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The Man Inside (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxer, gangster, haunted by the past, parents and children, danger, athlete and trainer, escape from reality, family problems, starting over, boxing, rivalry, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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A Month in the Country (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the early 1920s, the film follows Tom Birkin, who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is ...
Style: scenic, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, historical drama ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, depression, church, haunted by the past, introspection, escape from reality, world war one veteran, mural, railway, landscape, interwar period ...
Time: 1920s, year 1987, 1910s, post world war one
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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 6.4
 699
Kryptonite! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, family relations, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, bittersweet, superhero, little boy, young boy, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
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Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, indie film ...
Plot: friendship, love and romance, sport team, buddies, youth, escape from reality, male bonding, friendship between men, football, infidelity, friends, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 5.8
 12K
Wetlands (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the ...
Style: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, misfit, hospital, masturbation, brothel, sex, teenage life, sexuality, rebellion, father daughter relationship, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, turkey
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 6.7
 871
The Angel (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, solitude, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, human nature, destructive relationship, downfall, coping, addiction, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 6.6
 15K
Alice (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in ...
Style: unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, magic, invisible man, female protagonist, magic realism, identity crisis, bored housewife, dysfunctional family, relationships, police investigation, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing ...
Style: realistic, bleak, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: soccer, youth, political unrest, friendship, family relations, soldier, obsessive quest, civil war, social relations, life is a bitch, human nature, military ...
Place: colombia, latin america
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher ...
Style: touching, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay romance, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay student, gay couple, gender, love and romance, youth, daydreamer, lgbtq ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style: sexy, sentimental, rough, light, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind ...
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: power of love, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imaginary, adventurer, alice in wonderland, prince, magic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fish out of water, alternate dimension, real world ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england, london
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, twisted ...
Plot: trippy, escape from reality, hallucination, obsession, parallel universe, memories, mansion, mentally unstable, society, artificial intelligence, mind meld, name calling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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 8.2
 700K
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another ...
Style: surreal, touching, psychological, emotional, sweet ...
Plot: love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, cyborgs, mental illness, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: south korea
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style: psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot: depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
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 5.6
 422
Field of Dogs (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A visionary romance based on a contemporary reading of Dante.
Style: allegory, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: obsession, a vision, supermarket, loss, car accident, sleeping, escape from reality, breast feeding, death of girlfriend, underground, sleep disorder, mental disorder ...
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 6.5
 11K
Memoria (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: escape from reality, introspection, self discovery, european, relationship problems, insomnia, female protagonist, puzzle, illness, in love, feeling, hypnosis ...
Place: colombia
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Strawberry Mansion (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of ...
Style: surreal, unusual plot structure, atmospheric, visually appealing, dark
Plot: surrealism, dream, dreaming, male female relationship, nightmare, advertising, insanity, escape from reality, imagination, technology, tax collector, fictional reality ...
Time: 2030s, future
Place: hawaii
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 5.7
 210
Arcadia Lost (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
Plot: teenager, mountain, train conductor, travel, escape from reality, countryside, past, rural setting, coming of age, stepbrother stepsister relationship
Place: greece
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Nathan's Kingdom (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nathan's Kingdom is a dark fantasy, coming-of-age drama about Nathan, a 25-year-old autistic man struggling with his teenage prescription-addict sister, and rather than surrendering their lives to social services, they risk it all to find a ...
Style: dark fantasy, suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: autism, drug addict, junkie, coming of age, escape from reality, brother sister relationship, family problems, drug, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, social problems, grownups ...
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Karen Kohiruimaki always felt out of place in the real world. Due to her extreme height, she found it hard to make friends with other girls her age. Everything changes when she's introduced to VR and Gun Gale Online. In GGO, Karen is free to ...
Style: anime, captivating, tense, touching, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: military, friendship, fight, virtual reality, video game, love and romance, society, dystopian future, friends, role playing, escape from reality, showdown ...
Time: near future
Place: japan
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Deadly Illusions (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A bestselling female novelist, suffering from writer's block, hires an innocent young woman to watch over her twin children. As the novelist dangerously indulges in her new best seller, the line between the life she's writing and the one ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, sexy, dark ...
Plot: lesbian romance, lesbian seduction, seductress, adultery, lesbian, insanity, female protagonist, lesbian interest, escape from reality, lgbt, lifestyle, creative block ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: subconscious, father son relationship, picnic, family relations, doctor, parents and children, coma, mysticism, escape from reality, consciousness, flashback, psychologist ...
Time: year 2016
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 6.0
 16
EXIT (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Kang Soo is a loan shark that tries to get by day to day in his depressing reality. His father's abuse lead to his mother running away from home. Thanks to his father's crippling debt, he began to work under Hwang Tae Bok. Happiness ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: life is a bitch, social issues, criminal, needing money, escape from reality, violence, stolen money, social problems, money problems, family problems
Place: korea
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Don't Cry, Hara-chan (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Echizen, who is a modest woman, works at a fish cake plant. Instead of keeping a diary, she draws cartoons of "Nakuna, Harachan" on her notebook about her daily life. The main character in her comic, Hara then appears in the real world.
Style: satirical, psychological, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: changing lives, couples, lifestyle change, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, social problems, escape from reality, in love, love story, romantic relationship ...
Place: japan
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Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
Style: romantic, captivating, suspenseful, surreal, dramatic ...
Plot: mythical creature, family relations, fantasy world, dishonesty, mythology, magic, peril, rebel, brutality, imagination, resistance, magic realism ...
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 4.9
 4K
Antibirth (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, spooky, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: drug abuse, conspiracy, body horror, pregnancy, bad kids, drug, surrealism, kidnapping, drug use, disappearance, escape from reality, social problems ...
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 139
Toxic (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motorhome to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: epidemic, insomnia, travel, relationship problems, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chaos, escape from reality, male female relationship, road trip, survival
Is relevant ?
 4.6
 107
Illusion (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eight very different people meet one night and a bar and leave all restraints behind them, that society put on them...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, erotic
Plot: swingers, swinger couple, erotic fantasy, escape from reality, aspiration, sexual fantasy, sexual desire, fantasizing, society, one night stand, relationships, lesbian ...
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