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The Second Civil War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news ...
Style: dark comedy, cynical, biting, offbeat, futuristic ...
Plot: satire, american politics, journalism, politics, civil war, illegal immigration, journalist, government, translator, extramarital affair, gang violence, governor ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: idaho, washington d.c., middle east, usa, pakistan ...
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Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.
Style: clever, surprise ending
Plot: telephone call, male bonding, child kidnapping, friendship between men, farce, ransom, landlord tenant relationship, mistaken identity, unemployment, kidnapping, confession, argument ...
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, talky ...
Plot: depression, dancing, great depression, social commentary, competition, contest, survival, mental breakdown, cynicism, exhaustion, culture clash, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1969, 1920s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, chicago, dallas texas ...
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 5.6
 44K
Double Impact (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, twins, blood, murder, brother brother relationship, female bodybuilder, revenge, violence, tough heroes, instructor, siblings relations, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: hong kong, los angeles, asia
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 6.3
 42K
Bachelor Party (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This outrageously funny look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of friends who view partying as their full-time religion. Rick's worried fiancée, ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, humorous, funny, intense ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: wedding, group of friends, party, sex, fiance fiancee relationship, hotel room, farce, nude, bachelor party, nudity, prostitute, lust ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: los angeles
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 6.8
 431K
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, light, hilarious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: god, divine intervention, religion, wish come true, supernatural power, deal, selfishness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, miraculous event, chosen one, job promotion, moon ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mount everest
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Blast from the Past (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Style: feel good, romantic, humorous, touching, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: opposites attract, bunker, happy ending, cold war, fish out of water, genius, cuban missile crisis, father son relationship, bomb shelter, nuclear war, love story, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, future, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, cuba
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 8.2
 72K
Hera Pheri (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kidnapping, rescue, rivalry, unemployment, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, love and romance, fall in love, gangster, couple relations, buddies, telephone call ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: middle east, india, asia
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 6.1
 19K
10 (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, sensual, erotic, funny ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: midlife crisis, beach, honeymoon, voyeur, songwriter, wedding, sex, composer, surprise birthday party, dentist, swimming pool, extramarital affair ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, mexico, latin america, beverly hills
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 6.0
 9K
Loverboy (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: pizza delivery boy, summer job, college, farce, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, pizzeria, gigolo, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, women ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, beverly hills
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The Eternal Love (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story: Mo Lian Cheng is the 8th prince of Dongyue who is forced to marry Qu Tan Er who was already in love with Mo Yi Huai (Mo Lian Cheng's elder brother). Qu Tan Er tries to commit suicide one day because she doesn't want to marry Mo Lian Cheng ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, feel good, costume drama ...
Plot: love triangle, reincarnation, split personality, romantic rivalry, amnesia, royal family, forced marriage, supernatural power, damsel in distress, dual identity, secret identity, secret ...
Place: ancient china, china
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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, fish out of water, inventor, race against time, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, changing the past or future, goofy hero, misfit, misfit partners, disorder ...
Time: 16th century, year 1973
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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 7.5
 352K
Total Recall (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, ambiguous ending, suspense ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agent, dystopia, virtual reality, memory, alien, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
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Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head south to cross ...
Style: independent film, sexy, teen sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: on the run, nudity, gangster, chase, shootout, car crash, stripper, female nudity, strip club, misunderstanding, kidnapping, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
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On Chesil Beach (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Style: serious, period piece, novela, costume drama, sensitive ...
Plot: newlyweds, wedding night, frigidity, sexual revolution, sexual abuse, awkwardness, beach, honeymoon, virgin, male virgin, marriage, asexual ...
Time: year 1962, year 2007, 60s, year 1975
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Emmanuelle in Rio (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ura Hee's sexually charged Emmanuelle in Rio tells the tale of an world-famous fashion photographer who is constantly dealing with the romantic advances of a music-video director. Their passions erupt in the exotic city of Rio de Janeiro
Plot: sexual pleasure, emmanuelle, dancing, sexual arousal, nudity, oral sex, sex, female nudity, lesbian, seduction, fondling, female masturbation ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you ...
Style: entertaining, light, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: middle school, child protagonist, humour, school, children, rules, teenager, best friend, dream, child, against the rules, talent ...
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 7.0
 2K
Othello (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, clever, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragedy, shakespeare, jealousy, shakespeare's othello, love, betrayal, racism, tragic love, circus, opera, dancing, interracial relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: cyprus, italy, venice, europe
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Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries ...
Style: humorous, retro, sad, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: best friend, couples, marriage, love, breakup, house, male female relationship, comedy of errors, husband wife relationship, misunderstanding, false confession, doctor ...
Time: future, 60s, 20th century
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My Father the Hero (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
Style: teen, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, daughter, nymphet, family holiday, father daughter relationship, bad father, lesbian, love, first love, summer, wrestling, vacation ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: bahamas, north america, west indies, atlantic ocean, new york ...
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 7.6
 139K
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, legal, mistaken identity, murder, justice, false accusation, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alabama, new york, southern usa, usa
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 7.8
 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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 6.3
 151K
Freaky Friday (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek ...
Style: funny, teen, light, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot: body swapping, high school, mother daughter relationship, teenager, wedding, body swap, switching bodies, child as adult, soul transference, switching places, teenage girl, generation gap ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, secret, sarcasm, gay, adultery, british, multiple storylines, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style: surreal, disturbing, talky, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, high society, social commentary, dream, satire, dinner, adultery, farce, social satire, bourgeoisie, dark humor, decadence ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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 7.2
 313K
A Bug's Life (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
Style: computer animated, humorous, touching, 3d animation, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: circus, ant, teamwork, friendship, good versus evil, villain, grasshopper, flea, kids and family, misfit, exile, toys ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place: texas
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 4.9
 32K
Boat Trip (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
Style: sex comedy, not serious, realistic, funny, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: cruise ship, gay, homosexuality, cruise, mistaken for gay, farce, pretending to be gay, ship, fish out of water, sex, comedy of errors, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: cuba
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 5.7
 16K
Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the King of the Australian underworld.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, stylized, entertaining ...
Plot: punjabi, rise to the top, love and romance, crime boss, ambition, fish out of water, self discovery, goofy hero, life turned upside down, mistaken identity, impossible love, village idiot ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: australia, africa, asia, middle east, india ...
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Personal Taste (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Personal Taste is a 2010 South Korean television series, starring Son Ye-jin and Lee Min-ho. It is adapted from Lee Se-in's 2007 novel of the same name about a furniture designer, Park Kae-in, who lives together with architect Jeon Jin-ho under ...
Style: touching, dorama, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, naivete, true love, betrayal, love and romance, roommate, couples, pretense, overcoming, socially awkward, self esteem, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, south korea
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