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Christmas Child (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, road not taken, rehabilitation, journalism, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, hopes, family relations ...
Place: usa, texas, chicago
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 6.6
 721
Gleason (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, weeping
Plot: womanizer, actor's life, ambition, rising to stardom, relationship vs career, couples, couple relations, destructive relationship, showbiz, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, comedian ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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 4.4
 127
Runaways (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: troubled youth, juvenile delinquency, downfall, on the run, teenage life, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, society, youth, destructive relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: amnesia, murder, chief of police, memory loss, investigation, manipulation, psychopath, drug abuse, terminal illness, alcohol abuse, mind game, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: massachusetts
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 6.9
 249
Women Women (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris.
Style: semi serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, aging, actor's life, midlife crisis, ambition, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, actress, female friendship, female protagonist ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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Sanctuary; Quite a Conundrum (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: It should have been just a normal day of sex, fun, alcohol, hormones and debauchery for Tabitha and Mimi, two over-privileged twenty-somethings. But that so-called normalcy gets tossed out the window when a devastating event occurs at a pool party.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: pirate, best friend, youth, sexual relations, alcohol abuse, friends, couples, religions or cults, thirtysomething life, lesbian, social media, party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, holland
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The Light Shines Only There (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching, romantic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, life is a bitch, fall in love, social decay, society, love and romance, friendship, haunted by the past, friends, family problems, sexual content ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: japan, hokkaido
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival ...
Style: melancholic, suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: music, father daughter relationship, musician's life, prodigy, rising to stardom, character study, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, relationship vs career, showbiz, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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Road to Victory (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A star athlete on the verge of turning pro must decide which dream to pursue while he battles his own body.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: infidelity, love affair, relationship vs career, rise to the top, athlete's life, ambition, breakup, couples, fall in love, doctors and patients, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
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Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, sex comedy ...
Plot: fashion, mother daughter relationship, starting over, family relations, parents and children, celebrity culture, love and romance, society, thirtysomething life, alcohol abuse, friendship, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, canada, woodstock
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 3.9
 954
Triloquist (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, horror comedy ...
Plot: puppet, doll, murder, orphan, dysfunctional family, psychopath, family relations, estrangement, drug abuse, gory, alcohol abuse, serial killer ...
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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The Afflicted (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother (imdb.com)
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot: danger, parents and children, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family problems, domestic disturbance, alcohol abuse, siblings relations, serial killer, religion, mental illness, torture ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 1K
Cartagena (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: disability, paralysis, opposites attract, quadriplegic, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love, gain trust, one more chance, hopes, nursing, alcohol abuse, ex boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, france, latin america
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Farewell to Harry (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Plot: redemption, friendship, factory, small town, starting over, human spirit, family relations, hopes, human nature, society, lifestyle, alcohol abuse ...
Place: washington state
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 7.1
 3K
Painted Fire (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897, when Korea was in political upheaval, caught between China and Japan, the conservative dynasty dying, and peasant revolt at hand. Jang, born ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, art, politics, painting, ambition, human spirit, actor's life, hopes, rise to the top, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1870s, 1860s, 1890s ...
Place: korea, japan, asia, seoul, china ...
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Deep in the Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot: starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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Growing Up Brady (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, relationship vs career, lifestyle, workplace, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, movie studio, love, family relations, suburbs, hollywood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
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 6.1
 11K
The Brave (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, misfit, unemployment, alcohol abuse, gang, society, male female relationship, self sacrifice, violence ...
Time: 90s
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
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 6.8
 2K
Dirty Hands (1975)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, murder, betrayal, uncover truth, mind game, couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, crime gone awry, legal investigation, dishonesty, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera
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Bi, Don't Be Afraid (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, family problems, crumbling marriage, youth, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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 7.0
 29K
Pollock (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has ...
Style: emotional, intellectual, atmospheric, depressing, breathtaking ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, genius, addiction, alcoholism, bohemian life, art history, rise and fall, supportive spouse ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, long island
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that's what they've told the parole board. But when they arrive back at ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, light ...
Plot: heist, marijuana, buddies, drinking, police investigation, friends, disorder, criminal heroes, misfit, society, nothing goes right, trailer park boys ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia
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Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
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 7.5
 47K
Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, weeping, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, love triangle, alcoholic, forbidden love, tragic love, prostitution, unrequited love, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, hindu, death of protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, europe, asia ...
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 6.4
 147
All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
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 6.8
 8K
Cutter's Way (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Style: noir, neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: murder, murder mystery, revenge, investigation, existentialism, conspiracy, false accusation, veteran, vietnam war, dishonesty, alcohol abuse, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: california, vietnam, los angeles, asia, southern california ...
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 6.2
 71K
Beerfest (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: competition, beer, college, ambition, championship, disorder, buddies, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, underdog, training, stoner ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: germany, colorado, munich germany, europe, usa ...
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 5.3
 2K
Jism (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Kabir Lal is an alcoholic lawyer whose life is looking as if going down the drain. One morning he sees a stunningly attractive woman on a beach and is instantly enamored by her. By chance he sees her again in a restaurant and offers to buy her a ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dangerous attraction, sexual arousal, obsession, fatal attraction, femme fatale, crimes of passion, power relations, love affair, couples, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 5.6
 383
Streetballers (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving goals. A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: basketball, ambition, lifestyle, family problems, youth, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, society, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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