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Social Drama, drama film, social problem film, white savior film
Dan Dunne is a young middle-school history teacher at a Brooklyn school, with a teaching style that rejects the standard curriculum in favor of an approach based upon dialectics. While he is an engaging teacher in the classroom, in his own…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, children's film, comedy film, romance film
In 1959 Los Angeles, jingle writer Manny Singer is a recent widower with a young daughter, Molly, who, grieving the death of her mother Annie, refuses to speak. Manny decides to hire a housekeeper-nanny to help fill the void of his wife's …
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy film, drama film, science fiction film
In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts William "Hawk" Hawkins and Frank Corvin are testing a modified Bell X-2 when Hawk decides to break speed and altitude records. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrow…
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Musical, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, jukebox musical, musical film, romance film
In the 1960s, Jude Feeney, a young shipyard worker in Liverpool, heads to the US to find his G.I. father who conceived him during World War II, whom he has never met. He promises his girlfriend Molly he will stay in touch while he is away.
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, sex comedy
Single mother Lisa takes her young daughter, Julie, to her first day of kindergarten. She watches as Julie is befriended by two other girls, Kayla and Sam. Kayla's father Mitchell and Sam's father Hunter introduce themselves and the three …
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Computeranimation, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, children's film, science fiction film
In the 22nd century, Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state of Metro City, which floats above the polluted Earth. His father, Dr. Tenma, works at the Ministry of Science, alongside Dr.
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Grace King Bichon is happily married to her husband Eddie Bichon and together they have one daughter Caroline. She works for her father Wyly King, a show jumping trainer who owns and operates a lesson barn, and tries to convince him to use…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, buddy film, romantic comedy
Darren Silverman, Wayne LeFessier, and J.D. McNugent, best friends since fifth grade and Neil Diamond fans throughout, form a Neil Diamond tribute band called Diamonds in the Rough. Through a chance encounter in a local bar after a band gi…
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Buddy Film, Coming Of Age, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years from 1955 to 1960. John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was five. His aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, raised him like a son.
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Daffy Comedy, Musical, musical film
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan lives in Paris trying to succeed as an artist. His friend and neighbor Adam Cook is a struggling concert pianist and longtime associate of French singer Henri Baurel. At the ground-floor bar in …
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Drama, drama film
Ingrid is a successful author who learns that Martha, a friend with whom she once worked at the same magazine, has terminal cancer. They reconnect at the Manhattan hospital where Martha is being treated, and Martha tells Ingrid her life st…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
In 2006, Jess, Alice, Frankie and Blair bond during their first year of college. A decade later they reunite as Jess, now an aspiring politician, is about to marry her boyfriend Peter. Alice decides that the four should spend the weekend i…
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Daffy Comedy, Marital Tragedy, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, romance film, suspense film, thriller film
left|thumb|220x220px|Elaine (Priscilla Lane) and Mortimer (Cary Grant) waiting for a marriage license The Brewster family of Brooklyn is descended from Mayflower settlers who "scalped the Indians" instead of the other way around, according…
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Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
Wade Porter is a blue-collar worker living with his fiancée Laura and their son Michael. One night, they hear a burglar in the house while they're sleeping. Wade chases him out of the house and hits him in the head with a baseball bat, uni…
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Family Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film
13-year-old Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends, Murph and Reg Stevens, live in an orphanage in Los Angeles. At night, they all have to sell chocolate for the troublesome orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, at the STAPLES Center, aft…
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Dance Film, Musical, musical film, teen film
Mitchie Torres and her mother, Connie, return to Camp Rock for another summer. They see a new camp, Camp Star, has opened across from them and Mitchie and her friends notice there are fewer campers at Camp Rock. After Opening Jam, the camp…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Sixteen-year-old Vivian lives with her mother Lisa and attends Rockport High School. One day she joins her best friend Claudia at an exclusive class taught by Mr. Davies, where she notices that her classmate Seth “The Shrimp” has gotten ta…
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Buddy Film, Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
13-year-old Kevin "Freak" Dillon suffers from Morquio syndrome and lives with his mother Gwen "Fair Gwen" Dillon. Due to his disability, he walks with leg braces and crutches. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Maxwell "Max" Kane has learning challeng…
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Komödie, comedy film
Casey and Miller invite their college friend, Jeff Chang, out to celebrate his 21st birthday. Jeff declines, citing an important medical school interview early the next morning that his domineering doctor father arranged; Jeff finally agre…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Seventeen-year-old Greg Gaines is a senior at Pittsburgh's Schenley High School who avoids close engagement with other students by avoiding both associating with any particular clique or developing close relationships. Greg even refers to …
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Action, Heist, Komödie, Road Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
A young ne'er-do-well who goes by the name Lightfoot cheerfully steals a car from an enraged dealer's lot. Elsewhere, an assassin attempts to shoot a preacher, who is delivering a sermon at his pulpit. The preacher escapes on foot.
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Adventure, Buddy Film, Cartoon, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
In a home theater (a parody of Mystery Science Theater 3000) Timon and Pumbaa watch the opening act of the first film until Timon fast forwards to the Hakuna Matata scene where they appear. However, Pumbaa rewinds the film to the beginning…
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Heist, Justice Drama, Political Thriller, political thriller film
In Washington, D.C., master thief Luther Whitney breaks into the mansion of billionaire Walter Sullivan. He is forced to hide upon the arrival of Sullivan's wife Christy, on a drunken rendezvous with Alan Richmond, the President of the Uni…
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Komödie, romantic comedy film
In an attempt to reconnect with her friends from college, lifestyle guru Ryan Pierce, dubbed "the next Oprah," decides to invite her friends on a girls' trip to Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, where she will be the keynote speaker. …
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