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 6.1
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Instinto (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Marco Mur is an attractive, successful businessman, but a trauma from his past prevents him from getting emotionally involved with women. Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club where no one knows anyone else. But his past returns and now ...
Style: romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: intimacy, pain, sex club, ambition, danger, orgy, mother son incest, pleasure, success, past, social differences, friendship ...
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When They See Us (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min.
TV show
Story: Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.
Style: suspense, captivating, detective, political, educational ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: investigation, legal, social injustice, black, criminal justice, black lives matter, black cast, racial injustice, black history, lgbtq, suspect, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york
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 6.6
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Pages of Life (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Páginas da Vida is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from July 10, 2006 to March 2, 2007, totaling 203 chapters. The plot featured Regina Duarte as the protagonist, Lília Cabral as the antagonist, and Fernanda ...
Style: novela, soap opera, captivating, romantic, sincere ...
Plot: motherhood, illness, family problems, love and romance, family relations, twins separated at birth, foster home, relationships, social problems, relationship problems, romantic relationship, family secret ...
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are ...
Style: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, murder, small town, farce, obsession, satire, dark humor, twists and turns, manipulation, blind ambition, cheerleader, trailer park ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1995
Place: minnesota, usa
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Land of Desire (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: The saga of a woman, guided by the power of love and moved by the desire for justice, who crosses paths with a family divided by ambition and many secrets.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, novela ...
Plot: revenge, male female relationship, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, vengeance, woman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, relationship problems, bare chested male, gay ...
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 7.4
 329K
Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
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 8.0
 117K
Sharp Objects (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 421 min.
TV show
Story: Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Style: psychological, suspense, bleak, southern gothic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder, small town, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, haunted by the past, hometown, journalist, reporter, serial killer, alcoholic, self harm ...
Time: 2010s
Place: syria, missouri
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Carole & Tuesday (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Fifty years have passed since mankind began migrating to the new frontier: Mars. It's an age where most culture is produced by AI, and people are content to be passive consumers. There's a girl. Scrapping a living in the metropolis of ...
Style: anime, humorous, psychological, captivating, light ...
Plot: musician, conspiracy, politics, art, artificial intelligence, friendship, escapades, music, music industry, slice of life, pursuit, youth ...
Time: future
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Israel, Greece
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: motherhood, female masturbation, vacation, female nudity, adultery, depressed woman, beach, sex scene, greek island, girl, women, flashback ...
Time: 90s, 2020s
Place: greece
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Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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Skins (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A story about four spanish people who see themselves as freaks and seldom go outside...
Style: disturbing, tragicomedy, surreal, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: body horror, love triangle, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, outcast, self mutilation, surrealism, absurdism, psychiatrist, social misfits, society, relationship problems ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2017
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In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Style: sad, crying
Plot: adoption, foster parent, children, love, mother and daughter, youth, neglected child, poverty, poor family, adoptive mother, toys, adoptive father ...
Place: iowa
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The Night Overtakes Me (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Style: freeze frame, crying
Plot: world war two, concentration camp, prisoner, director, bare butt, looting, female politician, czech history, teenage girl, nazism, humiliation, torture ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1942
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Nachttocht (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher...who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs...he really knows how to work ...
Style: crying
Plot: man boy relationship, coming of age, homoerotic fight, homoeroticism, friendship between boys, gay interest, homoerotic friendship, male nudity, teenage boy, bare chested male, age-gap relationship, boyhood ...
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Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.
Plot: socialite, true crime, sociopath, bad mother
Place: new york
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The Boys (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on ...
Style: crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, boy, control, russo finnish war, wartime life, childhood, children in wartime, male female relationship, troubled youth, tunnel, coming of age, underage drinking ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: finland
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A Patch of Blue (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Style: black and white, talky, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot: blindness, interracial relations, interracial romance, racism, disability, friendship, racial prejudice, tolerance, blind character, prostitute, music box, black man white woman relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, new york state, new york
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Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style: surreal, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay teenager, gay, coming of age, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, friendship, teenage love, lgbt teen, boy, tiger, youth ...
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 5.5
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Shinbone Alley (1970)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Join the fun and laugh along with the "misadventures" of Archy the cockroach, a poet in his former life now having to jump on his typewriter keys to peck out his poems. Archie adores the huge-eyed, blonde, hip-swaying Mehitabel the Cat, ...
Style: surreal, independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: reincarnation, performer's life, love and romance, hopes, artists and showbiz, getting home, mischievous children, journalism, womanizer, disorder, friends, animal life ...
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Sybil (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, psychology, mental disorder, psychiatrist, children, child abuse, women, psychiatry, illness, mental health ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s
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Fire-Eater (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the ...
Plot: children, twins, control, mother daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, coming of age, motherhood, grandmother, bad mother, communist, post war ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Larry Donner is a author and writing professor who tutors people who want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his Ex-wife has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, exciting, semi serious ...
Plot: train, dark humor, writers, murder, unlikely friendships, disorder, family relations, strangulation, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, railway, mother ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hawaii, los angeles
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When her daughter Shanna is disqualified from competing for her Junior High School cheer leading squad, Wanda Holloway tries to get her ex-husband's brother, Terry Harper, to hire a hitman to incapacitate Shanna's rival or the girl's ...
Style: dark comedy, biting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: cheerleader, ruler, junior high school, serial killer, gymnastics, love, murder, dark humor, family relations, hitman, high school, family life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 5.6
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Monster-in-Law (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. ...
Style: romantic, funny, entertaining, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: wedding, mother in law daughter in law relationship, meet the parents, domineering mother, love and romance, manipulation, rivalry, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, marriage, mother son relationship, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, clever, political, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, political corruption, assassin, sniper, senator, obsession, politics, assassination ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 2004, 2000s, year 1991 ...
Place: iraq, usa, new york, washington d.c.
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Little Voice (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and ...
Style: independent film, touching, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, obsession, music, showbiz, singer, working class, british, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, talent, recluse, daughter ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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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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 5.6
 176K
Alexander (2004)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Style: epic, breathtaking, period piece, serious, factual ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: ancient history, war, conquering, battles, royalty, warlord, greek, ambition, gay, ruler, knight, mythology ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, middle ages
Place: ancient greece, greece, persia, alexandria egypt, egypt ...
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The Candy Snatchers (1973)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, depressing, controversial, independent film ...
Plot: rape, kidnapping, buried alive, teenage girl, hostage, diamond, diamonds, mute child, psychological torture, stepfather, shooting, schoolgirl ...
Time: 70s
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