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Higher Learning (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a ...
Style: realistic, hood, intense, serious, emotional ...
Plot: racism, lesbian, college, politics, hip hop, university, college life, skinhead, violence, prejudice, black, stereotypes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
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 6.8
 11K
Biohackers (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, intense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: genetics, biologist, secret experiment, university, revenge, vengeance, female student, medical student, university student, medical experiment, female professor, student ...
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 6.7
 4K
Cheat (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, intense, detective, psychological thriller
Plot: university, lecture, police investigation, dishonesty, manipulation, infidelity, lie, revenge, danger, obsession, stalking, frame up ...
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 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
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 7.8
 19K
Fresh Meat (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, university, socially awkward, lifestyle, teenage life, group of friends, student, adolescence vs adulthood, college, social relations, roommate, shyness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: homeless, homeless teenager, against the odds, life is a bitch, drug addict, youth, starting over, university, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, aids ...
Time: 21st century
Place: america, nova scotia, new york, usa
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We Are Marshall (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style: sentimental, inspirational, touching, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, adult
Plot: football, college, american football, coach, football team, survivor, university, friendship, underdog, small town, teacher, happy ending ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: usa, west virginia, virginia, california
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Cambridge Spies (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense ...
Plot: kgb, treason, espionage, politics, traitor, betrayal, university, spy, communist, cold war, secret agent, hidden identity ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, england, big ben london
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 8.3
 197K
Incendies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, heartbreaking, bleak, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, rape, civil war, incest, last will and testament, torture, pregnant from rape, unwanted pregnancy, unknown father, incest rape, twin brother and sister, psychology ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, y2k, 70s, year 1970 ...
Place: middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: psychology, prison, experiment, human experiment, social experiment, human nature, university, prison escape, teachers and students, character study, student, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place: usa
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 6.5
 14K
PCU (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, college life, fraternity, high school, friendship, university, party, hippie, school, satire, friends, weekend ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa
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A Story of Yonosuke (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and ...
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: university, dating, cheerleader, student, dancing, public, father son relationship, flirting, getting home, asian, friendship, love and romance ...
Time: year 1987
Place: tokyo, japan, tanzania
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University. The New Dorm (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: New mini-series about students' adventures at guesthouse.
Style: realistic, humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: student, university, sisterhood, friends, group of friends, youth, relationships, love affair, friendship, neighbor neighbor relationship, relationship problems, teacher student relationship ...
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Brain Drain 2 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Alfonso, pursues the girl of his life to Harvard, determined to conquer her under the same friends and outlandish plans that his brother used in Oxford. But when you least expect it appears Martha, the girl he fell in love while at school. Sequel to ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sexy
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: university, misfit, student life, college life, silly humor, youth, prank, love and romance, college, buddies, social misfits, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, harvard university
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Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
Style: melancholic, satirical, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: university, love triangle, college, lifestyle, fall in love, college life, couple relations, youth, sexual relations, lgbtq, lgbt, roommate ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: melbourne, australia
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 6.0
 14K
Anatomy (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, serial killer, medical school, murder, medical, university, amateur detective, woman in danger, teenage life, death, secret society, professor ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
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 7.0
 694
Cheer Up (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A renowned college cheerleading squad is about to go under. But love and mysteries occur within the team.
Style: semi serious, thrilling, entertaining, captivating
Plot: cheerleader, university, cheerleading, student, campus, high school life, schoolgirl, female protagonist, college student, teenager, slice of life
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 7.2
 19K
The Chair (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.
Style: disturbing, captivating, semi serious, thought provoking
Plot: university professor, university, women's rights, female protagonist, workplace situations, workplace, social problems, racism, civil rights, adoption, academician, grief ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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Daddy is My Classmate (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Author Tarō Obika is an obsessed single father who loves his daughter so much, he decides to go to the same college. Nicknamed Gatarō, he was widowed when his wife died of an illness and has raised his only child Sakura all on his own. Things are ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: university, parents, father daughter relationship, overprotective parent, father and daughter, humour, family relations, relationships, student, friendship, thinness, loss of mother ...
Place: tokyo
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The Forgotten (2011)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense
Plot: paranormal activity, ghost, university, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena, incident, ghost girl, cleaning lady, investigator, fear, society, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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The Year of the Wolf (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides ...
Style: touching, captivating, romantic, sincere, serious
Plot: forbidden love, university, epilepsy, relationships, health, love triangle, love, parent child relationship, age difference, divorce, intimacy, poetry ...
Place: helsinki finland
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 5.3
 762
MDMA (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an Asian American girl from the wrong side of the tracks is accepted by a prestigious university, she finds that her academic prowess can be put to lucrative use.
Style: touching, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: dysfunctional family, ecstasy, university, drug addict, self mutilation, father daughter relationship, drug dealing, mother daughter relationship, gangster, female protagonist, drug, nightclub ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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 7.9
 17K
Undeclared (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 404 min.
TV show
Story: College freshman Steve Karp, his girlfriend and their fellow dorm-mates embark on one the greatest experiences of their lives...unfortunately for Steve, his lonely and recently divorced father is tagging along for the ride.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, entertaining, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, coming of age, looking for sex, sexual relations, university, adolescence vs adulthood, college life, student life, roommate, youth, lifestyle, best friend ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style: sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: gay, world war two, couples, friendship, religion, catholic, nobility, oxford, love and romance, friends, siblings relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place: england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
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Sex is No Laughing Matter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Mirume (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri (Hiromi Nagasaku), an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and ...
Style: humorous, touching, romantic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, university, obsession, student life, love affair, college, teachers and students, love and romance, fall in love, youth, love, teacher ...
Place: japan, asia
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God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.
Style: christian film, realistic, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot: christian, faith, church, religious fanatic, brother brother relationship, christianity, university, protest, arson, doubt, lawyer, jail ...
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Blue Mountain State (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: college, american football, youth, athlete's life, sexual activity, college life, teenage life, abuse, disorder, social relations, ambition, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 4K
Dark Matter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, tense, serious ...
Plot: university, american dream, injustice, politics, student life, serial killer, misfit, inventions and discoveries, college, college life, immigrant, genius ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: shanghai, beijing china
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 5.7
 250
Nancy, Please (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, mumblecore, captivating ...
Plot: roommate, university, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, book, relocation, career, society, college, dark humor, social misfits, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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