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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of ...
Style:
exciting, period piece, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, war, art theft, art, nazi germany, painting, nazism, nazi, gold bar, stolen gold, treasure hunt, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, year 1977, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, austria, england ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study ...
Style:
captivating, breathtaking, costume drama, serious, scenic ...
Plot:
medicine, follow your dream, surgery, apprentice, medieval, culture clash, medical school, orphan, healer, doctors and patients, ambition, christian ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century, medieval times, year 2014, 12th century ...
Place:
persia, iran, germany, israel, london ...
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63K
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually stunning, cerebral, melancholic ...
Plot:
nun, family secret, faith, world war two, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, suicide, character study, confronting the past, orphan ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 2010s, year 2016, 90s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, israel, europe, denmark
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, who clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, rough, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hunter, wilderness, chase, revenge, uninhibited rivalry, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, mortal combat, woods, survival, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2013, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
georgia, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, usa, belgrade serbia ...
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16K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Style:
touching, captivating, sincere, historical drama, sex comedy ...
Plot:
world war two, japanese history, emperor, politics, investigation, occupation, military, forbidden love, war crime, moral dilemma, ruler, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945, post world war two ...
Place:
japan, asia, berlin germany, china, tokyo ...
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16K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, sincere, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, hitler, children, coming of age, youth, war, concentration camp survivor, children in wartime, child as adult ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 90s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, russia, hamburg germany, berlin germany, poland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, surreal, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, estrangement, religions or cults, moral dilemma, writers ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, seattle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sweet, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
politics, public nudity, sex, bare breasts, cheating girlfriend, love story, nudity, promiscuous woman, coitus, family history, activism, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, algeria, berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, military, rescue mission, pow, world war two, prisoner of war camp, prison, special forces, japanese occupation, prison escape, world war, escape attempt ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
the philippines, asia, pearl harbor, manila philippines, germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music ...
Style:
feel good, sexy, period piece, stylized, erotic ...
Plot:
hippie, music festival, closeted homosexual, music, lsd, gay, counterculture, small town, eccentricity, abstract art, nude bathing, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 60s, year 1969, 70s
Place:
woodstock, new york, new york state, bangkok thailand, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of ...
Style:
factual, brutal, intense, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, nazi, nazism, wartime, war, military, nazi occupation, gestapo, terrorist, courage, manhunt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
scotland, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, finland ...
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18K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in ...
Style:
christian film, christmas special, biblical, touching, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, adult
Plot:
jesus, christianity, christmas, angel, religion, pregnancy, christian, bible, children, religions or cults, priest, miraculous event ...
Time:
1st century, biblical epic, year 2006, 1st century b.c.
Place:
holy land, middle east, palestine, jerusalem, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
blind character, loneliness, happy ending, nurse patient relationship, haunted by the past, disability, trauma, accident, burn victim, blind man, love, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Morocco, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Style:
epic, serious, costume drama, period piece, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
knight, sword fight, war, medieval, crusade, battles, warrior, siege, muslim, crusader, sword and shield, christianity ...
Time:
middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 2005 ...
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, palestine, holy land, england ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his ...
Style:
humorous, talky, touching, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
old west, rabbi, fish out of water, culture clash, friendship, partner, happy ending, heist, disorder, polish, odd couple, buddies ...
Time:
year 1979, 50s, 20th century, 1850s, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, california, poland, philadelphia, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, disturbing, harsh, touching ...
Plot:
boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, german soldier, anti semitism, pow, boys' school, youth, military school, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name, based on the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus. The film was directed by Norman Jewison. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson were nominated for two 1974 Golden Globe Award for ...
Style:
stylized, talky, intense, cult classic, retro ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
betrayal, dancing, rock and roll, music, desert, christianity, broadway, hopes, storytelling, adaptation, greed, creativity ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century, 70s
Place:
middle east, israel, ancient greece, palestine, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, sincere, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
sex, holocaust, sexual harassment, suicide, love triangle, affair, jealousy, nazi, wartime, fascism, unrequited love, manipulation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, eastern europe, budapest, europe, hungary ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, talky, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, writers, brutality, haunted by the past, redemption, voyeur, lost love, character study, justice, self destructing, tennis, hidden identity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
oxford university, new england, massachusetts, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, hood, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
workplace, beauty salon, hairdresser, urban, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, african american, family relations, society, buddies ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, usa, north america, illinois ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
Style:
clever, funny, absurd, talky, witty ...
Plot:
wedding, honeymoon, obsessive love, love triangle, marriage, bride and groom, adultery, infidelity, bittersweet, cheating, groom, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
florida, minnesota, miami, minneapolis minnesota, middle east ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
Style:
hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male nudity, black, fraternity, blaxploitation, hip hop, campus, college life, school, coming of age, african, urban, black history ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, atlanta georgia, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, USA
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, christian film, thought provoking, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Plot:
jungle, slavery, clergy, redemption, colonialism, missionary, massacre, river, native american, jesuit, genocide, religion ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 1986
Place:
south america, portugal, argentina, brazil, latin america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, the Venta ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, art house, psychedelic, visual ...
Plot:
literary, medieval, surrealism, existentialism, renaissance, napoleonic wars, magic realism, multiple storylines, storytelling, occult, temptation, inquisition ...
Time:
18th century, year 1965, 19th century
Place:
spain, poland, eastern europe, europe, japan ...
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12K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia
Style:
disturbing, depressing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, rape, atrocity, redemption, breast feeding, bosnian war, mercenary, ethnic cleansing, hopes, genocide, soldier, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe, serbia, bosnia herzegovina ...
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44K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker is nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, stephen king, blackmail, nazism, violence, high school, murder, war criminal, obsession, world war two, death ...
Time:
year 1984, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven ...
Style:
black comedy, humorous, disturbing, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
world war two, prison, dark humor, concentration camp, nazi, survival, mental disorder, pow, prisoners of war, prostitution, male nudity, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 1930s
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, southern italy, russia ...
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