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Komödie, action film, comedy film
Daryl Chase is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York City firm. On his way to work he notices a man named Freddy Tiffany in a brawl against a thief with a knife. Freddy, able to defend himse…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film
Three wealthy, savvy high school seniors have everything: brains, beauty, money, popularity, powerful parents, and boyfriends. Stream Hodsell is a smart, down-to-earth strawberry blonde. Sassy Jenny Simon masks her intelligence behind a gu…
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Animation, Super Hero, superhero film
Brainiac crash lands back on Earth and hijacks Lex Labs to collect Earth's data and amass the power of its weapons systems. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are sent to one of Lex Luthor's laboratories after Brainiac arrives on Earth on a meteor,…
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
Jack Kerouac, coming off the recent success of On the Road, is unable to cope with a suddenly demanding public and his rise in popularity, and begins battling with advanced alcoholism as a result. He seeks respite first in solitude in the …
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Horror, Komödie, comedy horror
Jennifer, a photographer, has seven clitorises and can only be satisfied by very intense sex which results in the death of her partners. When she orgasms she gives birth to mutated creatures that she abandons. Jennifer's co-worker offers t…
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Drama, drama film
Teacher John Standing, who has just lost his job, meets his doppelgänger Johnny Spence, a failed businessman, in a hotel. Standing is encouraged by Spence to get drunk and the next morning wakes without his clothes and wallet and with Spen…
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Drama, Family Drama, drama film
Edward is in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. He recently quit his job in the city to travel to Africa, where he will perform volunteer work to promote safe sex and combat the spread of AIDS. To see him off, his mother Patricia and sis…
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Thriller, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Jess is a sweet-natured but driven lawyer who puts her career ahead of her personal life and marriage to her artist husband, Ryan. The couple is on the verge of their first wedding anniversary and, though they are happy, the thorn in the s…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Criminal Comedy Film, Raunchy comedy, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film
Mario Beretti is a young Italian-American barber who runs a barber shop in New York City located near a construction site that boasts few customers. His life reaches a turning point when he is notified of the death of his aunt in Lavenham,…
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Biographical picture
Hippie Hippie Shake follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier, as Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of the radical magazine, and are put on trial for publishing an obscene issue. The film serves…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, superhero film
Steve Nichols is a struggling New York City actor who accepts the job of posing as comic-book hero for the needs of a film's promotion. After he stops a robbery while wearing the "Captain Avenger" costume, his life becomes unexpectedly com…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, superhero film
Dr. Park, a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington, a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney, a corrupt detective that Arthur bel…
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Komödie, comedy film
In Beverly Hills, California, psychiatrist and radio host Dr. George Maitlin has a nervous breakdown after having an affair with his patient. George takes a sabbatical in London to recover, instructing his lawyer, Harvey Michaels, to tempo…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Silly Movie, Sitcom, Splatstick
Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is one of the most beloved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of young David, and he boards a plane for his native France after more …
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Classical Western, Western, Western film
Jim Killian arrives at the town of Vinegaroon, which is divided between cattlemen and sheepherders, and purchases a vacant barn. Cattle rancher Asa Beck, his son Coke, and his cowhands constantly harass the sheepherders, sometimes with let…
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Action, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Road Movie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Huey Walker is a hippie and a former New Left radical (in the vein of Abbie Hoffman) who has been on the run from the law for 20 years for something he did not do: disconnecting Spiro Agnew's train car in Spokane, Washington. John Buckner …
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 2010, with 65-year-old Howard Marks going onto a stage in front of a packed theatre to great applause. Marks asks if there are any plainclothes policemen in the audience, to which the reply is negative. Then, while light…
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Action, Zombiefilm, action film
A woman films happy moments of her daughter and husband's lives. After a montage, the same woman, in a cramped room, attempts to call her daughter Megan, who does not pick up. Her badge reads Dr.
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Drama
François van Heerden (Deon Lotz), is a white man in his late forties who lives in Bloemfontein in South Africa. Married with two grown daughters, he runs his own timber business and leads a seemingly comfortable life. He is also openly rac…
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Mysterie, ghost film, supernatural horror film
One night at the Edelvine Academy for Girls, a clique of girls led by ruthless popular girl Alice, play a prank on their classmate Kerrie by faking a haunting by the Edelvine Ghost, an urban legend involving a student who killed herself. U…
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Animation
Niko, a young reindeer, is told by Oona, his mother, that his father is one of the "Flying Forces", Santa's flying reindeer. For years, Niko has dreamed of joining his father in the Flying Forces, but he himself is unable to fly and has a …
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Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Preacher David Martin finds a man unconscious at the side of the road in West Texas. David is traveling to the small town of Bevel to be the new preacher. When they reach a quarry nearby, the man kills David and heads to Bevel.
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film
John Barratt, a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, is on holiday in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué. They become acquainted.
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
A futuristic resort, Vice, offers visitors the opportunity to live out all their fantasies, no matter how violent or deviant, on sophisticated androids (referred to as "artificials"). Every day, the androids' memories are reset, and any da…
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