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   The Iron Giant

   Film · 1999 · also drama and family

   In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people f...

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   Richard Jewell

   Film · 2019 · also drama and history

   Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...

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   The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

   Film · 2013 · also drama and family

   A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the c...

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   The Greening of Whitney Brown

   Film · 2011 · also drama and family

   Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from he...

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5. 5

   Steve Jobs

   Film · 2015 · also drama and history

   Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint...

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   Propeller One-Way Night Coach

   Film · 2026 · also drama and family

   During the golden age of aviation, a young airplane enthusiast and his mother embark on a cross-country journey to Hollywood—and their simple flight transforms into the t...

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   Bambi II

   Film · 2006 · also drama and family

   Return to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn on his own. But in the adventure of a lifetime, th...

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   The Railway Children

   Film · 1970 · also drama and family

   At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with...

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   The Perfect Game

   Film · 2009 · also drama and family

   Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

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    Kensuke's Kingdom

    Film · 2024 · also drama and family

    A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Michael and his dog overboard. After washing up on a remote isla...

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