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 6.1
 60K
Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering ...
Style: suspense, surreal, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, body horror, countryside, intruder, loss of husband, domestic violence, pregnancy, rural setting, symbolism, forest, supernatural, pub ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london
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 7.1
 2K
Mademoiselle (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Style: black and white, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: female nudity, female psychopath, teacher, lust, life & death, swing, femme fatale, obsession, countryside, village, teachers and students, couple relations ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, europe
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Ginny & Georgia (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Angsty and awkward fifteen year old Ginny Miller often feels more mature than her thirty year old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and ...
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: daughter, teenager, mother daughter relationship, family relations, teen romance, drastic change of life, changing lives, coming of age, new life, mother and daughter, neighbor, woman ...
Time: 2020s
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 5.5
 71K
Blonde (2022)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her ...
Style: exciting, dramatic, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fame, actress, hollywood, traumatic childhood, bare breasts, hand job, abortion, biopic, female nudity, threesome, famous, woman ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 2020s, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place: los angeles, new york, maine
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Secret Ceremony (1968)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
Style: slasher, dark, deep, tense, psychological ...
Plot: prostitute, stepfather, mental illness, psychotic, mental disorder, twists and turns, female psychopath, underground, daughter, grieving mother, prostitution, couple relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe, london
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 7.2
 18K
Nightwatch (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot: psychopath, night watchman, serial killer, doctor, murder, bet, brutality, danger, investigation, oral sex, perversion, murder mystery ...
Time: 90s
Place: scandinavia
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' ...
Style: bleak, harsh, enigmatic, cynical, art house ...
Plot: murder, rape, class differences, master and servant, racism, frigidity, pedophilia, eccentric family, obsession, moral ambiguity, secrets, chambermaid ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, normandy
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 7.8
 34K
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Morocco, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, homosexual, childhood, father son relationship, drug addict, gender, lgbtq, gay teenager, glbt, gay interest, teenage boy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2005, y2k ...
Place: canada, quebec, holy land, israel, jerusalem ...
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
Style: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: drag queen, gay, cross dressing, killing spree, bare chested male, gay interest, dark humor, outlaw, shovel as weapon, villain as protagonist, dead body, nudity ...
Place: florida, miami
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 8.5
 1.6M
Gladiator (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 155 min.
Story: In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, emotional, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, revenge, vengeance, sword fight, ancient history, gladiator, freedom, slavery, courage, warrior, ancient world ...
Time: year 2000, ancient times, 2000s, y2k, middle ages ...
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, north africa ...
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 7.9
 437K
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must ...
Style: sad, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, psychological ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, nazi, boy, satire, nazi germany, jewish girl, nazism, first love, hitler, violence, coming of age, hitler youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 2010s, year 2019, year 1944
Place: germany, los angeles, central europe
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Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, murder, psychopath, gory, burned alive, who done it, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, danger, mind game, obsession ...
Time: 2000s, 80s
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Drillbit Taylor (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Style: humorous, funny, melancholic, not serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, teacher, friendship, nerd, youth, high school life, teenager, unlikely friendships, self defense, vengeance, protector ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Green Butterflies (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, friend, lgbt, closeted gay, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, humiliation, sexual tension, secret, father son relationship ...
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 6.8
 4K
Spellbound (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.
Style: romantic, semi serious, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Plot: supernatural ability, ghost, supernatural, performer's life, odd couple, seeing dead people, life & death, love story, friendship, mascot, magician, magic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, asia, korea
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, futuristic, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, alien, outer space, space, space travel, superpower, chase, space battle, good versus evil, megalomaniac, patricide, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future, year 1980, year 2014 ...
Place: space western, missouri
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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, nazism, world war two, concentration camp, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, slave labor, spanish civil war, forced prostitution, concentration camp survivor, nazi war criminal ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: spain, germany, central europe
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style: slasher, gothic, slasher horror, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, drifter, killing spree, love triangle, psychotic, terror, woman with a gun, female psychopath, violence, female sexist, rape ...
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 6.3
 577
The Maids (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
Style: psychosexual thriller, independent film, semi serious, realistic, detective ...
Plot: worker, cleaning, murder, love triangle, social differences, siblings relations, destiny, love and romance, master and servant, obsession, society, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: paris france
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 6.6
 18K
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, factual, intense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: child abuse, adoption, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, single mother, bad mother, mother daughter relationship, mansion, hollywood, borderline personality disorder, mother, storytelling ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles
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 4.6
 259
Bajkeri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Insufficient brothers Jakub and David, along with friend Sasa, spend most of their time in the social networking world. Relationships for them are chat with virtual girls they have never seen, living a fake fashion show in which they pretend ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative, entertaining, light ...
Plot: cyclist, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, conflict between friends, sexual humor, socially awkward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
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 5.2
 2K
Scorned (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, sexual relations, female rapist, dysfunctional family, first sexual experience, lesbian seduction, seduction, lesbianism, female villain, mother son conflict, lesbian sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the ...
Style: dark comedy, laugh out loud, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, dark humor, police officer, shootout, murder, redneck, sibling relationship, couples, injustice, couple relations, on the run, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1959
Place: new mexico
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 7.2
 66K
Force Majeure (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style: dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot: avalanche, passive aggressive behavior, marital strife, family vacation, ski resort, nervous breakdown, marriage, introspection, cowardice, ski, tourism, family holiday ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: alps, scandinavia
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 6.9
 26K
The Ref (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Caroline and Lloyd are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at ...
Style: dark comedy, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Plot: christmas, hostage, dysfunctional family, holiday, farce, marriage counselor, family bonds, robbery, christmas party, blackmail, alcoholic, dinner ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, connecticut
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 6.9
 2K
Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
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Life After Beth (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...
Style: scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, bloody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: zombie, life & death, couples, supernatural romance, death, transformation, living dead, danger, brutality, life turned upside down, couple relations, youth ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, 21st century
Place: britain, los angeles, usa
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Play Misty for Me (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, creepy, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: obsession, stalker, jazz, femme fatale, radio, insanity, murder, manipulation, stalking, unrequited love, psychotic woman, macabre ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, monterey california, usa, pacific ocean
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 5.2
 1K
The Corpse (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, noir, independent film, tense ...
Plot: monster, wedding, macabre, father, domineering father, family relations, murder, british, daughter murders father, manipulative woman, female criminal, patricide ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: london
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Nightmare Castle (1965)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, mad scientist, supernatural, murder, infidelity, rivalry, possessed woman, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, vengeance, obsession, danger ...
Time: 60s, 1800s
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