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 7.9
 343K
Marriage Story (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Style: thought provoking, sad, art house, funny, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: divorce, parent child relationship, infidelity, marriage, father son relationship, troubled marriage, theatre director, lawyer, courtroom, husband wife conflict, actress, heartwarming ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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 4.6
 45K
God's Not Dead (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After he refuses to disavow his faith, a devout Christian student (Shane Harper) must prove the existence of God or else his college philosophy professor (Kevin Sorbo) will fail him.
Style: christian film, thought provoking, inspirational, biblical, spiritual ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christianity, christian, religious, religion, religious persecution, jesus, life & death, teachers and students, repression, deception, alienation, atheism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
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 7.3
 77K
Mid90s (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for ...
Style: thought provoking, social, teen, humorous, retro ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: skateboard, coming of age, skateboarder, teenager, friendship, friends, underage drinking, underage sex, dysfunctional family, adolescence, brother brother relationship, self harm ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, paris france, florida, france ...
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 7.3
 43K
Palmer (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and ...
Style: thought provoking, touching, captivating, cult classic, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, teen drama
Plot: ex convict, little boy, lgbtq, starting over, lgbt, small town, tough guy, funeral, friendship, grandmother grandson relationship, death of grandmother, boy ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 7.4
 65K
The Mission (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to ...
Style: epic, thought provoking, christian film, harsh, spiritual ...
Plot: jungle, clergy, slavery, native american, mission, slave, jesuit, religion, conquistador, christian, slave trader, christianity ...
Time: 18th century, year 1986, ancient times
Place: south america, argentina, portugal, latin america, america ...
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 7.5
 314K
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Style: emotional, psychological, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, loss of daughter, mental illness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 38K
99 Homes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: real estate agent, single father, eviction, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, motel, workplace, human nature, parent child relationship, life is a bitch, workplace situations, financial crisis ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, florida, orlando florida
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 6.4
 37K
Compliance (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: manipulation, psychology, twists and turns, false accusation, police investigation, human nature, moral dilemma, power relations, blonde, confined, workplace situations, obsession ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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 8.1
 490K
The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." ...
Style: anime, sincere, disturbing, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragedy, friendship, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love story, teenage boy, romantic relationship, bucket list, fall in love, love and romance, friends ...
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 6.9
 43
On the Edge (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: On the Edge, a television drama about three young women who find themselves in the Middle East in the lair of terrorists. Based on real events, the series depicts how innocent people are being conscripted and turned into living weapons in their ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: recruitment, islamic terrorism, young girl, terrorism, islam, deception, multiple storylines, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, terrorist, female terrorist, organized crime, runaway ...
Place: middle east
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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 5.5
 1K
Hello Herman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: school shooting, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, losing-it hero, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, iowa
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 8.2
 187K
Klaus (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A postman is posted to a frozen town in the North - where he discovers Santa Claus is hiding out.
Style: feel good, thought provoking, touching, sincere, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: christmas, santa claus, children, postman, friendship, re-education, kindness, christmas present, small town, letter, friends, forest ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 19th century
Place: finland, fictional island, scandinavia
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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 5.3
 600
Buy Me (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Buy me is the dramatic story about hunger for fame. Katya, a young girl from a good family, a student of philology is awarded a grant to study archives in Paris but instead of heading to Paris she travels to the Arab Emirates to start international ...
Style: captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, touching
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage prostitute, rape, prostitution, dishonesty, sex slavery, prostitute, seduction, female friendship, brutality, forced prostitution, deception ...
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 7.3
 1K
Infidelities (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: An incredible story of a young woman who had a husband and three lovers. The series describes what is happening with the fate of people who are cheating and who are being cheated on.
Style: emotional, captivating, thought provoking, depressing, enigmatic
Plot: adultery, cheating wife, lovers, infidelity, male female relationship, unfaithful, deception, human relationship, girlfriend, family relations, adulterous husband, female nudity ...
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 7.0
 99K
Big Eyes (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: art, painter, painting, artist, biopic, plagiarism, secret, courtroom, abusive husband, couples, ambition, art history ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2014, 1900s ...
Place: hawaii, san francisco, california, usa, new york ...
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 7.2
 45K
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: psychology, prison, experiment, human experiment, social experiment, human nature, university, prison escape, teachers and students, character study, student, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place: usa
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 7.6
 102K
The Hurricane (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style: thought provoking, touching, inspirational, factual, motivational ...
Plot: prison, boxing, racism, courtroom, prison life, legal, death penalty, injustice, justice, biopic, african american, discrimination ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1940s ...
Place: new jersey, africa, toronto ontario canada, canada
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, somalia, britain ...
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 7.5
 12K
Submarino (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style: bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug addiction, haunted by the past, redemption, estrangement, loneliness, adaptation, drug addict, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, europe
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 7.5
 34K
Tyrannosaur (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship ...
Style: bleak, depressing, disturbing, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: abuse, rage, domestic violence, abusive husband, violence, society, frustration, brutality, social problems, cuckold, family drama, faith ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
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 7.3
 38K
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot: psychiatrist, redemption, african american, child abuse, family reunited, u.s. navy, human spirit, honest, black, justice, survival, transformation ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, san diego california, cleveland ohio
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style: thought provoking, touching, melancholic, captivating, neo noir
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, doctor, terminal illness, promise, dying, breast cancer, femme fatale, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, life is a bitch, love ...
Time: year 2017, year 1979, 70s, year 1981, 80s
Place: liverpool, los angeles, california, england, new york ...
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 7.4
 24K
Paradise Now (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, controversial, depressing ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, islam, self sacrifice, israeli ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
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