| Venus in Fur (2013) | 7.1 | |
| Sleuth (1972) | 7.9 | |
| The Father (2020) | 8.2 | |
| I Miss You (2019) | 7.3 | |
| The Miracle Worker (1962) | 8.1 |
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. ...
Style:
social, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
hunting, contamination, small town, cover-up, health, toxic, social relations, battles, righting the wronged, environmentalism, village life, price of justice ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
seduction, love triangle, valet, forbidden love, destructive relationship, power relations, couples, society, love and romance, father daughter relationship, suffering, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
ireland, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Marocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. ...
Style:
independent film, comedy drama, manga, social, tension ...
Plot:
police, drug dealing, drug, drug smuggling, hashish, smuggling, female protagonist, friendship, youth culture, youth, journey, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
morocco
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Style:
psychological, suspense, sexy, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
revenge, torture, politics, haunted by the past, brutality, dictatorship, doctor, humiliation, lawyer, justice, storytelling, attempted murder ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, eastern europe, barcelona ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, tricky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, justice, army investigation, trial, military, suicide, u.s. navy, court martial, destiny, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
washington d.c., cuba, persia, caribbean, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style:
southern gothic, emotional, intense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adultery, hollywood, betrayal, true love, loneliness, drug addiction, character study, tragedy, justice, movie star, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, california, london
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Style:
surreal, experimental, disturbing, avant garde, depressing ...
Plot:
surrealism, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, nihilism, distopia, female nudity, journey, paraplegic, mental disorder, dystopia, landscape, fetish ...
Time:
distant future, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can ...
Style:
philosophical, talky, witty, clever, independent film ...
Plot:
hotel, salesman, hotel room, marketing, midlife crisis, christian, religion, existentialism, convention, baptist, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, xian, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under ...
Style:
disturbing, stylized, psychological, tense, talky ...
Plot:
french revolution, sex maniac, revolution, insanity, art, politics, fighting the system, murder, mental illness, psychopath, chaos, violence ...
Time:
18th century, year 1967, 19th century, 1790s, 1800s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Italy, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Style:
fairy tale, gothic, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
witch, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, woods, good versus evil, singing, broadway, wizards and magicians, cinderella, medieval, imaginary, fantasy world ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the ...
Style:
thought provoking, cynical, talky, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
dinner party, couple relations, joke, friendship, under the surface, pregnancy, family gatherings, family secret, siblings relations, prank, friends, family problems ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, suspense, hood, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, mentor, gangster, organized crime, gang leader, father son relationship, mobster, african american, friendship, mob boss, white male black female relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
insanity, military, loser, brutality, murder, soldier, infidelity, obsession, adultery, jealousy, humiliation, hearing voices ...
Time:
year 1979, turn of the century, 19th century, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
Style:
witty, inspirational, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teacher, gay teenager, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt, boy, underage sex, exam, gay, youth, homoerotic friendship, gay crush ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1983, 60s
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.
Style:
retro, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
class conflict, countess, corporate greed, redheaded woman, lost love, prospector, iconoclastic, satire, conspiracy, stock broker, abuse of power, society ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 1919
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in ...
Style:
costume drama, semi serious, witty, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
exile, young lovers, gender bending, shakespeare, brother brother conflict, marriage proposal, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, mistaken identity, disorder, gender ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
Style:
detective, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, witty ...
Plot:
pink panther, murder, murder mystery, caper, investigation, farce, whodunit, law enforcement, who done it, female nudity, comic hero, inspector ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Style:
entertaining, period piece, feel good, costume drama, witty ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, country estate, love story, happy ending, comedy of manners, false identity, twists and turns, couples, social differences, friendship, comedy of errors, disorder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s, year 2002 ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2005
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style:
sexy, sexual, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, aids, gay interest, glbt, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbtq, hiv, lgbt, gay friend, gay couple, celibacy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style:
independent film, tense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, introspection, guest, family relations, best friend, family secret, family home, existential crisis, father daughter conflict, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
connecticut, usa, new england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, costume drama, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
opposites attract, countryside, shakespeare, wedding, bachelor, tudors, happy ending, true love, young lovers, wedding preparations and rituals, nobility, honest ...
Time:
16th century, 90s, victorian era, year 1993, 18th century
Place:
italy, tuscany, europe, venice, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, father daughter relationship, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Man for All Seasons is the filmed version of the life of Thomas More. An English man comes to Sir Thomas More to ask if he can divorce his wife since King Henry VIII has made it illegal. Sir Thomas More stands up in opposition to the King even ...
Style:
period piece, political, costume drama, inspirational, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
catholic, renaissance, historical event, politics, royalty, lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, saint, monarch, british history, idealism ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, year 1966
Place:
england, britain, persia, europe, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style:
historical romance, period piece, factual, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, sapphic, sex scene, polyamory, female protagonist, doomed love, anxiety, lesbian couple ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for ...
Style:
sexy, pornochanchada, erotic
Plot:
father daughter incest, neglected wife, obscenity, male nudity, prostitution, sexual deviant, erotica, father, big breasts, female pubic hair, bare chested male, bare breasts ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
bathhouse, underage girl, woman in labor, female nudity, terrorist attack, pregnancy, muslim, women, terrorist bombing, terrorism, bare breasts, social problems ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
north africa, algeria, africa, maghreb
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Parallel stories of Eros set in 200 B.C. Nomadic shepherds, plagued by drought, happen on a fishing encampment with plentiful fresh water. The local men are away but will return when it rains; the shepherds stay to refresh their flock until the rain ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, avant garde, allegory, tragic ending ...
Plot:
young love, shepherd, children, coming of age, female nudity, minimalism, surrealism, desire, unrequited love, longing, passion, sexual attraction ...
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, hellas, athens greece, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, talky, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
marital infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, unfulfillment, dishonesty, illicit affair, adultery, danger, infidelity, autobiography, friends, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
england, europe, venice, london
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