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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, tense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, cheating wife, boy, youth, sex crime, bonding, spa, jealousy, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1919
Place:
austria, europe, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at ...
Style:
psychotronic, neo noir, dark comedy, poliziottesco, period drama
Plot:
body swapping, murderer, killer, wanted, plastic surgeon, identity crisis, serial killer, gangster, on the run, science gone wrong, police officer, political persecution ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, prague, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An experiment gone awry places a neurologist (Elizabeth Hurley) and a homicide detective (Craig Fairbrass) in a psychopath's (Keith Allen) nightmarish world.
Style:
detective, psychological, scary, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, mad scientist, death, hallucination, suicide, experiment, killer, scientist, experiment gone awry, laboratory, murder, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, visually stunning, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, fairy, magical, imaginary, children, siblings relations, magic, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, troll ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After producing a successful underground snuff movie, were the lead actress is raped and killed, the Brazilian Miguel returns to São Paulo pretending to be the American director Michael Tracey and convinces his partner Bob Channing to cast and hire ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
boobs, murder, nudity, danger, filmmaking, sexual abuse, woman in danger, striptease, swimming pool, decapitation, cafe, daughter ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man invites a woman to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife who is coming back from the insane asylum.
Style:
erotic, suspense, surprise ending, psychological thriller, independent film ...
Plot:
woman kills a man, lesbian sex, female masturbation, sex scene, sexploitation, murder of a nude woman, murder, mental institution, lust, love triangle, seduction, marriage ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, ...
Style:
intellectual, independent film, contemplative, talky, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, writers, age-gap relationship, nudity, biopic, native american, male nudity, bisexuality, playwright, art, poet, naked man ...
Time:
1910s, year 1981, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mexico, usa, new mexico, england ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
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204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style:
costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The story of soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, disturbing, crying, epic war ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, gay, poet, closeted homosexual, friendship between men, conscientious objector, historical figure, gay relationship, writers, gay interest, gay club ...
Time:
1910s, 60s, 1920s, year 1914, 1950s ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Style:
non-linear, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, healer, gay interest, politics, gay lead character, diagnosis, lgbt, homoeroticism, traumatized man, arrested ...
Time:
year 1935, year 1942, 20th century, 60s, 1930s ...
Place:
central europe, europe, prague
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185K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, horrifying, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, masked killer, violence, homicidal maniac, holiday horror, psychopath, murderer, psycho killer, serial murder, terror, killer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, midwest
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138K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, psychological, splatter ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, masked killer, holiday horror, psychopath, gory, killer, sadistic psychopath, masked man, vengeance, blood, bullying ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 70s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, midwest
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336K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, grindhouse, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, violence, revenge, vengeance, rape, police, gunfight, architect, gang, female nudity, hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, honolulu hawaii, new york state ...
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Style:
anime, touching, sentimental, emotional, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
tuberculosis, world war two, dream, earthquake, inventions and discoveries, flying, hopes, aviation, biopic, love and romance, engineer, wartime ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
japan, germany, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
railroad, surrealism, uncover truth, mysterious character, society, haunted by the past, murder, mental disorder, train, cat, christmas, train station ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic, poland, central europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter such kooky creatures as the sensitive Wolfman, the horny Vampiress Odette, as well as a whole cast of other weirdos.
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, horror comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
vampire, happy ending, mad scientist, wolfman, frankenstein, amateur detective, investigation, reporter, full moon, swamp, father son relationship, missing girl ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
romania, europe, transylvania
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302K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological thriller, bad ending, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, twists and turns, pig, psychology, feminine beauty, superpower, mental patient, psychic, split personality, cheerleader, sociopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
delivery, youth, friendship, family relations, hospital, self discovery, friends, society, life is a bitch, teenage life, social relations, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
china, asia
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475
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
murder, split personality, teenage girl, accident, nurse, danger, twins, multiple personality disorder, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, high school, lost dog ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The sudden death of a ranch owner leaves his hearing impaired son, who has been institutionalized from childhood, with the responsibility of keeping the land in the family.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
prairie, farm, friends, family relations, misfit, intrigue, mentally challenged, nanny, society, mute or deaf, hopes, vigilantism ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Follows a group of friends that decide to go snowmobiling during their winter break. They make a "wrong turn", getting lost in a storm.
Style:
slasher, frightening, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibal, survival, cannibalism, lesbian cunnilingus, blood, sex scene, murder, winter, graphic violence, eaten alive, strong violent content, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa
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117K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Style:
gothic, dark, gothic horror, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
werewolf, deadly creature, macabre, supernatural, transformation, childhood trauma, medieval, beast, gory, blood, death, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, 2010s, edwardian era ...
Place:
europe, tower bridge london, london, england, scotland
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
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Story:
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, costume drama, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, couple relations, victorian england, uncover truth, mysterious character, infidelity, social differences, society, ghost, missing person, obsession, supernatural ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin ...
Style:
witty, light, not serious, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
mental illness, vacation, mental patient, mother daughter relationship, therapist, phobia, elevator, psychiatrist, yuppie, therapy, obsession, sarcasm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In his debut as his libidinous alter ego João de Deus, Monteiro stars as a meticulous and melancholy bachelor living in a rambling boarding house and feverishly obsessed with his landlady’s daughter. A ribald yet wonderfully delicate comedy, ...
Style:
eros, art house, melancholic, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
illness, poverty, isolation, loneliness, urban, character study, intimate, empathy, working class, slice of life, social realism, small community ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the ...
Style:
experimental, erotic, art house, psychedelic, contemplative ...
Plot:
erotica, sex, male nudity, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, kidnapping, terrorism, bank, eroticism, gang, nudity, coitus ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, realistic, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, brutality, torture, injustice, lawyer, escape, prison life, prison escape, drug, drug smuggling, court, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1978, year 1975 ...
Place:
turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece, istanbul turkey, europe ...
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