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The Casagrandes (2019)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The Casagrandes tells the story of Ronnie Anne, an independent, adventurous, 11-year-old who explores city life with her big, loving, multi-generational Mexican-American family.
Style: hispanic, cute, fun, 2d animation
Audience: kids, toddlers, teens
Plot: child protagonist, female protagonist, divorce, parrot, pigeon, girl heroine, strong female lead, robotics, disability, zoo, culture, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
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 5.8
 79K
Cobra (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, murder, car chase, one man army, hostage, police investigation, violence, vigilante, tough cop, gang, rivalry, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Magic School Bus (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.
Style: fairy tale, sentimental, retro, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: magic, asexual, child prodigy, trippy, mentor, women, prodigy, occupation, young girl, young boy, elementary school, eccentricity ...
Time: 1900s
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 5.4
 7K
Captive (2015)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick ...
Style: suspense, christian film, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, murder, drug addict, kidnapped, christian, chase, police, strong female character, mother daughter relationship, little girl, manhunt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
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 6.5
 1K
Custody (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, dark
Plot: abuse, single mother, lawyer, custody, hearing, children, class differences, courtroom drama, social issues, divorce, convict, family secret ...
Place: new york
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 7.4
 4K
Vida (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their ...
Style: psychological, rough, humorous, touching, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, u.s. mexico border, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian couple, lesbian threesome, lgbtq, group sex, sister sister relationship, family relations, death of mother ...
Place: indiana, los angeles
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 5.7
 7K
Uncertainty (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, clever, experimental ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: on the run, family gatherings, couple relations, fear, little girl, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, time travel, couples, time warp, road not taken, urban ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 190K
Hostel (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, torture, psychopath, survival, danger, sadistic horror, captivity, dismemberment, violence, torment, strong violent content, sadistic psychopath ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Colonel Reynolds and his group of government scientists continue their work on re-animating the dead for military use. His son Curt uses a stolen security pass to sneak in with his thrill-seeking girlfriend Julie, with shocking, deadly results!
Style: tragic ending, bloody, classic horror, splatter, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, undead, living dead, military base, self mutilation, body mutilation, body horror, infected, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, infection ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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The Maid's Room (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Drina, a young immigrant working as a live-in maid for a wealthy Long Island family, finds herself entangled in the family's web of dark secrets once she begins to suspect her employer's son has committed a terrible crime.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot: moral dilemma, parents and children, family relations, power relations, master and servant, mansion, missing person, female protagonist, swimming, swimming pool, hit and run, truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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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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 6.9
 41K
Up in Smoke (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony ...
Style: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, laugh out loud, psychedelic ...
Plot: stoner, marijuana, weed, drug, rock and roll, buddy, road trip, satire, hippie, exploitation, chase, buddies ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, latin america, vietnam ...
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Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throught the car.
Style: humorous, grindhouse, road movie, hispanic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stoner, lust, weed, drug, road trip, desert, chase, satire, hippie, marijuana, narcotics, crossdresser ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: chicago, usa, midwest, las vegas
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 5.1
 122
Heartbreaker (1983)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap)
Style: intercultural, independent film
Plot: auto racing, gang, car, car racing, female nudity, male female relationship, african american, love triangle, sex, rivalry, chicano, love ...
Place: los angeles, california
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 6.0
 46
Canary (2009)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A company called Canary Industries specializes in "organ redistribution" or leasing organs to people who need them. The catch is that those who accept these organs must also sign a “Conscientious Usage” contract that allows Canary to ...
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: janitor, home invasion, pregnancy, conspiracy theory, interracial couple, isolation, unconsciousness, trespassing, domineering mother, boss, interracial relations, puzzle ...
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 8.0
 661K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, sad, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, traffic jam, pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
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 6.3
 17K
Hamlet 2 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: From the same people that brought you "Little Miss Sunshine," Hamlet 2 is the story of Dana Marschz, a high school drama teacher facing the cancellation of his program. A spoof on the typical story of bringing inner city and privileged ...
Style: humorous, talky, sexy, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teachers and students, satire, school, dysfunctional family, love triangle, youth, cheerleader, rehearsal, husband wife relationship, student ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: tucson arizona, usa, arizona, manhattan new york city, san diego california ...
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 6.0
 159
Almost a Woman (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot: immigrant, lifestyle, rise to the top, human spirit, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, single parent, youth, hopes, teachers and students ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, puerto rico, latin america, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 6.7
 7K
Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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Mother and Child (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks ...
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, talky, sad ...
Plot: adoption, women, pregnancy, lawyer, family relations, teenage pregnancy, existentialism, manipulation, parents and children, estrangement, hopes, unfaithfulness ...
Time: year 2009, year 1973, 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 7.1
 37K
The Messenger (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, bleak, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: military, soldier, loneliness, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, wartime, relationships, friendship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: iraq, usa, bosnia
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
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Getting Straight (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, counterculture, college, anti war, swing, interracial, revolution, african american, university, teacher, student ...
Time: 60s, 70s
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Burn After Reading (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stupidity, espionage, paranoia, farce, divorce, infidelity, spy, gym, violence, online dating, great ending, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, virginia, persia, america ...
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 17K
A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
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 7.2
 17K
Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 316K
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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 7.1
 10K
American Me (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, talky, intense, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison gang, gang, sexual abuse, racism, jail, mafia, rape, gangster, violence, juvenile delinquency, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1992, 50s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
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