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Shattered Glass (2003) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Shattered Glass
director: Billy Ray actor: Hayden Christensen / Peter Sarsgaard …
other title: L'inventore di favole / Lüge und Wahrheit - Shattered Glass …
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
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Little Boxes (2017) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Little Boxes
director: Rob Meyer actor: Melanie Lynskey / Nelsan Ellis …
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
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The Intervention (2016) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Intervention
director: Clea DuVall actor: Natasha Lyonne / Cobie Smulders …
other title: Bis dass die Freunde euch scheiden
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
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Detroit Rock City (1999) [Movie] TMDB
Detroit Rock City
director: Adam Rifkin actor: Giuseppe Andrews / James DeBello …
other title: Cero en conducta
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
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Rose Red (2002) [TV] TMDB
Rose Red
actor: Nancy Travis / Matt Keeslar …
other title: A Mansão de Rose Red / Stephen Kings Haus der Verdammnis …
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
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EverAfter (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban
EverAfter
director: Andy Tennant actor: Drew Barrymore / Anjelica Huston …
other title: La leggenda di un amore - Cinderella / For evigt - et kærlighedseventyr …
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
director: Macon Blair actor: Melanie Lynskey / Elijah Wood …
other title: Já Não Pertenço a Este Mundo / Fremd in der Welt …
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
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Our Ex-Wife (2016) [TV] TMDB
Our Ex-Wife
actor: Robert Webb / Melanie Lynskey …
Jack is a man who has finally found real happiness with his new wife-to-be Sara, but his ex-wife and mother of his children Hillary seems determined to destroy his dreams. Yet, while Jack wants Hillary out of his life, Sara has made it her personal crusade to have everyone getting on for the sake of the kids.
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Heavenly Creatures (1994) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Heavenly Creatures
director: PJ actor: Melanie Lynskey / Kate Winslet …
other title: Creature del cielo / Engel min engel …
Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.
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But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
But I'm a Cheerleader
8.0 (10 ratings) director: Jamie Babbit actor: Natasha Lyonne / Clea DuVall …
other title: Gonne al bivio / Nunca Fui Santa …
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
director: Lorene Scafaria actor: Steve Carell / Keira Knightley …
other title: Cercasi amore per la fine del mondo / Até Que o Fim do Mundo nos Separe …
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
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Coyote Ugly (2000) [Movie] Min reol TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Coyote Ugly
director: David McNally actor: Piper Perabo / Maria Bello …
other title: Le ragazze del Coyote Ugly / Coyote Bar …
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
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Mrs. America (2020) [TV] TMDB
Mrs. America
director: Dahvi Waller actor: Cate Blanchett / Rose Byrne …
The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”
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The Frighteners (1996) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Frighteners
director: Peter Jackson actor: Michael J. Fox / Trini Alvarado …
other title: Sospesi nel tempo / Agarrem-me esses Fantasmas …
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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The Last of Us (2023) [TV] NeoDB Douban TMDB
The Last of Us Season 1 part of TV Series: The Last of Us
7.9 (21 ratings) director: Ali Abbasi / Craig Mazin … actor: Pedro Pascal / Bella Ramsey …
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
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Yellowjackets (2021) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Yellowjackets
director: Ashley Lyle / Bart Nickerson actor: Melanie Lynskey / Tawny Cypress …
This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
director: Heather Morris actor: Jonah Hauer-King / Anna Próchniak …
other title: O tatuador de Auschwitz / El tatuador de Auschwitz …
The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
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Up in the Air (2009) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Up in the Air
7.0 (7 ratings) director: Jason Reitman actor: George Clooney / Vera Farmiga …
other title: Tra le nuvole / Nas Nuvens …
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.