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LGBTQ-related film, Silly Movie, comedy film, queer film
Dallas Adair is an American consultant brought to Australia to advise on a new golf course project. On the plane from L.A. she meets Charlie Sommers, the 18-year-old son of one of her bosses when there's a near crash landing, after which D…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Silly Movie, comedy film
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong play versions of themselves being invited to Amsterdam for a film festival devoted to Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. After initially assuming that Cheech was Reynolds, the promoter soon finds out that neither …
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Dramedy, Psychodrama, Road Movie, comedy drama, comedy film
Former pro golfer Wallace Avery is struggling with depression and a life from which he longs to escape. Trapped in an unfulfilling FedEx floor manager job in Florida, he finds little comfort in his failed first marriage or his current rela…
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LGBTQ-related film, Political Satire, Sex Film, comedy film, sex film
The core plot begins with the kidnapping of Patrick (Andreas Stitch), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Sexual and romantic entanglements push the drama forward. At the film's climax, Gudrun delivers a soliloquy on the importance of pers…
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film
American writer Tom Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife. The divorce was prompted by Tom's mental illness, from which he has apparently recovered. After his possessions and money are stolen…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
Donald Morton (Josh Hartnett) is a taxi driver with Asperger syndrome and drives two Japanese passengers and his pet cockatiel around Spokane, Washington. Distracted, he bumps into the back of a florist's van, damaging his stock. Unfazed, …
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Drama, Horror, Vampirfilm, Western, Western film, crossover fiction, horror film, vampire film
The film centers on Dracula's plot to convert Billy the Kid's fiancé, Betty Bentley, into his vampire bride. Dracula impersonates Betty's deceased uncle, calling himself "Mr. Underhill", and schemes to make her his vampire bride.
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Action, Silly Movie, action film, comedy film
Mild-mannered Portuguese Brazilian billionaire cousins Bastiano and Antonio Coimbra de la Coronilla y Azevedo are in fear for their lives after several assassination attempts. Therefore, they have an agency find two look-alikes, stuntman E…
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Knights Tale, adventure film, medieval film
The blacksmith and swordsmith John is tutored at the court of King Arthur, but as a commoner he cannot hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonil. The earl's castle is attacked by Saracens and Cornishmen — disguised…
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Drama, drama film
An eccentric drifter claiming to be Elvis Presley hitches a ride with a young man and they find themselves on an adventurous road trip to Memphis.
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Thriller, thriller film
Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) works as a loan officer in Del Rio, Texas, and is remarried to Amaya Bishop (Paz Vega), living with her and his daughter Toby Bishop (Chloë Grace Moretz) from his first marriage. Toby is kidnapped by an unknown pe…
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Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, erotic thriller
Frank (Simm), a librarian in the United Kingdom, falls in love with a mysterious American dancer named Miranda (Ricci). Frank appears naive, but his character is as complex as Miranda's. Graphic scenes of sex and seduction illustrate Frank…
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Slasher Horror, horror film
The only survivor of a weekend getaway is interrogated by a police detective, who believes she is responsible for the murders of six friends. The events of the weekend are told through flashbacks. College friends Kyle, Tyler, Ashley, Jenna…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the late 19th century American West, a gang of bank robbers, including Graham Dorsey (Charles Bronson), is off to rob a small-town bank, but Graham is having second thoughts: he's had a nightmare in which the gang was wiped out during t…
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Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film
Dolph wakes up early in the morning in his suburban home to find that his dog is missing. Later on, in denial after losing his job, he recurrently returns to his place of employment and pretends to work while experiencing surrealistic chan…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Just released from prison, John Müller masterminds a holdup at an illegal casino run by Rocky Stansyck. The robbery goes bad, and the mobsters capture some of Müller's men and force them to identify the rest before killing them. Stansyck h…
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Documentation, documentary film
Destiny, Family Saga, drama film
High school French teacher Sabine reads to her class as a translation exercise a French newspaper report of a terrorist who planted a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. If the bomb had detonated, it would have killed h…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Che Rivera is a former convict living in the Mission District of San Francisco. A recovering alcoholic and bus driver by day, Che is respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and toughness. His hobby of building beautiful…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
thumb|left|Mae West and W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee In the American Old West of the 1880s, Miss Flower Belle Lee (Mae West), a singer from Chicago, is on her way to visit relatives.
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
In the small Australian town of Yackandandah, Vince owns the local cinema and several other businesses, and is having trouble paying his taxes because his ex-wife got everything. The news of a new tax benefit for homosexual couples gives V…
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Action, action film
The global war on terror rages on. The United States will not give an inch against terrorists, especially Mohamed Jamar, who is considered to be the worst of them all. Jamar has been missing for months, but his network continues its functi…
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Coming Of Age, Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Beautiful Boxer is a film about the life story of Thai boxer Nong Toom, who realizes early on that he is in the wrong body. He becomes one of the best Thai boxers in the country and uses the prize money to finance a sex change operation. A…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
Alberta leaves her small hometown to move to the city, and she moves in with her former babysitter, Celene, who wears thigh high boots and is now a professional dominatrix. Out of money, Alberta decides to impersonate her roommate's identi…
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