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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
demonic possession, demon, psychiatrist, electrocution, atheist, possession, death row, electric chair, prison, multiple personality disorder, abortion, criminal ...
Place:
oklahoma
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After Ashley asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their ...
Style:
dark comedy, neo screwball comedy, f word
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, cuckolded husband, open marriage, friendship between men, male friendship, divorce, birthday party, fish, car accident, fraud, breakup ...
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame, tragicomedy
Plot:
legal, renaissance, boss secretary relationship, psychological manipulation, cafe, old man, lawyer, small town, justice, accusation, flashback, prison guard ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, europe, prague
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - ...
Style:
serious, psychological, costume drama, period piece, suspense ...
Plot:
prison, lesbian, lesbian interest, supernatural ability, obsession, death in the family, women's prison, lgbtq, lesbian teen, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england, europe, venice
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, not serious, witty ...
Plot:
jury, murder trial, stupidity, serial killer, courtroom, legal, lawyer, male stripper, environmentalist, pet dog, justice, adaptation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, las vegas
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Style:
humorous, suspense, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
heist, diamond theft, robbery, bank robbery, museum, storytelling, lone hero, organized crime, police corruption, revenge, crime gone awry, perfect crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy ...
Plot:
escape, on the run, politics, prison, murder, disorder, dishonesty, rebellion, chases and races, legal, fugitives, odd couple ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1968
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Style:
controversial, sexy, black comedy, brutal, sadistic ...
Plot:
dark humor, violence, serial killer, violent, psychopath, mass murder, murderous pair, insanity, satire, brutality, media, on the road ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
new mexico, london, tokyo, europe, east asia ...
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396
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Devgan's village simpleton agrees to escort to the city Khanna's charming village belle unaware that he is delivering her only to be exploited by a corrupt landowner.
Style:
crying
Plot:
evil landowner, rape, one man army, villain, father son conflict, obsession, elopement, journey, forbidden love, heroine, rescue, redemption ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Jenn's old pal Sandra becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, it'll be up to her to discover who done it before time runs out.
Style:
psychological, detective
Plot:
woman with a gun, letter, trapped, best friend, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, attempted murder, mother daughter relationship, prison visit, lawyer, arson, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, disturbing, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, heroin, juvenile delinquency, prison, downfall, teenager, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2002, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.
Plot:
death sentence, political corruption, lawyer, flashback, deforestation, murder, police arrest, orangutan, hunting, environmental issue, forest, surfer ...
Place:
borneo, indonesia
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.
Style:
costume drama, political, art film, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
spy, lawyer, trial, manipulation, courtroom, miscarriage of justice, french army, espionage, duel, french history, french military, french politics ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 2019, victorian era
Place:
paris france, israel, france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After single lawyer Chastity Jeffries meets Xavier Collins, he seems to be everything she is looking for in a partner—handsome, smart and a lawyer as well. As his affection turns to obsession, Chastity realizes that she has been swept up by ...
Style:
romantic drama
Plot:
interracial romance, psychopath, mercy, mistaken identity, relationship problems, karate, prison visit, chihuahua, stalker, therapist, workplace, lawyer ...
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, powerful, action drama ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, russian spy, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, husband wife sex, cold war era, agent, prospector, spy hero, reconnaissance, politics ...
Time:
2020s, 1950s, 60s, year 1962, year 1964 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, cuba, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, lifestyle change, racism, teenage life, strong female lead, mentor, school teacher, bonding, idealism ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1961, year 1999, year 2006 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, long beach california, usa
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44K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, sexual, suspense, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, obsession, adultery, sex, husband wife relationship, passion, female nudity, adulteress, greed, nudity, prison ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, miami
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sequel to the box-office hit film "Venom."
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
superhero, revenge, villain, monster, heroes, shapeshifting, alien monster, fight, anti hero, human versus alien, alien, multiverse ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 2020s
Place:
san francisco, california, north america, mexico, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When her parents' financial problems threaten Ashley's dreams for college, the high school whiz kid takes matters into her own hands. She and her girlfriends turn their babysitting business into a wildly successful escort service for dads. ...
Style:
captivating, cynical, psychological, realistic, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitute, sex scene, babysitter, coitus, escort, abuse, friendship, college, ambition, money, regret, blackmailer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story:
Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League (2017).
Style:
saga, exciting, tense, cult classic, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
batman, superhero, superheroine, heroes, immortal, justice league, surrealism, superhero team, superman, female warrior, superhuman, villain ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
usa, iceland, london, paris france, tower bridge london ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, organized crime, prison, violence, undercover agent, vengeance, revenge, mafia, death of wife, gangster, partners against crime, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
blindness, disability, novelist, love and romance, love affair, couples, infidelity, dishonesty, blind man, moral dilemma, blind character, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Abhilasha movie story was based on an unique point of removing section 302 from Indian penal Code, which sentences death. Struggling lawyer Chiranjeevi, lives with his roommate (allu aravind) and dreams of removing IPC section 302. Reason behind his ...
Style:
serious, emotional, tense, suspense
Plot:
justice, death penalty, courtroom drama, wrongful conviction, social commentary, courtroom, moral dilemma, ethics, determination, family tragedy, conspiracy, corruption ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite ...
Style:
satirical, grim, cynical, bleak, surreal ...
Plot:
prison, journalist, torture, island, dictatorship, oppression, authoritarianism, repression, propaganda, human rights, totalitarianism, manipulation ...
Place:
latin america, chile
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for ...
Style:
erotic, freeze frame, period drama
Plot:
world war two, czech history, renaissance, women's prison, female protagonist, european history, rural setting, female friendship, jail cell, bravery, german occupation, imprisonment ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
nixon, christian, christianity, biopic, bare chested male, president, man with glasses, republican party, lawyer, prison, judge, prisoner ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1974, year 1969, 70s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
social realism, employer employee relationship, murder, cruelty, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, slavery, true crime, lawyer, social commentary, immigrant ...
Place:
argentina, south america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug and obsessed with his past.
Style:
comedy drama, art house, entertaining, cult classic, f word
Plot:
misfit, loneliness, midlife crisis, sex scene, middle aged man, death of father, ex husband ex wife relationship, group therapy, husband wife estrangement, friendship, name calling, adoptive father adopted daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
minnesota, portland oregon, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
All Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records. Against ...
Style:
hood, factual, enigmatic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
rapper, african american, hip hop, biopic, record company, profanity, black, sex scene, murder, music industry, autobiography, prison ...
Time:
20th century, year 2017
Place:
harlem, usa, california, las vegas, baltimore ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in their ways, even NORA and EVAN's arguments are routine and passionless. The arrival of a mysterious Valentine card opens the first crack in their long, frozen marriage. Repressed feelings of regret over lost and wasted opportunities ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage proposal, prison, dancing, husband wife relationship, memory, flashback, interview, government agent, regret, sexual dysfunction, memory loss, twists and turns ...
Time:
near future
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