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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, paparazzi, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love triangle, alcohol abuse, couples, unstoppable, lifestyle, rising to stardom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
boxing, bittersweet, family relations, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, family in danger, last wish, underdog, athlete's life, single parent, rivalry ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, death of wife, love and romance, death, love story, relationships, single parent, honest, family drama, family relations, starting over ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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125K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Turkey, Philippines, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, semi autobiographical, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
vacation, coming of age, father daughter relationship, depression, hotel, memory, 11 year old girl, swimming pool, past, memories, lesbian, gay ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
turkey, edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot:
terrorism, prostitute, love affair, culture clash, life is a bitch, best friend, couples, injustice, cabaret, family relations, infidelity, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, persia, latin america, algeria
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
zoo, love and romance, magic, fall in love, amusement park, youth, animal training, wizards and magicians, bittersweet, coming of age, loneliness, abandonment ...
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young singer-songwriter from the Bronx falls in love, but finds it difficult to escape from the violence in his environment.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
social decay, musician's life, follow your dream, fall in love, life is a bitch, family problems, love and romance, urban ghetto life, social differences, artists and showbiz, society, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the tragic passing away of his mother, Joseph Ignace alias Jassiya (Rushabh Patni) is sent to a Catholic Hostel where he can continue his studies as well as live in the hostel. The sudden separation from his mother, diet, and familiar ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, gujarati
Plot:
friendship, human spirit, redemption, social misfits, hopes, society, youth, social differences, boarding school life, bittersweet, boarding school, cross cultural relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, France, UK, Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, military life, military, soldier, disorder, friends, buddies, youth, boot camp, wartime life, training camp, bittersweet ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1952, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
hopes, missing person, obsessive quest, family relations, siblings relations, bittersweet, missing father, secret, brother brother relationship, youth, rain, train station ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Martin (Luis Fernandez) is the star of "Camp Blood", a hit TV show and one of the biggest teen idols of the time. One morning wake up locked in a huge house after a wild party with three girls I met last night. Through a mobile from which ...
Style:
slasher, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, couple relations, introspection, bittersweet, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, thirtysomething life, female nudity, characters murdered one by one, retribution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It’s a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, stylized, talky, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
starting over, fall in love, life turned upside down, best friend, couples, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, destiny, bittersweet, friendship, stroke ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, alps
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
Style:
emotional, touching, humorous, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
running, against the odds, contests and competitions, human spirit, elderly, aging, bittersweet, social relations, ambition, hopes, senior citizen, monkey ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, parents and children, teenage life, family life, coming of age, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, friendship, sister sister relationship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After having broken up with his girlfriend and left his job, Simon has come back to his small hometown in the countryside, where he meets up again with his old friend Julien. The two thirty-year-old, unemployed and idle men decide to reinvest in an ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, road movie
Plot:
friendship, dream come true, introspection, starting over, hopes, thirtysomething life, small town, bittersweet, money problems, journey, countryside, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style:
humorous, contemplative, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, mentally unstable, social misfits, bittersweet, friendship, life turned upside down, rivalry, hopes, introspection, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires her as a fishmonger, lodges her ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, contemplative
Audience:
date night
Plot:
solitude, fall in love, starting over, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, bittersweet, introspection, unlikely couple, male female relationship, mother son reunion, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
fall in love, coping, hopes, starting over, love affair, workplace, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love. WINTER begins ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
dominatrix, couple relations, bdsm, man in a cage, male bondage, sex, looking for love, love and romance, hopes, starting over, couples, nursing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
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3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay soldier, gay porn, sadness, loneliness, male nudity, sexual attraction, haunted by the past, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tel aviv israel, israel, middle east, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, transgender, gender, transsexual, sexual attraction, lgbt, friendship, gay couple, trans man, lgbtq, self discovery, love affair ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, follow your dream, human spirit, friendship, social decay, hopes, society, bittersweet, migration, mexican american border, border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, womanizer, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, estrangement, dishonesty, lifestyle, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, writer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
cricket, youth, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family life, school, bittersweet, coming of age, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, multicultural ...
Plot:
interracial romance, white male black female relationship, fall in love, hopes, small town, social differences, interracial relations, self discovery, follow your dream, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, british columbia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
train, orphan, father figure, friendship, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, grief, coming of age, collision, parents and children, single parent ...
Time:
year 2007
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, music, post war, nazi germany, older man younger woman relationship, musician's life, artists and showbiz, performer's life, rise and fall, desire for fame, showbiz, follow your dream ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 2000, VH-1 produced the television biopic Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story. In 2002, the movie was released on DVD, and featured both commentaries and interviews with Dolenz, Jones and Tork. The aired version did differ from the DVD ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, captivating
Plot:
musician, music industry, overnight success, lifestyle, desire for fame, rising to stardom, showbiz, daydreamer, artists and showbiz, music band, ambition, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
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