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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard ...
Style:
dark comedy, atmospheric, funny, detective, metafiction ...
Plot:
hide and seek, hidden corpse, blackmail, gang, accidental killing, murder investigation, dead body, blackmailer, police detective, learning the truth, disposing of a dead body, farce ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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771
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Lillie Langtry
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, historical romance, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
victorian england, loveless marriage, jazz, great war, forbidden love, biopic, scandal, power relations, couples, unfulfillment, opposites attract, blind ambition ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1920s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
britain, london, england, usa
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280K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Style:
inspirational, costume drama, romantic drama, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, date night, family outing
Plot:
circus, social outcast, singing, giant, success, dancing, romantic relationship, taboo, father daughter relationship, mansion, outcast, interracial love ...
Time:
year 2017, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
new york, london, buckingham palace
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, art house, sensual ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, theatrical troupe, romantic triangle, ambition, lesbian romance, passion, forbidden love, lesbian, jealousy, rivalry, desire for fame, eroticism ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a ...
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
rehearsal, photographer, flashback, mental illness, schizophrenia, airplane, schizophrenic, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, telephone call, hotel, artist ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Across the boundaries they find each other... in this post-colonial romance. A cynical English professor discovers love in the form of an admiring student. But is it too late for him to find happiness?
Style:
independent film, queer cinema
Plot:
older man younger man relationship, gay asian, gay, homosexual, teacher student relationship, intergenerational friendship, lgbtq, teacher student romance, student, first love, passed out drunk, affair ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Davis meets Zina in a car wreck. Their immediate attraction for one another is put into jeopardy when they learn each is competing for the same writing job.
Style:
sexy, independent film, crying, neo screwball comedy
Plot:
hollywood, screenwriter, film industry, rivalry, writers, regret, car accident, erotica, love, theatrical agent, male female relationship, traffic ...
Place:
venice california, los angeles, london, venice beach california, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the ...
Style:
dark, surreal, intense, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
theater, macabre, female protagonist, obsession, performance art, rebirth, tragedy, intimate, alienation, getting home, provincial, hatchet ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
Style:
political thriller, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alternate history, dystopia, nazi occupation, totalitarian regime, resistance, underground movement, collaboration, social commentary, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, propaganda, betrayal ...
Time:
70s, 1940s
Place:
united kingdom, britain
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber appear as Cavis Appythart and Millward Phelps, respectively--two jingle writers based loosely on Gilbert and Sullivan. The setting is 1880s London, and they've written a musical called "The Princess ...
Style:
christmas special, captivating, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, producer, satire, vegetable, christianity, fire, princess, love, crown prince, playwright, burglary ...
Time:
1880s
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their first child. He has a temporary job in construction to make ends meet, but the dusty, dirty job exhausts him. Across town, Mary is a manager in a tony ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, sincere, contemplative, tension
Plot:
husband wife relationship, couples, double life, suburbs, secret relationship, pregnancy, suffering, urban setting, twists and turns, resentment, theatre director, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting ...
Style:
beautiful
Plot:
taboo, chess, social problems, law, rain, hired killer, photography, killing, writers, proletarian, mirror, elementary school ...
Place:
iran, tehran iran
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666
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
A seriocomic feature about a playwright who feeds off his stubborn attraction to the wrong type of guy. When he attracts the attention of a newspaper columnist who will champion his work, success seems guaranteed until he meets her boyfriend.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema, black humor
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, confession, party, flirting, journalist, sex, jazz, photograph, homosexuality, homosexual ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, bomb threat, escape, couples, haunting, apparition, writers, a vision, supernatural, librarian, possession ...
Place:
maine
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
class society, mental breakdown, art, love interest, friendship, student, creativity, money problems, writers, politics, university, financial problem ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
Style:
crying
Plot:
writers, poet, vacation, art, albert einstein, unfaithfulness, quarrel, woods, male female relationship, family relations, heart condition, privilege ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
moscow russia, berlin germany, munich germany, london, los angeles
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A family of friends is forever changed when two of the friends realize that their love for one another goes beyond the confines of their conventional relationship.
Style:
psychological, captivating, independent film
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian romance, family relations, friendship, lesbianism, sister sister relationship, gay slur, lgbtq, couple relations, lesbian love ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
Style:
dark, surreal, meta, experimental
Plot:
dream, egoism, parallel universe, illusion, automobile, playwright, enlightenment, buddhism, spirituality, surrealism, non violence, filmmaking ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of ...
Style:
independent film, cynical, sensual
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, character study, betrayal, ambition, mishap, jealousy, passion, intimate, bittersweet, urban, personal growth, coming of age ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An expelled university student investigates the suicide of Witkacy and tries to prove that the famous artist is still alive.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, stylized
Plot:
artist, polish, fake death, mistress, death, flashback, exhumation, investigation, writers, train, rain, photograph ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 80s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, atrocity, genocide, gas chamber, debate, atheism, war crime, injustice, confined, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 1940s
Place:
europe, palestine, poland, israel, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot:
couple relations, couples, writer's life, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, midlife crisis, love affair, male female relationship, father son relationship, love, mother son relationship, curse ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, loss of husband, passion, forbidden love, impossible love, unrequited love, sexual intercourse, love triangle, older woman younger man sex, unfulfilled love, looking for love, infidelity ...
Place:
italy, europe, tennessee, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, love affair, showbiz, ego clash, fall in love, hopes, couples, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Style:
detective, poliziottesco
Plot:
serial killer, rape and revenge, murder investigation, notebook, death of husband, police detective, cemetery, murder, female nudity, sniper, playwright, police interrogation ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
cote d'azur, nice france, french riviera, south of france, france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
Style:
psychotronic, serious, realistic, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lsd, hippie, exploitation, gay, drug abuse, hospital, couples, losing-it hero, going straight, prostitute, intrigue, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellation of needy characters produces constant interruptions.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, emotional, light, captivating ...
Plot:
friends, deadline, actor's life, artists and showbiz, ambition, family relations, house, disorder, farm, actor, writers, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new york state
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, UK, Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, uplifting, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
pope, renaissance, church, biopic, vatican, bible, saint, rebellion, politics, world war two, hopes, idealism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, germany, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style:
depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, hollywood, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, lobotomy, courtroom, domineering mother, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city, new york
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