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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, prison escape, art theft, mentor protege relationship, murder, luxury hotel, escapades, painting, gunfight, greed, fictional country, mentor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: eastern europe, alps, europe, america, persia ...
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 7.9
 118K
Elementary (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with ...
Style: detective, witty, talky, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, sherlock holmes, private detective, talented, female partner, prodigy, mind game, riddles and clues, unconventional method, mastermind, law enforcement, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, victorian era, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 3K
Man in Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A-Cheng collects debts for a gangster and doesn't skimp on violence, but he can also be merciful to those who deserve it. He has a crush on Hao-ting, the daughter of one of the debtors, but he only knows the underworld and so embarks on a ...
Style: talky, emotional, romantic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: love, debt, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, couples, teen romance, friendship, relationships, couple relations, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan
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Isekai Cheat Magician (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: As regular high school students Taichi and Rin disappeared in a beam of light. When they came to, the two of them were already in a world of swords and magic. Finally getting away after experiencing an attack by monsters, following the suggestion of ...
Style: anime, talky, funny, entertaining, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: parallel world, battles, magician, magical, isekai, monster, strength, danger, young heroes, magic, supernatural ability, supernatural ...
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 5.8
 2K
Faithful (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style: talky, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, female protagonist, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, marriage, adultery, depression, killer, assassin ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Under Suspicion (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, talky, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, serial killer, rape, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, twists and turns, investigation, psychology, plot twist, mind game, pedophile ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: puerto rico, latin america
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 6.4
 25K
London (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend.
Style: talky, psychological, romantic, intense, serious ...
Plot: love, nudity, couple relations, drug, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, hopes, introspection, addiction, dysfunctional relationship, party, cocaine ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 62K
Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: business, women, workplace, secretary, workplace romance, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, career, boss, strong female character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 96K
Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style: visually appealing, witty, surreal, touching, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, virginity, high school, school, teenager, teenage love, high school life, youth, teen angst, social relations, loss of virginity ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 80s, 20th century
Place: wales, england, britain
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 7.3
 16K
Taxi (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. ...
Style: talky, political, surreal, sincere, touching ...
Plot: taxi, society, passenger, honest, life philosophy, workplace situations, city life, filmmaking, taxi driver, life, found footage, claustrophobia ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran, tehran iran, middle east
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 7.1
 22K
Barfly (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, poet, writers, misfit, alcoholic, biopic, mentally unstable, drinking, loser ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 5.4
 106K
The Counselor (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Style: neo noir, talky, bleak, suspense, philosophical ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug cartel, cocaine, lawyer, greed, betrayal, brutality, gratuitous violence, drug traffic, drug dealing, runaway, moral ambiguity, femme fatale ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: mexico, peru, texas, usa, chicago ...
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 7.1
 5K
Simple Men (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost ...
Style: road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, transformation, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, missing person, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, on the road, husband wife relationship, friendship, eccentricity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: usa, new york, florida, maryland, pennsylvania ...
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Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Style: talky, entertaining, intellectual, factual, disturbing ...
Plot: artist, art, politics, government, depression, capitalism, greed, world politics, congress, adaptation, justice, manipulation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 9K
Punchline (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style: talky, humorous, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot: stand up comedian, creativity, showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, self discovery, nightclub, housewife, friendship, couples, performer's life, comedian ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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 6.1
 28K
Dom Hemingway (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Style: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, dark humor, safecracker, crime gone awry, dysfunctional family, bank robbery, sex scene, temperamental, criminal heroes, hopes, caper, money ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, france, europe, french riviera, london
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 6.7
 15K
The Paper (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style: talky, clever, sentimental, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: journalism, newspaper, workaholic, newspaper editor, journalist, workplace, media, satire, husband wife relationship, ambition, introspection, relationship vs career ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on ...
Style: mockumentary, talky, humorous, intense, captivating ...
Plot: punk, music, punk rock, on the road, existentialism, rock music, music band, rock and roll, artists and showbiz, friends, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver, winnipeg, british columbia, los angeles
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 7.4
 23K
Game Change (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the ...
Style: political, talky, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, american politics, campaign, election, president, presidential election, propaganda, secrets, world politics, idealism, greed, betrayal ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, alaska, washington d.c., pennsylvania, england ...
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
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 6.6
 10K
Big Fan (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas ...
Style: talky, disturbing, bleak, dark comedy, witty ...
Plot: american football, character study, obsession, football, loser, obsessed fan, eccentricity, loneliness, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, hospital, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, usa
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 6.6
 7K
Q & A (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style: talky, intense, neo noir, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
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 6.0
 9K
Paper Heart (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, divorce lawyers, a group of children and more, the ...
Style: talky, intense, mockumentary, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, friendship, true love, interracial romance, love, filmmaking, looking for love, hopes, human nature, couples, friends, optimism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, california, new york, toronto ontario canada, nashville tennessee ...
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 7.4
 9K
Ten (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style: talky, melancholic, intense, light, thought provoking ...
Plot: character study, car, storytelling, relationships, driver, society, life is a bitch, passenger, sibling relationship, family relations, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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 7.1
 91K
Half Nelson (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
Style: depressing, independent film, talky, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, drug addiction, drug, student, addiction, drug abuse, friendship, ghetto, loneliness, school, existentialism ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style: surreal, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot: child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by ...
Style: talky, humorous, funny, melancholic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family drama, stereotypes, happy ending, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, construction worker, parents and children, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: long island
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 5.9
 16K
200 Cigarettes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Style: talky, witty, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: new year's eve, love, friendship, couples, nightlife, new year, love and romance, cigarette smoking, sexual dysfunction, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life ...
Time: 80s, year 1999, year 1981, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
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