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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style: black and white, retro, aesthetic, existential, social ...
Plot: racism, african american, poverty, racial segregation, civil rights, black, black history, working class family, race issues, family relations, segregation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, nigeria, illinois
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
Story: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, teens, family outing, kids
Plot: desert, world war one, military, british empire, camel, imperialism, historical character, battles, islam, politics, great war, train ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1962, victorian era ...
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, ottoman empire, arabia, africa ...
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 7.6
 9K
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, road movie, controversial ...
Plot: surrealism, philosophy, breast feeding, social satire, satire, traveling salesman, coffee, sex show, psychology, hotel, mad scientist, police corruption ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland, europe, east end london, london
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 8.3
 278K
The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
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 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky ...
Style: futuristic, saga, dark, visually stunning, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, family friendly, boys' night ...
Plot: star wars, space opera, outer space, sword fight, space travel, space and aliens, creature, space battle, good versus evil, jedi, alien, training ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: space western
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 8.1
 378K
Raging Bull (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style: black and white, stylized, atmospheric, visual, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, boxing, redemption, rise and fall, violent, boxer, biopic, bad temper, tragedy, jealousy, gangster, paranoia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1980, 60s, 1940s ...
Place: new york, chicago, bronx new york city, italy, miami ...
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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Das Boot - The Director's Cut (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style: epic, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, navy, military, war, ocean, naval battle, nazi, anti war, battles, survival, ship captain ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1981, year 1942, year 1941
Place: germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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 8.2
 560K
Casino (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, gambling, money, greed, mobster, betrayal, cosa nostra, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
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 8.3
 714K
Heat (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the ...
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, heist, gunfight, bank robbery, chase, cop, master criminal, police detective, gangster, police, obsession, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
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 8.3
 1.1M
Toy Story (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from ...
Style: touching, computer animated, exciting, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, toys, wilhelm scream, rescue, toy story, toy comes to life, rivalry, friends, childhood, teamwork, anthropomorphism, birthday ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: usa, ohio
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 6.2
 3K
Cosby (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked ...
Style: sitcom, children's program, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: black, elderly, african american, american culture, blues, retirement, couple relations, lifestyle, aging, family relations, couples, retiring ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, fascism, war, courage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
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The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
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 8.1
 186K
Mary and Max (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, adult animation, black comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: loneliness, stop motion, friendship, letter, social misfits, depression, mental illness, asperger's syndrome, relationships, young woman, correspondence, imaginary friend ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia, persia, oceania, usa, new york
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, gothic, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, magical, imaginary kingdom, transformation, teenage girl, dream, cat, imaginary, alice in wonderland, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1870s ...
Place: cornwall, england, london, china
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 7.0
 149K
A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
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 8.3
 1.1M
Up (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, date night ...
Plot: dog, loneliness, friendship, unlikely friendships, follow your dream, hopes, friends, animal life, journey, obsessive quest, aging, wilderness ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south america, iran, venezuela, latin america, mount everest
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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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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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 7.6
 590K
Kick-Ass (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Style: stylized, funny, entertaining, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, manly, chick flick, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, vigilante, young heroes, vigilantism, double life, lifestyle, youth, teenager, friends, courage, misfit ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style: clever, intellectual, realistic, witty, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: entrepreneur, programmer, business, geek, facebook, computers and web, hacker, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, computer genius, success, college ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s ...
Place: harvard university, california, boston, usa, san francisco ...
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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful, intense, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, rape, murder, lawyer, murder mystery, investigator, serial killer, revenge, homicide, vengeance, writers ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: argentina, latin america, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 7.6
 356K
True Grit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style: tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place: texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
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