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 6.9
 201K
Legend (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style: realistic, serious, brutal, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gang, rise and fall, gangster, abusive husband, psychopath, mobster, twins, relationships, mafioso, extortion, twin brother ...
Time: 60s, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 50s ...
Place: london, england, east end london, west end london, scotland yard ...
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
Style: tense, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: kidnapping, gangster, betrayal, greed, brutality, criminal heroes, abduction, kidnapped, hostage, group of friends, real life, hustler ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: holland, amsterdam, netherlands, paris france
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 5.9
 20K
The Vanishing (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lighthouse, remote island, lighthouse keeper, treasure chest, disappearance, danger, disorder, investigation, loneliness, lost soul, heist, mental health ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, year 1900
Place: scotland
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 7.6
 90K
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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 7.6
 104K
Philomena (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, sad ...
Plot: adoption, convent, catholic church, journalist, catholic, journalism, self discovery, religious intolerance, faith, nun, elderly, illegitimate son ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: ireland, england, washington d.c., britain, usa ...
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 7.9
 49K
The Spy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
Style: factual, serious, realistic, historical drama, exciting ...
Plot: espionage, mossad, spy, israeli palestinian conflict, secret mission, politics, arab, national security, arab israeli conflict, secrets, history lesson, real life ...
Time: 2010s, 60s
Place: middle east, syria, israel
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 6.8
 4K
Coco Chanel (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Italian-French-British TV film targeting the US audience, about the fashion icon Coco Chanel. The film begins with the fashion goddess (deftly played by Shirley MacLaine) in her twilight years, steeped in wealth and fame, still issuing game-changing ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, inspirational
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, fashion designer, tragic love, rise to the top, relationship vs career, lifestyle, ambition, designer, biopic, eccentricity, rags to riches, couples ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s, 1890s, turn of the century
Place: paris france, france
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 7.5
 237K
Munich (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 164 min.
Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style: political, intense, suspense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, mossad, judaism, politics, murder, spy, terrorist, islamic terrorism, cia ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, germany, europe ...
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 7.1
 11K
Cargo 200 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style: rough, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, sadism, sexual abuse, murder, rape victim, sexual perversion, life is a bitch, psychopath, perversion, rape, teenage rape, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, russia
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: rescue mission, terrorist, terrorism, counter terrorism, airplane hijack, politics, airplane, hijacking, hijacker, death threat, hostage, israeli ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: israel, uganda, jerusalem, frankfurt germany, athens greece
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 7.9
 31K
A Taxi Driver (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German ...
Style: suspense, political, exciting, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: protest, reporter, democracy, journalism, taxi, life lesson, travel, historical event, danger, society, taxi driver, family drama ...
Time: year 1980, year 2017, 80s
Place: south korea, seoul, tokyo
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 6.7
 83K
Jackie (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Style: period piece, emotional, heartbreaking, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: president, first lady, american history, assassination, kennedy assassination, u.s. president, loss of husband, biopic, grief, widow, depression, visceral ...
Time: 60s, year 2016, 2010s, 90s, year 1963
Place: usa, washington d.c., austin texas, dallas texas, america ...
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 6.7
 21K
A Private War (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, rough, psychological ...
Plot: war correspondent, journalism, mission, wartime, death of child, hospital, photographer, dictator, journalist, women, international relations, terrorist ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 1986, year 1991, year 2009 ...
Place: syria, libya, baghdad iraq, iraq, london ...
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 7.1
 22K
9th Company (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, rough, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war, military, death, basic training, officers and cadets, friendship, soldier, war in afghanistan, ambush, military life, wartime life, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1988
Place: afghanistan, ukraine, soviet union, russia, middle east
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Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women ...
Style: dramatic, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: sniper, world war two, female protagonist, female soldier, nazi, wartime, war, female warrior, wartime life, enemy, strong female lead, great patriotic war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ukraine, chicago, usa, odessa ukraine ...
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 7.4
 23K
Salvador (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Style: suspense, political, tense, factual, harsh ...
Plot: civil war, photojournalist, journalism, revolution, dictator, politics, war correspondent, war, reporter, cold war, dictatorship, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, 70s
Place: latin america, central america, san francisco
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 7.9
 1.3M
Titanic (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style: romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, titanic, disaster, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, ocean, love and romance, survival, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1997, 90s, edwardian era ...
Place: britain, iran, los angeles, america, nova scotia ...
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 7.2
 50K
The Report (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to ...
Style: political, uplifting, ambiguous ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: investigation, cia, politics, torture, corruption, spy, u.s. government, war crime, government corruption, truth, justice, humiliation ...
Time: year 2019
Place: washington d.c., san francisco
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Walking with the Enemy (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, ss, confined, world war, spy, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 2010, year 1957 ...
Place: europe, hungary, budapest, switzerland, new york ...
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 7.5
 10K
Bad Blood (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Style: suspense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: mafia, crime family, criminal underworld, mob boss, gangster, organized crime, mafioso, criminal, family relations, lifestyle, group of criminals, criminal's revenge ...
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
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I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott- the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Style: christian film, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: high school, christian, youth, death, plan, tragic event, notebook, prom, murder, group of friends, friendship, school ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, colorado
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 8.2
 10K
Hope (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Style: disturbing, uplifting, heartbreaking, sad, suspenseful ...
Plot: trial, child, hopes, sexual assault, recovery, victim, father daughter relationship, hospital, child abuse, rapist, surgery, psychotherapist ...
Place: korea, east asia, south korea
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Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style: factual, captivating, stylized, tense, political ...
Plot: ira, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, brutality, secret agent, snitch, danger, undercover, state affairs, spy, trouble ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland
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 6.5
 42K
White Boy Rick (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Style: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fbi, informant, drug traffic, father son relationship, buddies, culture clash, teenager, gangsta, mobster, biopic, drug, urban ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 2014, year 2017, year 1988 ...
Place: las vegas, ohio, michigan, detroit
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 6.5
 91K
12 Strong (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Style: touching, historical drama, anamorphic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: soldier, cia, military, taliban, special forces, war on terror, heroism, behind enemy lines, us military, war in afghanistan, machismo, commando mission ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, hostage, criminal heroes, police investigation, shootout, confined, chase, danger, crime gone awry, murder, robbery, bank robber ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.6
 6K
The Deep (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable ...
Style: touching, serious, uplifting, realistic, weird
Plot: ocean, storm at sea, fisherman, shipwreck, human spirit, against the odds, struggle for survival, drowning, danger, hopes, sea disaster, survival ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: iceland, atlantic ocean
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, strangulation, split personality, murder, double life, police investigation, serial rapist, psychopath, police detective, obsession, manhunt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
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 7.1
 13K
Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
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 7.3
 29K
The 12th Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style: uplifting, suspense, serious, costume drama, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, wilderness, winter, world war, ss, nature, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, scotland
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