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How to Be a Man (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.
Style: humorous, realistic, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, dark humor, life is a bitch, introspection, odd couple, buddies, couple relations, partner, power relations, terminal illness, teaching the ways of the world, alone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 37K
Only Yesterday (1991)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature ...
Style: touching, anime, melancholic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: countryside, childhood, friendship, coming of age, adolescence, self discovery, introspection, village life, childhood memory, deadend life, strong female character, children ...
Time: year 1991
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 7.3
 65K
Fish Tank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style: bleak, emotional, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: age difference, mother's boyfriend, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, rebelliousness, coming of age, dancing, youth, life is a bitch, sex with a minor, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Lost in Translation (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, offbeat, psychological, artsy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: loneliness, midlife crisis, age difference, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, alienation, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, self discovery, relationships, adultery ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, america, yale university ...
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 7.1
 41K
The Believer (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection, violence spree ...
Time: year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place: israel, new york, usa, argentina, germany
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 7.0
 2K
Amish Grace (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated ...
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, amish, murder, forgiveness, hopes, death in the family, religions or cults, dealing with death, introspection, child murder, hate, mass murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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The Ultimate Gift (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: self discovery, terminal illness, inheritance, christian, lawyer, ranch, life is a bitch, cancer, introspection, youth, friendship, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2006
Place: tibet, south america, ecuador, texas
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Tell Me You Love Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tell Me You Love Me is an American cable television drama series that premiered on HBO and on The Movie Network on September 9, 2007. The series was created by Cynthia Mort and originally conceived as Sexlife. The pilot episode was produced and ...
Style: erotic, realistic, talky, sensual, art house ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, sex, seduction, lust, couple relations, sexual relations, marital problem, introspection, young lovers, psychologist, thirtysomething life, up and down relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.9
 319K
The Wrestler (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with ...
Style: depressing, emotional, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, fame, father daughter relationship, self destructing, professional wrestling, stripper, ambition, character study, father daughter estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, iran, bolivia, usa, north america
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TharnType: The Series (2019)
Genre: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Type is a dark, tall and handsome freshmen. Although he’s a warm boy, he is homophobic because he was molested by a man as a child. His life turns up side down when the new year of college brings along a very interesting person in his life, a gay ...
Style: yaoi, sexy, captivating, romantic, dorama
Plot: gay, gay relationship, boys love, lgbt, friendship, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay romance, life changing experience, gay asian, childhood trauma, school ...
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 7.5
 63K
Pain and Glory (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, twist ending, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, movie business, filmmaker, lgbt, actor, introspection, addiction, cinema, drawing, childhood memory, nostalgia, death of mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1985, 1950s, year 1981
Place: spain, madrid
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With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: introspection, letter, family relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, road not taken, following a dream, rise to the top, life philosophy, child's point of view, lifestyle change, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 7.7
 10K
Being Erica (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5, 2009 to December 12, 2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was originally announced by the CBC as The Session, but was retitled Being Erica before ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, witty, clever, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: time travel, self discovery, therapy, thirtysomething life, haunted by the past, road not taken, changing the past or future, destiny, lifestyle, introspection, hopes, loss of sibling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 6.8
 220
Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, dealing with death, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, loss of loved one ...
Time: year 2009, year 1972
Place: lyon, europe, france, paris france
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 7.6
 184K
25th Hour (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style: depressing, psychological, emotional, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, drug, drug dealer, drug lord, 9/11, betrayal, freedom, redemption, great ending, mistrust, prison ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.2
 5K
The Clown (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot: circus, self discovery, introspection, follow your dream, identity crisis, on the road, escapades, parents and children, family relations, countryside, clown, unfulfillment ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 7.2
 12K
The Club (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, cynical ...
Plot: priest, altar boy, clergy, introspection, isolation, haunted by the past, religion, revenge, child abuse, nun, small town, tragic event ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, pacific ocean, santiago chile
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The Misfits Club (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story focuses on Valeria (Charlotte Vega), a young woman who has just moved to Madrid after the separation of their parents. In her new school, Valeria is forced to attend a meeting with the counselor who also serves other classmates. What at ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, teenage love, friendship, teenage life, introspection, teenager, social relations, youth, high school life, high school student, fight, humiliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, spain
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 5.2
 1K
Ashley (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage girl, distraught from her vain attempt to connect with her estranged mother, resorts to cutting herself. When she develops an online relationship with an older woman, she learns to accept her sexuality and the endless solitude of sprawling ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, psychological, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, teenage girl, coming of age, solitude, introspection, teenage life, family problems, losing-it hero, teenage love, estranged mother, estrangement, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.0
 33K
Danny Collins (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Style: sentimental, touching, inspirational, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: aging, rock star, musician's life, elderly, midlife crisis, transformation, musician, family relations, introspection, starting over, cancer, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, year 2014, year 1971, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, usa, new york
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, switzerland
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The Book of Life (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus ...
Style: humorous, surreal, enigmatic, futuristic, philosophical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, life philosophy, hopes, society, introspection, dialogue, rivalry, moral dilemma, destiny, legends and myths, religions or cults, save the world ...
Time: year 2000, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, jerusalem, empire state building manhattan new york city
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Chinese Coffee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a ...
Style: psychological, serious, talky, clever, existential ...
Plot: friendship, poet, introspection, lifestyle, prodigy, writers, unsuccessful, betrayal, crumbling marriage, up and down relationship, jealousy, politics ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Caged (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a "unicorn", a nickname for single women who indulge ...
Style: erotic, psychological, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, captivity, erotica, sexual torture, uncover truth, introspection, infidelity, downfall, life is a bitch, confined, family problems, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
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Ivans xtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, spiritual ...
Plot: uncover truth, introspection, rise and fall, ambition, life is a bitch, showbiz, drug abuse, self destructing, hollywood, death, spirituality, skinny dipping ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 5.6
 8K
Elles (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, journalist, society, ambition, introspection, hopes, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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While We're Young (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
Style: independent film, witty, ironic, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: hipster, older woman younger man relationship, friendship, marriage, couples, coming of age, midlife crisis, introspection, childless couple, baby, writers, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style: realistic, stylized, period piece, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, introspection, love and romance, regret, looking for love, society, maid, countryside, sister sister relationship, women, love, world war one ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, visually appealing, lyrical, captivating ...
Plot: jazz, musician, biopic, music, songwriter, success, artist, art, musician's life, introspection, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s ...
Place: paris france, france, israel, europe
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 6.7
 2K
The Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of a ten-year-old girl left alone in her house in the summer of 1981.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: youth, childhood, coming of age, countryside, friendship, friends, introspection, peer pressure, regret, home alone, hopes, when the parents are away ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, africa, eastern europe
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