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 6.5
 196K
Evil Dead (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, demonic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: gory, demon, supernatural, zombie, demonic possession, blood, violence, extreme violence, cabin in the woods, addiction, woods, fear ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 7.2
 75K
Go (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Told from three perspectives, a story of a bunch of young Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and generally experience the rush of life.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: clubbing, supermarket, christmas, multiple storylines, stripper, drug dealer, drug, teenage girl, hit and run, rave, undercover cop, ecstasy ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa
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Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style: independent film, emotional, serious, talky, intellectual ...
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, addiction, favoritism among siblings, marriage, sisters, wedding preparations and rituals, sister sister relationship, character study, family problems, self destructing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa, hawaii
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
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 3.8
 104
Hollow (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In the outskirts of the city, where crime is a way of life, the paths of four desperate people collide. Jordan Coleman, a local drug dealer, finds himself at a crossroads when his friend and mentor gets in too deep with a ruthless gangster and club ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: drug addiction, criminal, murder, gangster, drug, police officer, robbery, policewoman, drug dealer, junkie, diner, female police officer ...
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 7.8
 8K
Simon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Camiel, a gay dentist, and Simon, a carefree café owner, collide in a traffic accident their lives become intrinsically entangled. When they bump into each other 14 years later, Simon is severely ill. Camiel experiences at close range how ...
Style: touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, gay, existentialism, drug addiction, loneliness, life is a bitch, introspection, drug dealing, unfulfillment, lgbt, cancer, bittersweet ...
Place: thailand, europe, netherlands, amsterdam
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 6.1
 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
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 5.7
 5K
Homegrown (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: weed, marijuana, drug abuse, murder, mafia, gunfight, greed, drug dealing, police investigation, crime gone awry, drug addiction, corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, northern california, san francisco
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Farewell My Concubine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style: visual, epic, visually stunning, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, suicide, homosexuality, gender bending, theater, lgbt, child abuse, communism, drug addiction, childhood, lgbtq, transsexual ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
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 7.9
 292K
Almost Famous (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style: sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, musician, on the road, rock music, music, rock, musician's life, fame, road trip, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, new york, seattle, phoenix arizona ...
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 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
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 6.1
 10K
Foxfire (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style: teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teacher, feminism, teenage girl, lesbian, girl gang, high school, youth, rebellion, lesbianism, attempted rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: portland oregon
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 6.7
 83K
Super (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: superhero, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gory, violent, comic book, obsessive quest, humiliation, heroin, wannabe, fighting crime ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to ...
Style: surreal, stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, drug lord, organized crime, drug abuse, corruption, drug, redemption, police, police brutality, brutality, hallucination, gangster ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 6.8
 61K
I'm Not There (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style: non-linear, meditative, stylized, talky, lyrical ...
Plot: music, musician, biopic, actor, poet, rock, musician's life, art, brutality, african american, artist, drug addiction ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2007, 90s ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
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 6.6
 12K
Sherrybaby (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style: independent film, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, parole officer, prison, ex convict, fondling, addiction, drug addict, mother daughter relationship, support group, orgasm, bare breasts, starting over ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, delaware, usa
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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, touching, mockumentary, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: dj, music, disability, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, rise to the top, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ibiza
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place: california, texas, usa, san diego california
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Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The movie reproduces the events of the song, in ...
Style: psychedelic, humorous, semi autobiographical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: hippie, thanksgiving, counterculture, restaurant, drug addiction, garbage dump, drug abuse, hospital, addiction, bittersweet, church, small town ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, california, vietnam, asia, usa ...
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 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
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 6.2
 1K
Pinero (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and ...
Style: disturbing, stylized, factual, intense, sincere ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, writers, biopic, rise and fall, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, drug, drug addiction, prison, society ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 70s
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, puerto rico, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.5
 12K
Foxy Brown (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, revenge, rape, rape and revenge, vigilante, gangster, female exploitation, prostitution, exploitation, black, drug addiction, social commentary ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.8
 13K
Coffy (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Style: grindhouse, hood, sexy, neo noir, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, revenge, gangster, female exploitation, tough girl, violence, vigilantism, exploitation, addiction, black, murder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style: factual, intense, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, pittsburgh, beverly hills
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, inspirational, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, music business, greed, music band, black, drug addiction, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 60s, 50s, 80s ...
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
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Return to Paradise (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past ...
Style: realistic, suspense, sad, weeping, contemplative ...
Plot: prison, death sentence, friendship, redemption, women in prison, moral dilemma, drug addiction, drug, guilt, death row, courage, lawyer ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: malaysia, new york, southeast asia, asia, usa ...
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 7.0
 55K
The Dirt (2019)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
Style: sexy, humorous, captivating, sad, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rock, rock music, heavy metal, guitarist, rock band, bassist, music band, celebrity, singer, drug, drummer, price of fame ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: los angeles, seattle
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