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The Black Stallion (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a ...
Style: scenic, inspirational, fairy tale, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: horse, horse race, child, boy horse relationship, shipwreck, survival, coming of age, beach, human animal relationship, storm at sea, friendship, racing ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: detroit, astoria oregon
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 7.3
 26K
Local Hero (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, witty, sweet ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: small town, village life, greed, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, husband wife relationship, melancholy, social commentary, beautiful scenery, village, rabbit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place: scotland, houston texas
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One Crazy Summer (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, colorful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, love, youth, eviction, summer vacation, brat pack, obsession, voice over narration, feud, greed ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
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Babette's Feast (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The guest, a General at the Swedish court, is not related to the sister, but, as a callow young man, was in love with her, but chose his military career over happiness with her. His aunt is a member of the religious community. He is the one who, ...
Style: emotional, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, talky ...
Plot: cooking, religion, cooking and food, aging, elderly, gourmet, food, wine, charity, sister sister relationship, catholic, chef ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place: denmark, paris france, europe, stockholm sweden
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 36K
Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style: touching, sweet, teen, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, teenager, love story, mother daughter relationship, young adult, father daughter relationship, loneliness, single parent, mother, fall in love ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1963, year 1964, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts, texas, dallas texas
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Enchanted April (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Style: period piece, talky, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, women, castle, love, summer, self discovery, holiday, marriage, garden, female friendship, chance meeting, vacation ...
Time: 1920s, future, year 1991, 20th century, post world war one
Place: italy, europe, london
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Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America.
Style: independent film, gothic, aesthetic, mysterious, southern gothic ...
Plot: women, feminist, black, women of color, island, feminism, african american, racism, culture clash, black history, pregnancy, memory ...
Time: year 1991, 1900s
Place: indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
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 7.5
 23K
Sonatine (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
Style: bloody, neo noir, art house, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, beach, death, gang, medieval, gunfight, dark humor, asian gangster, criminal, revenge ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia, okinawa japan, okinawa ...
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: child abuse, investigation, stephen king, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, maid, abusive husband, sexual abuse, small town, women, strong female lead, abusive father ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
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 7.3
 23K
Big Night (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Style: witty, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, culinary ...
Plot: food, cooking, chef, immigrant, business, restaurant, italian restaurant, wine, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending ...
Time: 50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new jersey, usa
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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 8.1
 722K
Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place: minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
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Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Style: period piece, stylized, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, shakespeare, twins, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, beach, disguise, love triangle, sea disaster, disorder, couples, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era
Place: cornwall, britain
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All the Little Animals (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers (John Hurt), who spends his time traveling and giving burials to ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: beach, ladybug, brain damage, pagan, politics, seaside, children, mental illness, murder, pets, on the run, escape ...
Time: 90s
Place: cornwall, london
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story: This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: victorian england, farm, beach, seaside, age difference, canceled wedding, unrequited love, social differences, rich and poor, love triangle, unfulfilled love, wooing ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe
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 7.0
 6K
Limbo (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, stranded, wilderness, parents and children, human nature, danger, family relations, drug dealing, survival, disaster, fishing village ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska
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The Love Letter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, bookstore, misunderstanding, love, comedy of errors, looking for love, writers, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new england, usa
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, storm at sea, storm, ocean, shipwreck, forces of nature, fish, sea, fishing ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, boston, nova scotia, atlantic ocean, portugal
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 14K
Good Work (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style: surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot: foreign legion, military, military training, gay, soldier, french foreign legion, desert, obsession, transformation, lgbt, battles, discipline ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, france, south africa, east africa, salt lake city utah ...
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Leaving No Trace (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic
Plot: self discovery, life is a bitch, friendship, drug dealing, society, on the road, partner, travel, escape, hitchhiker, beach, seaside ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 7.0
 11K
Under the Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable, female masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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 7.0
 39K
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, porn, erotica, explicit sex, strong sexual content, female masturbation, male nudity, waitress ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
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Let the Corpses Tan (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Every summer, Luce, an eccentric 50-something painter, spends her time in a small and isolated township, which lies in ruins in southern France, surrounded by guests. This summer, these guests are Max Bernier (an old flame, author and alcoholic), ...
Style: suspense, surreal, art house, bloody, visual ...
Plot: survival, patrolman, ghetto, gangster, organized crime, gang, hunting, fight, gold, criminal, isolation, surrealism ...
Place: corsica, sarajevo, mediterranean sea
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 50
Bayo (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was ...
Style: independent film
Plot: madness, seaside, fishing, grandparent grandchild relationship, small town, boy, insanity, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother
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 4.5
 128
Modern Love (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: JOHN, his wife EMILY, and their small son EDWARD leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance - a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is ...
Plot: mental breakdown, seaside, countryside, rural setting, psycho, lake, haunted house, personality change, villager, mysterious death, inheritance, breakdown ...
Place: australia
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This Man Must Die (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then ...
Style: neo noir, twisted, anthology, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: driver, dealing with death, swing, serial killer, time travel, justice, letter, beach, seaside, family relations, diary, hit and run ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, europe, atlantic ocean, brittany
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Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of ...
Style: sex comedy, political, parody, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: carry on, satire, labor union, british pub, picket line, seaside, factory, coach, horse race, social satire, mother, bet ...
Time: 70s
Place: brighton, england
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 5.9
 94
Terraces (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, tension
Plot: seaside, family life, social differences, friends, social relations, couples, love and romance, couple relations, tenant, apartment building, love, neighbor ...
Time: 70s
Place: california
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Any Number Can Win (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned ...
Style: noir, neo noir, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, crime gone awry, mafia, organized crime, hustler, gambler, robbery, one last job, heist gone wrong ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: cannes, france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe ...
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Sound of the Sea (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Vicent. It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious, erotic ...
Plot: lovers reunited, erotica, pregnant woman, breast feeding, nudity, female nudity, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, sabotage, couple relations, betrayal ...
Place: spain, valencia spain
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