Literature movies and TV shows – page 5
Best films
List of literature movies
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story:
At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most ...
Style:
anime, light, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
school club, high school life, art, sexual humor, school, slice of life, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, friends, teenage life, couple relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Style:
retro, art house, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lovers, teachers and students, bookstore, teacher, writers, entertainment, book, age difference, school teacher, college, philosophy, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, Latvia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
Style:
reflective, intense, non-linear
Plot:
alcoholism, coming of age, female protagonist, personal growth, resilience, mental health, soul searching, escape, domestic violence, literary, university, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Breakups happen. Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl; girl likes boy. Boy and girl decide to sleep with 3 other people first, to avoid the rebound relationship.
Style:
independent film, romantic comedy, rom com
Plot:
breakup, game, wine, girlfriend, soul mate, drinking, against the rules, dating, coffee shop, strip club, flirting, true love ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, partner, fall in love, bittersweet, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, loner, lgbt, gay, advice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back into the family he had left behind, in this novelistic, beautifully modulated drama from acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Bernard Émond.
Plot:
writers, businesswoman, poetry, isolation, lecturer, poet, inheritance, shopping mall, river, translator, teenage girl, computer ...
Place:
quebec, canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In London, an amnesiac is abducted and beaten by a stranger who calls him a "dirty son of a double-crosser." When a sniper's bullet kills his attacker the man flees the country with airline tickets provided by a wife he never knew he ...
Style:
poliziottesco, detective, grindhouse, cult classic, slasher ...
Plot:
female nudity, bare breasts, investigation, nudity, alcoholism, murderer, mysterious death, photograph, jealousy, inheritance, hiding, blackmailer ...
Place:
venice, italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the dusty town of Chaparosa, Texas, one one knows how to tame the land better than Long Bill Longley and his best friend Tom Merwin. But, can our two heroes tame the resident bad guy, Calliope Catesby, before he destroys the town? Meanwhile, In ...
Style:
microfilm
Plot:
dog, animal, talking dog, talking animal, comic book, flowers, defamation, pizzeria, heroes, horse, friend, teenage boy ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ...
Style:
esoteric, avant garde, detective, weird
Plot:
mental disorder, illness, psychiatric ward, mental patient, nightmare, mental illness, parallel universe, mental institution, insane asylum, body horror, nudity, psychological experiment ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...
Style:
existential, independent film, minimal cast, postmodern, experimental ...
Plot:
working conditions, homeless, submarine, storytelling, love, consumerism, memory, mannequin, dream, philosophy, loneliness, nightmare ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the ...
Style:
visual, surreal, avant garde
Plot:
writers, poet, divorce, flashback, journalist, death, past, symbolism, memory, male protagonist, dictator, nazi ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Style:
tragicomedy, intellectual, ironic, black comedy, tension
Plot:
satire, nuclear threat, absurdism, moral dilemma, madness, dark humor, dystopia, existentialism, espionage, isolation, psychiatrist, scientist ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, Lebanon, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
belly dancer, self discovery, female sexuality, friendship, tradition, professor, audition, liberation, husband wife relationship, arab, feminism, freedom ...
Place:
cairo egypt, persia, egypt, middle east
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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, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of ...
Style:
erotic, sensual
Plot:
male pubic hair, erection, gay, lgbt, writers, poet, male nudity, nudity, snow, group sex, male prostitution, male prostitute ...
Place:
spain, the philippines, barcelona, manila philippines
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. ...
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, love and romance, family relations, love affair, apparition, father daughter relationship, love triangle, rural setting, ruins, writers, phantom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, political ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, boarding school life, lgbtq, boys love, gay slur, coming of age, gay love, playwright, drag, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, england
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Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, offbeat
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
robot, bittersweet, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, death in the family, homecoming, parents and children, elderly, imaginary, androids and robots, young heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster to life... but there's a problem and they end up three feet tall.
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, frankenstein, monster, supernatural being, tiny, guts, creature, mad scientist, mummy, vampire, disorder, obsessive quest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, dating, hide and seek, adolescence, age difference, nude girl, traumatic childhood, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, older woman younger man ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1963
Place:
antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
High Society is the title of an American television sitcom that aired Monday nights on CBS in 1995 and early 1996; it was entered into the CBS schedule as a replacement for If Not for You, a sitcom starring Elizabeth McGovern, which was quickly ...
Style:
sitcom, light hearted, romantic comedy, social
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, female friendship, women, single mother, roommate, pregnancy, publishing, urban, woman, satire, pop culture, female empowerment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alison Dodge, a 17-year old raised by her mother, decides on her own to spend her last summer before college getting to know her father
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
estranged father, coming of age, fear of commitment, introspection, teenage life, youth, redemption, estrangement, one more chance, family problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san diego california, phoenix arizona, arizona
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a ...
Style:
gothic, serious, atmospheric, anime, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, gory, supernatural power, true love, dracula, danger, master warrior, half breed, blood, bounty hunter, violent content ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
TV show
Story:
This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, tragic love, priest in love, family life, society, destiny ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Style:
philosophical, humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
seduction, philosophy, unlikely couple, relationships, dating, introspection, teaching the ways of the world, looking for love, buddies, fall in love, couples, wooing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new mexico, santa fe new mexico, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style:
allegory, surreal, philosophical, black and white, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
incest, disfigured face, brother sister incest, philosophy, new identity, existentialism, face, plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, disfigured, surgery, body horror ...
Time:
year 1966, distant future, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style:
hood, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, scientist, metaphysics, space travel, space and aliens, space station, dream, trapped in space, astronaut, loneliness, science, philosophy ...
Time:
distant future, 70s, future, year 1972
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, exciting, serious, dieselpunk
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, world war two, underwater, secret weapon, danger, escapades, war, military, military life, heroic mission, soldier, save the world ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, asia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
hopes, first love, haunted by the past, love affair, teenage love, terminal illness, couples, youth, teenage life, slice of life, memory, cancer ...
Time:
year 1986, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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