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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Singapore, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a man dealing with the aftereffects of being in a coma caused by a car accident.
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, starting over, introspection, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, hitman, estrangement, friendship, friends, unfulfillment, womanizer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A youth named Diego (David Chocarro) was released from prison, 20 years after being incarcerated. He was unjustly accused of a school massacre. Soon after his release, he finds himself entangled in a series of conspiracies and intrigues. With the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, novela ...
Plot:
frame up, haunted by the past, false accusation, betrayal, danger, hopes, vengeance, starting over, couples, love and romance, mystery woman, murder ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning in ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Plot:
career, starting over, family relations, grandmother, doubts and hesitations, oldtimer, unfulfillment, engagement, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, jewish family ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Enlightened follows the story of Amy, a self-destructive executive, who, after a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
Style:
spiritual, humorous, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coping, self discovery, midlife crisis, workplace situations, starting over, ex couple relations, family relations, sanity, optimism, coworker, depression, ex husband ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
hopes, cold war, immigrant, starting over, social decay, family relations, coming of age, society, haunted by the past, friendship, love triangle, freedom ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, east germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Before he went exclusively style-over-substance, Daniel Lee directed fighting drama A FIGHTER’S BLUES, about an aging boxer (Andy Lau, in a mature and underrated performance) seeking a shot at redemption. Co-starring Japanese drama queen Takako ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, rough, realistic
Plot:
tough heroes, rivalry, redemption, starting over, fall in love, unlikely couple, ambition, martial arts, underdog, hopes, boxing, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
thailand, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A story of young love and early life choices.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
youth, alcoholic mother, mother daughter relationship, starting over, moral dilemma, love affair, society, love and romance, couples, fall in love, teenage life, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
iranian, intolerance, love triangle, starting over, false accusation, teachers and students, youth, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
For Kathleen, Christmas has always been an unwelcome reminder of her father’s abandonment almost 30 years ago. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her. In the days leading up to Christmas un unforgiving blizzard traps ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, hopes, holiday, starting over, dysfunctional family, love and romance, single parent, couples, road not taken, parents and children, breakup, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband's death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, homecoming, starting over, self discovery, uninvited guest, disorder, hopes, bittersweet, widow, neighbor, death of husband, seaport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, iceland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
lost love, hopes, love, roommate, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, social misfits, society, brother sister relationship, social relations, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two men, at opposite ends of the social spectrum, find themselves starting new lives in the same, small town and form an unlikely friendship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
estrangement, rehabilitation, friendship, one more chance, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, hopes, dishonesty, betrayal, society, gain trust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, reno nevada
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
sheriff, starting over, haunted by the past, going straight, society, small town, friendship, redemption, parole, arrest, mexican american border, convict ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, starting over, life turned upside down, disorder, midlife crisis, friends, hopes, food, infidelity, heart attack, holiday, health situation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
drug addict, hopes, one more chance, starting over, going straight, haunted by the past, family relations, single parent, parents and children, love, jail, motherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right ...
Style:
saga, serious, touching, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
orphan, hopes, family relations, starting over, social relations, optimism, love and romance, single parent, fall in love, parents and children, small town, death in the family ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, funny, stylized, satirical ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
mafia, dark humor, gangster, violence, runaway, family bonds, german shepherd, profanity, parents and children, dishonor among criminals, organized crime, mob hit ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
normandy, france, brooklyn new york city, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
starting over, love triangle, family problems, dull life, couples, unfulfillment, infidelity, hot and sexy, murder, sex scene, uncle nephew relationship, aunt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, athens greece, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Fleeing an abusive relationship, Mila, a teen prostitute, finds herself in a border town, pregnant, alone, and, to her surprise, welcome. The remote village is on a marijuana plantation run by a group of elderly men and women. Not having known much ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
marijuana, starting over, on the run, haunted by the past, social relations, drug dealing, youth, teenage life, teenage pregnancy, orphan, village life, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, bulgaria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, islamic
Plot:
cafe, starting over, love affair, family relations, society, hopes, single parent, love and romance, immigrant, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, independent woman ...
Place:
iran, middle east, europe, asia, turkey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Monarch Cove is a prime time telenovela that premiered on Lifetime Television on November 4, 2006. It ran for 14 episodes, ending on December 16, 2006.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
starting over, destructive relationship, family problems, homecoming, infidelity, wrongfully committed, released from prison, resort, small town, getting home, family drama, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to ...
Style:
medical drama, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
doctor, medical, doctors and patients, rich man, physician, family relations, high society, starting over, rich, flirting, health situation, career ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, starting over, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, single parent, friendship, parents and children, animal life, farm, contests and competitions, rehabilitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, sexy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father daughter relationship, teen angst, teenage rebellion, parent child relationship, friendship, older man young girl relationship, disco, classmate, middle class, coercion, loneliness, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hopes, cheating boyfriend, starting over, self discovery, redemption, musician's life, friendship, dysfunctional couple, male female relationship, deception, father daughter reunion, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, france, europe, brittany, naples italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tamar, an attractive single mother, lives alone in a small village with her two daughters. Unsatisfied, she attempts to fill her many voids through meaningless sexual rendezvous.
Style:
sexy, sincere, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
sex, slut, farm, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, looking for sex, sexual relations, lifestyle, fall in love, introspection, starting over, single parent, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, survival, immigrant, gangster, criminal heroes, prostitute, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, betrayal, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle), a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancer's life, starting over, parents and children, dance school, couples, couple relations, love and romance, dance, dancing, grief, dancer, dance lesson ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
pasadena california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, fall in love, hotel, breakup, starting over, love and romance, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, lifestyle, beautiful scenery, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, new jersey, england
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