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The Secret River (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: love affair, social differences, society, misfit, love and romance, australian aboriginal, colony, convict, lgbt, lgbtq, australian history, river ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: australia
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 2.7
 856
Monster (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Style: natural horror, retro, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, kaiju, deadly creature, giant monster, creature feature, snake, dinosaur, shark, octopus, creature, animal attack, mutant ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 70s
Place: colombia, latin america
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Swallows and Amazons (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the ...
Style: independent film, happy, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, sailing, boat, camping, beach, seaside, sea, family relations, lake, sailboat, rivalry, holiday ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, britain
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The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits ...
Style: captivating, tense, touching, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: teenage prostitute, forced prostitution, sex scene, prostitute, illegal immigrant, love affair, poverty, deportation, prostitution, gang, young lovers, nubile girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Melon Route (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, danger, escapades, immigrant, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
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The Pagan Queen (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A controversial film about the end of the old pagan world in central Europe, THE PAGAN QUEEN is based on the Czech legend of Libuse, the Slavic queen of 8th century Bohemia. Gifted with supernatural powers, a visionary and a seer, this extraordinary ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sentimental, costume drama ...
Plot: rivalry, supernatural, rebellion, love affair, medieval, barbarian, rebelliousness, destiny, pagan, queen, slavic mythology, political intrigue ...
Time: middle ages, 8th century
Place: prague, europe
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 3.0
 994
Supergator (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: mutant, dinosaur, alligator, creature feature, crocodile, experiment gone awry, survival, dangerous animal, danger, chaos, laboratory, escapades ...
Time: prehistory, jurassic, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, mexico
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 2.6
 2K
Ghost Lake (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, scary, offbeat ...
Plot: zombie, isolation, small town, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, mentally unstable, dealing with death, family in danger, small town life, resort ...
Time: 21st century
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Lake Placid 2 (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is protecting her nest, wreak havoc on the locals.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer animal, crocodile, animal attack, creature, voyeur, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, female nudity, bare breasts, parents and children, hitman ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: With school out for the summer, the Littles are vacationing in a cabin by the lake, and Stuart is so excited he could burst! But when Snowbell the cat is captured by a mean-spirited creature known simply as the Beast, it's up to Stuart and a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: partner, best friend, daring rescue, rescue, danger, imaginary, escapades, pirate, misfit, getting home, young heroes, friendship ...
Place: usa
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 4.6
 1K
Solo (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenage girl is terrorized when she spends two nights alone on a remote island as part of her camp counselor initiation.
Style: scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: camping, wilderness, woman in danger, camp counselor, murder, survival, danger, isolation, nightmare, camp, confined, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Lake Placid 3 (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A game warden moves his family to Lake Placid, once the site of deadly crocodile attacks. Locals assure him the crocs are gone, but his mischievous young son finds a few baby crocs and begins feeding them. They quickly grow into very big adults and ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: animal attack, crocodile, killer animal, killer crocodile, dangerous animal, creature, danger, survival, disorder, female pubic hair, voyeur, bare breasts ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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 4.9
 1K
Cell 213 (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: prison, confined, exorcism, supernatural, ghost, vengeance, loss, evil, good versus evil, peril, murder, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure (2006)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, South Korea
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When his Granny comes down with a mysterious ailment, Franklin and his friends must search for the treasure of Turtle Lake. This is said to be a talisman that can cure the illness.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: turtle, young heroes, mischievous children, heroes, adventurer, family relations, disorder, youth, treasure hunt, escapades, danger, orphan ...
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 6.0
 212
Almost Heaven (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, redemption, couples, one more chance, artists and showbiz, hopes, couple relations, rescue, actor's life, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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 4.3
 925
Sam's Lake (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by a murder-mystery-turned-legend surrounding a massacre near "Sam's Lake," the film follows Sam, a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage she grew up in, to reconnect with her traditions ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mysterious character, psychopath, urban legend, danger, wilderness, woods, best friend, redneck, serial killer, youth, violent content, profanity ...
Place: usa
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 5.7
 9K
Bag of Bones (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
TV show
Story: Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, stylized, scary, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, curse, stephen king, supernatural, writers, murder, drowning, writer's life, supernatural horror, rape, novelist, paranormal activity ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: maine, nova scotia, usa
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Magic in the Water (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: creature, sea monster, youth, loch ness monster, vacation, giant monster, monster, kaiju, dinosaur, family relations, boy, father son relationship ...
Place: british columbia
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Heart of Darkness (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Style: cult classic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: survival, greed, insanity, community, manhunt, wilderness, narration, belgian history, ivory, boat, nature, apocalypse ...
Time: victorian era, 90s
Place: congo, africa
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 6.0
 737
Lakeboat (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale ...
Style: surreal, satirical, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: working class, graduate student, adaptation, ship, college, machismo, coming of age, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, student, father son relationship, trust ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, tennessee, boston
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and ...
Style: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, snake, treasure hunt, animal attack, survival, expedition, monster, killer animal, dangerous animal, creature, eaten alive, greed ...
Time: jurassic, year 2004, 2000s
Place: borneo, new york, usa, indonesia
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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Kirk Redgrave and Flint Weaver met only three weeks ago. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming the greatest pirates the Great Salt Lake has ever known. Still, pirate life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. For Kirk, it's ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: pirate, adventurer, treasure hunt, friends, danger, escapades, rebelliousness, rivalry, buddies, curses spells and rituals, ocean, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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Who Loves the Sun (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, love triangle, infidelity, childhood friend, friendship, family relations, couples, betrayal, rivalry, best friend, friends, island ...
Time: future
Place: usa, new york
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 4.1
 27K
Shark Night 3D (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, survival, killer animal, underwater, creature, water, dangerous animal, danger, youth ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
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 7.3
 14K
Summer Storm (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the ...
Style: touching, emotional, sexual, light, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay teenager, coming of age, gay love, summer camp, gay sex, erotica, self discovery, homosexuality, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, bavaria
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 6.3
 7K
The River (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere
Plot: farmer, courage, survival, natural disaster, small town, society, river, countryside, strike, union, weather, volunteer ...
Time: 80s
Place: tennessee, usa, alabama, birmingham alabama
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, rape, female protagonist, religion, hippie, mind control, paranoia, brainwashing, family drama, manipulation, character study, obsession ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: connecticut, new york, new york state, usa
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, philosophical, art house, surreal ...
Plot: insanity, expedition, jungle, conquistador, amazon river, treasure hunt, obsession, river, legends and myths, amazon, megalomaniac, el dorado ...
Time: 16th century, year 1972, medieval times, ancient times
Place: south america, peru, germany, spain, andes mountains ...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Style: inspirational, romantic, sentimental, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: desert, fishing, fish, muslim, love and romance, doubts and hesitations, midlife crisis, friendship, businessman, culture clash, greed, love story ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, scotland, london, afghanistan
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 6.8
 157K
The Lake House (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, impossible love, couples, architect, pen pal, autumn, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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