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 7.6
 416K
A Star is Born (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the ...
Style: sad, inspirational, romantic drama, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: showbiz, singer, country music, alcoholic, fame, friendship, addiction, brother brother relationship, concert, alcoholism, drinking problem, suicide ...
Time: 2010s
Place: america, los angeles, memphis, boston, arizona
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 7.8
 733K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, survival, war, wartime, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2017, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, britain ...
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Style: psychedelic, tech noir, mind bending, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot: computer, alternate reality, programmer, video game, free will, time travel, repeated scene, cyberpunk, technology, computer game, conspiracy, plot twist ...
Time: 80s, near future, 2010s, year 1984
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 6.3
 72K
Legend (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily and defeat the ...
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, stylized, epic, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: good versus evil, devil, imaginary kingdom, magic, witch, rescue, princess, medieval, dungeon, sword and sorcery, love, fairy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy ...
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, captivating, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beauty and the beast, beauty, werewolf, legends and myths, unlikely couple, monster, lawyer, creature, damsel in distress, magic, magical, exodus ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, hawaii, usa, manhattan new york city
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the ...
Style: period piece, exciting, entertaining, scenic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night, boys' night ...
Plot: knight, robin hood, sword fight, archer, medieval, swashbuckler, chase, justice, folk hero, courage, good versus evil, sword and shield ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 19th century, ancient times, 12th century
Place: england, britain, europe, jerusalem, israel ...
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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 7.1
 458K
The Mummy (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for ...
Style: scary, exciting, entertaining, funny, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, adventurer, desert, monster, supernatural, ancient egypt, tomb, treasure, archaeologist, deadly creature ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, jurassic, 1920s ...
Place: egypt, africa, south africa, middle east, north africa ...
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, period piece, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, date night ...
Plot: cinderella story, love and romance, female protagonist, cinderella, prince, royalty, love, class differences, arranged marriage, legends and myths, step siblings, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, 50s, year 1998, ancient times
Place: france, europe
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 6.8
 292K
Hannibal (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, cannibal, mind game, fbi, master criminal, psychiatrist, villain played by lead actor, torment, police, homicidal maniac ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florence, italy, venice, europe, washington d.c.
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, ...
Style: action packed, futuristic, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly
Plot: alien, space, dystopia, lone hero, outer space, bounty hunter, tough guy, space and aliens, space opera, distant planet, one man army, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2004, near future, 2000s
Place: space western
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 7.1
 572K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
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 8.2
 1.6M
Batman Begins (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal ...
Style: suspense, dark, exciting, action packed, harsh ...
Audience: teens, manly, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, secret identity, double life, corruption, disguise, martial arts, good versus evil, social decay, justice, vigilante ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: usa, himalaya, africa, tibet
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The Secret of Moonacre (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary, UK, France, Australia, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, sentimental, captivating, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, young heroes, orphan, imaginary, teenage life, family relations, youth, curses spells and rituals, magic spell, estate, rivalry, heroes ...
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 6.2
 177K
Hitman (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, assassination, fight scenes, revenge, computer game, conspiracy, cia ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, istanbul turkey ...
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 8.7
 760K
Dexter (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Dexter is an American television drama series. The series centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for 'Miami Metro Police Department' who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have ...
Style: captivating, clever, serious, stylized, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, right and wrong, hidden identity, double life, gory, vigilantism, anti hero, serial murder, loner, police station, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, y2k, year 2006, 21st century
Place: miami, usa, florida
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as ...
Style: fairy tale, visually appealing, exciting, entertaining, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, witch, good versus evil, magical, witchcraft, sorcerer, wizards and magicians, apprentice, supernatural ability, magician, fantasy world, training ...
Time: year 2010, middle ages, 2010s, 2000s, year 2000 ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, india, manhattan new york city ...
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 5.3
 485K
Twilight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated ...
Style: romantic, sexy, touching, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, teenager, love and romance, vampire human love, supernatural romance, fall in love, forbidden love, high school, love, teenage love, dangerous attraction ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., phoenix arizona, arizona
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 8.7
 637K
The Boys (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Style: entertaining, tense, satirical, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: superhero, superhero team, murder, dark humor, society, super speed, vengeance, superhuman, superheroine, corruption, supernatural power, investigation ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2010s
Place: new york
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Another Nine & a Half Weeks (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: John flies over to Paris to find out his girlfriend Elizabeth. He finds a mysterious fashion designer named Lea and her assistant Claire, and it turns out that Lea was Elizabeth's friend in Paris. Lea says to John that Elizabeth married and ...
Style: erotic, sensual, realistic, crying, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dangerous attraction, lust, obsession, threesome, destructive relationship, prostitute, erotica, voyeur, sex, hot and sexy, fashion, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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 6.0
 26K
Birthday Girl (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A shy bank clerk orders a Russian mail order bride, and finds his life turned upside down.
Style: sexy, harsh, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, mail order bride, bank clerk, manipulation, brutality, gangster, con artists, couple relations, romancing a criminal, hand job, female nudity, voyeur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, europe, england
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 5.2
 12K
Romance (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, bdsm, sexuality, female masturbation, explicit sex, love, adultery, male nudity, nymphomania, female nudity, masturbation, sexual promiscuity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: europe
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 6.9
 98K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, obsession, secretary, fetish, workplace romance, sexual perversion, sex in office, submissive woman, desire, sexual relations, coitus ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.1
 19K
Everly (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female assassin, strong female lead, female warrior, gangster, woman kills a man, female protagonist, katana, sex slave, tough girl, survival, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot: trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, kidnapping, obsession, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: berlin germany, oceania, germany, europe
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 5.8
 34K
Tau (2018)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, intelligent ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, escape attempt, kidnapping, experiment, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, security system, kidnapped woman, drone, danger ...
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A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: cure, therapist, patient, hospital, dark secret, spa, capitalism, macabre, slut, experiment, torture, boobs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017, future
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, america ...
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Satanic Panic (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.
Style: horror comedy, psychological, slasher, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satanic cult, coven, satanist, virgin, loss of virginity, cancer, loss of daughter, satanic ritual, satanism, curse, violence, exploitation ...
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 5.8
 1K
Sweethearts (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Lise together in a race and chase against time.
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere, disturbing
Plot: strong female character, hostage, saving a life, friendship, panic attack, escapades, danger, chase, youth, ruse, mentor, society ...
Place: berlin germany
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