, California, writer George Dunlap and his wife Faith are an unhappy couple who live with their daughters Sherry, Jill, Marianne, and Molly in a farmhouse that George has refurbished. George is preparing to attend an awards …
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Komödie, Sport, association football film, comedy film
Chester Lee is desperate for a promotion at work and some respect from his boss. To impress his boss, he fabricates a story of having been an excellent soccer player in his youth. However, he gets badgered into coaching a girls' team calle…
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Family Comedy, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film
Time-and-motion study and efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. and his wife, psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth, raise 12 children in 1920s Providence, Rhode Island and Montclair, New Jersey. Frank employs unorthodox teaching meth…
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Christmas film, Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
On Christmas Eve in 1843 London, Harry Huffman encounters his cranky uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge and Scrooge's friendly English Mastiff, Prudence. Scrooge evades Harry long enough to decline giving money to a charity and add in a debt that is …
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Komödie, children's film
Long ago, a young Plains warrior is tested for initiation by being the target of three different weapons. Centuries later, Ernest P. Worrell works as a maintenance man at Kamp Kikakee but hopes to become a counselor.
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Komödie, comedy film
Dave Whiteman and his wife, Barbara, are a nouveau-riche couple in Beverly Hills whose 20-year marriage has become stale and sexless. Dave is the owner of Dav-Bar, a manufacturing business that makes wire garment hangers. He is having an a…
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Dark Comedy, Horror comedy, horror film, thriller film
Static plays on a car's infotainment system. A mother in a suburban town puts on music for her child as she parks her car on railroad tracks and leaves the child in the car to die. The Ryans are a family of four with a strained relationshi…
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Fantasy, Komödie, coming-of-age film, teen film
Cody Griffin is an adopted teenager living in the fictional nautical community of Mahone Bay; his birth mother is a mermaid who left him on Whit and Sharon Griffin's boat when he was a baby to avoid being captured. As she left, she lured a…
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Cartoon, fantasy film, musical film
In Antarctica, the Adélie penguins practice a tradition in which during the mating season, the male birds gather on the beaches to find a pebble to use in a mating ritual, and during the night of the full moon mating ceremony, the males pr…
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Action, Justice Drama, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
The film opens in Los Angeles, 1992. LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a conveni…
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Animation, Komödie, Sci-Fi, children's film, comedy film, family film, science fiction film
Stitch has been trying to adapt to life with Lilo in Hawaii, but has a hard time fitting in without causing more disasters. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he is one-of-a-kind, but he desires others whom he could consider his "cousin…
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