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 7.3
 9K
Undateable (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Whether it's due to a lack of style, the wrong job, or even just a bad haircut, everyone goes through a time in their lives when they're undateable. Most of us eventually grow out of it, but some people need a little more help than others. ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: roommate, friends, dating, supportive friend, looking for love, shyness, seduction, odd couple, playboy, loser, wooing, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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 5.9
 7K
Free Jimmy (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Norway, UK, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Style: cynical, realistic, adult animation, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: circus, dark humor, chase, anti hero, heroin, addiction, gang, on the road, sex, animal rights, brutality, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.8
 10K
The Good Guy (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: city life, couple relations, rise to the top, ambition, love affair, gain trust, power relations, workplace, lifestyle, dating, ex military, women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.5
 119K
Little Fockers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, absurd, feel good ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: in-laws, marriage, family relations, nothing goes right, family disapproval, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, disorder, family gatherings, comedy of errors, suburbs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, miami
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The Other Woman (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family life, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, death in the family, dishonesty, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, woman, making love, women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.5
 20K
Paper Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style: touching, tricky, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: friendship, self discovery, midlife crisis, coming of age, imaginary friend, writers, small town, depression, loneliness, character study, relationships, creativity ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: long island, atlantic ocean, usa
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The Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Style: suspense, slasher, splatter, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, survival, premonition, gory, a vision, car race, blood, torture, danger, coincidence, foreknowledge, race against time ...
Time: year 2009, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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 7.8
 9K
Baran (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and ...
Style: touching, emotional, lyrical, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immigrant, fall in love, self discovery, love and romance, family relations, youth, human nature, society, unrequited love, parents and children, muslim, refugee ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran ...
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 7.5
 48K
Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, addiction, poverty, alcohol abuse, great dialogue, drug, great ending, eccentricity, melancholy, dialogue, cat, gay ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Style: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: old west, wild west, small town, irreverent, cowboy, stereotypes, profanity, fall in love, satire, newcomer, teaching the ways of the world, notoriety ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place: usa, arizona
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. Nervous breakdown in Dundee. A self-published book, 'Bouncing Back', which was ...
Style: humorous, satirical, cynical, hilarious, funny ...
Plot: radio station, hostage, radio dj, satire, self involved, radio, desire for fame, socially awkward, ambition, goofy hero, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Packed to the Rafters (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-oriented television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show has continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The drama series features a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, getting home, couple relations, living with parents, nothing goes right, anniversary, siblings relations, parents and children, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Night Shift (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Three men working at a petrol station in Reykjavik battle boredom, strange visitors and their own customers.
Style: humorous, semi serious, tragicomedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: gas station, workplace, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, loser, misfit, friendship, rivalry, customer, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: A pair of girls seeking adventure beyond the their Western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. Based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, manhunt, strangulation, psychopath, law enforcement, danger, notoriety, bodies, murder, teenage girl, missing person ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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 6.9
 11K
Ex Drummer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Style: disturbing, offbeat, suspenseful, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot: rock, nihilism, misogynist, punk, homosexual rape, homosexual, manipulation, dark humor, rehearsal, buddies, music band, lifestyle ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: belgium
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 6.1
 23K
Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
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 8.1
 2K
Chef! (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Chef! is a British situation comedy starring Lenny Henry that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC. The show was created and primarily written by Peter Tilbury based on an idea from Lenny Henry and produced for the ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: food, chef, workplace, serial killer, restaurant, sidekick, staff, power relations, couples, temperamental, cooking and food, patronizing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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The Fairly OddParents (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around Timmy Turner, a 10-year old boy who is granted two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, adult cartoon, sitcom ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: wish come true, fairy, godparent, family relations, boy, imaginary, parents and children, friends, young heroes, mischievous children, teachers and students, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california
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 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, death, life & death, survival, characters killed one by one, destiny, danger, group of friends, disaster, freak accident, psychic, gory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, year 2003, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: suicide, suburbs, depression, overbearing parent, suicide attempt, teenager, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, teenage life, coming of age, friendship, suicidal ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, yale university
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 8.1
 7K
Dad's Army (1968)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, soldier, sergeant, captain, volunteer, british military, seaside town, war, military, warden, disorder, hapless soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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 7.7
 181K
Evil Dead II (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style: scary, splatter, dark comedy, slasher, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: gory, supernatural, evil dead, blood, dark humor, zombie, curses spells and rituals, undead, demon, haunted house, time travel, american horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, medieval times, 90s ...
Place: michigan, 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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 7.4
 189K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, breakup, rock, musician's life, love and romance, musician, rock and roll, character study, self discovery, love story, love, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
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 7.4
 219K
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style: inspirational, factual, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: environmental, lawyer, court, single mother, justice, small town, contamination, investigation, corporate crime, against the odds, lawsuit, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Only Fools and Horses (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of “Trotters Independent Traders PLC” who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: working class, cockney, grandfather, world war two veteran, black market, disorder, eccentric family, brother brother relationship, pub, short man, veteran, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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Married... with Children (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, parody, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, working class, family life, family problems, struggle, parents and children, misfit, suburbs, couples, family relations, adult humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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The Mighty Boosh (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others. The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in ...
Style: surreal, sitcom, humorous, exciting, not serious ...
Plot: absurdism, absurd humor, surrealism, obsessive quest, eccentricity, music, best friend, comedy team, fictional band, improv, magical, sketch ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: england, london
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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