| A Whole Life (2023) | 7.0 | |
| The Indian Scarf (1963) | 6.6 | |
| Wolf Children (2012) | 8.1 | |
| Mayhem (2017) | 6.4 | |
| Companion (2025) | 6.9 |
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, island, war, military, survival, escapades, danger, soldier, anti war, world war, stranded, u.s. army ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
pacific ocean
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, disappearance, therapist, nylons, unfaithfulness, therapy, passion, telephone call, sexuality, photograph, divorce, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style:
atmospheric, scenic, epic, meditative, factual ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wilderness, survival, native, hunting, mountain man, native american, revenge, mountain, rocky mountains, grizzly bear, indians, trapper ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1972
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, north america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murderer, christmas, high school, serial killer, school, isolation, isolated place, drug, murder, boarding school, puzzle, high school life ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, lifestyle, orphan, hardship, village life, poverty, bittersweet, tragic romance, resilience, isolation, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the 19th century, a sadistic nobleman terrorizes the members of his family. He is found dead, but his ghost soon returns to haunt the residents of his castle.
Style:
gothic, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
masochist, ghost, sadomasochism, haunted castle, bdsm, haunted by the past, crypt, nobleman, father son relationship, folk horror, haunted house, female psychopath ...
Time:
year 1963, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style:
suspense, black and white, postmodern, art film, independent film ...
Plot:
body horror, parasite, military, surrealism, absurdism, acid trip, good versus evil, survival horror, satire, fight, murder, violence ...
Time:
2020s, future, near future, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, dark, sexy, horrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, orphan, spanish civil war, disappearance, child abuse, gold, boarding school, haunted, coming of age, supernatural, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
portugal, south america, spain, europe, madrid ...
Is relevant?
520K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.
Style:
compassionate, bleak, exciting, tense, disturbing
Plot:
cold weather, father son relationship, mountain, mountain cabin, survival, illegal immigrant, isolated place, wilderness, car accident, family in danger, smuggler, teenage son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this American-Italian co-production Carter, an art conservator, travels to the mountainous Abruzzo region of Italy. He has been commissioned to restore a fresco in a church in the small town of Secinaro on the slopes of Mount Sirente. When he ...
Style:
lovecraft, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
meteorite, mysterious event, puzzle, secret, pagan cult, roman emperor, bloody corpse, male pubic hair, isolated place, cosmic horror, folk horror, legend ...
Place:
italy
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436
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvesting reeds. What sets him apart from the rest of his village is that he is gay. There are no other gay men in his world, his only means of expression is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
gay lead character, male rape, homosexual, gay, murder, gay slur, life is a bitch, couples, love and romance, disagreement, isolation, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
neighbor, jealous boyfriend, spying, murder, troubled relationship, countryside, jealousy, couple relations, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger, home invasion ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he ...
Style:
dark comedy, crying
Plot:
lawyer, female nudity, castle, nude girl, courtroom, old people, shakespeare's othello, judgment, conformity, advocate, mystery woman, bare butt ...
Time:
70s
Place:
switzerland, italy, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A malevolent vagrant decides to make life hell for an injured accident victim.
Style:
suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
backwoods, held captive, drifter, abduction, trapped, revenge, murder, loner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, maniac, isolation, mind game ...
Place:
dublin ireland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jill (Brianne Davis), a girl angry about being blind and struggling with her faith, unexpectedly inherits an old mansion from her estranged aunt (Janice Knickrehm, "Halloween 6"). She and her friends go there to check it out. On the way ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunting, haunted, fear, soldier, flashback, blood, lawyer, laptop, a vision, suspicion ...
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813
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
Plot:
political repression, female protagonist, sorority, social problems, male female relationship, women, love, victorian england, woman, missing man, getting home, political prisoner ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, year 2017, victorian era
Place:
south of france, france, provence
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Honeymooning in Bavaria, the young couple become stranded and are forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with ...
Style:
gothic horror, scary, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, honeymoon, abduction, castle, satanic cult, good versus evil, rescue, newlyweds, supernatural, seduction, funeral, hypnosis ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, year 1963, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe, bavaria
Is relevant?
235
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Texas publishing exec who's on the wagon and in A.A., walks in on his wife in bed with another man, and in the nasty divorce that follows, he falls off the wagon and takes up Crystal. Alternating between concern for his pre-teen daughter, his ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
stripper, threesome, rough sex, cheating wife, bare breasts, sex, sex scene, making love, menage a trois, sponsor, caught in the act, dealer ...
Place:
austin texas
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, psychological, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
isolation, trapped in space, astronaut, space travel, stranded, space, space and aliens, space station, losing-it hero, loneliness, journal, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2040s, 2010s, 1860s
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Karl Jr continues his killing spree on a remote island with the help of his father and their army of metal masked mercenaries known as the Infantry Of Doom. A band of castaways are turned loose in the wilderness and hunted down, where they must ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, disturbing, extreme horror, controversial ...
Plot:
zombie, extreme, gory, flying guillotine, serial killer, cannibal, cannibalism, exploitation, living dead, violence, killer, island ...
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
animal attack, swamp, killer animal, killer fish, shark, eaten alive, creature feature, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, escapades, danger, genetic engineering ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
louisiana, usa
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
abuse, ghost, supernatural, suicide, folk horror, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mysterious character, mind game ...
Place:
wales
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55K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style:
tense, natural horror, scary, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
dog, rabies, macabre, dangerous animal, stephen king, boy, child in peril, brutality, death, animal attack, monster, killer dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine
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8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, hopes, introspection, father son relationship, youth, betrayal, nature, honey, everyday life, only child, mother son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
turkey, middle east, highlands
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, fairy tale
Plot:
water shortage, village, young lovers, battle of the sexes, social relations, couples, ultimatum, love and romance, sex, first time, strike, absurdism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
caucasus, russia, azerbaijan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Style:
anime, heartbreaking, sweet, atmospheric, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
werewolf, childhood, children, parents and children, single mother, wolf, female werewolf, death of father, supernatural, school, family relations, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, christian, treasure hunt, coming of age, treasure hunter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucie and her father Hugo have grown closer since Lucie's mother left unexpectedly a year prior. When her mother returns, Hugo becomes jealous and angry.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, unfulfillment, single parent, haunted by the past, spouse leaving, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife conflict, skinny dipping, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
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