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 7.6
 10K
Enlightened (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Style: spiritual, sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, workplace situations, coping, midlife crisis, sanity, family relations, ex couple relations, optimism, depression, ex husband, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 65K
The Player (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Style: feel good, light, surreal, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: success, business, corruption, fighting the system, secretary, economics, industry, dark humor, christmas, journalism, newspaper, psychiatrist ...
Time: 1950s, year 1994, 90s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 147K
The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
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 6.9
 331K
Liar Liar (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: lawyer, father son relationship, liar, lie, court, change of heart, courtroom, divorce, trial, ex husband ex wife relationship, truth, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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 7.8
 8K
Sealab 2021 (2000)
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: The year is 2021. Deep below the ocean's surface, looms a vast, magnificently high-tech compound: Sealab. A multi-national scientific station with an annual budget in the trillions, manned by a motley collection of malcontents and screw-ups who ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, adult animation, not serious, surreal ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, absurd humor, experiment, research, workplace, danger, farce, workplace intrigue, mature, stoner, ocean, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2020s, 21st century
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In Good Company (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, romantic comedy, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: workplace, advertising, business, father daughter relationship, boss, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, rivalry, new job ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, los angeles
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 6.6
 104K
2 Broke Girls (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: ambitious, financial problem, money raising, everyday life, lifestyle change, workplace situations, female friendship, friendship, diner, waitress, staff, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Come Fly with Me (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy series set in a busy airport and on the departing and arriving flights, featuring characters played by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Style: mockumentary, parody, humorous, sitcom, captivating ...
Plot: airport, pilot, staff, workplace, passenger, everyday life, tourist, society, workplace situations, comedian, comedy team, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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Childrens Hospital (2008)
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Childrens Hospital is a satirical American comedy television series and web series that lampoons the medical drama genre, created by and starring actor/comedian Rob Corddry. The series began on the web on TheWB.com with ten episodes, roughly five ...
Style: humorous, parody, not serious, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: hospital, satire, workplace, ambulance, treatment, doctors and patients, power relations, surgery, coworker, mishap, patient, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 31K
Covert Affairs (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, double life, blind man, cia, blindness, female protagonist, secret agent, blind character, female spy, cia agent, undercover, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, langley virginia, virginia
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 8.0
 11K
Ugly Americans (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ugly Americans is an American animated sitcom created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The program focuses on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker employed by the Department of Integration, in an alternate reality version of New ...
Style: adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, captivating, animated comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: boss and employee, absurd humor, city life, workplace romance, friendship, monster, zombie, imaginary, silly humor, immigrant, social worker, alternate reality ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.5
 82K
Morning Glory (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: workaholic, journalism, hotshot, media, work ethic, female protagonist, life philosophy, reporter, journalist, showbiz, relationship vs career, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
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 7.8
 29K
Nurse Jackie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to ...
Style: realistic, medical drama, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, hospital, nurse, doctors and patients, double life, medical, workplace situations, drug abuse, conflict, responsibility, suffering, medicine ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 128K
Julie & Julia (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, love, blogger, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blog ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 60s, 1900s ...
Place: paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.1
 91K
Cashback (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Style: sexy, humorous, surreal, meditative, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: breakup, supermarket, introspection, artist, stopped time, nudity, sexual attraction, girlfriend, workplace, insomnia, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, time freeze ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom, london, england, europe
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 7.0
 49K
Waitress (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot: pregnancy, domestic violence, cooking and food, small town, doctor, waitress, unwanted pregnancy, workplace, unplanned pregnancy, single mother, abusive husband, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa
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 8.2
 95K
Frasier (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: father son relationship, doctor, psychiatrist, living with parents, brother brother relationship, dating, radio, sibling rivalry, sibling relationship, verbal byplay, love and romance, uptight character ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state, manchester
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, intense, entirely dialogue, cult classic ...
Plot: office, greed, business, workplace, economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, finance, real estate, real estate agent, rivalry, wall street ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, new york, illinois, arizona, florida ...
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 7.3
 285K
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
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 7.0
 217K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, nudity, seduction, murder, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, hot and sexy, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, california, oakland california ...
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 8.5
 50K
Boston Legal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008. Boston Legal is a spin-off of long-running Kelley ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: law firm, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, courtroom drama, partner, friendship between men, society, workplace, idealism, trial, civil rights, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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 8.3
 28K
Rescue Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-death situations associated with ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: rescue, firefighter, divorce, danger, heroes, workplace, life is a bitch, team, teamwork, struggle, loss, desperation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style: black and white, political, melancholic, factual, tense ...
Plot: media, politics, television, journalist, mccarthyism, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, journalism, communism, propaganda, politician ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: new york, california, washington d.c., usa, soviet union ...
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's the 1970s, and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, absurd ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: journalism, workplace, battle of the sexes, farce, stupidity, journalist, sexism, friendship, rivalry, new job, nervous breakdown, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the ...
Style: clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: computer, programmer, inventions and discoveries, computers and web, existentialism, computer system, family relations, marriage, hacker, workplace situations, supportive spouse, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, dallas texas, texas, syria
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Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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 7.4
 348K
Up in the Air (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, travel, loneliness, business, couples, business trip, hotel, airport, downsizing, introspection, love affair, airplane ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, las vegas, iran, dallas texas, usa ...
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 8.2
 27K
Better Off Ted (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Better Off Ted is an American satirical situation comedy series, created by Victor Fresco, who also served as the show's Executive Producer. The series ran on the ABC network from March 18, 2009 to January 26, 2010. Better Off Ted focuses on ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, funny ...
Plot: workplace, office, research, boss, workplace situations, corporate world, team, success, experiment, workplace romance, scientific research, evil corporation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 8.5
 163K
The IT Crowd (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: UK Comedy series about two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: nerd, geek, workplace, computer genius, workplace situations, computer, lifestyle, teamwork, popularity, career, information technology, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, london
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