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   Submission

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.

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   At Close Range

   Film · 1986 · also drama

   Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a n...

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   Stuart: A Life Backwards

   Film · 2007 · also drama

   Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity...

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   Nightmare Alley

   Film · 2021 · also drama

   An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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   Brave the Dark

   Film · 2025 · also drama

   When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive be...

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   To Die For

   Film · 1995 · also comedy and drama

   Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold det...

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   American Beauty

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive fr...

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   The Village

   Film · 2004 · also drama

   When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community fore...

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   A Serious Man

   Film · 2009 · also comedy and drama

   It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to fin...

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    Your Friends & Neighbors

    Film · 1998 · also comedy and drama

    Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relatio...

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