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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Los Angeles, longtime friends Justin Miller, a struggling video game designer, and Ryan O'Malley, an unemployed former college quarterback, recall a pact they once made: if they had not achieved success by age thirty, they would move ba…
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Cynical NYPD Lieutenant John Moss pursues a serial killer known as the "Party Crasher" through a local nightclub, but fails to prevent the murder of a local drug dealer. During an interview with the press, Moss vents his frustration at the…
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Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author based in London, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is experiencing writer's block that is impeding her next book. Her publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film
Set in 1969, the film is based on the true story of Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake and Sonia, own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A h…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Historie, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, romantic comedy
John Worthing, a carefree and seemingly respectable young gentleman, has crafted a fictitious brother named "Ernest", whose scandalous and wicked behavior provides John with the perfect excuse to leave his peaceful country estate and trave…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, romantic comedy
Attorney Marianne "Muffie" Graves unexpectedly crosses paths with her hippie ex-fiancé Rick Jarmin while in Detroit for a business deal. Rick is hiding under an assumed identity as part of the Witness Protection Program and claims to be an…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Political Satire, comedy drama
Goddard Bolt is the callous CEO of Bolt Enterprises. Bolt shows little regard for other people's needs or for the environment. He has his eye on the slum of Los Angeles, with the intent of tearing it down.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Thriller, action film, comedy film, spy film
When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes awry, CIA agent Kevin Pope is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film
Paige Morgan is an ambitious pre-medical student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Denmark's Crown Prince Edvard prefers to live the life of a playboy, and often ignores or marginalizes his royal respo…
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Cartoon, action film, superhero film, thriller film
Bruce Wayne returns home to Gotham City from training abroad in martial arts, man-hunting, and science for the past 12 years, and James Gordon moves to Gotham with his pregnant wife, Barbara, after a transfer from Chicago. Both are swiftly…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Komödie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Puerto Rican con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas owes $50,000 to the Scottish mob, led by Angus, who is eager to exact revenge against Pest so that the Scottish mob will finally be feared. Pest, along with his friends Ninja and Chubby, perfo…
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Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film, erotic film
Due to an administrative error, two male college students — the shy and intellectual Eddy, and the All-American jock Stuart — end up with a female roommate. The university thought that Alex was a man (based on her name), and thus, the thre…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
The film is framed by Edie Sedgwick being interviewed in a hospital several years after her time as an Andy Warhol superstar. In the mid 1960s, Edie is a young heiress studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moves to New York City wi…
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Destiny, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In 1938, Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor of linguistics in Piatra Neamț, travels to Bucharest, where he met the love of his youth, Laura. Feeling that his fruitless search for the origin of human language has condemned him to a soli…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, comedy film, female buddy film
In 1948, wealthy businessman Hunt Shelton and his pregnant wife are lost in rural West Virginia when Mrs. Shelton goes into labor near the town of Jupiter Hollow. At the local hospital, they are turned away, because it is exclusively for e…
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Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Joan Webster is a 25-year-old, upper middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit, who always "knows where she's going". She leaves her home in Manchester for the isle of Kiloran in the Hebrides to marry industrialist Si…
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Komödie, romantic comedy film
Set at the end of 1880, the film depicts the invention of the vibrator. Dr. Mortimer Granville is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine.
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
Zed, a professional safe-cracker, comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. While in the taxi on his way to the hotel, the cab driver offers to procure a sex worker for him in the evening. As Zed emerges from the …
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Secret Agent, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, spy film
Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death …
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Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film
Timid Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant in Manhattan. Late one night, while working on an audit at a law firm, he is befriended by a charismatic lawyer, Wyatt Bose. Taking the subway home, Jonathan has a brief encounter with a blonde woma…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, comedy film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Smith, an 18-year-old film student who identifies sexually as "undeclared", has been having strange dreams recently. He is going to college with his best friend, Stella, whom he has known since junior high, and finds a note saying he is th…
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Family Drama, Historie, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to Ukraine to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust. He searches for a small town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map wh…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Sitcom, romantic comedy
The entire British royal family who are the house of Wyndham is electrocuted and killed in a freak accident outside Buckingham Palace while having a royal portrait taken following a rainstorm. Sir Cedric Willingham leads a search for any s…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, psychological thriller
"Danny Parker" is a Los Angeles speed freak (meth addict) who hangs out with junkie friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan and Al Garcetti. Danny is trying to set up a large me…
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