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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
theater, biopic, character study, political unrest, sacrifice, mortality, resilience, legacy, social change, illness, memory, slow burn ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Short
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
Story:
He played with some of the great pioneers of country music in some of the raunchiest honky-tonks from California to Oklahoma. Now in his final days, a beloved guitar picker whispers a final request to his wife.
Style:
reflective, poignant, emotional, sentimental, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
guitarist, country music, memory, mortality, last wish, nostalgia, legacy, aging, grief, intimate, live performance, wife ...
Place:
oklahoma, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
Style:
emotional, reflective, existential, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, personal growth, spiritual journey, transformation, second chance, acceptance, mortality, terminal illness, intimate, regret, isolation ...
Place:
central america, guatemala
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tear jerker, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
terminal illness, doctor patient relationship, tragedy, bittersweet, loss, mortality, female protagonist, hospital, intimate, cancer, acceptance, resilience ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their ...
Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, art house, absurd ...
Plot:
poverty, dark humor, class conflict, blindness, mortality, moral ambiguity, social satire, exploitation, satire, political satire, mourning, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
peru
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, reflective, existential, compassionate ...
Plot:
aids, euthanasia, dance, terminal illness, illness, lgbtq, choreography, mortality, acceptance, gay romance, caregiver, intimate ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon ...
Style:
life affirming, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, dark comedy
Plot:
retirement home, aging, friendship, hopes, mortality, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, ageism, second chance, desperation ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An evolved Greek tale set in ages past with a style of urban legend dialogue on the life of Hercules. Follow him through his bold and brave life of stories, relationships, and family. This journey of Hercules follows the hero from childhood and ...
Style:
captivating, mythical, dramatic, emotional, period drama
Plot:
hercules, greek mythology, mythology, immortality, ancient, bravery, heroism, legendary hero, courage, mythical creature, adventure hero, mythological creature ...
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his ...
Style:
life affirming, uplifting
Plot:
retirement home, aging, sea captain, elderly man, empathy, friendship, intimate, character study, companionship, humanism, mortality, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1970
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, tear jerker, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, single mother, mother son relationship, family drama, terminal illness, female protagonist, mortality, grief, branding iron, social issues, loss of spouse ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening ...
Style:
creepy, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, mystical ...
Plot:
supernatural, predicting the future, mysticism, student, fear, seeing the future, newspaper, death, flash forward, supernatural power, curse, prophecy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After being fatally injured in a car crash, a man is given three months back on earth to make amends.
Style:
captivating, exciting, thrilling, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
second chance, death, redemption, assistant, lifestyle, changing lives, fight, forgiveness, personal growth, mortality, supernatural, regret ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
narcolepsy, gay, illness, isolation, terminal illness, alienation, mortality, character study, relationships, minimalism, sexuality, identity ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
Style:
emotional, tear jerker, realistic, educational, sad ...
Plot:
poverty, turk, sacrifice, illness, brotherhood, family drama, struggle, desperation, compassion, working class, tragedy, terminal illness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Slacker Schoolboy Tim is an expert in wasting time. So what happens when he discovers he has two hours left to live?
Style:
humorous, sentimental, inspirational, touching, life affirming ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
desire, bucket list, school bully, hidden room, secret, scientific experiment, friendship, museum, dignity, acceptance, destiny, self discovery ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, patient, doctor, life, reading someone else's diary, doctors and patients, physician, life & death, magic realism, manuscript, mortality, self discovery ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
prussia
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612
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, ...
Style:
surreal, poignant, existential, tragicomedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, death, household, grief, compassion, loss, empathy, character study, symbolism, pets, mortality, absurdism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, anthology, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
death, mature, satire, love, old age, mortality, bittersweet, absurdism, everyday life, sarcasm, social realism, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A theatre actor whose health is failing gets admitted to a nursing home. Soon, he starts having nightmares that seemingly become deceptively real. The so-called nightmares were able to make him live in two parallel dimensions.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, tense, ambiguous ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
aging, nightmare, retirement home, character study, mortality, elderly man, ambiguity, hallucination, existential crisis, mental health, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties ...
Style:
realistic, psychological
Plot:
empathy, character study, humanism, working class, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, mortality, solidarity, hopes, melancholy ...
Place:
iran
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When Bussan learns he has less than a year to live, he decides to continue his life as usual. He spends his time with his friends, a band called Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Their funny adventures range from playing gigs to solving a mystery surrounding ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sincere, captivating, humorous, heartfelt ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, male friendship, group of friends, lifestyle, athlete's life, sport team, escapades, fighting illness, friends, illness, mortality ...
Time:
2000s, 2030s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
Style:
uplifting, novela, life affirming, emotional, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, literature, life, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, meaning of life, changing lives, hopes, second chance, lifestyle change ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.
Style:
dark comedy, offbeat, absurd, emotional, black humor
Plot:
debt, mortality, wedding, mourning, social commentary, religion, satire, grief, mature, bittersweet, ethical dilemma, small business ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As a director faces a series of setbacks in life including debt and divorce, his elderly father suddenly regains his youth.
Style:
emotional, semi serious, psychological, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
father son relationship, satire, parent child relationship, father, dementia, family drama, aging, parents and children, rejuvenation, changing lives, creative block, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hong kong
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276
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war one, iraq war, civil war, moral ambiguity, battlefield, morality, combat, multiple storylines, war, wartime life, battles, wartime ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Gao Yuan (Peng Yuchang), a high school student, diagnoses with muscular dystrophy and learns that his life is running out of days. He decides to achieve his only wish of being a true man before he dies. Knowing that, his best friends, Xu Hao (Wang ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tear jerker ...
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, bucket list, coming of age, last wish, teenage life, coping, child protagonist, ambition, friends, group of friends, child ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Yoel and Ewa have been married for a long time. While putting order in their papers, he finds a bank note informing him of a loan on an apartment he owns, which he never knew about. Yoel discovers that in that apartment, in the poor side of town, ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
family secret, family problems, holocaust survivor, marriage, nursing, marital problem, husband wife relationship, family relations, lifestyle change, changing lives, male female relationship, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine, Russia
TV show
Story:
Children's unit in the hospital occurs as a model of the world, where teenagers accept the real life challenges, make difficult decisions, become friends and fall in love with each other. There is no pathetic drama in the story of young ...
Style:
touching, sincere, humorous, emotional, heartfelt ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hospital, friendship, teenager, coming of age, youth, adaptation, grownups, family relations, escapades, child cancer, illness, hopes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
December, 31st. Impossible Moscow traffic, an endless rush leading to nothing, people trying to help but not making things any better. Small talk… about small things that fill one’s life — and make it pass us by too quickly. About Dad, who’s ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting, disturbing ...
Plot:
new year's eve, landscape, human relationship, brother brother relationship, loneliness, lifestyle, relationship vs career, life changing experience, family drama, terminal illness, family relations, society ...
Place:
moscow russia
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