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Love and Other Four Letter Words (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this warm-hearted romantic comedy, Stormy La Rue, a rising star T.V. Talk Show host in Philadelphia must dig her way out the hole she creates by telling an innocent white lie. Stormy's relentless aspirations of becoming the next talk show ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: wedding, last wish, family relations, couples, terminal illness, homecoming, looking for love, family gatherings, unlikely couple, talk show host, escapades, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.9
 700
Beyond Our Ken (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A month after Wai Ming broke up with Ken, she finds nude pictures of her on his website. To get back at him, she teams up with his new girlfriend.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, love triangle, rivalry, breakup, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, battle of the sexes, couples, love and romance, partner, escape, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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 6.9
 286
Asylum (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Asylum is a British comedy series which was shown on Paramount Comedy Channel in 1996. Set in a mental asylum, it ran for one series of six episodes. Unlike traditional sitcoms or comedy television shows, it was to some extent an opportunity for ...
Style: dark comedy, sitcom, offbeat, humorous, not serious ...
Plot: confined, satire, psychiatric hospital, prisoner, psychiatric nurse, silly humor, fish out of water, power relations, misfit, losing-it hero, support group, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
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Abducted (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack, a man wrongly convicted of murder is sent to a prison where the unscrupulous warden has political aspirations. The warden manipulates his wife, his political adviser/lover, the prisoners and the voters, all while maintaining a smiling ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: prison, prison warden, kidnapping, escaped prisoner, fall in love, couples, murder, love, kidnapped, danger, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 1900s, 21st century
Place: canada, idaho, washington state, portland oregon
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Bell from Hell (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, family relations, murder, family life, secret identity, intrigue, violence, aunt, macabre ...
Time: 70s
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Bandits, Prostitutes and Silver (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story: To free his girlfriend from her contract with a greedy madam, Shang Li (Don Wong) teams up with a cold-blooded thief called the Sparrow (Chiang-lung Wen) to hijack a large shipment of silver. But when the heist suddenly goes bad, Shang Li finds ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heist, shaolin kung fu, kung fu, prostitute, battles, tough heroes, hijacking, death row, wrongfully committed, master warrior, chases and races ...
Time: 70s
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Return of the Chinese Boxer (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China from their southern Manchuria staging ground.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, fight, handicapped, supernatural, kung fu, injustice, tough heroes, battles, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, china
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A Year Without Love (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.
Style: serious, sincere, rough, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, aids, sadomasochism, fetishism, dangerous attraction, life is a bitch, terminal illness, sexual relations, love and romance, writer's life, hiv, disco ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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 7.2
 4K
Lunacy (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, blasphemy, doctors and patients, danger, society, social misfits, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, gory, sexual abuse ...
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
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 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 7.0
 99K
Holes (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, touching, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, curse, desert, camp, friendship, interracial romance, youth, coming of age, children, warden, boy ...
Time: year 2003, 1900s, 1890s, 1850s, 19th century ...
Place: texas, latvia, usa
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Shock Corridor (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: mental institution, insanity, journalism, mental illness, murder, investigation, psychiatrist, murder mystery, macabre, serial killer, obsession, doctors and patients ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: america, mount fuji, usa, africa, japan
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 5.9
 6K
Renegade (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Renegade is an American television series that ran for 110 episodes spanning 5 seasons, first broadcast between September 19, 1992 and April 4, 1997. The series was created by Stephen J. Cannell. Executive Producers included Cannell, Stu Segall, ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: on the run, police detective, police corruption, heroes, partner, reluctant partners, dishonesty, law enforcement, chase, murder, machismo, fugitives ...
Time: 90s
Place: san diego california
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Death of a President (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, ...
Style: controversial, mockumentary, satirical, stylized, serious ...
Plot: assassination, terrorism, politics, sniper, investigation, conspiracy, president, culture clash, brutality, state affairs, danger, political conspiracy ...
Time: year 2006, year 2007, near future, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: iraq, chicago, middle east, washington d.c., usa ...
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 6.3
 100
Women's Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, escape, wrongfully committed, false accusation, frame up, bookies, prison life, kids in trouble, law enforcement, rebelliousness, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
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Women's Prison Massacre (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners ...
Style: sensual, suspense, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: sexploitation, women in prison, lesbian sex, exploitation, women's prison, prison, sex, sex orgy, erotica, rape, reporter, extreme ...
Time: 80s
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 7.0
 757
The Big Heat (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A cop (Waise Lee) is losing the control of his right hand and cannot pull the trigger on time anymore. Before any accident happens, he decides to resign. Meanwhile his friend and informer is brutally murdered in Malaysia. Before leaving the force, ...
Style: neo noir, bloody, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, gun fu, gangster, police detective, chaos and mayhem, working undercover, wrongfully committed, police corruption, wooing, gory, master criminal, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: malaysia, hong kong, asia
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Doomsday Gun (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was ...
Style: semi documentary, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, assassination, iraq war, intrigue, war, military, cia agent, cia, engineer, undercover agent, secretary, weapon of mass destruction ...
Time: year 1988, 90s
Place: middle east, baghdad iraq, london, iraq, brussels belgium
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 6.4
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Framed (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, political corruption, frame up, police corruption, dirty cop, explosions, nightclub, vengeance, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder ...
Time: year 1975, 50s
Place: tennessee
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The Night Visitor (1971)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Style: art house, spooky, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snow, prison, murder, mental illness, revenge, farmer, parrot, macabre, imprisoned, underground, psychopath, isolation ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe
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Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, wrongful conviction, chase, manhunt, injustice, family relations, gang, prison, cattle, rodeo, snake, skinny dipping ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: texas, usa, mexico, latin america, alabama
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Bank Robber (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hotel, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, bank robber, blackmail, money, friendship, police, motel, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
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Man Facing Southeast (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, surreal, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: insanity, mental illness, alien, mental institution, transformation, ufo, hospital, mental disorder, psychiatrist, waking up, illness, invasion ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Guilt by Association (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: false accusation, drug dealing, injustice, wrongful conviction, prison, fighting the system, righting the wronged, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty ...
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Legacy of Rage (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend May and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael, an ambitious and murderous dope peddler. Michael covets May ...
Style: heroic, cult classic, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, heroic bloodshed, gun fu, fight club, triad, revenge, gangster, heroes, friends, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, hong kong
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The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, youth, chase, st. patrick's day, holiday, magical creature, kidnapping, car chase, mental institution, gnome, raccoon ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california, usa
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An Angel at My Table (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style: psychological, touching, spiritual, neurotic, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, writers, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, art, women, children, female writer, making love, feminist, woman ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new zealand, paris france, london
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A Love Bewitched (1986)
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela ...
Style: art house, captivating, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: flamenco, music and dance, gypsy, dance, love, magic spell, betrayal, social misfits, music, dancer's life, redemption, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
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Alien Abduction (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, independent film, scary
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien abduction, mutant, danger, ufo, mental institution, haunted by the past, spacecraft, on the run, life is a bitch, supernatural, race against time, military hospital ...
Time: 21st century
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