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Adventure, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, sword and sorcery film
Urland, a sub-Roman British kingdom near the River Ur, is besieged by the dragon Vermithrax Pejorative. To appease the dragon, King Casiodorus offers it virgin girls selected every equinox by lottery. A delegation led by a young Urlander n…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film
Arthur Hamilton is a middle-aged banking executive in Scarsdale, New York, who, despite his professional success, remains profoundly unfulfilled. His love for his wife, Emily, has dwindled, and he seldom sees his only daughter, who has rel…
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Computeranimation, Sitcom, comedy film, family film
Three years after being adopted by the Littles and defeating Smokey, Stuart Little has settled into family life with his parents, older brother George, and baby sister Martha, who has yet to say her first words. Stuart is becoming tired of…
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Sport, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
After their victory at the Junior Goodwill Games, the youth ice hockey team known as the Mighty Ducks are awarded junior varsity hockey scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a prestigious prep school in the Minneapolis area that Coach Bombay …
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Action, Christmas film, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
In a prison near Iron Mountain, Michigan, cellmates Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are two days from release. Nick has been exchanging letters with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, although they have never met. He plans to meet Ashley afte…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Romance Film, Sexploitation Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller, thriller film
Forty-something New York psychologist Dr. Bill Capa falls into a deep depression after his unstable patient Michelle commits suicide before his eyes by jumping from his office window. The sight of the body clad in a bright green dress lyin…
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Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
Widowed single father Jim Grant is a former Weather Underground militant wanted for a 1980 Michigan bank robbery and murder of a security guard. Hiding from the FBI for over thirty years, he works as a defense attorney near Albany, New Yor…
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Drama, Erotic Film, drama film, erotic film
Jay is a bartender who abandoned his family because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship. Now living alone in a decrepit house in London, he has intense sex every Wednesday with a woman whose name he does not know. At first…
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Komödie, comedy film
Bucky Larson, a small-town man-child with big buck teeth, works at a local grocery store, and still lives at home. One night while watching porn with his friends, he stumbles upon a family secret: his quiet and reserved parents were famous…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romantic Comedy, family film, romantic comedy film
Grace Bennett is a NYU-bound, Texas high-school student who works as a waitress in a restaurant with her high school dropout, best friend Emma Perkins, to earn money for a post-graduation trip to Paris, France. Grace's stepfather pays for …
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Biographical picture, Documentation, biographical film, crime film, documentary film
Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, mystery film, techno-thriller, thriller film
United States Under Secretary of Defense Michael Bergstrom commits suicide after being informed that he has tested positive for HIV. The relationships of freelance Venice, Los Angeles systems analyst Angela Bennett are almost completely on…
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Coming Out, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, transgender film
One week before her vaginoplasty, a trans woman named Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne receives an unexpected phone call from a young man named Toby Wilkins, a 17-year-old jailed in New York City. He asks to speak to "Stanley Schupak" (Bree's deadn…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, action comedy film
Teddy Jackson is a struggling fitness entrepreneur in Yorktown, Virginia who is fired from his job at a local gym for giving ad brochures without the gym's address. He decides not to tell his wife Lori and takes her to Onancock for her bir…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, Tragic Comedy Film, romantic comedy
Charlie "C.D." Bales is the intelligent, witty, charismatic, and athletic fire chief of the small town of Nelson, where he is well-liked by the town residents. Nevertheless, he is sensitive about his abnormally large nose, which most of th…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, thriller film
A woman named Jen Kornfeldt travels to Nice, France, with her parents after a break-up. She meets a man named Spencer Aimes and agrees to join him later for drinks. He sneaks aboard a boat, planting a bomb on a helicopter, then arrives for…
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Secret Agent, War Film, action film, spy film, thriller film
thumb|left|MiG-31 Firefox, the film's fictional aircraft A joint British–American plan is devised to steal the MiG-31 "Firefox", a highly advanced Soviet fighter jet. Capable of Mach 6 hypersonic flight, the Firefox is invisible to radar a…
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film
The story is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) in which French forces fought the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love…
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Drama
Emma (Tilda Swinton), the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family, lives in a carefully ordered world where her duty towards husband and children dominates. But a chance encounter ignites long repressed passions and sets her on a journey of…
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Horror, Mysterie
Trelkovsky, a quiet and unassuming man, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, Egyptologist Simone Choule, attempted suicide by throwing herself out of the window and through a pane of glass below. Before moving in officially, …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Girls with Guns, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, martial arts film, thriller film
In Washington, D.C., Maggie Hayward is a drug addict convicted of murdering a police officer during a robbery shootout, and is about to be executed by lethal injection. Her death is faked and a government agent, "Bob", informs her that she…
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Fake psychic Blanche Tyler and her boyfriend, George Lumley, attempt to locate the nephew of wealthy, guilt-ridden, elderly Julia Rainbird. Julia's deceased sister gave the baby boy up for adoption, but Julia now wants to make him her heir…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Super Hero, fantasy film, romantic comedy
After foiling a purse snatcher who steals Jenny Johnson's purse on the subway, Matthew Saunders becomes her "hero" and starts dating her. After several dates, Jenny displays increasingly neurotic and aggressive behavior, becoming more dema…
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Marital Tragedy, comedy film, drama film
Walter Black is a depressed CEO of Jerry Co., a toy company nearing bankruptcy. He is kicked out by his wife, to the relief of their elder son Porter. Walter moves into a hotel.
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