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Genre: History, Musical
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age).
Style:
anthology, art house, offbeat, realistic, experimental ...
Plot:
music, nazi occupation, dancing, world war two, dance, music band, photograph, redheaded woman, racism, musician, disco, liberation ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1983, 1930s, 60s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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342K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Years ago, the fearsome pirate king Gol D. Roger was executed, leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new pirate king. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who ...
Style:
shounen, anime, humorous, feel good, manga ...
Audience:
manly, family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens ...
Plot:
pirate, doctor, treasure, captain, one piece, friendship, friends, rivalry, courage, boy, heroes, escapades ...
Place:
japan
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1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, harsh ...
Plot:
existentialism, tragedy, biopic, crime gone awry, mentor, human nature, youth, misfit, isolation, logic, village, philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1974, 1800s ...
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, heartbreaking, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, custody battle, courtroom drama, racist, custody, justice, single parent, parents and children, family problems, legal action, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
cuba
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550K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fairy godmother discovers that Shrek has ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, 3d animation, computer animated, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
princess, cat, transformation, kingdom, creature, shrek, dragon, talking animal, donkey, godmother, prince, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, medieval times, middle ages, 16th century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, absurd, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, prison, revenge, jungle, military, one man army, escape, martial arts, prison escape, explosions, survival, cannon ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
Style:
social, period drama
Plot:
politics, murder, death, mother, mother daughter relationship, true crime, girlhood, woman, writers, toxic masculinity, stereotypes, daughter ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
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9K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, disturbing, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, holocaust, lgbtq, gay interest, sex scene, gay love, nazi, making love, glbt, homosexuality, lgbt, gay slur ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, poland, germany, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of the Holocaust, seen as Jonah, a young jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WW II, who with his family is taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp. (Based on the book 'Childhood' by Jona Oberski.)
Style:
silent
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, youth, traumatic childhood, concentration camp, reformatory, family relations, memories, hopes, retiring, madness, nazi occupied poland ...
Place:
amsterdam, europe, poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, female nudity, war, rape, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, brutal rape, war crime, brutality, post war germany, military, women ...
Time:
year 1945, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, east germany, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, friendship, beautiful scenery, mansion, little girl, sick child, children, old mansion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place:
india, england, liverpool, eastern europe, africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, heist, lgbtq, absurdism, mother daughter relationship, lgbtqi, stranger, con artists, pretty girl, women ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. ...
Style:
social, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, sexual assault, white male black female relationship, racial issues, interracial romance, racial tension, rape, blaxploitation, lawyer, sexual abuse, murder, adultery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, america, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot:
world war two, resistance movement, forbidden love, french resistance, crash landing, betrayal, military, love triangle, wartime life, soldier, leadership, danger ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1944
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task – using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, historical drama, freeze frame
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, auschwitz, shoah, holocaust survivor, prison, nazi concentration camp, nazi germany, judaism, women ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
america, germany, paris france, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Indy Zimmerman's life is far from perfect. With a step mom who seems to make it her goal in life to make indy's life horrible, step sister's who want nothing to do with her, and a boy who ruined her life suddenly wanting to be a part ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, realistic, compassionate, fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, teenage love, family relations, orphan, exploitation, love and romance, teenage protagonist, faith, royalty, church, soccer match ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Style:
political, philosophical, suspenseful, disturbing, social ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
violence, politics, civil rights, betrayal, prison, murder, black history, racism, black, justice, african american, betrayal by friend ...
Time:
2020s, year 1968, 60s
Place:
chicago, nebraska, columbus ohio, hawaii, new haven connecticut
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, serious, dark, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, lone hero, ss, coping, survival, wilderness, winter, world war, nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, scotland
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred. D-Day tells the epic story of the preparation and execution of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It tells the story of the defence of the Western Front by ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, exciting
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, war hero, war correspondent, invasion, d day, self sacrifice, soldier, execution, interview, world war, voice over narration ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
normandy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
Style:
fantasy adventure, action adventure, grindhouse, sexy, touching ...
Plot:
sword and sorcery, big breasts, barbarian, sorcery, sword, cave, harlot, human sacrifice, action violence, good versus evil, desert planet, pain ...
Time:
year 1987
Place:
space western
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, fish, pension, master, photograph, drowning, basement, murder, communist, sister, ss ...
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, belgrade
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, serious, atmospheric, stylized
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, circus, love triangle, prison, gang, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, dancer's life, performer's life, daring rescue ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the request of his mother Gitte, Marko, who has been living in Berlin for years, drives off to the countryside to visit his parents. His hopes of spending a quiet and relaxing time with his family fall short when Gitte surprises everyone by ...
Style:
sincere, serious, disturbing, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, family relations, parents and children, introspection, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, housewife, berlin wall, stasi, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the democratic party DAG, as well as the innocent inhabitants ...
Plot:
partisan, mountain, exile, communism, fascism, exodus, martyr, homecoming, killing a horse, ridicule, gang, ship ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
black sea, macedonia, soviet union, istanbul turkey, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
Style:
clever, absurd, humorous, black comedy, sexy ...
Plot:
satire, farce, journalism, psychic power, media, desert, sarcasm, reporter, adaptation, drug trip, drug, military base ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, year 1983, year 2003, year 1973
Place:
iraq, middle east
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Monaco, USA, Morocco
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai ...
Style:
epic, philosophical, cerebral, thought provoking, spiritual ...
Plot:
buddhism, buddha, buddhist monk, world history, dalai lama, biopic, religion, buddhist, politics, spirituality, mountain, historical epic ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, 1950s
Place:
tibet, china, hiroshima japan, asia, pearl harbor ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Kenya, France, South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Style:
uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
school, teacher, hopes, racism, boy, prisoner of war camp, social relations, human spirit, ex military, fighting the system, society, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 1963, 1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
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