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Arthdal Chronicles (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: In a mythical land called Arth, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Arthdal and its surrounding regions vie for power as they build a new society.
Style: tense, political, epic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: rise to power, prophecy, politics, fictional country, culture clash, power struggle, ancient world, secret, tribe, reincarnation, fantasy world, curse ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, ancient times
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Arsenal Military Academy (2019)
Genre: Action, History, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story: Xie Xiang disguises herself as a man in order to attend military school, where she and her classmates become embroiled in a series of tale-worthy events. After an academic career that wins her classmates’ and instructors’ respect, Xie sets out ...
Style: dorama, exciting, sweet, romantic, romantic drama
Plot: military, friendship, woman dressed as man, cross dressing, strong female character, tomboy, rivalry, love triangle, female protagonist, love and romance, gender, hidden identity ...
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Princess Caraboo (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away ...
Style: sweet, witty, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: couples, love and romance, disorder, master and servant, hidden identity, rich and poor, cinderella story, village, village life, monarch, renaissance, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1994, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place: england, europe, london, fictional island
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 8.2
 23K
Close-Up (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into ...
Style: avant garde, realistic, semi serious, clever, spiritual ...
Plot: filmmaking, filmmaker, hidden identity, uncover truth, cons and scams, fighting the system, legal, courtroom, iranian, reporter, mistaken identity, muslim ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: tehran iran, iran, middle east, persia
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 6.2
 22K
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: fbi agent, gangster, small town, organized crime, witness protection, fbi, fish out of water, district attorney, switching roles, hidden identity, vengeance, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new york, usa, italy, europe
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Beauty & the Briefcase (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: fall in love, relationship vs career, workplace romance, couples, dating, journalism, hidden identity, teenager, lie, looking for love, female journalist, coworker relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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Just One of the Guys (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, high school, gender disguise, adolescence, gender bending, college, sexism, prom, hidden identity, switching roles, coming of age, gender bender ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: california, phoenix arizona, arizona, tucson arizona
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 7.9
 54K
Leverage (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
Style: exciting, realistic, anime, detective, teen ...
Plot: team, thief, hacker, outsmarting, society, escapades, mastermind, unconventional method, investigator, partners in crime, teamwork, surveillance ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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You Are Beautiful (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: You're Beautiful is a 2009 South Korean romantic comedy television drama series, starring Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Lee Hong-ki of F.T. Island and Jung Yong-hwa of CN Blue. It is about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship ...
Style: sentimental, dorama, humorous, novela, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: friendship, cross dressing, friends, love and romance, gender bending, fall in love, rising to stardom, music band, hidden identity, unrequited love, celebrity, singing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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 7.8
 7K
Masquerade (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: During the confusing and conspiratorial Joseon Dynasty King Gwang-hae orders his councilor, HEO Kyun, to find him a double in order to avoid the constant threat of assassination. HEO Kyun finds Ha-sun, a jester who looks remarkably like the king, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, realistic, stylized, inspirational ...
Plot: joseon dynasty, royal court, throne, hidden identity, treason, medieval, save the kingdom, ruler, political intrigue, dishonesty, head of state, forced into action ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages
Place: korea, south korea, east asia, asia
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The Berlin File (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose ...
Style: tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: espionage, double agent, spy, intrigue, hidden identity, on the run, manhunt, chase, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, berlin germany, germany, south korea
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 5.8
 47K
Enough (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, scary ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: domestic violence, abusive relationship, violence against women, self defense, violent husband, strong female character, abusive husband, life is a bitch, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, revenge, stalking ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
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Princess Protection Program (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom, Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is taken under the wing of General Joe Mason, an agent from the agency, and his daughter, Carter, who works after school ...
Style: feel good, humorous, teen, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: teenager, princess, high school, friendship, youth, teenage life, best friend, school, teenage girl, parents and children, royal family, father daughter relationship ...
Place: louisiana
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 6.0
 2K
Genius (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: hidden identity, youth, ice hockey, adolescence, preteen, college life, teenage life, campus, college, high school life, high school, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Style: surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending ...
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, fatal attraction, female protagonist, mind game, uncover truth, writers, obsessive love, seduction, hacking, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Style: suspense, sexy, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: newspaper, journalism, fbi, journalist, reporter, terrorism, robbery, chase, hidden identity, twists and turns, conspiracy, runaway ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, year 1971, year 1979, year 1972 ...
Place: usa, new york, michigan, canada, manhattan new york city ...
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Manuela and Manuel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, hidden identity, wedding, transvestism, human nature, disorder, couples, gender bending, best friend, love, mistaken identity, gay man straight woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america
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 7.7
 162K
Teen Wolf (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, serious, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, supernatural ability, high school, lycanthropy, youth, high school life, peril, team, friends, life turned upside down, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, idaho, california, japan ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York in 1995 Dr. Richard Jacks is a creator of perfumes. Thus he spends his days inventing new colorful and well smelling potions and certainly caring for his girlfriend Sarah Carver. But when he discovers that his greatgrandfather, called ...
Style: light, humorous, sexy, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: gender bending, experiment gone awry, switching roles, transformation, male to female cross dressing, femme fatale, body swapping, disorder, supernatural ability, fish out of water, manipulative behavior, female on male rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
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Untouchable Lovers (2018)
Genre: Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story: Tianji Tower, the leading organisation of the pugilistic world is determined to overthrow the tyrannical ruler Liu Ziye. To achieve their mission, Tianji Tower replaces his sister Liu Chuyu with their own disciple and Princess-lookalike Zhu Que. Zhu ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, romantic, serious, costume drama
Plot: hidden identity, royal palace, chinese emperor, power struggle, spy, lost love, twins, supernatural, amnesia, supernatural power, fantasy world, martial arts ...
Place: ancient china
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The German Doctor (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Norway, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens ...
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot: war criminal, doctor, wanted, on the run, family relations, hidden identity, world war two, nazi, nazi hunter, family life, mysterious character, nazi war criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, year 1960
Place: germany, latin america, south america, argentina, patagonia
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The World of Fantasy (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story: Qin Lie, a young man with amnesia, was involved in a conspiracy due to an accident. After experiencing all kinds of hardships, he and Ling Yushi, his childhood sweetheart, gradually grew up in the spirit domain. The story of the new journey. This ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: hidden identity, conspiracy, fantasy world, forbidden love, magic, magical power, relationships, tragic past, magical object, troubled past, male female relationship, confronting the past ...
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Netherbeast Incorporated (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An offbeat comedy with a quirky twist on the vampire tale set in modern day corporate America.
Style: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, horror comedy ...
Plot: vampire, office, hidden identity, supernatural, danger, workplace situations, disorder, workplace, corporate crime, office politics, imaginary, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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Woman in Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: gender, gender bending, actor's life, hidden identity, fall in love, filmmaking, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, artists and showbiz, transsexual, transvestite ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: germany
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 6.0
 73K
Kick (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An adrenaline junkie walks away from a whirlwind romance and embraces a new life as a thief, though he soon finds himself pursued by veteran police officer and engaged in a turf war with a local gangster.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, fast, action thriller
Plot: hidden identity, fall in love, daredevil, disorder, dishonesty, twists and turns, thief, chase, superhero, martial arts, love and romance, world spanning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous ...
Style: light, funny, humorous, detective, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: teacher, fish out of water, children, kindergarten, police, education, mischievous children, small town, bullying, undercover, elementary school, school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: astoria oregon, california, oregon, los angeles
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 5.1
 599
Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Decoy Bride (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Style: romantic, humorous, rom com, feel good, cute ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: wedding, paparazzi, island, love and romance, hiding, hidden identity, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, disguise, fall in love, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, england
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Never Been Kissed (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most ...
Style: feel good, light, romantic, touching, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, prom, journalist, journalism, teenage girl, popularity, high school life, humiliation, teenager, teen romance, friendship, reporter ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.7
 9K
Pope Joan (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Italy, Spain
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Style: serious, captivating, costume drama, historical drama, epic ...
Plot: pope, vatican, clergy, religion, medieval, monk, monastery, catholic priest, healing power, cross dressing, ambition, hidden identity ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 9th century, year 2010, ancient times
Place: germany, rome italy, europe, italy
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