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Best in Show
2000 • Comedy
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in…
Why matched: genres Comedy
A Mighty Wind
2003 • Music • Comedy
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the…
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 • Documentary
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Recount
2008 • Drama • History • TV Movie
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's voca…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Isle of Dogs
2018 • Adventure • Animation • Comedy
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic jour…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Animation
Altered States
1980 • Thriller • Science Fiction • Horror
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explore…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
Absence of Malice
1981 • Drama • Romance
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Mascots
2016 • Comedy
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
Why matched: genres Comedy
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016 • Mystery • Horror
A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Horror
Show Me a Hero
2015 • War & Politics • Drama • Crime
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
2010
1984 • Thriller • Science Fiction
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting D…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
Lady in the Water
2006 • Drama • Mystery • Fantasy
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a be…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Dead Bang
1989 • Thriller • Crime • Action
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate g…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Rage
2009 • Drama • Thriller
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly fu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Late Shift
1996 • Drama • Comedy • TV Movie
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 • Drama
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head,…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Chair
2021 • Drama • Comedy
At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 • Drama • Science Fiction
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Capote
2005 • Drama • Crime
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Bank Shot
1974 • Crime • Comedy
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy