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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Alike ("Lee") is a 17-year-old Black girl who hangs out at clubs with her openly lesbian friend Laura. Alike slowly and firmly comes to terms with her own identity as a butch lesbian, comfortable in baggy clothes and male underwear. Her Ch…
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Komödie, comedy film
Introverted geek Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially strapped Monroe College in Chicago. Smooth Walker, a pimp, owes $80,000 to "Mom", a gruff Chicago mob boss. Attempting to weasel out of his debt…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
Rahul Seth, a wealthy young Indian-Canadian, is pressured by his widowed mother to marry a “proper” Indian girl before his pregnant sister Twinky can wed her fiancé Bobby. Still grieving the accidental death of his white pop-singer girlfri…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Victor has infiltrated a criminal empire run by ruthless kingpin Alphonse Hoyt. His objective is to make Alphonse pay for the murder of his wife and young daughter two years earlier. Victor intends to exact revenge on Alphonse through phys…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film, romance film
Molly Morris, a Dallas based private investigator, mostly takes photos of cheating men. FBI Agent Armon Ranford interferes with one of her investigations to offer her a job with the Bureau. The task is to watch over Alex Patrone, the daugh…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Walter Weed, an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI, is informed of an assassination threat against him from a mysterious figure called Hal Leuco. Weed will be assassinated on April 19 at precisely 3:00 am. Several assassins have taken the c…
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Documentation, Event Documentary, documentary film
Thomas Montgomery (screen name: marinesniper), a 47-year-old married man in Clarence, New York, pleaded guilty to murdering his 22-year-old co-worker Brian Barrett (screen name: beefcake). The two men were involved in a love triangle with …
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Action, Martial-Arts, Wǔxiá, action film
A narration tells of a legendary Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhi who found the art of Kung Fu and the belief that his mummified remains has mystical powers. The Dark Stone gang, having found that half of the remains are in the Prime Minister Z…
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Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Adrienne Saunders is happily married to art dealer Jack. They have a daughter named Mary. After the local museum curator is mysteriously murdered, Jack falls under suspicion of selling forged treasures to the museum.
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Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, science fiction film
One year after bonding with the Guyver unit and destroying the Cronos Corporation, the company responsible for the Guyver and the creatures called the Zoanoids, in Los Angeles, Sean Barker has been using his powers to fight crime. Unfortun…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film shows the high level of personal expression that typically goes into independent games, through the story of three games: Braid was released in 2008, Super Meat Boy was preparing for its 2011 release (which would actually occur in…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Architects Oscar Novak and Peter Steinberg have just landed a career-making opportunity to design a multimillion-dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman. In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in …
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Drama, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, fantasy film
The narrative is called "a surreal period comedic tale of canine reincarnation exploring the relationships between father and son and master and dog". Peter O'Toole said that the film's use of comedy to explore the relationship between a f…
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
In 1971, publishing executives at McGraw-Hill express an interest in Clifford Irving's novel, Rudnick's Problem. Fake!, his previous book about art forger Elmyr de Hory, had sold poorly. Irving believes he has a breakout work, but the publ…
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Drama, Historie
The film opens in 1361 with the infant Princess Margrete of Denmark witnessing the bloodshed of her father King Valdemar IV's victory at the Battle of Visby. 41 years later in 1402, Margrete, now queen regnant, rides across Norway's Hardan…
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Drama, Romance Film, musical film, romance film
Since getting divorced, having just completed her memoirs, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (previously Baroness Dudevant, successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels) has been living in Paris under the pseudonym Geo…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
In 1965, 10-year-old Sandra Laing lives with her parents, Abraham and Sannie, who are Afrikaners. They are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra's mixed-race appearance, they lovingly brought her up as t…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero
Luthor, the Atom Man, invents several deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kr…
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Komödie, romantic comedy film
The story takes place on 14 February 1895. It is about two gentlemen pretending to be people other than themselves. Interwoven in their storylines are two romance-stricken ladies, each possessing an unusual allegiance to the manliness of t…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film
In the future, war, climate and political agendas have robbed America of its resources. An agency called "the Humanity Bureau" ensures citizens are efficient. Inefficient citizens are deported to a city called New Eden.
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Crime, Thriller, art film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with Detective Fisher, a European expatriate in Cairo, undergoing hypnosis to process his most recent case, with the remainder of the film narrated by him in a dreamlike state. Expressionistic and surreal, the Europe of Fish…
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Christmas film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Investment banker Laurel Ayres is a smart and single woman trying to make it up the Wall Street corporate ladder, until one day she finds out that she is being passed over for a promotion because of her gender. Unable to face the fact that…
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Detective Film, comedy film, crime comedy film, mystery film
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, and with the aid of her close frien…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film
In 1974, Carlos the Jackal has sex and kills a spider with his cigarette then evicts the woman from his room. He dons a disguise and walks to a cafe where CIA agent Henry Fields is sitting at a table. Recognizing Fields, Carlos asks for a …
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