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Komödie, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film
In Passaic, New Jersey, Elroy Fletcher owns the declining "Be Kind Rewind" VHS rental store. The building is condemned as a slum and the officials led by Mr. Baker give him 60 days to upgrade it to the required standards, or they will demo…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, female buddy film
Jane, a musician who recently broke-up with her girlfriend and her band, decides to move from New York City to Los Angeles. She answers a newspaper ad for a co-driver to LA posted by Robin, a real estate agent who is also moving to Califor…
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Drama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film
In 1936, the Widdington sisters, Janet and Ursula, live in a tight-knit, picturesque Cornwallian fishing village. Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Kraków, is sailing to America when he is swept overboard from his ship in a stor…
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Coming Of Age, Dramedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Bliss Cavendar is a teenager in the small town of Bodeen, Texas. She has lost interest in the beauty pageants her mother, former beauty queen Brooke, pressures her to win. While shopping in Austin with her mother, Bliss is intrigued by thr…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In New Orleans, Chris Farraday, a reformed smuggler, enjoys a quiet family life with his wife, Kate, and their two children. Their tranquility is shattered when they discover Kate's brother, Andy, has become entangled in drug smuggling. To…
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Monster Film, horror film, monster film
Chris, his girlfriend Natalie, and their mutual friend Amanda are vacationing across Europe. They stop in Kyiv, Ukraine, to visit Chris' brother, Paul, before heading to Moscow, Russia, where Chris intends to propose to Natalie. Paul sugge…
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Dark Comedy, Mafia Film, Romance Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Trying to go straight, ex-gangster Jimmy "The Saint" Tosnia runs Afterlife Advice in Denver, where dying people videotape messages for their loved ones. His business isn't doing well and his former boss, a crime lord known as "The Man With…
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Komödie, Parodie, Road Movie, Teen Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
In 1998, Eric Bottler reunites with his old high school buddies Linus, Hutch, Windows, and Zoe at a Halloween party. Now a car salesman at his father's dealership, Bottler finds that his friends have not matured since high school, though t…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Huckleberry Finn is a half-literate son of Pap Finn, an abusive drunk. One night, his father arrives and takes Huck from his foster family. Jealous of Huck's money being kept away, Pap attacks Huck, but eventually passes out from exhaustio…
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Komödie, comedy film
Middle-aged best friends Barb and Star leave their home of Soft Rock, Nebraska for the first time to go on vacation to Vista Del Mar, Florida. They are apprehensive about trying something new. The two friends construct a narrative about a …
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Drama, Fantasy, children's film, drama film, fantasy film
In present-day Scotland, a couple of American tourists meet an old man who, upon request (after seeing the surgeon's photo) tells them about the Loch Ness Monster and why the photo is a fake. In 1942 during World War II, a boy named Angus …
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Family Drama, children's film, drama film
Sawyer Nelson is a lonely 11-year-old who has been falling behind academically in school since his father's abandonment five years earlier. Sawyer spends his time playing video games and building model airplanes and helicopters in his gara…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
In Arcadia, Arizona, salesman Nick Halsey is fired from his job of 16 years following an incident in Denver related to his alcoholism. After stabbing his supervisor Gary’s tires with his farewell gift – a Swiss Army Knife with his name on …
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
In 1985, Brian Jackson is a first-year university student in English Literature and an information sponge. Since his working-class childhood in Southend-on-Sea, Brian has loved the TV quiz show University Challenge. After arriving at Unive…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 2005, Steve Lopez is a journalist working for the Los Angeles Times. He is divorced and now works for his ex-wife, Mary, an editor. A biking accident lands Lopez in a hospital.
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Tom Ripley is a rich American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he drives up auction prices of supposedly newly found—but really newly produced—paintings by an artist who has faked his own de…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film
In 1885, in the mountainous wilds of British Columbia, Canada, a male grizzly bear cub and his mother are searching for honey when the mother is crushed to death by a rockslide. Forced to fend for himself, the cub struggles to find food an…
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Family Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, Sport, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Dan Foreman, a 51-year-old advertising executive, is head of sales for a national sports publication. When Sports America is bought out by Globecom, an international corporation promoting “synergy”, Dan, his wife and two daughters, 16-year…
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Drama, drama film
A rhythmic gymnast practices a routine set to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Afterward, she tells her coach that she would rather use a pop song, but he says she is not ready for pop and threatens to break her arms and legs if she questions h…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
On Halloween 1950, 11-year-old Harvey Pekar refuses to dress up as a superhero for trick-or-treating. Years later, Harvey is seen walking the Cleveland streets, and the real Harvey Pekar appears in a documentary-style setup. In 1975, Harve…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, teen film
Contemplating suicide, depressed teenager Craig Gilner seeks help at a local hospital. After telling a doctor named Dr. Mahmoud that he needs immediate help, Craig is admitted for five days at the hospital's adult psychiatric floor, due to…
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Adventure, Japanese Animation Film
In a forest in the Johto region, a young Pokémon Trainer named Sammy is warned by a woman named Towa to be wary of the "Voice of the Forest", which is Celebi, a Mythical Pokémon capable of time travel. Celebi is pursued by a Pokémon Hunter…
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Adventure, Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Mystery Inc. visits their old friend and college student, Eric Staufer, who has invited them to see a prize-winning computer game he made based on their adventures and a high-tech laser, both of which he intends to enter at a campus scienc…
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Drama Documentary, Event Documentary, Mysterie, Thriller, documentary film
Young photographer Nev Schulman lives with his brother Ariel in New York City. Abby Pierce, an 8-year-old child prodigy artist in rural Ishpeming, Michigan, sends Nev a painting of one of his photos. They become Facebook friends, which bro…
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