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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, Monumental Film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, flashback film
In ancient Basra, a blind beggar begins telling the film's story in flashback (mimicking the style of the Arabian Nights), revealing that he is really Ahmad, the young, naive king of Baghdad. Wanting to know more about his people, Ahmad is…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film
Due to a cold, retired schoolteacher Mr. Chipping misses a first-day assembly at Brookfield public school for the first time in 58 years. That afternoon, he falls asleep in his chair and his teaching career is related via flashback.
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Romance Film, drama film, flashback film
In Hollywood, director Fred Amiel, movie star Georgia Lorrison and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields in Paris. Film producer Harry Pebbel gathers them in his office and explains that Shields h…
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Drama, Romance Film, comedy drama, drama film, flashback film, romance film
Friends Deborah Bishop, Rita Phipps and Lora Mae Hollingsway are just about to take a group of children on a riverboat outing when they receive a message from their "dear friend" Addie Ross (heard but unseen during the film) informing them…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
Stanwyck plays Leona Stevenson, a spoiled, bedridden daughter of a millionaire. The telephone is her sole connection with the outside world. One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed phone connection, she eavesdrops on two men…
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Drama, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, drama film, flashback film, romantic comedy
Vladimir Ivanov, a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family. In the grim living conditions and lack of personal freedom in the Soviet Union, he stands in lines for hours to buy toilet paper …
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Mysterie
Fred Fitzell and his wife Karen visit Fred's mother in a hospital where she is suffering from severe mental decline. Fred works in an office job but begins to get vivid flashbacks of high school. He remembers a girl named Cindy Williams an…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, flashback film, war film
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship". In 1941 HMS Torrin engages German transports in a night-time action during the Battle of Crete, but at dawn, the destroyer comes under attack from German bombers. A critical…
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Crime, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
thumb|Montgomery Clift in the I Confess film trailer Father Logan is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrant married couple Otto and Alma Keller as caretaker and housekeeper, respectively.
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Computeranimation, Modern-Day Fantasy, fantasy film, flashback film, live-action/animated film
It is 1962, two years after Arthur Montgomery saved his grandparents’ home and saved the Minimoys from the evil Maltazard. Arthur stays with his grandparents for the holidays, during which the Bogo Matassalai (a fictitious African society)…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, flashback film
The film begins when Eric Wilson is released from a secure unit or prison under the name Jack Burridge. His past is told through flashbacks. Eric befriends Philip Craig, who is a troublemaker and rescues him from a group of bullies.
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Romance Film, drama film, flashback film, romance film
In 1900, 12-year-old Leo Colston is invited to spend his summer holiday at Brandham Hall, the Norfolk country house of his wealthy school friend, Marcus Maudsley. Upon arriving at the house, the middle-class Leo finds himself out of place …
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film, flashback film
16 September 1897: Churchill is a junior officer on the North-West Frontier (between British India and Afghanistan) determined to make a name for himself and to become a member of Parliament. As the older Churchill (voiced by Simon Ward) n…
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Drama, drama film
Virginia Cunningham is an apparently schizophrenic patient at a mental hospital called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she does not recognize her husband Robert. Dr.
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Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, flashback film, thriller film
The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding…
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend and crush, Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. Via …
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War Film, flashback film, propaganda film
The story is told in flashback by Charles Sims. During the Second World War, a group of seemingly authentic British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End. It is the Whitsun weekend, life is even quieter th…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, disaster film, flashback film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|left|upright=1.4|Edward Judd walks through a devastated and deserted London in the film's orange-infused opening sequence. A lone man walks through the deserted streets of an abandoned, sweltering London. The film then goes back seve…
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Drama, drama film, flashback film, period drama film, war film
The film's narrative unfolds in a long flashback. Elderly David Carr has died of a heart attack and his granddaughter discovers old letters, newspapers and other documents in his room: what we see in the film is what he had lived. Carr, a …
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, flashback film
The reclusive foreign-born Fedora is one of the great film stars of the century, and known for retaining her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades. At the height of her fame, however, Fedora withdrew to a private isl…
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Action, Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, flashback film, neo-noir, science fiction film
In a future Paris, 22-year-old scientist Ilona Tasuiev, who works for the megacorporation Avalon, is kidnapped. Meanwhile, police captain Barthélémy Karas defuses a hostage situation by killing the hostage-takers. Afterwards Karas is given…
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Animation, flashback film
Balto's son Kodi works for the US Mail. Kodi loves his job and his new friends Dusty, Kirby and Ralph. Balto is intrigued by the new bush plane that has arrived in Nome.
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, flashback film, romance film, transgender film
The film begins by introducing 35-year old Laurence Alia (Melvil Poupaud), an award-winning novelist and literature teacher in Montreal, Quebec. Laurence is very much in love with his girlfriend, the fiery and passionate Frédérique - "Fred…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Sitcom, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, flashback film
Albert Franklin is a seven year old boy, living with his single mother Lorraine in Nevada, who works as an assistant showgirl, for a famous Vegas magician named Antoine. Albert dreams of becoming a master magician, and looks up to Antoine …
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