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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
45K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal, period piece, creepy, psychological, art house, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness, landscape, nymphet, school, investigation, friendship, surrealism, cosmic horror, sexual repression, suicide, tragedy, mental disorder, holiday horror, summer ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, edwardian era, near future, year 1975, 20th century ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 304 min.
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Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, art house, surreal, erotic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, friendship, childhood, coming of age, boarding school life, girls' boarding school, forest, female protagonist, society, school, dark and stormy night, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, incest, brother sister sex, best friend, mother daughter relationship, epidemic, bare butt, mass hysteria, friendship, brother sister incest, schoolgirl, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, surreal, philosophical, lovecraft, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, cosmic horror, lawyer, murder, water, folk horror, disaster, extreme weather, aborigine, shaman, surrealism, fantasy world ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, boarding school, power relations, isolation, love affair, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, youth, teachers and students, abuse, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time:
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Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, mind bending, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
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Similarity:
80%
72K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, erotic, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
photographer, photography, photograph, fashion, voyeurism, corpse, murder witness, fashion photographer, fashion model, nudity, free love, photo studio ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
21K
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Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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145K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, fishing, police detective, friendship, aborigine, self discovery, small town, mental illness, complex characters, investigation, twists and turns ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, new south wales, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
surreal, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, allegory
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
14%
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, sexy, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
maine, new england, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
22%
268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style:
serious, philosophical, black and white, slow cinema, tense ...
Plot:
philosophy, surrealism, chaos, musician, delusion, circus, magic realism, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
50%
120K
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Style:
serious, cerebral, bleak, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
kids in trouble, voyeurism, teenage life, social misfits, misfit, coming of age, drug abuse, social relations, youth, life is a bitch, boarding school, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 2000s, year 2006
Place:
connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
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