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18K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the ...
Style:
tense, heartbreaking, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
dog, revenge, animal attack, human animal relationship, teenager, redemption, brutality, friendship, dog attack, children, girl dog relationship, betrayal by friend ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, madrid ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
Style:
tense, exciting, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, military, behind enemy lines, psychopath, shootout, soldier, squad, commando, nazi, world war, machismo ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place:
america, france, europe, london, brittany ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly ...
Style:
twist ending, neo noir, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
broker, money, corporation, realtor, greed, redemption, sexuality, revenge, seductress, death, power, wealth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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12K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices. Her passion surrounding a woman's right to choose ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
abortion, faith based, redemption, transformation, christian, unplanned pregnancy, religious faith, unwanted pregnancy, religious hypocrisy, nagging wife, medical clinic, abortion clinic ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
xian, austin texas, texas
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774K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, witty, humorous, saga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, technology, heist, ant, dark hero, superhuman powers, heroes, vigilante, redemption, father daughter relationship, mad scientist, insect ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 20th century, 80s, year 1989 ...
Place:
san francisco, washington d.c., north america, usa
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482
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
A council man becomes increasingly disillusioned over the years, but a heroic act gets him approval and becomes a front-runner for the mayor-ship of Manchester while trying to keep his own secrets buried.
Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
redemption, obsession, murder suspect, family problems, hidden truth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes, voodoo, alcoholism, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction, depression and self-injury. In a ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, sincere, serious, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
redemption, self harm, depression, life is a bitch, addiction, youth, rehabilitation, coming of age, music, hopes, biopic, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa, orlando florida
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, three brothers, lgbtq, redemption, gay love, hot guys, transsexual, male nudity, gay brother, gay lead character, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
alps, paris france
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32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
A prisoner consumed by guilt, an officer with an impossible choice. What does it take to survive? A tense story of punishment and principles, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, crying
Plot:
prison, redemption, prison guard, prisoner, guilty conscience, jail, blackmail, suicide, mental illness, guilt, forgiveness, maximum security prison ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
redemption, hopes, self discovery, dialogue, starting over, human nature, social relations, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, sex, suicide attempt, adultery ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place:
japan, asia, new jersey, tokyo
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2.4M
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, witty, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
dark humor, gunfight, violence, hitman, gangster, organized crime, overdose, storytelling, violent, professional killer, multiple storylines, foul language ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, america, britain ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. ...
Style:
costume drama, stylized, scenic, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
medieval, redemption, murder, brutality, justice, male rape, twists and turns, art, investigation, culture clash, amateur detective, priest ...
Time:
14th century, medieval times, middle ages, year 2002
Place:
england, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style:
compassionate, atmospheric, touching, sincere, intense ...
Plot:
redemption, death row, murder, prison, death sentence, death penalty, tragic love, love, introspection, isolation, destiny, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, year 2000, 1850s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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20K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Style:
sincere, emotional, harsh, rough, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homeless, redemption, poverty, youth, dysfunctional family, baby, black market, going straight, social decay, society, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 90s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, france, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
family drama, redemption, prison, character study, physician, job seeking, honest, parenthood, complex characters, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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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, cerebral, meditative, clever, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, destiny, infidelity, philosophy, couples, adultery, attorney, happiness, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
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98K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, death, cancer, terminal illness, parenthood, immigrant, birthday, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, south america, iran, senegal ...
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253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
werewolf, magic, witch, danger, friendship, college, black magic, death, university, society, youth, clan ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
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146K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style:
meditative, road movie, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, starting over, female protagonist, death of mother, tourism, human spirit, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1995, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, portland oregon, oregon, usa, mojave desert ...
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27K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
Style:
sincere, cerebral, atmospheric, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot:
justice, redemption, revenge, on the run, police, terrorism, murder, terrorist, translator, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, turin italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, road movie, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, father son relationship, road trip, death, dysfunctional family, aging ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to ...
Style:
inspirational, christian film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, christian, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, introspection, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ecuador, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ...
Style:
sexy, costume drama, period piece, factual, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
redemption, medicine, forbidden love, fall in love, royal family, monarch, science, betrayal, rise and fall, doctor, jealousy, justice ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 19th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, scotland
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, romantic, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, country music, loneliness, character study, music, happy ending, addiction, redemption, country singer, love and romance, alcoholism, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey ...
Style:
cult classic, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, manly
Plot:
hitman, heroic bloodshed, assassin, professional killer, killer, redemption, yakuza, gunfight, organized crime, contract killer, friendship, triad ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, retro, erotic, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, sex, pimp, frame up, gigolo, prostitute, sex scene, love affair, sensuality, infidelity, nudity, redemption ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, palm springs california, malibu california, usa ...
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