| Rescue Me (2004) | 8.3 | |
| War of the Arrows (2011) | 7.1 | |
| Jirisan (2021) | 7.4 | |
| 24 (2001) | 8.4 | |
| Helen (2019) | 7.7 |
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero) is an action/comedy about 25 year old lovable loser Alex who, when his life hits rock bottom and decides to end it all, shares his dogs euthanasia poison just moments before a dramatic turn of events sends him ...
Style:
tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
antidote, suicide, poison, race against time, misfit, absurd humor, saving a life, escapades, life is a bitch, search and rescue, mishap, desperation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Romania, Mexico
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
missing daughter, femme fatale, determination, female fighter, mysterious disappearance, search and rescue, teenager, parents and children, female protagonist, female detective, missing child, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
A group of friends are forcibly transported to a village and kept imprisoned, as the village head, who believes that they have helped in his daughter's elopement with her lover.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
friendship, unrequited love, forbidden love, village, abduction, conflict, family problems, teamwork, runaway, relationship problems, love story, friends ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Animation
Country: Italy, USA, North Korea
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
On the white pagoda on the island of Samurai, two thieves steal an enormous ruby mounted in a mosaic representing a tiger. Both of them proceed, unaware that the heist of the precious gem would cause the awakening of the evil forces of the ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
adventurer, heroes, adventure hero, legendary hero, abduction, legends and myths, jungle, teamwork, friends, friendship, saving a life, obsessive quest ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A journalist tries to find his son in a collapsed building during Mexico's 1985 earthquake, which killed almost 45,000 people.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
journalist, destruction, chaos and mayhem, tragic event, search and rescue, catastrophe, survivor, ambulance, fire, loss of father, tragedy, car ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 2010s
Place:
mexico city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A single mother risks her life to save her starstruck daughter from the clutches of a talent agent's sex trafficking ring, on a secluded island.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
slave girl, slave trade, malice, slave auction, sex slavery, price of fame, abduction, single mother, kidnapping, evil man, desire for fame, celebrity ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Yoo-mi searches out her mother's friend at a hotel to drop off her younger sister, she falls into unexpected mystery and horror.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
hotel, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, survival horror, gory, death, survival, confined, resort hotel, search and rescue, haunted by the past, mind game ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, semi serious, heroic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
puppy, rescue, friendship, dog, teamwork, flying, children, pets, animal life, escapades, storytelling, partner ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
missing daughter, missing woman, kidnapping, vanished man, missing girl, secret, search and rescue, disappearance, wife, social media, missing child, missing person ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story took place in two parallel universes named Yuan and Yi, where people shared the same life and death. Nian Yangxiao, came from the Yuan World to save his true love Kong Linghui, crossed the border to the Yi World in search of the killer who ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
wuxia, martial arts, reincarnation, parallel world, adaptation, double life, lifesaver, search and rescue, rescue, salvation, love, saving a life ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, disturbing
Plot:
cave, lifeguard, rescue mission, diving, underground, scuba diving, journalist, american abroad, child in peril, rescue, boy in peril, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
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84
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Akuto, the main source of energy is running low and the Heavens, a world of islands, hidden beyond time, floating above ours, has united against the Magical Kingdom whom uses the most energy. To save both the Magical Kingdom and the Heavens and ...
Style:
anime, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
magic, battles, supernatural power, save the world, teamwork, alternate world, wizards and magicians, magical, search and rescue, secret, wizard, dream world ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Wild West in the 1860s and 1870s, Sarah and John have founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts of all backgrounds. Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django is still looking for his daughter, believing she may have ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, spaghetti western, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
gunslinger, female nudity, old west, father daughter reunion, revenge, protective parent, father daughter relationship, family problems, fast draw, search and rescue, relationship problems, threat ...
Time:
1870s, 1860s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
When brilliant scientist Amber Chesborough vanishes along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband—both elite U.S. Army commandos—struggle to find her amid a guerilla war, discovering that the woman they love might have a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
disappearance, military, search party, threat, american soldier, mysterious disappearance, uncover truth, family secret, search and rescue, special agent, secret, soldier ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, queer cinema
Plot:
private investigation, child abduction, investigative reporter, kidnapping, gay, birth, investigation, uncover truth, kidnapper, mother and daughter, crime investigation, mysterious disappearance ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 2010s
Place:
peru
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, inspirational, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, rescue, natural disaster, lifeguard, trapped, tsunami, life risking, risk, mute, self sacrifice, search and rescue, salvation ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
wilderness, friendship, survival, travel, canyon, nature, unfulfillment, group of friends, ancient mystery, search and rescue, tourist, vacation ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, UK, China
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
Special agents Sam and Kit hop the globe with their sleuthing skills, science facts and cool gadgets to solve the animal kingdom's many mysteries.
Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
mission, creature, anthropomorphic animal, travel, animal, animal that acts human, talking animal, special agent, secret agent, sleuth, satire, teamwork ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fictional reality show, survival, characters killed one by one, abandoned city, murder, camping, escape, forest, twists and turns, rape victim, abandoned house, graphic violence ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Mika is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki and his ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, entertaining
Plot:
air disaster, stewardess, rescue mission, heroes, rescue team, salvation, rescue attempt, search and rescue, struggle for survival, passenger, saving a life, exploding airplane ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's father Amos must immerse ...
Style:
tense, captivating, anamorphic, exciting, weird
Plot:
mythical creature, urban legend, legends and myths, teamwork, characters in danger, myth, sick mother, friendship, young heroes, supernatural being, heroes, immortality ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world. This turns out to be the Princess Lissi, who is clearly the Austrian Princess and later Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, and much of the film is ...
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
yeti, comedy of errors, disorder, silly humor, escapades, royal palace, royal court, kidnapping, investigation, queen, teamwork, satire ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
austria
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gina and her teenage daughter Kelsey move into a new town so Kelsey can attend a better high school. It’s the start of senior year – meaning new parties to attend and new friends to make. But when Kelsey is abducted while on a date, all Gina’s ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
missing child, sex trafficking, human trafficking, uncover truth, slave trader, dating, family relations, desperation, dishonesty, investigation, police, private investigation ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and ...
Style:
captivating, colorful, talky, enigmatic, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen fantasy, adult
Plot:
jungle, lost city, jungle girl, treasure hunt, treasure, treasure map, teenager, friend, friends, search and rescue, escapades, friendship ...
Place:
peru
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Slade Collins and The Tree Of Life is an adventure film that explores ancient Iroquois folklore. The story follows a relic hunter named Slade Collins who is employed by a museum caretaker to find Dr. Winters, a renowned anthropologist who has gone ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, tough heroes, danger, escapades, rivalry, missing person, chases and races, good versus evil, parents and children, adventurer, fight, love ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Terminally ill kings has trouble deciding which one his two, fundamentally different, sons should be his heir. It would be best if he would have more time to make his decicion but none of the treatments are working as expected. Finally a hunter ...
Style:
fairy tale, sincere, captivating
Plot:
gift, father son relationship, ritual, ghost, family relations, warrior, escapades, knight, magic, male female relationship, power struggle, magical object ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In order to save her brother and nephew who have been kidnapped by a mysterious religious group known as the Genuine Love Society, Juri and her family cast a spell using a stone hidden by her grandfather to enter the world of stopped time known as ...
Style:
anime, suspense, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
parallel world, encounter, loneliness, search and rescue, moral dilemma, destiny, supernatural, life philosophy, time travel, abduction, salvation, parents and children ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Martians suddenly abduct his mom, mischievous Milo rushes to the rescue and discovers why all moms are so special.
Style:
touching, 3d animation, sentimental, captivating, motion capture ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, preschool
Plot:
martian, mars, children, space and aliens, alien, alien abduction, young heroes, matriarchy, guilt, robot human relationship, parents and children, alien invasion ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
indiana
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The movies will tell the story of the phenomenon known as "The First Summer of Love" that took place ten years before the first Eureka Seven anime, but was never depicted in full. The movies will then follow the main storyline of the first ...
Style:
anime, mecha, exciting, tense, feel good ...
Plot:
teenager, boy, father son relationship, search and rescue, friendship between boys, uncover truth, friends, friendship, search for father, giant robot, disobeying orders, father ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Рафшан и Джумжуд, гастарбайтеры из Нубарашена, нелегально приезжают в Москву, где бригадир Леонид получил у одного олигарха заказ на ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
illegal immigrant, employer employee relationship, dark secret, mission, society, escape, search and rescue, police, greed, salvation, rich, construction worker ...
Place:
russia
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