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| Off the Hook (2022) | 6.4 | |
| The Quiet Migration (2023) | 6.2 | |
| Jacir (2022) | 6.8 | |
| Motorvation (2022) | 4.7 | |
| Mayapetika (2023) | 5.8 |
302K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Style:
inspirational, witty, sexual, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, wedding, older woman younger man relationship, adultery, forbidden love, milf, college graduate, virginity, sex scene, hot and sexy, extramarital affair ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1930s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san francisco, bay area
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style:
controversial, realistic, cult classic, depressing, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, dream, loneliness, friendship between men, marijuana, flashback, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, homelessness, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 1969, 50s ...
Place:
texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, florida ...
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33K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, sexual, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, ghetto, hip hop, gang, african american, friendship, black, teenager, urban, urban ghetto life, rapper, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, africa ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Ainu tribe, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, atmospheric, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
wolf, human animal relationship, friendship, mythology, nature, strong female lead, human spirit, forest, hopes, princess, moral ambiguity, demon ...
Time:
15th century, 16th century, year 1997, near future, 90s ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Style:
horror comedy, horrifying, dark comedy, bleak, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
date night, manly, family friendly, boys' night, teens ...
Plot:
gang, alien invasion, space and aliens, deadly creature, chase, creature, alien, violence, first contact, brutality, children, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, somalia
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112K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
Style:
exciting, witty, cynical, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, time travel, superhuman powers, superhero, supernatural power, teenage life, swearing, friends, danger, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, canada
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38K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Style:
romantic, inspirational, melancholic, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
interracial couple, racism, marriage, interracial marriage, interracial love, interracial romance, husband wife relationship, supreme court, civil rights, love story, forbidden love, miscegenation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., richmond virginia, usa, australia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Style:
political, philosophical, suspenseful, disturbing, social ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
violence, politics, civil rights, betrayal, prison, murder, black history, racism, black, justice, african american, betrayal by friend ...
Time:
2020s, year 1968, 60s
Place:
chicago, nebraska, columbus ohio, hawaii, new haven connecticut
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125K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style:
disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, social ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, boy, teenage boy, father son relationship, divorce, coming of age, rehabilitation, methamphetamine, drug use, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, art house, sexual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
murder, transvestism, obsession, who done it, guilt, lgbtq, mother daughter reunion, women, couples, family relations, mother daughter relationship, lgbt ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, caribbean ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gerónimo is a 45 year old man devastated by a tragic event. His friend Julian tries out afloat by encouraging him to participate in the project of a marginal town near Buenos Aires. Both are Catholic priests who decided to dedicate their life to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, social ...
Plot:
sex with a priest, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social decay, urban ghetto, hopes, against the odds, priest, catholic, liberation theology, catholic church ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.
Style:
stylized, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
painter, painting, parallel world, obsessive quest, heroic mission, society, escapades, fall in love, social differences, surrealism, art, forbidden love ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france, venice, italy
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, bleak, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
child soldier, civil war, slavery, murder, battles, rebel army, teenager, life is a bitch, wartime life, haunted by the past, rebellion, african ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
africa, canada
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77K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, bleak, intense, depressing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, blindness, epidemic, plague, survival, dystopia, distopia, catastrophe, pandemic, isolation, chaos ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future, 21st century
Place:
portugal, sao paulo brazil, canada
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216K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
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157K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, harsh, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, small town, missing person, female protagonist, family in crisis, bail, rural setting, life is a bitch, down on your luck, coming of age, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa, california
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352K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style:
touching, inspirational, tragicomedy, independent film, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
cancer, friendship, terminal illness, happy ending, relationships, chemotherapy, meaning of life, doctor, hopes, buddies, patient, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2011, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, iran, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style:
bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prison life, punishment, sexual abuse, juvenile detention, island, prison, rebellion, child abuse, boarding school life, protest, isolation, survival ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, japan, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
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14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western ...
Style:
political, talky, thought provoking, visually appealing, tense ...
Plot:
filmmaking, politics, protest, culture clash, society, rebellion, demonstration, prejudice, audition, mentor, unlikely friendships, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, latin america, california, spain, south america
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46K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
teen, sexy, controversial, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, teenager, father daughter relationship, child abuse, teenage life, youth, rape, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, rape and revenge, pedophile ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, cleveland ohio, chicago ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Style:
realistic, inspirational, captivating, political, factual ...
Plot:
chess, cold war, biopic, genius, mental illness, politics, destiny, obsession, eccentricity, rivalry, contests and competitions, anti semitism ...
Time:
70s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1959 ...
Place:
new york, canada, former yugoslavia, israel, reykjavik iceland ...
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115K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
friendship, disability, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friendship between men, disabled person, human relationship, handicapped, interracial friendship, culture clash, caregiver, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style:
inspirational, historical drama, epic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
redemption, rebellion, arrest, parole, historical character, broadway, dying man, historical event, prostitute, orphan, father daughter relationship, revolution ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
france, paris france, seattle, europe, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A dual coming-of-age comedy exploring the impact of internet porn and social media, Mrs. Fletcher follows empty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher — as she reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, humorous, social, sitcom ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, sexual fantasy, porn, older woman younger man relationship, single mother, coming of age, older woman younger man sex, female sexuality, social relations, youth, adaptation, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When Anthony Sullivan disappears on his tenth birthday, his family is devastated. However, as more and more time passes without the police being able to locate him, long-buried family secrets are dragged to the surface, turning the Sullivan family ...
Style:
atmospheric, non-linear, detective, bleak, social ...
Plot:
missing child, family drama, police, investigation, treasure hunt, judge, hopes, parents and children, family secret, grief, dysfunctional family, family conflict ...
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitute, rape, transsexual, gang rape, prostitution, sex, labor union, working class, outdoor sex, hooker, union, fight ...
Time:
50s, year 1989, 1950s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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