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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 107 films · Page 2.
Justice Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, flashback film, romance film, spy film, war film
German gunners shoot down a British biplane, containing a pilot and a slumped down woman, flying across the desert. A group of Bedouin pulls the badly burned pilot from the wreckage, rescuing him. Hana, a French-Canadian Royal Canadian Arm…
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Adventure, Animation, Family Comedy, Fantasy, Komödie, action film, children's film, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, flashback film
Years ago, King Harold and Queen Lillian lost hope of their daughter, Princess Fiona, being freed from her curse after so many years of her being at the Dragon's Keep. Despite their deal with Fairy Godmother, they go to Rumpelstiltskin for…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, family film, flashback film
Dory, a regal blue tang, gets separated from her parents, Jenny and Charlie, as a child. Growing up, Dory gradually forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. She eventually meets and joins the clownfish Marlin, looking for his son, N…
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Destiny, Family Drama, Forensic, drama film, flashback film
Young Kate Fitzgerald is diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, devastating her parents, firefighter Brian and lawyer Sara. As neither of them nor Kate's older brother Jesse are genetic matches for her, Brian and Sara conceive a savi…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, historical drama
While heading to afternoon prayers in New Delhi on January 30, 1948, Gandhi is fatally shot. On 7 June 1893, in the Colony of Natal, young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi is forcibly expelled from a whites-only train carriage in Pietermaritzburg de…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, family film, flashback film, kung fu film, wuxia
In the Valley of Peace province of Ancient China, the red panda Master Shifu learns from his mentor, the tortoise Master Oogway, that the snow leopard Tai Lung will escape from imprisonment and attempt to acquire the Dragon Scroll, an arti…
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, disaster film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film, science fiction comedy, teen film
Aspiring scientist and inventor Flint Lockwood lives with his widowed fisherman father Tim in Swallow Falls, an island in the Atlantic Ocean. The island's economy is entirely based on sardine sales, which have plummeted due to the rest of …
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, action film, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, flashback film
Puss in Boots is a Spanish-speaking anthropomorphic cat, named for his signature pair of boots. A fugitive on the run from the law, Puss is seeking to restore his lost honor. One night, he learns that the murderous outlaw couple Jack and J…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, flashback film, political thriller film, spy film
In 1991, the United States and China are close to a major trade agreement, with the President due to visit China to seal the deal. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learns that its asset Tom Bishop has been arrested at a People's Liber…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film, romance film
In the present, adult siblings Michael and Carolyn Johnson arrive at the Iowa farmhouse of their recently deceased mother, Francesca, to settle her estate. They are shocked upon learning that she had requested to be cremated and her ashes …
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, flashback film
After crash-landing in East Africa, penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private, and chimpanzee duo Mason and Phil leave for Monte Carlo in their modified airplane. Whilst waiting, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria and lemurs King Julien, Mauri…
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Film Noir, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
thumb|300px|left|Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession …
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film, science fantasy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno, California for a career opportunity. However, just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a de…
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Drama, Fantasy, Musical, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, musical film
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer attempting to balance staging his latest Broadway musical, NY/LA, while editing a Hollywood film he has directed, The Stand-Up. He is an alcoholic, a driven workaholic who chain-smokes cig…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, children's film, fantasy film, flashback film, musical film
Red Puckett arrives at her Granny's house, where Wolf W. Wolf, an anthropomorphic gray wolf, has disguised himself as the latter. As Wolf attacks Red, a bound Granny jumps out of a closet before a woodsman named Kirk bursts through the win…
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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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Computeranimation, comedy film, flashback film
Long ago, in Ancient China, the peacock rulers of Gongmen City invented fireworks. However, their son, Lord Shen, discovered that the fireworks' gunpowder could be weaponized. Troubled by Shen's obsession, his parents consulted a Soothsaye…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, drama film, flashback film
In London 1961, literary agent Diarmuid Russell urges financially strapped author Pamela "P. L." Travers to travel to Los Angeles and meet with Walt Disney, who has pursued the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories for 20 years after hav…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, children's film, comedy film, flashback film
In Kenya, the alpha lion Zuba tries to teach his young son Alakay how to fight, but Alakay is more interested in dancing. Rival lion Makunga challenges Zuba for the title of alpha, but during their fight, Alakay is captured by poachers and…
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Destiny, Monster Film, drama film, flashback film, horror film, thriller film
A beautiful and conniving trapeze artist named Cleopatra seduces a carnival sideshow dwarf named Hans after learning of his large inheritance. This is much to the chagrin of Frieda, his fiancée, also a dwarf. Cleopatra also conspires with …
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Animation, Komödie, Natural Disaster, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film
Sometime after the events of the first film, Manny, Sid, and Diego live in a valley that is surrounded by a high ice wall on all sides and is inhabited by many other mammals. The trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a dam that is b…
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Buddy Film, Computeranimation, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, adventure film, buddy film, children's film, comedy film, crossover fiction, detective film, family film, flashback film, ghost film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, superhero film
In Venice Beach, a young, lonely Shaggy Rogers befriends and adopts a young talking stray Great Dane, whom he names Scooby-Doo. On Halloween night, Scooby and Shaggy meet three young children—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley—bef…
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Melodrama, drama film, flashback film, romance film
In a railway station refreshment room, a man and a woman are sitting glumly at a table. One of the woman's friends comes in and immediately begins chatting away. After some terse pleasantries, the man leaves to catch his train.
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Drama, Romance Film, Western, Western film, drama film, flashback film, revisionist Western
Near the turn of the 20th century, U.S. Senator Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed Western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. When asked by the local newspaper reporter …
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