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Family Drama, Romance Film, action film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In Verona Beach, the Capulets and Montagues are two rival business empires. The animosity of the older generation—Fulgencio and Gloria Capulet and Ted and Caroline Montague—is felt by their younger relatives. A shootout occurs between Mont…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1952, Haddon Township, New Jersey, Jewish couple Mitzi and Burt Fabelman take their young son Sammy to see his first film: The Greatest Show on Earth. Dazzled by a train scene, Sammy asks for a model set for Hanukkah, which he crashes l…
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film
Eight-year-old Carl Fredricksen idolizes famed explorer Charles Muntz, who is discredited when a giant bird skeleton he brought back from Paradise Falls in South America is deemed fake. Muntz travels back to the falls, vowing not to return…
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Dramedy, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Time Travel, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
Tim Lake grows up in Cornwall with his father James, mother Mary, uncle Desmond, and younger sister Katherine ("Kit Kat"). The morning after a less-than-great New Year’s Eve party, James tells Tim that the men of their family can travel ba…
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy improvement over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Ch…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, buddy film, drama film
Maggie Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, enters the Hit Pit, a rundown boxing gym in Los Angeles operated by Frankie Dunn. Frankie is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer estranged from his daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her…
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Computeranimation, Drama, adventure film, drama film, family film, musical film
Some time after Simba defeated his usurping uncle Scar and became King of the Pride Lands, he and Nala have a daughter, Kiara, and are expecting another cub. They leave for an oasis for the birth, leaving Timon and Pumbaa to watch over Kia…
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, trial film
In 1993, Sam Dawson, a Starbucks barista with an intellectual disability, becomes the single father of Lucy Diamond Dawson, named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", following her abandonment by her mother, a homeless w…
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Family Saga, Melodrama, Western film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sick of betrayals the US government perpetrated on Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the Army, moving to a remote part of Montana. Along with One Stab, he builds a ranch and raises his family. Accompanying them are hired hand…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Mafia Film, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, melodrama, mystery film, romance film
In 1960, the nine-year-old Calogero lives in Belmont, a working-class Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx with his father Lorenzo, a Surface Transit (later MTA) bus driver, and his mother Rosina. Calogero becomes enamored of the Maf…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film
Six-year-old Matilda Wormwood is neglected and mistreated by her parents, Harry and Zinnia, who even refuse to enroll her in school, and her older brother, Michael. Smart and independent, Matilda finds solace in books at the public library…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, apocalyptic film, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 3600 BC, the aged but powerful mutant En Sabah Nur rules ancient Egypt. Following a ceremony in which his consciousness is transferred into another man's body in order to gain his healing factor, he and his four followers, the Horsemen …
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American football film, Family Drama, Social Drama, Sport, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, white savior film
17-year-old Michael "Big Mike" Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his biological mother's drug addiction, but every time he is placed in a new home, he runs back to her. His friend's father, on whose …
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Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy of remarriage, family film, romantic comedy film
In 1986, American wine grower Nicholas "Nick" Parker and British wedding gown designer Elizabeth James fall in love and marry aboard a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Shortly after Elizabeth gives birth to identical twins, Annie and Halli…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Road Movie, biographical film, docudrama, drama fiction, drama film, road movie
In April 1992, Chris McCandless arrives in a remote area called Healy, just north of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Noting McCandless's unpreparedness, the man who drops him off gives him gumboots. McCandless sets up camp in …
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Christmas film, Family Comedy, comedy film
Texas housewife Claire Clauster spends the entire year planning the perfect family Christmas for her husband Nick and their three children Channing, Taylor and Sammy. The children and their guests arrive two days before Christmas: Channing…
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Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, children's film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
Charlie Bucket, a 12-year-old paperboy from a poor family, passes by Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in Charlie's town, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever enters or exits the building. Charlie's grandfather, Joe, reveals that Wonka …
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Family Comedy, Family Drama, Komödie, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, road movie
Sheryl Hoover is a stressed mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her husband Richard is an aspiring motivational speaker and life coach. Dwayne, Sheryl's Nietzsche-admiring teenage son from her previous marriage, has taken a vo…
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Buddy Film, Destiny, Melodrama, Musical, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film
The film is told non-chronologically. The following is a linear summary of the plot. Past At the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE), Ranchoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad arrives as an academically gifted student, challenging professor…
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the rural town of Millbrook, Indiana, with wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. One night, two spree killers attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills…
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Melodrama, War Film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, war film
Part one Lieutenant General Yevgraf Zhivago searches for the daughter of his half-brother Dr. Yuri Zhivago and Larissa "Lara" Antipova. Yevgraf believes a young dam worker, Tanya Komarova, may be his niece and explains to her why.
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Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, sport film
Ray Kinsella lives with his wife Annie and daughter Karin on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa. Troubled by his broken relationship with his deceased father John, a devoted baseball fan, Ray fears growing old without ever having done any…
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Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, Romantic Comedy, cinematic fairy tale, comedy drama, musical film, romance film, romantic fantasy
In a faraway land lives a young but cruel and selfish prince in his castle. One night, an old beggar woman arrives at a castle and offers the prince an enchanted rose in exchange for shelter from a storm. When he scornfully declines, she r…
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Family Drama, biographical film, drama film
New York Times writer David Sheff's teenage son Nicolas "Nic" Sheff goes missing, reappearing in their home two days later. Seeing obvious signs of drug use, David takes Nic to a rehab clinic. Progress is made, and Nic transfers to a halfw…
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