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Boys from County Hell (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Style: suspense, horror comedy, funny, psychotronic, humorous ...
Plot: vampire hunter, vampirism, vampire, vampire bite, supernatural, creature, hunting, night, violence, society, characters in danger, evil ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: ireland
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 6.2
 674
Downriver (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit from his victim's mother upon parole sends him on a quest to find the truth. With little time and danger at every turn, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
Plot: gay interest, gay teenager, gay, child murder, cover up, lgbt, gay sex, masturbation, gay son, ex convict, dysfunctional family, uncover truth ...
Place: australia
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 6.4
 1K
Silver Bells (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, family relations, museum, father son relationship, photographer, family problems, couples, relationship problems, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, christmas romance ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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When a Man Comes Home (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town´s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: small town, opera singer, hotel, maid, family relations, homecoming, musician's life, estrangement, parents and children, celebrity culture, dysfunctional family, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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 6.1
 133
Calm at Sunset (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: family relations, ship, youth, hopes, danger, coming of age, escapades, follow your dream, small town, college dropout, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
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 6.0
 6K
Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
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 6.4
 885
40 Carats (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A forty year old woman who was vacationing in Greece meets a twenty-two year old, who was also on vacation. They spend the night together and she leaves him while he was sleeping. She then returns to New York and she is stunned to learn that her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, summer, aging, older man younger woman relationship, trippy, young love, age-gap relationship, estranged husband, family relations, family problems, fashion ...
Time: 70s
Place: greece, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.6
 822
Hammer (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A father faces a personal crisis when he discovers his estranged son fleeing a botched drug deal. The two men embark on a violent odyssey that grapples with themes of fatherhood, family and fate.
Style: neo noir
Plot: cornfield, father son relationship, pawnshop, ex convict, violence, motorcycle, bag of money, murder, threat, drug deal, family life, hostage ...
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Freaks: You're One of Us (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, enigmatic
Plot: superhero, husband wife conflict, female boss, working class, childhood trauma, superpower, childhood memory, doctor patient relationship, supernatural power, electrocution, co worker co worker relationship, propaganda ...
Time: 2020s
Place: berlin germany
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 5.5
 262
Love and Lies (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Japanese government carries out a program to increase the birth rate in the country. Their program analyzes gene information from its residents and selects a marriage partner for them. Aoi Nisaka is a high school student. She is in a love ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, romantic drama, cute
Audience: teens
Plot: school, love, love triangle, parents, fertility, teenager, father son relationship, nubile, mother daughter relationship, niece, wedding, pretty girl ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, kyoto japan
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: winter, wilderness, cold weather, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mentally unstable, divorced parents, child in peril, snow, survival, parent child relationship, snowstorm ...
Place: ontario canada, canada
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 7.3
 21
Mad Drivers (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Spoiled rich boys get into drag-racing and end up in beeg trobbles.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: car, car racing, rebellious youth, accident, corruption, guilt, murder, car race, father son conflict, affair, motorcycle, arrest ...
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 8.9
 8K
Kireedam (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sethumadhavan, the son of Achuthan Nair, a Police Constable who wishes to make his son an Inspector one day. Sethu, a recent college graduate, has many opportunities to enter different fields but he goes with his father's dream of becoming an ...
Style: sad, touching
Plot: murder, dream, fight, parent child relationship, police, thug, father, family relations, father son relationship, fistfight, police station, police officer ...
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 6.9
 390
The Sparrow (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Algeria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Style: mondo
Plot: village, corruption, journalist, truck, tea, little boy, newspaper, mother daughter relationship, nationalism, bandit, fatherhood, father son conflict ...
Time: year 1967
Place: middle east, cairo egypt, egypt
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Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A story set in 1947 when Ukrainian right-wing anti-Communist guerillas, looking like and feeling like Nazi's, are trying to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy a family's countryside ...
Plot: renaissance, visitor, german shepherd, killing an animal, terrorist, surgery, courage, family in danger, uninvited guest, poacher, heroism, forest ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, year 1947
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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 5.6
 98
Gangsterland (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: gangster, gang, going straight, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, family relations, death of mother, revenge, held captive, children, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Undercover Christmas (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jake Cunningham is an uptight,workaholic FBI agent from a wealthy family. Jake is assigned to protect Brandi O'Neill, cocktail waitress, after she turns in her billionaire boyfriend for tax fraud.Jake is called home unexpectedly during the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family relations, cop witness relations, parents and children, social differences, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, unlikely couple, opposites attract, parent grown child relationship, male female relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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 7.6
 2K
Shakti (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son for the sake of his principles. This works out to ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: drug dealing, father son relationship, gangster, kidnapping, ransom, working undercover, parents and children, mistaken identity, manhood, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
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You Have My Heart (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Inspired by the Telegu (southern Indian) film, "Pelli Chuskundam," the plot follows the life of a rape victim (Aishwarya Rai). Now, a disgrace to her family, she is turned away from her house after the sexual assault. But she finds shelter ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot: prostitute, life is a bitch, love and romance, love, rape victim, illegitimate child, adulterer, love triangle, mother son relationship, society, secret, ostracism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
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 7.6
 886
Molière (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 260 min.
Story: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated ...
Style: weird, period drama
Plot: writers, art, poet, time machine, historical event, playwright, theater, killing a horse, misery, carnival, king of france, starvation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, versailles, paris france
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The 15 Year Old Girl (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: slutty attitude, young love, bad father, troubled relationship, summer, age difference, older man young girl relationship, father son relationship, promiscuity, slut, youth, father son conflict ...
Place: paris france, ibiza
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Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zip and Zap, two mischievous twins, were placed in the Esperanza, a school where the games are prohibited. There will found the Club of Marble, child resistance to challenge the authority of adults. Thanks to her intelligence, her courage and her ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, sentimental
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: boarding school, secret movement, courage, coming of age, treasure hunt, superhero, greed, strong female character, undisciplined, arachnophobia, father son conflict, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Christmas Under Wraps (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a driven doctor doesn't get the prestigious position she planned for, she unexpectedly finds herself moving to a remote Alaskan town. While she meets the locals and even starts a new romance, she has to learn to let the life she planned ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, toddlers
Plot: christmas, small town, love and romance, doctor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, christmas romance, social relations, animal, reindeer, small town life, new year's eve ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, san francisco, seattle, north america
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Roots (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
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Story: African teen Kunta Kinte, brought to America to be enslaved, and the generations of his family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, suspense ...
Plot: slavery, racism, civil war, american civil war, family history, human spirit, slave trade, african american, american south, escape attempt, black, justice ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, 1860s ...
Place: africa, usa, america, tennessee
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 7.1
 231K
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly, family outing
Plot: boxing, father son relationship, boxer, athlete's life, life, comeback, training, aging, fight, life philosophy, against the odds, determination ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, las vegas
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 7.1
 353K
Real Steel (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Style: futuristic, feel good, exciting, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: boxing, robot, father son relationship, underdog, androids and robots, technology, against the odds, parents and children, boy, contests and competitions, artificial intelligence, arena ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: usa, iran, detroit, austin texas, brazil
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 6.3
 32K
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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Ghost with Driver (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: afterlife, ghost, family relations, boss and employee, workplace, misfit partners, supernatural, dishonesty, righting the wronged, power relations, disorder, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, europe, new york
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Death of a Salesman (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make ...
Style: sincere, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: elderly, dysfunctional family, family relations, american dream, mental illness, estrangement, parents and children, american football, parent child relationship, family problems, down on your luck, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new england, usa
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 7.2
 4K
Dean Spanley (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, clever, offbeat ...
Plot: aging, family relations, supernatural, self discovery, hopes, elderly, society, guru, social differences, parents and children, dog, father son relationship ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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