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 7.0
 222
Keep in Touch (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. His online search leads him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears a striking ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot: starting over, changing lives, identity crisis, relationships, second chance, crisis, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, social problems, relationship problems, dealing with the past, car crash ...
Place: brooklyn new york city
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 7.7
 53
Fall in Love (2022)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: Fu Ze Yi, the young and promising heir of Fu's Anju Group, developed an alternate personality because of his childhood kidnapping experience. He is handsome but indifferent. Fu Ze Yi's alter, "Ge Lin" he is completely opposite ...
Style: disturbing, tense, romantic, captivating, psychological
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, male female relationship, love story, romantic relationship, love triangle, relationship problems, duplicity, in love, relationships, fall in love, love and romance ...
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 7.1
 2K
Glasses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Harried and overworked, Taeko leaves the city for a much-needed island vacation. Stepping off a propeller plane onto golden sands, she drags her giant suitcase across the beach to Hamada Inn. Owner Yuji is impressed; it's the first time in ...
Style: humorous, psychological, disturbing, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: beach, travel, vacation, food, identity crisis, female protagonist, crisis, relationship problems, island, social problems, stress, tropical island ...
Place: okinawa japan, okinawa
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 6.9
 729
Rent a Friend (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: friends, friendship, ambition, husband wife relationship, relationship vs career, business, relationships, family in crisis, creative block, love and romance, marital crisis, male female relationship ...
Place: japan
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Everyday Is Like Sunday (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending adulthood. The film follows Mark, Jason, and Flora, as they realistically attempt to pull themselves ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, mumblecore
Plot: self discovery, grownups, identity crisis, life, lifestyle, youth, depression, dating, musician, job interview, drinking, unemployment ...
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 5.7
 3K
Empowered (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paz seems to have the perfect life. She has a job, a partnerand friends but something ́s missing. In reality, there arethings she is unhappy about. She feels anxious andburdened but can ́t bring herself to express these feelings.Until one day she ...
Style: humorous, funny, talky, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: stepmother stepson relationship, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, midlife crisis, workplace intrigue, coworker, advertising agency, intrigue, identity crisis, supervisor, employee employee relationship, office romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 5.8
 1K
Dumped (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Françoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can ...
Style: light, funny, humorous, romantic, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, resort, dumped, birthday, sister sister relationship, eccentric family, depressed woman, female protagonist, love and romance, identity crisis, male female relationship, daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 6.8
 269K
Unknown (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, memory loss, investigation, amnesia, uncover truth, assassin, conspiracy, secret service, chase, disorder, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
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 6.7
 14K
We Have a Pope (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an ...
Style: psychological, realistic, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: religion, cardinal the priest, vatican, pope, identity crisis, catholic church, self discovery, catholic, introspection, self involved, self fulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
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 7.5
 352K
Total Recall (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, ambiguous ending, suspense ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agent, dystopia, virtual reality, memory, alien, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him ...
Style: political thriller, intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: spy, amnesia, cia, secret agent, secret service, hitman, tough heroes, espionage, one against many, on the run, escape, black ops ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, hamburg germany, greece, europe, langley virginia ...
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, scientist, mathematician, imaginary friend, nobel prize, obsession, prodigy ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, harvard university, new jersey, persia, detroit ...
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 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
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 6.3
 113K
Paycheck (2003)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, time travel, twists and turns, gunfight, frame up, chase, seeing the future, changing the past or future, betrayal, amnesia, time machine ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle
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 7.6
 413K
The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insomnia, insanity, obsession, mysterious character, losing-it hero, paranoia, hallucination, life is a bitch, uncover truth, schizophrenia, secrets, mental illness ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, los angeles
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 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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 5.9
 88K
Hide and Seek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, mental illness, psychologist, haunted by the past, murder, single father, haunted house, serial killer, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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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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The Man Who Lies (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he ...
Style: experimental, allegory
Plot: world war two, dual identity, identity crisis, heroes, sexuality, sex scene, sadomasochism, surrealism, french new wave, breast fondling
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 6.3
 7K
The Infidel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: satire, culture clash, muslim, hijab, taxi driver, self discovery, social differences, adoption, society, dark humor, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, middle east, europe, london
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 6.2
 38K
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style: slasher, scary, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, psychopath, serial killer, youth, murder, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, danger, mental illness, female villain, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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Birds of a Feather (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her ...
Style: funny, cult classic, sex comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male to female cross dressing, transvestite, father son relationship, farce, drag queen, lgbtq, transvestism, gay parent, visitor, comedy of manners, gay couple ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, provence ...
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 5.0
 807
Chatterbox! (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
Style: sex comedy, grindhouse, surreal, slapstick comedy, crying ...
Plot: psychiatrist, sexual humor, exhibitionist, sexploitation, female nudity, horniness, mental disorder, scientific discovery, naked in public, gay, exhibitionism, greed ...
Time: year 2016
Place: los angeles
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 7.2
 21K
Quadrophenia (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style: surreal, stylized, lyrical, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, music, rock, coming of age, rock and roll, working class, youth, teenage boy, male nudity, street fight, pharmacy, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century, year 1979
Place: england, london, brighton, britain, europe
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 7.6
 47K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, offbeat, black comedy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, insanity, mental illness, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, landlord tenant relationship, mental disorder ...
Time: near future, year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Face of Another (1966)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style: surreal, allegory, philosophical, psychological, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: incest, disfigured face, existentialism, face, new identity, philosophy, plastic surgery, brother sister incest, surgery, disfigured, surrealism, dystopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1966, 60s
Place: japan, asia
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Takva: A Man's Fear of God (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: muslim, islam, society, faith, koran, politics, religions or cults, family relations, fall in love, new job, solitary, heaven ...
Place: middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey
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Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly, and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie's character through her interactions with her friends and family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, high school, love triangle, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, fish out of water, teenage life, suicide ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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 6.7
 847
Kanak Attack (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: brothel, house, identity, identity crisis, dual identity, drug, killing, criminal, brother brother relationship, prostitute, felony, ethnicity ...
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