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 7.2
 42K
Bitter Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, bdsm, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, destructive relationship, couples, sexual perversion, passionate interest, dangerous attraction, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: eastern europe, europe, paris france
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 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style: scary, slasher, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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 7.7
 44K
Naked (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style: disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: existentialism, sexual abuse, drifter, humiliation, nihilism, rape, alienation, voyeurism, sexual humiliation, rough sex, rapist, secrets ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
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The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: twists and turns, con game, betrayal, heist, investigation, intrigue, business, caper, secrets, invention, conspiracy, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: venezuela, caribbean, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gay, road trip, desert, on the road, transgender, drag queen, gay slur, transvestism, gender bending, homosexuality, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, south australia
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 7.0
 128K
Mallrats (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Style: entertaining, humorous, funny, talky, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: slacker, jay and silent bob, friendship, youth, weed, superhero, coming of age, one day, love and romance, bare butt, videotaped sex, dumped by girlfriend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, minnesota, usa, new jersey
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Death and the Maiden (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Style: psychological, suspense, minimal cast, sexy, disturbing ...
Plot: revenge, torture, politics, doctor, rape, lawyer, dictatorship, justice, brutality, storytelling, haunted by the past, attempted murder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, chile, eastern europe, south america, barcelona
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 8.0
 6K
Shaman King (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Asakura Yoh is a shaman, a person who communicates with ghosts. He enters the Shaman Fight, for whoever wins the tournament gets to commune with the Great Spirit, God . . . that and his fiance Anna wants to be the wife of the Shaman King. Helping ...
Style: emotional, anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, good versus evil, friends, ghost, master warrior, youth, young heroes, supernatural, contests and competitions, shaman, ambition, supernatural ability ...
Place: japan
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger, even more devastating biochemical attack, an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture ...
Style: anime, adult anime, witty, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mars, terrorism, space opera, chase, outer space, bounty hunter, revenge, martial arts, danger, terrorist, partner, heroic mission ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, space western, asia
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The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Domenic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, undercover cop, car, chase, car race, street racing, drag racing, chases and races, gang, heist, undercover, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
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 7.7
 22K
Kikujiro (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style: road movie, sad, uplifting, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: on the road, boy, summer, friendship, violence, child, children, road trip, yakuza, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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 7.6
 36K
Interstate 60 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: road trip, self discovery, on the road, alternate reality, life philosophy, dream girl, choice, self fulfillment, wish come true, surrealism, twists and turns, highway ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
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The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
Style: suspense, gothic, dark, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, spanish civil war, orphan, child abuse, boarding school, orphanage, supernatural, revenge, children, coming of age, civil war, republican ...
Time: 1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: spain, portugal, europe, andalusia, madrid ...
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The Muppet Show (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring The Muppets. After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 and 1975 failed to get the attention of America's network heads, Lew Grade approached ...
Style: humorous, feel good, exciting, sitcom, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, adult, preschool
Plot: puppet, muppets, pig, media satire, bear, friends, fame, showbiz, performer's life, workplace, variety show, eagle ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 382 min.
TV show
Story: Passion, beauty, and brilliant storytelling are all on display in this six-hour-plus epic from Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Powell is superb in the title role, and with the overwhelming success of this TV movie throughout the world, ...
Style: biblical, epic, serious, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Plot: jesus, christianity, jesus christ, faith, religion, self sacrifice, roman empire, christian, new testament, prophet, apostle, bible ...
Time: 1st century, biblical epic, 1930s
Place: holy land, italy, tibet, ancient greece, jerusalem ...
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 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.5
 127K
Field of Dreams (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style: inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: baseball, ghost, hearing voices, regret, farmer, farm, small town, father son relationship, time travel, supernatural, magic realism, childhood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s
Place: iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
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 7.5
 191K
The Abyss (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ufo, ocean, underwater, first contact, submarine, sea, disaster, alien, space and aliens, survival, alien encounter, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
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The Man Who Copied (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy ...
Style: light, sexy, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: love and romance, voyeurism, shyness, society, neighbor, cons and scams, poverty, sex, stalking, moral ambiguity, dream, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, africa
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 7.4
 42K
Transamerica (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the ...
Style: touching, road movie, independent film, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: transsexual, transgender, gay, transsexuality, road trip, gender bending, psychiatrist, therapist, gender, lgbtq, self discovery, male nudity ...
Time: year 2005, near future, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Just Like Heaven (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style: romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: ghost, afterlife, love story, unlikely couple, impossible love, coma, initially antagonists, supernatural romance, supernatural, doctor, happy ending, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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 6.6
 76K
Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, art house, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, lust, sexuality, sex addict, explicit sex, erection, sex scene, nymphomaniac, erotica, nudity, masturbation, deviant sex ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
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 6.5
 246K
Don Jon (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Style: sexy, sexual, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, masturbation, sex addict, sexuality, nightclub, older woman younger man relationship, womanizer, obsession, male masturbation, husband wife relationship, love, addiction ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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English Vinglish (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: ENGLISH VINGLISH is the story of a woman who does not know English and is made to feel insecure by her family and society at large. Circumstances make her determined to overcome this insecurity, master the language, and teach the world a lesson on ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, parody ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing
Plot: self fulfillment, self esteem, language learning, unsupportive spouse, housewife, family life, self discovery, teachers and students, fish out of water, language barrier, family relations, humiliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Hellsing Ultimate (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, have long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from the creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing, controls her own personal army to ...
Style: anime, gothic, atmospheric, stylized, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, immortality, danger, supernatural, vampire hunter, monster, dark humor, gunfight, anti hero, superhuman powers, creature, master and servant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style: road movie, funny, dark comedy, slapstick comedy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prison escape, blues, on the run, treasure hunt, small town, music, great depression, obsessive quest, country music, on the road, runaway, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: mississippi, ancient greece, america, greece, persia ...
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