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Destiny, Justice Drama, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, drama film
In 1951 while McCarthyism goes unchecked, Peter Appleton is a Hollywood screenwriter. His agent Leo Kubelsky and his attorney Kevin Bannerman relay he was labeled a communist for attending a "Bread Instead of Bullets" antiwar club meeting …
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Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, comedy film, lesbian-related film, nunsploitation, religious film
In 1347 Garfagnana, Sister Fernanda returns to her convent with their donkey after missing Lauds. She curses out the friendly groundskeeper Lurco; Sister Ginevra, who shows sycophantic devotion to Fernanda, joins in. Sister Alessandra gets…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, coming-of-age film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1984 Southern California, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker, is actually Kurt Dussander—a former Nazi concentration camp commandant, who is now a fugitive war criminal. Todd, …
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Action, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster Buddy "Aces" Israel is in hiding at a Lake Tahoe hotel while his agent negotiates a potential immunity deal with FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. Special Agents Richard Messner and Donald Carruther…
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Crime, Mysterie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, romantic comedy film, thriller film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:04|Trailer for To Catch a Thief Police suspect retired jewel thief John "The Cat" Robie may be responsible for a string of burglaries on the French Riviera. When they arrive at his hilltop villa to quest…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who travels to Earth from a distant planet. Landing in New Mexico, he appears as an Englishman. Newton has arrived on Earth on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing …
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Komödie, Romantic Comedy
The story revolves 3 roommates, journalist Tashi Lhatoo, photographer Nitin Berry and cartoonist Arup Rather, leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shady apartment in Delhi. Tashi's ditzy fiancée, Sonia, is a flight attendant who ag…
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Crime, Gangster Film, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir
Two bookies are separately ambushed and murdered. In a bus terminal, a young man is approached by Goodkat, who tells the story of Max: two decades earlier, Max borrowed money from the Mob to bet on a fixed horse race after eavesdropping on…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, independent film, psychological horror fiction
Henry is a psychopathic drifter who indiscriminately murders scores of people – men, women, and children – as he travels throughout America. He migrates to Chicago, where he stops at a diner, eats dinner, and later murders several women an…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
A 22-year-old woman named Martha has been abused by a cult in the Catskill Mountains for two years. The patriarch, Patrick, named her Marcy May. She escapes into the woods, arriving at a nearby town.
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Drama, Fantasy
Millennium Approaches It is 1985, Ronald Reagan is in the White House, and AIDS is causing mass death in the Americas. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, that he has AIDS; Louis, unable to handle it, leaves hi…
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Action, Thriller, Yakuza Film, action film, buddy cop film, drama film, suspense film, thriller film
Nick Conklin is an NYPD detective who has come under fire from Internal Affairs, who believes he and his former partner stole money from evidence used in a drug bust. In addition, he is behind on his alimony payments. One day after an inte…
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal who specializes in "erasing" witnesses, is given a new assignment by his superior, Arthur Beller: Lee Cullen has alerted the FBI that Cyrez executives have financed the creation of an electromagnetic rifle, whic…
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Action, Swashbuckler, action film, superhero film, swashbuckler film
In 1850, California votes on whether to join the United States. Zorro, formerly Alejandro Murrieta, now known to the public as Don Alejandro De La Vega, foils a plot to steal the ballots. During the fight with a gunman named Jacob McGivens…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Marisa Ventura, a single mother raising her son Ty, works as a maid at the Beresford Hotel in Manhattan. When not in school, Ty spends time with Marisa's fellow hotel workers, who think she can be promoted to management. While Marisa and h…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film
In Denver, a man named Sandy Patterson is tricked into buying phony identity theft protection from con artist Diana over the phone and he reveals all of his personal information. At work, after clashing with his boss Harold Cornish, Sandy …
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Scientific Documentary, Space Opera, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, sword and sorcery film
The entity known as the Beast and his army of Slayers travel the galaxy in a mountain-like spaceship called the Black Fortress, intent on enslaving the planet Krull, as he has done to many other worlds. Ynyr recites the prophecy that was g…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
Following the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s, artificial cloning of animals has become commonplace by 2015. Human cloning is prohibited by "Sixth Day" laws, following a botched attempt. Charter pilot Adam Gibson is hire…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Mafia boss Giovanni Manzoni, who offended rival mafia boss Don Luchese, survives an attempted hit on him and his family at a barbecue. He snitches on Luchese, which sends him to prison. Manzoni and his family, including his wife Maggie, so…
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Drama, Family Drama, Thriller, drama film
Annie Cameron is gifted a laptop by her parents, Will and Lynn, for her fourteenth birthday. She soon meets a boy online named Charlie, who initially claims to be 16 years old, but later confesses that he is actually 20, and eventually 25.…
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Crime, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Margaret "Marnie" Edgar, posing under the identity Marion Holland, flees with nearly $10,000 that she stole from the company safe of her employer, Sidney Strutt. Strutt is the head of a tax consulting company, where Marnie had worked after…
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Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, martial arts film, science fiction film, thriller film
Gabriel Yulaw, once an agent of the MultiVerse Authority (MVA) which polices interdimensional travel, seeks to hunt down 124 variants of himself across parallel universes. By killing his other selves and absorbing their life energies, Yula…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Gangster Film, Police Film, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, heist film
Jewel thief Miles Logan and his crew—best friend Eddie, getaway driver Tulley, and new recruit Deacon—steal a $17 million diamond during a heist in Los Angeles. During the escape, Deacon betrays the crew, killing Eddie and trying to take t…
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Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Part 1 Merlin, an elderly man telling his life story, describes a Britain faced with invasions and tyrant kings increasingly cruel to the people. King Constant, the first Christian King of England, is executed by Vortigern, who immediately…
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