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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1967 in New England, aimless eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen has an acute psychiatric episode and overdoses on aspirin and alcohol. Against her wishes, she is checked into Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital. In the psychiatric ward, Sus…
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Komödie, comedy film
Peter Gibbons is a frustrated and unmotivated programmer who works at software company Initech. Unprepared to stand up to his highly critical girlfriend, Anne, he has become infatuated with local waitress Joanna, but is afraid to speak to …
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy film
William Thacker owns a travel book store in Notting Hill, London. Divorced from his wife who left him for another man (who resembles Harrison Ford), he shares a flat with Spike, a flaky and sloppy Welshman. One day, famous Hollywood actres…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film
Architect Sam Baldwin moves from Chicago to Seattle with his eight-year-old son, Jonah, to start a new life following the death of his beloved wife, Maggie. Over a year later, on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls a nationally syndicated radio tal…
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Adventure, High Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Severus Snape meets with Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor, reporting that the Order of the Phoenix will move Harry Potter, no longer under his mother's protective spell, to a safe location. Voldemort and the Death Eaters…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, planetary romance, science fiction film
In 1881, Edgar Rice Burroughs arrives at the estate of his recently deceased uncle, John Carter, a former American Civil War Confederate Army captain. Per Carter's instructions, the body is put in a tomb that can be unlocked only from the …
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Adventure, Komödie, Stop Motion, action film, comedy film, family film, melodrama
While raiding Berk's Squab Farm, Mr. Fox and his wife, Felicity, are caught in a trap. Felicity reveals her pregnancy to her husband and makes him promise to find a safer job.
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Sitcom, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, female buddy film
In 1988, Dottie Hinson attends the opening of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees many former teammates and friends playing a game, prompting a flashback to 1943. With World Wa…
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Destiny, Road Movie, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, female buddy film, girls with guns, road movie
Friends Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin. Thelma, a housewife, is married to disrespectful and controlling carpet salesman Darryl, while sharp-tongued Louise works as a waitress. When Lou…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Charlie Simms is a scholarship student at Baird, an exclusive New England preparatory school. Karen Rossi hires him to watch her uncle, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, during Thanksgiving weekend. Charlie accepts so he can buy…
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Adventure, Fantasy, fantasy film
Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on the wizarding and Muggle worlds: his Death Eaters kidnap wandmaker Ollivander and destroy the Millennium Bridge. With Lucius Malfoy incarcerated in Azkaban, Voldemort chooses his son, Draco Malfoy, to ca…
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Super Hero, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Seeing Michael's potential, their adoptive father and ho…
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Splatter Film, Teen Horror Film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
In 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, camp counselors Barry and Claudette sneak away from other counselors for a late night rendezvous in a supply shed. An unseen assailant attacks and murders them. On Friday, June 13, 1980, camp counselor and coo…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, sport film
In November 1987, Jamaican sprinter Derice Bannock trains to compete in the 100 metres race at the forthcoming Summer Olympics in Seoul, but fails to advance in the trials after fellow runner Junior Bevil accidentally stumbles and falls, k…
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Adventure, Destiny, Melodrama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film, war film, white savior film
In 1863, 1st Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, serving with the Union army, is wounded in a stalemated battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee.
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
On Sunday, September 2, 1962, the last day of summer vacation, high school graduates Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander meet their friends, confident drag-racing king John Milner and unpopular but well-meaning Terry "The Toad" Fields, at Me…
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Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1978 New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging enforcer in the Bonanno crime family, meets Joseph D. Pistone, a young undercover FBI agent posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Donnie insists that a diamond that Lefty has acquired from str…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, mystery film, teen film
At Westerburg High School in Sherwood, Ohio, Veronica Sawyer is part of a popular-but-feared clique that includes three wealthy and beautiful girls with the same first name: Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, and the ruthless queen bee, Heath…
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, female buddy film, romantic comedy film
Annie Walker (Kristen Wiig) is a young, single woman living in Milwaukee. Following the Great Recession, her bakery went out of business. She now works a stressful, underpaid job at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with obnoxious ro…
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Action, Parodie, Political Satire, Political Thriller, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, romantic comedy film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Tasker, to the knowledge of his wife Helen and his daughter Dana, is a mild-mannered computer hardware salesman often away on business trips. In reality he works for Omega Sector, a top-secret U.S. counterterrorism agency.
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Classical Western, Western film, action film, drama film
A gang of bandits led by Calvera periodically raids a poor Mexican village for food and supplies. After the latest raid, during which Calvera kills a villager, the village leaders decide to consult the only man they believe has the wisdom …
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Adventure, Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film
While Harry Potter spends the summer with the Dursleys, a house-elf named Dobby warns Harry of an "impending danger" at Hogwarts. He attempts to prevent him returning to Hogwarts by sabotaging an important dinner with Vernon Dursley's clie…
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Drama, Historie, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
In 1929, Chiyo Sakamoto and her older sister Satsu are sold by their poor father and taken to Gion, Kyoto. Chiyo is taken in by Kayoko Nitta, or "Mother", a local owner; while Satsu, deemed unattractive, is sent to a brothel instead. Chiyo…
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Drama, Dramedy, Family Drama, drama film
August "Auggie" Pullman is a 10-year-old boy living in Brooklyn with his parents, Isabel and Nate, older sister Olivia "Via", and their dog, Daisy. Auggie was born with a rare medical facial deformity, mandibulofacial dysostosis. He has un…
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