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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
Style:
sad, depressing, emotional, epic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dog, youth, great depression, animal, canine, camping trip, camp, childhood, camping, soul searching, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
1900s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style:
touching, teen, witty, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
underdog, working class, cycling, childhood, bicycle, coming of age, small town, friendship, bicycle race, teenage life, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa, california, new jersey
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153K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, intellectual, visually stunning, humorous, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, couples, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love and romance, teenage girl, dachshund, lolita, sarcasm, relationships, divorce, 17 year old ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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111K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, small town, teacher, follow your dream, teenage life, against the odds, competition, mathematics, generation gap, scientist, biopic, nerd ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, indianapolis indiana, appalachia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, touching, cult classic, visual ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
road trip, old age, brother brother relationship, elderly man, on the road, small town, senior citizen, determination, aging, family feud, illness, highway ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, mississippi, nebraska, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Style:
touching, independent film, sincere, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
workplace, single mother, hopes, small town, childhood, character study, love and romance, introspection, drifter, free spirited, family secret, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Style:
costume drama, entertaining, scenic, emotional, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
loch ness monster, dragon, boy, sea monster, twists and turns, friendship, young heroes, adaptation, animal, underwater, beautiful scenery, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
scotland, europe, scottish highlands, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, funny, sentimental, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatric ward, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, suicidal, psychiatry, anxiety ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, humorous, depressing, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, mental illness, sex doll, shyness, doll, delusion, bittersweet, young man, introvert, small town, forbidden love, character study ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new jersey
Is relevant?
106K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot:
first love, fall in love, childhood, childhood sweetheart, teenage love, love and romance, adolescence, teen romance, young love, love story, teenage life, love ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 1957, 2010s, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, michigan
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
train, dysfunctional family, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, writers, travel, magic realism, dark humor, introspection ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
india, himalaya, asia, new york, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, nothing goes right, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, wedding ceremony, family reunited, stepmother stepson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
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216K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, nudity, sexual relations, sex scene, sexual dysfunction, male nudity, masturbation, lifestyle, fetish ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Style:
sincere, humorous, touching, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
self discovery, fall in love, lifestyle, adulthood, workplace, social misfits, misfit, shyness, workplace romance, self involved, singleness, love ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, loss of wife, family relations, family feud, society, eccentric family, spouse leaving, widower, car wreck, bare breasts, female nudity, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
usa, southern usa, alabama
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109K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, independent film, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, writer's block, writers, redheaded woman, novelist, loneliness, dream, mental illness, life philosophy, manic pixie dream girl, imaginary character, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, woman on top, oral sex, therapist, sexual awakening ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
age difference, college, college student, happy ending, love and romance, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, book, teacher student romance, thirtysomething life, passion, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
ohio, new york, columbus ohio, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
profanity, swimming pool, sexual attraction, family relations, self discovery, couples, disorder, eccentric family, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, therapy, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, southern california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style:
sad, emotional, romantic, teen, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, teenage love, dying, youth, love and romance, relationships, last wish, fighting illness, dealing with death, virginity ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
brighton, usa, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, erotic drama, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
porn industry, adult filmmaking, porn star, porn actress, lesbian, sex, lesbian attraction, sexual assault, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, unrequited love, orgasm ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A ...
Style:
surreal, witty, not serious, stylized, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, friends, couples, couple relations, workplace, buddies, farce, fall in love, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, hipster ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, funny, independent film ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, introspection, love triangle, sibling relationship, love and romance, homecoming, unfulfilled love, husband wife relationship, bare chested male, swimming pool ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas, louisiana
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.
Style:
sincere, sexy, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
adult filmmaking, erotica, intergenerational friendship, porn actress, employer employee relationship, aging, sex, lifestyle, introspection, twentysomething life, unsimulated sex, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
year 1965, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, paris france
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770
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, single father, dysfunctional family, on the road, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, oklahoma, missouri
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Divorced and demoralized Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help, but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, hot and sexy, longing, sexual attraction, passionate love, family relations, introspection, unlikely couple, love and romance, divorce, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style:
sexy, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot:
sleepwalking, mental disorder, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, adulthood, loser, marriage, mental illness, sleeping, road trip ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, pennsylvania, maryland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
baseball, father daughter relationship, blind character, aging, career, parents and children, love and romance, happy ending, lawyer, kids and family, pitcher, good versus evil ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, atlanta georgia, georgia, california ...
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