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Drama, Komödie, drama film, independent film, romance film
Johnny is a successful banker who lives in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée Lisa, who has become disenchanted with their relationship. She seduces Johnny’s best friend, Mark, and the two begin a secret affair. After Johnny fails …
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Psychodrama, Thriller, War Film, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, war film
During the second year of the Iraq War, a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team with Bravo Company identifies and attempts to destroy an improvised explosive device (IED) with a robot, but the wagon carrying the trigger charge breaks.…
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Marital Tragedy, Romance Film, Satire, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, crime film, drama film, independent film, romance film
Sarah Pierce lives with her husband Richard and daughter Lucy in suburban Boston. Their unhappy marriage falls apart when she discovers his addiction to Internet pornography. One day she meets Brad Adamson, a married law school graduate wh…
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Crime, Komödie, Political Drama, Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film, independent film
Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his sister Jade. He has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a pizzeria owned by Italian-American Salvatore "Sal"…
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Gothic film, Zombiefilm, drama film, exploitation film, gothic horror film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
thumb|thumbtime=44|Night of the Living Dead (1968) Siblings Barbra and Johnny Blair drive to a cemetery in rural Pennsylvania to visit their father's grave, where a pale man in a tattered suit kills Johnny and attacks Barbra. Fleeing to a …
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Mysterie, Psychodrama, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Prologue A crackling vinyl record announces that "Axxon N., the longest-running radio play in history", is turning to "a gray winter day in an old hotel". In a hotel room, the Lost Girl—a young Polish prostitute—has an unpleasant encounter…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, heist film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In 1974, a child named Benjamin Franklin Gates is told by his grandfather about a fabled treasure hidden in America. The treasure, passed down from ancient times to the Knights Templar, Founding Fathers, and Freemasons, has long been the o…
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Biographical picture, Historie, Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, historical drama
While heading to afternoon prayers in New Delhi on January 30, 1948, Gandhi is fatally shot. On 7 June 1893, in the Colony of Natal, young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi is forcibly expelled from a whites-only train carriage in Pietermaritzburg de…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, independent film, neo-noir, thriller film
Drug lord Frank White strives to control New York City's criminal underground. Shortly after his release from Sing Sing Penitentiary, White and his crew, led by his trigger-happy right-hand man Jimmy Jump, consolidate power by eliminating …
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LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, teen film, thriller film
On April 20, 1999, an ordinary day at a high school in Portland, Oregon, is shown through the perspective of several students. Among them are John, who has a strained relationship with his alcoholic father; Elias, a photography student who…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, Romantic Drama, buddy film, drama film, independent film, road movie
Mike, a street hustler, stands alone on a deserted stretch of highway. He starts talking to himself and notices that the road looks "like someone's face, like a fucked-up face". He then experiences a narcoleptic episode and dreams of his m…
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Adventure, Drama, biographical film, docudrama, drama film, independent film, survival film
On April 26, 2003, avid mountaineer Aron Ralston goes hiking at Utah's Canyonlands National Park without telling anyone. He befriends lost hikers Kristi and Megan and gives them directions. While guiding them, he shows them an underground …
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Animation, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror comedy, children's film, comedy horror, detective film, family film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, thriller film
On the day before Halloween, young Dustin James "D.J." Walters spies on his elderly neighbor, Horace Nebbercracker, who is known for frightening children off his property and confiscating their belongings. D.J.'s parents leave town for a c…
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, independent film, rape and revenge film, teen film
In 1993, South Florida high school dropouts Ali Willis and Lisa Connelly befriend local deli employees Bobby Kent and Marty Puccio, going out on a double date. Later that evening, in Bobby's parked car, Ali performs oral sex on Bobby, whil…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
"The following is based on a true story. It began October 6, 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey." On vacation in Istanbul, American college student Billy Hayes straps of hashish bricks to his chest. As he and his girlfriend Susan are about to board …
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Political Satire, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, independent film, political drama, political thriller film, science fiction film
In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. He resides in London, the capital city of the territory of Airstrip One, former…
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LGBTQ-related film, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, anthology film, chase film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film, zombie film
Anarchic Comedy Film, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, farce, independent film, parody film, romantic comedy, satirical film
The film shows the last day of the 1981 summer camp Camp Firewood, located near Waterville, Maine, concentrating on the experiences of the camp counselors, most of whom are around 16. The interleaved story threads meet in the evening at th…
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Action, Drama, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, thriller film, zombie film
The United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies. At the dawn of the crisis, it has been reported that millions of people have died and reanimated. Despite the go…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romantic comedy
In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed "Dolly", banishes her unfaithful husband, Prince Stephan "Stiva" Oblonsky. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei K…
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Torture Porn, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
Mari Collingwood plans to attend a concert with her friend Phyllis Stone for her 17th birthday. Mari's parents, Estelle and John, express concern about her friendship with Phyllis, but they let her go and give her a peace symbol necklace. …
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Dramedy, crime film, drama film, independent film, road movie, romantic comedy film
Having just served five years in the Gowanda Correctional Facility, Billy Brown returns home to Buffalo, New York, and is preparing to meet with his parents, who do not know he has been in prison. He kidnaps Layla, a tap dancer, and forces…
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Action, action film, action thriller, drama film, independent film, splatter film, war film
During the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads his Burmese Army forces in a campaign of fear. His soldiers pillage settlements, sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teena…
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