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Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, magic realist film, melodrama, romance film, thriller film
In 1962, during the Cold War, Elisa Esposito works as a janitor in a secret government laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. Found abandoned by the side of a river as an infant with scars on her neck, Elisa is mute and communicates through si…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, fantasy film, flashback film
Woody and Buzz Lightyear have become co-leaders of Andy's toys. Andy plans to take Woody to Cowboy Camp, but accidentally rips his arm during a brief playtime. Andy's mother places Woody on a shelf, causing Woody to begin fearing that Andy…
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Romantic Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Peter Parker struggles to balance his personal life with his crime-fighting as Spider-Man. He juggles multiple jobs and faces overdue rent and schoolwork as his aunt May is being evicted. Daily Bugle editor J.
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Daffy Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sitcom, action film, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, monster film, science fiction film
After Columbia University parapsychology professors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler experience their first encounter with a ghost at the New York Public Library, the university dean dismisses the credibility of their paranorma…
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Destiny, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Media mogul Bill Parrish is nearing his 65th birthday, and hears a mysterious voice that he tries to ignore. His eldest daughter Allison is planning an elaborate party for him, and his younger daughter Susan, a resident in internal medicin…
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Action, Sci-Fi, War Film, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera, war film
Research scientist Galen Erso and his family are in hiding on the planet Lah'mu when Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic arrives to press him into completing the Death Star, a superweapon capable of destroying planets. Galen's wife Ly…
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Aliens, Fantasy, Military Film, Political Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, dystopian film, military science fiction, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, Earth is governed by the United Citizen Federation, a stratocratic regime founded generations earlier by "veterans" after democracy and social scientists brought civilization to the brink of ruin. Citizenship is exclusively …
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Adventure, Cartoon, Computeranimation, Fairy-Tale Film, Musical, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, coming-of-age film, musical film
A drop of sunlight falls from the sky and produces a magic flower with healing properties. For centuries, Gothel used the flower to retain her youth, until it is taken by soldiers from the kingdom of Corona and used to save their very ill,…
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Adventure, Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, family film, fantasy film
On Christmas Eve in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Polar Express, a magical train bound for the North Pole, stops outside the house of a young boy who begins to question his belief in Santa Claus. He boards the train after being invited by th…
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Dance Film, Family Comedy, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in Edwardian London after a suffragette rally and learns that her children, Jane and Michael, have run away, "for the fourth time this week"; this has prompted their nanny, Katie Nanna, to quit h…
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High Fantasy
Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
In 1985 New York, Connor MacLeod encounters an old enemy, Iman Fasil, in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden. After a sword duel, Connor beheads Fasil and absorbs a powerful release of energy from his body, then hides his sword in …
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, speculative fiction film
In August 2005, Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. She tells her daughter Caroline about blind clockmaker Mr. Gateau, hired to make a clock for a train station in 1918.
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Horror comedy, Obsession, black comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, drama film, fantasy film
Lydia Deetz hosts a paranormal talk show called Ghost House and is estranged from her daughter Astrid, who doubts her mother's psychic abilities and that ghosts exist after her father Richard died while in the Amazon. While taping an episo…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
A teenage boy awakens in an underground elevator without memory of his identity. A large group of male youths greets him in a large grassy area, called the "Glade", enclosed by massive stone walls. The "Gladers" have formed a rudimentary s…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film, psychological horror fiction, supernatural fiction
Annie Marshall runs out of her house but denies to onlookers that she needs help. She gets into her car and drives away. That night, she sits alone on a beach, and when her parents call, she tells them she loves them.
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Obsession, Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film, Zombiefilm, body horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mysticism, splatter film, supernatural horror film, zombie film
A quintet of Michigan State University students – Ash Williams, his girlfriend Linda, his sister Cheryl and their friend Scott and his girlfriend Shelly – vacation at a remote cabin in the rural hills of Tennessee. As the group approaches …
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Monster Film, Mysterie, Splatter Film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, psychological horror fiction
Rose Da Silva and her husband Christopher are disturbed by their adopted daughter Sharon's constant sleepwalking and nightmares about Silent Hill, a town in West Virginia that was abandoned in the 1970s due to a massive coal seam fire. Des…
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Action, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The Trade Federation blockades the planet Naboo in secret preparation for a full-scale invasion, disrupting order in the Galactic Republic. The Republic's leader, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and hi…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, romance film
Adaline Marie Bowman was born on New Year's Day, 1908, in San Francisco at 12:01 a.m. to Faye and Milton Bowman. In 1929, when she was twenty-one, Adaline married engineer Clarence James Prescott.
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Horror, Japanese Animation Film, Modern-Day Fantasy
Mima Kirigoe decides to leave the J-pop idol group CHAM! to become a full-time actress. Many of her fans are dismayed by her change from a clean-cut image, particularly an obsessive fan, Me-Mania, who begins stalking her.
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Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy drama, drama film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In 1916, at a ball in Saint Petersburg, Russia, celebrating the Romanov tricentennial, Dowager Empress Marie gives a music box and a necklace inscribed with the words "Together in Paris" as parting gifts to her youngest granddaughter, Gran…
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Adventure, Dark Comedy, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, black comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
Charlie Bucket is a kind and loving boy who lives in poverty with his family near the Wonka Factory. The company's owner, Willy Wonka, has long closed his factory to the public due to problems concerning industrial espionage, which also ca…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film
Teenage girls Katie and Becca discuss an urban legend about a cursed videotape that causes whoever views it to die a week later. That night, Katie, who viewed it one week ago with her friends, is killed by an unseen force. At Katie's funer…
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