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Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Louis C.K. is back on HBO in an ALL-NEW hour of raw no-holds-barred stand-up comedy! The creator and star of the 2006 comedy series Lucky Louie, performs in front of a live audience in LA at the Henry Fonda Theater. Louis C.K. covers issues near and ...
Style: witty, humorous, sincere, cynical, not serious ...
Plot: stand up comedian, stand up comedy, physical appearance, couples, social problems, couple relations, artists and showbiz, performer's life, theater, sexual dysfunction, live performance, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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 7.3
 4K
Tilt (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, power of love, teenage love, political unrest, friendship, revolution, longing, buddies, coming of age, social problems, youth, ghetto ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, germany, bulgaria
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 7.5
 11K
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style: lyrical, stylized, talky, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, rebellion, youth, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china
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 6.7
 24K
Crossing Over (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, ...
Style: serious, realistic, political, emotional, intense ...
Plot: culture clash, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, illegal alien, illegal immigrant, deportation, immigrant, social differences, society, female nudity, interracial relations, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, bangladesh, southern california, tijuana mexico ...
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 6.7
 11K
Catch a Fire (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style: tense, political, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, racism, politics, rebellion, fighting the system, apartheid, police brutality, civil rights, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1980, year 1991 ...
Place: south africa, africa, angola
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 7.1
 74K
District B13 (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ghetto, gang, parkour, fight, undercover cop, tough guy, bomb, betrayal, urban ghetto, crime boss, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, year 2004, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 8.3
 26K
Key & Peele (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key ...
Style: sketch comedy, feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedian, translator, sketch, african american, black american, artists and showbiz, partner, blacks and whites, racial slur, social problems, friends, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.4
 94K
Biutiful (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style: depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single father, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
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Small-Time Traders (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: It's a story about strong women of the mid 1990s in post-soviet Russia. About the women who had to carry on their shoulders all the hardships of providing for families during the period of «original accumulation of capital».
Style: realistic, inspirational, emotional, sincere, captivating
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rivalry, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, workplace problem, temper, money problems, financial problem, family life, life is a bitch, social problems, strong female lead, women, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
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Semantic Error (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Choo Sang-woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. Jang Jae-young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Choo Sang-woo. Will Sang-woo be able to work with Jae-young as an artist and engineer?
Style: captivating, suspense, homoerotic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, enemies to lovers, lgbtq, opposites attract, lgbtqi, unlikely friendships, social problems, life is a bitch, training, relationship problems, computer nerd ...
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 9.1
 9K
My Mister (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.
Style: dorama, thought provoking, sincere, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: hardship, healing, life is a bitch, relationships, social problems, supportive friend, employee employee relationship, workplace, loneliness, stealing money, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: east asia, thailand
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 7.9
 16K
Loudermilk (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored, and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under ...
Style: light, sincere, captivating, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Plot: recovering alcoholic, recovery, abstinence, support group, counselor, drinking problem, social problems, society, social relations, coworker relationship, drunken man, drunkenness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Down-on-his-luck Koushi Nagumo wanders the streets unemployed, homeless and in search of his next meal. His fortunes improve after a chance meeting with a vivacious young woman whose proposition seemingly solves nearly all his problems. Thanks to ...
Style: ecchi, anime, entertaining, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: harem, dormitory, changing lives, teenage life, teenager, slice of life, social problems, lifestyle change, troubled past, sorority, female nudity, skinny dipping ...
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 7.4
 1K
Yong Pal (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Tae Hyun is a promising young surgeon, but his finances take a dive when his sister's health condition requires costly dialysis treatments. When Tae Hyun subsequently falls into a vicious cycle of debt, he assumes the alias of "Yong ...
Style: captivating, dorama, suspense, tense, medical drama ...
Plot: criminal, social problems, doctor, corruption, couple relations, criminal underworld, financial problem, group of criminals, street gang, criminal gang, family problems, money problems ...
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Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits- (2018)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: After losing her grandfather, Aoi—a girl who can see spirits known as ayakashi—is suddenly approached by an ogre. Demanding she pay her grandfather’s debt, he makes a huge request: her hand in marriage! Refusing this absurd offer, Aoi decides ...
Style: anime, feel good, sincere, light, captivating ...
Plot: cooking, supernatural, parallel world, friendship, couples, japanese mythology, love affair, male female relationship, supernatural ability, changing lives, demon, rivalry ...
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 7.1
 2K
T@gged (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 18 min.
TV show
Story: t@gged is a modern day thriller that explores the terrifying risks of social media in a world of anonymity.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, social media, blackmail, secret identity, teenage life, group of friends, teenage girl, social problems, society, adolescence, schoolgirl, mysterious character ...
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 7.3
 2K
Gokusen (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, dorama ...
Plot: yakuza, teacher, school teacher, school, teachers and students, hardcase students, gain trust, mischievous children, criminal syndicate, social problems, coping, female protagonist ...
Place: japan
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 6.8
 54K
To the Bone (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style: bleak, captivating, motivational, emotional, teen ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, illness, anorexia, therapy, suicide, sister sister relationship, self harm, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, arizona
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 6.4
 626
Piggies (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: rent boy, abused child, teenage prostitution, male prostitution, 13 year old, teenage protagonist, child protagonist, friendship between boys, gay, teenage boy, boy in peril, coming of age ...
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 7.0
 149
Shonen Maid (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After the loss of his mother, Chihiro is left alone. With no known family left, he has to find a way to move on. Things aren’t looking good until a chance encounter with the young and handsome Madoka—who turns out to be his wealthy uncle! Madoka ...
Style: anime, shoujo, humorous, entertaining, captivating
Plot: maid, boy, everyday life, family life, teenage life, family problems, social problems, lifestyle, chambermaid, rich and poor, homework, slice of life
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Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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American Housewife (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Plot: optimism, housewife, marriage, woman, humour, lifestyle, life, family life, social problems, province, women, nerd ...
Place: connecticut
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 7.5
 9K
Grand Army (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
Story: Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, cute, queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, gay, teenager, fight, society, social problems, coming of age, lgbt, relationship problems, social relations, righting the wronged, direction and purpose ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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 6.8
 3K
The Factory (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Armenia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, art house
Plot: problem solving, hostage, social injustice, social problems, truth, uncover truth, class conflict, conflict, eccentricity, injustice, capitalism, wrath ...
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 20K
The Bridge (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
Style: tense, atmospheric, detective, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, twists and turns, policewoman, murder, drug cartel, social problems, u.s. mexico border, corruption, partner, marital problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa
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 8.3
 1K
Garrow's Law (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, period piece, dark ...
Plot: judge, legal, uncover truth, lawyer, social problems, injustice, society, life is a bitch, idealism, rivalry, treason, hopes ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: london, england, europe
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Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
Style: realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, school shooting, depression, teacher, bully, school, social misfits, high school, teenage life, violence, childhood, fighting the system ...
Place: oregon
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 58
75 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, existential, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids
Plot: double life, strong female character, social problems, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret, secret life, organized crime, drug use, social realism, introspection, car accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, usa, midwest, ohio, kentucky ...
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: teacher, suicide, coming of age, friendship, poetry, poet, mentor, philosophy, teachers and students, literature, youth, teenager ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1989, year 1959
Place: vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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