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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety ...
Style:
cult classic, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
disorder, nothing goes right, satire, acid, power relations, boss and employee, goofy hero, workplace, down on your luck, workplace situations, surrealism, new year's eve ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller
Plot:
farm, absent father, cow, paranoid, sleepwalker, dance, sheriff, great depression, haunting, sleeping pill, deaf girl, burial ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
Style:
mysterious, fairy tale, independent film, slapstick, crying ...
Plot:
twins, photograph, dwarf, couples, voice over narration, communist, politician, cooking, politics, incestuous desire, spaceship, covering one's eyes ...
Time:
year 1982, 20th century, 60s, 80s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the children's book, where 4-year-old Harold uses a purple crayon to create a world of his own by just drawing.
Style:
captivating, exciting, entertaining, funny, light
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mission, boy, adventurer, children, adventure hero, childhood, magical power, wizards and magicians, magical, imagination, moose, widow ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, affectionate, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, matchmaker, love and romance, couples, fall in love, looking for love, countryside, wooing, social differences, love, male female friendship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1810s, year 1996 ...
Place:
england, britain, seattle, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, ...
Plot:
homeless, poverty, photography, selfie, train engineer, smoking tobacco, train travel, railway, congressman, mathematics, village, loss of sister ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
Style:
poliziottesco, psychotronic, detective, crying
Plot:
vigilante, police, italian police, police officer, teenage boy, friendship between boys, boy, kidnapping, revenge, poverty, family relations, wealth ...
Place:
italy, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
Style:
detective, surprise ending, freeze frame, neo noir, psychotronic ...
Plot:
unpunished rape, female psychopath, sex scene, voyeurism, masturbation, pimp, dismemberment, electrocution, menage a trois, sister sister relationship, oral sex, rape ...
Place:
budapest
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's practice.
Style:
light, feel good, entertaining, humorous, romantic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, small town, christmas romance, happy ending, christmas eve, doctor, winter, old love, snow, getting home, moral dilemma, relationship vs career ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Weir, an alcoholic schoolteacher, whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career, is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. ...
Style:
crying, detective
Plot:
underage girl, teenage crush, humiliation, lawyer, teacher, english teacher, school bully, sexual attraction, unrequited love, childless couple, teenage boy, bad mother ...
Place:
paris france, northern england, england, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When new author Cassie is paired with successful author Elliot on a promotional book tour, she learns to believe in her talent. She also finds truth in the old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” as she falls for the guy she once ...
Style:
light, sentimental, touching, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
love story, female writer, christmas, fall in love, love and romance, travel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, on the road, woman, literature, destiny, interview ...
Place:
usa, boston, new york
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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: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, parents and children, partner, friendship between men, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style:
sincere, touching, disturbing, hispanic, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, introspection, lgbt, movie business, filmmaker, lgbtq, actor, nostalgia, childhood memory, death of mother, drawing ...
Time:
2010s, 1950s, year 1985, year 2019, year 1981 ...
Place:
spain, madrid
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51K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, suspense, rough, retro ...
Plot:
world war one, teenage boy, orphan, boys' school, male friendship, priest, writers, treasure, friendship, soldier, coming of age, young soldier ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1916, edwardian era ...
Place:
oxford university, birmingham alabama, europe, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, crying, f word
Plot:
necrophiliac, fetishism, fetishist, satire, funeral, rivalry, corpse, identical twins, employer employee relationship, male objectification, beach, reporter ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Style:
horror comedy, slasher horror, slasher, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
baby, revenge, murder, female chauvinist, psychopath, serial killer, tragic romance, female serial killer, serial killer as protagonist, hospital, feminist, mental disorder ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
disguise, debt, debt collector, unlikely criminals, hidden identity, gangster, disorder, cons and scams, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, aging, castle ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, london, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
Style:
sexy, independent film, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian mother, gender, lesbian love, prostitute, lesbian sex, lgbtq, self discovery, gays and lesbians, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the frozen eternal winter of a post-asteroid impact, mankind's last remnants cling to a fragile existence. One woman must rise to the challenge, to free her people from the ever widening chasm separating the Haves from the Have-nots. She ...
Style:
apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, dominatrix, female warrior, erotica, female martial artist, sex, bare breasts, lesbian, comet, nudity, rejuvenation, post-apocalyptic future ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
fascism, politics, communism, world war two, social differences, family life, small town, election, mafia, injustice, small town life, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 60s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Style:
captivating, contemplative, touching, sincere
Plot:
amish, female bonding, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, young woman, aunt niece relationship, librarian, competition, female friendship, breakup ...
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
Plot:
political repression, female protagonist, sorority, social problems, male female relationship, women, love, victorian england, woman, missing man, getting home, political prisoner ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, year 2017, victorian era
Place:
south of france, france, provence
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Drama telling the true story of the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster in 2007, who was kicked to death in a park by a gang. Her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, was also severely beaten and put into a coma. The two of them were attacked because they ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating
Plot:
goth, goth girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, young couple, violence, investigation, hate crime, threat, society, confession, police station ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Style:
sensual, captivating, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
lovers, middle aged woman, sex scene, marital problem, love triangle, marriage, secret, name calling, father son relationship, love, amor, aged person ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Style:
melancholic, sexual, erotic, sentimental, colorful ...
Plot:
loneliness, guilt, childhood, sex, mother daughter estrangement, depression, hospital, female nudity, death of husband, family drama, mother daughter relationship, autobiography ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 80s, 90s
Place:
spain, galicia, portugal, madrid, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
food, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, drinking alcohol, addiction ...
Time:
year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, stylized, realistic, novela ...
Plot:
business, desert, technology, culture clash, doctor, storytelling, adaptation, father daughter relationship, trust, corporation, tumor, new job ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2020s, 1930s, future ...
Place:
saudi arabia, arabia, middle east, usa, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, introspection, novelist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, guilt, car accident, boy, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, loss of son, writers, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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