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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Graham Merrill passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London, and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) he sees in the shop window; eventually, he buys the animal and names him Mijbil or "Mij" for short. The …
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Tragic Comedy Film, association football film, comedy drama, drama film
Eric Bishop is a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis. Looking after his granddaughter is bringing him into contact with his ex-wife, Lily, whom he abandoned after the birth of their daughter. At the same time, his…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy whose head has been completely shaved, small-town police call in a psychologist who discovers that the boy is a war orphan named Peter Fry. Peter tells the story of his life to the psychologist.…
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Family Comedy, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film
In the fictional town of Ithaca, California, Mr. Macauley has been dead for two years, leaving behind a wife, three sons, and a daughter. His oldest son Marcus is enlisted as a private in the U.S.
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Komödie, comedy film
After his mother's funeral at Islington Cemetery, while waiting for her ashes, London bank manager Henry Pulling meets eccentric Augusta Bertram, a woman who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his bio…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film
Lizzie Morrison and nine-year-old deaf son Frankie frequently relocate to keep one step ahead of her abusive ex-husband and his family. They are accompanied by her opinionated, chain-smoking mother Nell. Newly relocated in the Scottish tow…
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comedy film, family film
animated film, biographical film, family film
The film follows Muhammad's first years as a prophet starting with Islam's beginnings in Mecca in which the Muslims are persecuted, the exodus to Medina, and ending with the Muslims' triumphant return to Mecca. A number of crucial events, …
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
"Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmma…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Thomas Zelda (Tim Allen) has been paroled from prison for being involved in movie piracy. He is picked up by his eccentric sister Viki (Sigourney Weaver) who is revealed to be a habitual liar (she claims it's so people aren't hurt by the t…
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Satire, mockumentary
Documentary film producer Albert Brooks leads a project meant to encapsulate the joys, sorrows and intimacy of real life by filming a regular American family, the Yeagers, for a full year using expensive cameras: some installed on walls, a…
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Fantasy, biographical film, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob. As the film opens, we learn they are working to finish a family history for a local Duke, though Wilhelm is more interested in collecting fairy tales and often spends what little …
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film, family film, musical film, teen film
Nate Foster is a 13-year-old boy who lives in Pittsburgh and dreams of being a Broadway star. His parents, Rex and Sherrie, are understanding while his older brother Anthony is put off by his odd behavior. At school, Nate is picked on and …
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Adventure, adventure film, comedy film, family film
Adventure, Western, biographical film, children's film
Creek Indian Wars Two Tennessee wilderness settlers, Davy Crockett and his best friend George Russell (son of Captain William Russell and Agness H. Mccollough), volunteer to fight with General Andrew Jackson and Major Tobias Norton in the …
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Drama, drama film
The Hart family, parents Leona and Bill and son David, suffer the loss of their infant daughter Edith. The parents travel to Jamaica, where they meet a hotel maid, Clara Mayfield, offering her work as the housekeeper. Clara accepts, and ta…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film
When the police discover that mob hitman Horace Osborn has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robbersons' home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone and his young…
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Komödie, children's film
The film opens with a pickpocketing monkey named Babi who tells his nephew, Babu how he met the Buddies. Their great uncle Digger was the partner of an archaeologist Thomas Howard, who retrieved one half of a dial which would lead to Queen…
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Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film
Reuben Soady (Daniels) goes to the hunting camp cottage, otherwise known as deer camp, with his father Albert (played by Harve Presnell), brother Remnar (Joey Albright) and Jimmy "The Jimmer" Negamanee from Menominee (Wayne David Parker). …
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Family Drama, Psychodrama, Romantic Drama, drama film, independent film, romance film
We first see Ann as she is experiencing the rain, mentally describing how it makes her feel. Working a janitorial job, Ann's coworker Lori is envious that 23-year-old Ann keeps thin, while she has to always be careful. After work, Ann pick…
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
Sandra Beecher arrives at Kona Pali High School, Hawaii, to replace a science teacher who quit. She meets shop teacher Frank Machi, who orients her. In her first class she meets several students, including: Daniel Webster, a surfer and asp…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
During the 1930s, New York gangster Blackie approaches Sorrowful Jones, a gloomy, cantankerous bookmaker, about financing a new gambling house. Sorrowful is not interested. Carter, a small time gambler, leaves his six-year-old daughter to …
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drama film
Mike (Greg Rowe) is a lonely young boy wandering through the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong, near the mouth of the Murray River. He and his reclusive father 'Hide Away' Tom (Peter Cummins) live in the isolated sand dune…
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Drama, drama film
Jessie is a middle-aged woman living with her widowed mother, Thelma. One night, Jessie calmly tells her mother that she plans to commit suicide that very evening. Jessie makes this revelation all while nonchalantly organizing household it…
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