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Thriller, horror film, thriller film
A woman is seen in her luxury house, distraught by unseen notifications on her phone, before slitting her own throat. In Southern France, CW —having escaped from Thailand and started a new life— and her girlfriend, Diane, are celebrating t…
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Thriller, thriller film
Madison is an influencer who has been using her vacation in Thailand as a way to promote herself and several advertisers online. The reality is that Madison spends most of her time in her hotel drinking and getting new products and upset t…
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Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, tragicomedy
Mavis Gary is a 37-year-old divorced, alcoholic ghost writer of a series of young adult novels, on deadline with her editor to finish the last book of the soon-to-be-canceled series. Mavis receives an e-mail with a picture of the newborn d…
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Biographical picture, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1959, the Clutter family murders take place on their Kansas farm. After reading The New York Times, riveted by the story, Truman Capote calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy…
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Adventure, Komödie, action comedy film, buddy film, comedy thriller
Chuck Clarke and Lyle Rogers are inept songwriters who are down on their luck, but dream of becoming a popular singing duo like Simon and Garfunkel. Though they are poorly received at a local open mic night, agent Marty Freed offers to boo…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
Nathan Harper is an 18-year-old high school senior living in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his parents Kevin and Mara. He is troubled by recurring nightmares and has been seeing Dr. Geraldine "Geri" Bennett, a psychiatrist,…
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Action, Action Comedy, Komödie, action comedy film, buddy film, crime comedy film, road movie
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is enlisted by bail bondsman Eddie Moscone to find accountant Jonathan Mardukas and bring him to Los Angeles. Mardukas embezzled $15 million from Chicago mob boss Jimmy Serrano and donated it to charity before jump…
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Action, action film, drama film, thriller film
Inside a heavily guarded facility, a group of young boys are given tattoos of bar codes on the backs of their shaved heads and are then trained in weapons, demolitions, unarmed combat, stamina, and strength to become professionally trained…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, girls with guns, survival film, thriller film
Hanna Heller is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, Erik, in rural northern Finland. Since the age of two, Hanna has been trained by him, an ex-CIA operative from Germany, to be a skilled assassin. He teaches her hand-to-han…
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Coming Of Age, drama film, teen film
The title character Ken Park (nicknamed "Krap Nek": his name spelled and pronounced backward), is a teenager skateboarding across Visalia, California. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots hi…
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, parody film, superhero film, teen film
Four years after the deaths of Damon Macready and Frank D'Amico, Dave Lizewski, bored after having retired from fighting crime as Kick-Ass, begins training with Mindy Macready to become a real hero. Dave's girlfriend Katie Deauxma breaks o…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Super Hero, crime film, drama film
In 1983, teenagers Martin Asher and Matt Soulsby meet on a bus to Mont-Laurier, Quebec. The bus breaks down, and the two acquire a car, which soon blows a tire. As Matt changes the tire, Martin comments that they are about the same height …
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Family Comedy, children's film, comedy of remarriage, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film
Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at a girls summer camp. Their identical appearance causes jealousy, resentment, and a rivalry in which they continually get each other into trouble and disrupt camp activities. As punishment…
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Coming Of Age, Dark Comedy, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama
A reckless, on-the-lam punk rock singer, Simon, goes home with Beth, a girl he met while volunteering at a clinical trial. He and Beth's mother begin to flirt, and after getting caught, Simon lights the family's front yard on fire. Meanwhi…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, romantic comedy
Steven Jay Russell is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex with his wife, D…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for portraying republican sympathies. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Specia…
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Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
After catching his wife Amy having an affair with their friend Ted, mystery writer Mort Rainey retreats to his cabin in upstate New York. Six months later, Mort, depressed and suffering from writer's block, has delayed finalizing the divor…
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
When James Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, dies, his estranged son Britt takes over the newspaper and fires most of his father's personal staff. Britt later rehires Kato, a mechanic skilled in martial arts and coffee brewing, as his…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
It has been twenty years since Michael Myers escaped from Smith's Grove and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield to kill his long-lost sister, Laurie Strode. After an explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital caused by Dr. Sam Loomis, …
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Girls with Guns, Komödie, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, comedy film, female buddy film, martial arts film
Three years after the events of the first film, after rescuing U.S. Marshal Ray Carter in Mongolia, the Angels (Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders, and Alex Munday) and Jimmy Bosley (John Bosley's adoptive brother) are sent to recover titanium ri…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film
Jason Shepherd is a 14-year-old compulsive liar living in the town of Greenbury, Michigan, who tries to lie his way out of failing to write a creative writing assignment. He gets caught by his English teacher, Ms. Caldwell, and is given th…
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Komödie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, fantasy film
When Batman and Robin get a tip that Commodore Schmidlapp, owner of the Big Ben Distillery, is in danger aboard his yacht, they launch a rescue mission using the Batcopter. As Batman descends on the bat-ladder to land on the yacht, it sudd…
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Crime, Silly Movie, comedy film
In Chicago, Calvin "Babyface" Simms is a dwarfish convicted jewel thief who gets released from prison and meets up with his dim-witted cohort Percy. Percy tells Calvin of a job involving stealing a valuable diamond, ordered by a mobster na…
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Family Comedy, High School Comedy Film, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Miley Stewart and her best friend Lilly Truscott arrive at a concert and race through the backdoor just in time for Miley to perform as her secret alter ego: pop superstar singer Hannah Montana. After filming a music video for her song "Th…
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