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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of ...
Style:
surreal, expressionism, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, family relations, social decay, mind control, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, human nature, revolution, corrupted ruler, child in peril ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
child prostitute, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, danger, society, prostitution, social worker, police, children, call girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise ...
Style:
touching, political, sad, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, friendship, working class, protest, culture clash, homosexuality, gay rights, prejudice, gay pride, gay love, gay couple ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, year 2014, year 1984, 2000s ...
Place:
england, wales, united kingdom, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A climate of civil war, a fight that has made them lose everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 13 to 20 years, will meet and build friendships. In the grip of an adult conflict, which they do not understand, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
soldier, friendship, life is a bitch, wartime life, social decay, danger, military, youth, society, battles, teenage life, nothing to lose ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
hopes, cold war, immigrant, starting over, social decay, family relations, coming of age, society, haunted by the past, friendship, love triangle, freedom ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, east germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, sincere, esoteric ...
Plot:
missing child, missing son, social decay, society, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, parents and children, dehumanization, factory worker, against humanity, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india, delhi
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
youth, social decay, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social differences, family relations, family problems, mischievous children, society, social misfits, innocence lost, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Aiden (Josh Lawson) craves a better life. A life away from his gruesome job as a crime scene photographer, working alongside his detective friend Pete (Ron Perlman). A meaningful life where he can escape the hard streets of Detroit, fall in love ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
social decay, danger, support group, murder, photographer, police detective, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male pubic hair, bare chested male, male nudity, sex with neighbor, passionate kiss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit, michigan
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gails agoraphobia keeps her inside where she escapes into romance novels. She shares a house with her Nan, recently back from the hospital. Gradually, they both try to reach out to each other to break their isolation. Rob plunges further into his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, addiction, drug abuse, countryside, social decay, family problems, life is a bitch, society, mental illness, confined, crumbling marriage, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, uncover truth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, idealism, social decay, church, society, legal, politics, terrorism, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, post-horror ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, neighbor, male nudity, vigilantism, social decay, class differences, dull life, society, life is a bitch, racial tension, petty criminal, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, social differences, social decay, rich and poor, fighting the system, injustice, working class, society, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, downfall, state affairs ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot:
working class, social decay, against the odds, society, follow your dream, social relations, small town, strike, worker, family relations, class struggle, widow ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, harsh, grim ...
Plot:
immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, england, nigeria, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Style:
touching, contemplative, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
longing, homecoming, disaster, demolished city, social decay, haunted by the past, introspection, life is a bitch, society, injustice, family problems, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, orphan, child's point of view, child abuse, street kid, friendship, social decay, danger, society, life is a bitch, youth, injustice ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style:
gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gang, occult, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, social decay, youth, society, violence spree, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, heavy metal ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, surreal, realistic ...
Plot:
social decay, social relations, estrangement, dull life, society, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, violent content, prostitute, graphic violence, addiction, immortality ...
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
witch hunt, female nudity, execution, religions or cults, society, legal, politics, courtroom drama, social decay, state affairs, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, freeze frame, realistic ...
Plot:
poverty, family relations, dysfunctional family, social decay, injustice, teenage life, drug abuse, hopes, youth, lifestyle, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
Style:
humorous, adult animation, semi serious, entertaining, epic ...
Plot:
political satire, hypocrisy, terrorism, organized crime, subculture, oil well, social decay, disorder, culture clash, social differences, life turned upside down, rich and poor ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, stone age
Place:
hungary, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., new york
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative, period drama
Plot:
survival, investigation, destiny, social decay, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, clergy, haunted by the past, murder, religions or cults, catholic ...
Time:
year 2004, 18th century
Place:
peru, latin america, spain, andes mountains
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gerónimo is a 45 year old man devastated by a tragic event. His friend Julian tries out afloat by encouraging him to participate in the project of a marginal town near Buenos Aires. Both are Catholic priests who decided to dedicate their life to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, social ...
Plot:
sex with a priest, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social decay, urban ghetto, hopes, against the odds, priest, catholic, liberation theology, catholic church ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
priest, pedophile, church, sexual abuse, legal investigation, clergy, courtroom drama, social decay, sexual harassment, dishonesty, fighting the system, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, usa, france, boston
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
hip hop, graffiti, street art, juvenile delinquency, gang, social decay, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets, interrogating abusive parents, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, erotic, sincere ...
Plot:
violence against women, pedophile, abused child, journalism, policewoman, confession, abusive parent, police station, police investigation, social decay, life is a bitch, fighting crime ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, life is a bitch, fighting crime, vengeance, social decay, disability, society, parents and children, mental illness, addiction, murder, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style:
cult classic, psychological, rough, black comedy, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, vigilante, anger, midlife crisis, alienation, violence, character study, social commentary, urban decay, losing-it hero, traffic jam, road rage ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, persia, usa
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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, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This inventive, mildly fictionalized documentary follows noted editor Lewis Lapham as he introduces two Ivy League graduates to America's elite in an effort to examine the role of class and moneyed privilege in American democracy. With stops at ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, political, biting ...
Plot:
satire, politics, lifestyle, moral dilemma, rise to the top, idealism, social decay, injustice, society, state affairs, economics, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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