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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,016 films · Page 2.
Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|200px|left|Lana Turner in the trailer for the film Drifter Frank Chambers hitches a ride with District Attorney Kyle Sackett. Kyle drops Frank off at "Twin Oaks", a rural diner/service station on a highway in the hills outside Los An…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film
A paramedic rescues a young girl from the blazing Saint Luke's hospital before unsuccessfully inquiring about her mother's whereabouts. Sometime afterwards, undergraduate Shelley Baum hears her cat meowing near her house's koi pond. After …
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Biographical picture, Marital Tragedy, biographical film, drama film, romance film
When the young Iris Murdoch meets fellow student John Bayley at Somerville College, Oxford, he is a naive virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. Decades later, little has changed and…
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Animation, Cartoon, Family Comedy, Komödie, Sitcom
In late October, Linus writes and sends off a letter addressed to the Great Pumpkin, to the ridicule of his peers. Sally Brown, driven by her crush on Linus, is the only one who accepts Linus's belief. Charlie Brown proudly announces he ha…
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Arranged Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi, War Film, docudrama
The film begins by describing Britain's nuclear deterrence policy of threatening would-be aggressors with devastation from the Royal Air Force's nuclear-armed V bombers. Due to the number of V bomber bases (particularly in a crisis situati…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Erin Langford is a graduate journalism student recently hired as a summer intern at a New York City newspaper. Out with a friend at a bar, she meets Garrett, who interrupts her game of Centipede. They drink together and end up at his place…
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Several years after the events of The Fast and the Furious, Dominic Toretto recruits Han Lue and Rico Santos to help Tego Leo, Dom's associate, escape from a prison in the Dominican Republic. Dom, having lived as a fugitive in the country …
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Sci-Fi
Raj, an engineered man, trained to deliver humanity from the final cataclysm, and Laurie, (a woman raised by a machine, but she alone knew the power of love), are sent on a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start ne…
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Animation, Computeranimation, Family Comedy
In a living room, a toy one-man band player named Tinny looks around and sees a baby named Billy arrive. At first, Tinny is delighted at the prospect of being played with by Billy until he sees how destructive the infant can be. When Tinny…
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Animated Film, Animation
An oom-pah bandcomposed of Axis leaders Hideki Tojo on the sousaphone, Hermann Göring on the piccolo, Joseph Goebbels on the trombone, Benito Mussolini on the bass drum and Heinrich Himmler on the snare drummarches while singing the virtue…
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Romance Film
In a hotel lobby, the concierge answers a phone call from a guest's room. Jack (Jason Schwartzman) lies on a hotel bed in a yellow bathrobe, watching the black-and-white American war film Stalag 17 and reading the newspaper. After ordering…
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Family Drama, comedy film, drama film
After drifting apart over the years, two single siblings—Jon and Wendy, the younger of the two—band together to care for their estranged, elderly father, Lenny, who is rapidly slipping into dementia. Wendy and Jon first travel to Sun City,…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, political thriller film, thriller film
Gene Watson, a mild-mannered accountant, arrives with his daughter Lynn at Union Station in Los Angeles. As Gene is using a payphone, two mysterious strangers in suits, known only as Mr. Smith and Ms.
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Classical Western
thumb|thumbtime=20|Digital copy of print preserved at the Library of Congress; runtime 00:13:27. Two bandits break into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop a train and order its engineer to fill t…
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Heist, High School Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Everyman high school student Kyle needs a high score on the SAT to get into Cornell University's architecture program. He constantly compares himself to his older brother Larry, who is now living above his parents' garage. Kyle's best frie…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
At a diner, a man (Kirk Baltz) talks to an older man (Philip Baker Hall) over cigarettes and coffee. He explains how, while gambling at a casino, he wrote his name on a $20 bill for good luck. Before he could use it, he ran into his friend…
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Animated Film, Animation, Computeranimation
In a dark room, a large illuminated balanced-arm desk lamp named Luxo Sr. sees a small yellow ball with a blue stripe and a red star on the front roll-up to him. He eyes the ball curiously and pushes it away, but the ball comes back to him.
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comedy
In a quiet meadow, Charlie, a unicorn, is resting, before he is awakened by a blue and a pink unicorn. The two inform him that they have found a map to the magical Candy Mountain, and that he must come with them on their journey. Charlie i…
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Cartoon
left|thumbtime=4:18|thumb|The full cartoon. Mickey is trying to fly an airplane to imitate Charles Lindbergh. After building his own airplane, he does a flight simulation to ensure that the plane is safe for flight, but the flight fails, d…
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Animated Film, Komödie
In a 0.10-square mile park named Unfinished Park, standing in the middle of a small 6.25-square mile American town established and founded July 4th, 1836 named Schubertville (named after the composer Franz Schubert), in early October 1997,…
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Komödie, comedy television program, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
At Blackadder Hall in 1999, Lord Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is entertaining four guests on New Year's Eve. He informs them he has built a time machine using plans drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and wagers £10,000 each that he can bring back a…
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Deacon City Police Captain Jackson Briggs informs the assassin Hanzo Hasashi about the criminals Reptile and Baraka; the latter has recently killed actor-turned-undercover-officer Johnny Cage in a fight. Briggs believes they were both work…
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Animation, Super Hero, action film, mystery film
Batman and Robin face a brand-new mystery; a new heroine, Batwoman, has arrived in the city, whose identity is a mystery. While she claims to fight for justice, Batwoman forsakes Batman's code to never take a life. Batman must figure out w…
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Animation, Fantasy
In an autumn forest, a red squirrel mother finds a nut. Her children are playing until they see an owl. The mother squirrel drops the nut as she escapes from the owl, but her children ask her to tell them a story before she retrieves it.
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