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Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
At a Manhattan teaching hospital, the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine, is in disarray: he has left his wife, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart. The hospital is dealing with the …
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
The story centres on an anguished English-born Pittsburgh high school teacher Tom Crick and his life in 1974, going through a reassessment of his life. Crick finds out that his wife, Mary, is starting to lose her sanity and longing for a s…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In a Roman Catholic convent in Montreal, Quebec, the nuns are awakened by screams coming from the room of Sister Agnes, a young novice. Agnes is found in her room bleeding profusely, and in a basket, Mother Superior Miriam finds a dead inf…
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Mysterie, Slasher Horror, drama film, horror film, neo-noir
Mia Baran is a devout Catholic schoolteacher at a boys' school outside Pittsburgh where her husband, Guy, is schoolmaster. Guy is abusive to the weak Mia, a former nun who suffers from cardiomyopathy; his mistress, Nicole Horner, a fellow …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film
American heiress Kit Preston and her British business owner husband Tony live in a wealthy neighborhood of London next to a building undergoing major renovation. Returning home in a dense fog through Grosvenor Square, Kit is startled by a …
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Dark Comedy, Thriller, mystery film, political thriller film
Nick Kegan, half-brother to assassinated U.S. President Timothy Kegan, is pulled into an elaborate conspiracy 19 years after the event. Arthur Fletcher, a mysterious man, arrives on Nick's father Pa's oil tanker to reveal that he and anoth…
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Adventure, action film, crime film, mystery film, spy film
Eleven-year-old Davey Osborne lives in San Antonio, Texas. His father, Hal, is a military air traffic controller who has problems relating to Davey, especially in the wake of the death of Davey's mother/Hal's wife. Davey befriends Kim Gard…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Driving at night with his lights off on a rural road to show off the dancing fireflies in the dark, high school hockey star Chris Pratt crashes into a combine. Two of his friends are killed, while he and his girlfriend Kelly survive. The c…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Erotic Film, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film
Sharon, a young Los Angeles woman, engages in a swinging, libidinous lifestyle. She comes into contact with an unnamed Christian sect that advises her that the Rapture is imminent based on their interpretations of strange dreams experience…
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Political Thriller, Secret Agent, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film
Robert Scott is a former United States Marine Corps Force Recon master gunnery sergeant, acting as a selection cadre member for Delta Force. While observing an exercise designed to evaluate Delta candidates, Scott meets a recruit, Curtis, …
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Ryjkin is a man trying to escape from the Cube. He is sprayed with a liquid that he fears is acid only to find it sweet tasting. He discovers to his horror it is a base that melts his body after a few minutes.
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Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, neo-noir
In 1954 Scotland, shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a coal barge which operates from Glasgow, on the River Clyde, along the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals to Edinburgh. He shares the cramped on-board living quarters with its ow…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr. Guy Luthan is a New York emergency room doctor who one night comes across a strange patient: a homeless man who has a wristband from a hospital he is not familiar with, mentioning a drug he has never heard of, and with strange symptoms…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
On the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day, a group of college friends, consisting of Harvey Edison, Nikki Brashares, Rob Ferris, Skip St. John, Nan Youngblood, Chaz Vyshinski, Kit Graham, and Arch Cummings, gather to celebrate spring b…
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, musical film, mystery film
Detective novelist Dan Dark is hospitalized due to the skin disease psoriasis and crippling psoriatic arthritis. Around doctors and nurses, he occasionally hallucinates them in choreographed musical numbers. They attempt to help Dark but a…
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Political Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
In a restroom in the White House, a janitor finds secretary Carla Town dead. Metropolitan Police homicide detective Harlan Regis, whose apartment block is awaiting demolition in favor of a parking lot, is put on the case. At the White Hous…
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Thriller, mystery film
Ali, a Turkish university professor, is enraged by the suspicious circumstances of his ailing mother's death. During his grieving process, Ali reveals his resentment for his estranged father and befriends a gardener named Reza whom he enli…
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Horror, Romance Film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film
In 1937, during a holiday to the coast of Cornwall, London music critic and composer Roderick "Rick" Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela fall in love with Windward House, an abandoned seaside home, and buy it from Commander Beech at the unusu…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller
Julia lives in a small town in Washington called Cold Rock. She is the town's local nurse, widowed by her husband, who was the town's doctor. Cold Rock was formerly a prosperous mining town, but has become poverty-stricken.
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Dark Comedy, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Michael Williams is a drifter from Odessa, Texas living out of his car after being discharged from the Marine Corps. After a drilling crew job on a Wyoming oilfield falls through due to his unwillingness to conceal a war injury on his job …
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
In 1985, when a select group of special agents of the FBI's Behavior Science Unit pass on death row inmate Ted Bundy as a case study, newcomer Bill Hagmaier accepts the challenge while knowing Bundy's distrust of the FBI. Through shared le…
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Adventure, Thriller, action film, crime film
An alcoholic Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, Matt Scudder, takes part in a drug bust that results in his fatal shooting of a small-time dealer in front of the man's wife and kids. Scudder ends up in a drunk ward, suffering from booze and bla…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy horror
Four actors – Matt (Ross Partridge), Catherine (Elise Muller), Michelle (Greta Gerwig), and Chad (Steve Zissis) – attend an art festival and watch a low-budget movie directed by Jett (Jett Garner). After the showing, Jett explains to them …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film
Hardened criminal and drug dealer King David returns to New York City, where he can find redemption by settling an old score with drug lord Moon. He keeps tape-recorded journals about his life and is always talking about a woman named Edna…
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