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Criminal Code (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: To crack the code of an investigation into a larger-than-life robbery, federal agents need to get creative.
Plot: agent, code, criminal, gunfight, police, thief, burglar, secret, robbery, border, weapons, female nudity ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
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 7.9
 90K
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style: controversial, cult classic, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, gunfight, robbery, gang, on the run, violent, heist, friendship, cowboy, wild west, bounty hunter, civil war ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: texas, america, persia, mexico, arizona ...
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 5.2
 63K
Truth or Dare (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.
Style: exciting, slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: truth or dare, danger, game, group of friends, survival, supernatural horror, characters killed one by one, demon, murder, college, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, tijuana mexico, big ben london, tokyo, london ...
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Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Style: emotional, sincere, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, uncover truth, hidden identity, wartime life, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, against humanity, state affairs, escapades, survival, rescue ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, europe, usa, marseille
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The Running Man (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.
Style: noir, realistic, serious, mind bending, cynical ...
Plot: false identity, insurance, insurance scam, obsession, aviation, investigator, insurance investigator, on the run, investigation, faking own death, funeral, double life ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, england, united kingdom, paris france
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Mary Stuart attempts to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, only to find herself condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, stylized, period piece ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: royal family, queen, protestant, royal court, throne, queen elizabeth i, tudors, murder, intrigue, british history, betrayal, british monarchy ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times
Place: scotland, england, scottish highlands, britain, europe
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Lost in Armenia (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Armenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jean-Paul Bolzec had gone to play his show for a French company based in Azerbaijan. On the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandoned on a desert road, in the middle of nowhere. Without realizing it, he crossed the border on ...
Style: road movie
Plot: cultural difference, culture shock, rural setting, taxi, messiah, cell phone, cat, corruption, soccer, border, church, mafia ...
Place: armenia, azerbaijan
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 6.8
 11K
Neruda (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot: political repression, anti communism, poet, manhunt, writers, biopic, latinx lead, politician, police detective, police investigation, class differences, senate ...
Time: year 2016, 1940s, 2010s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: chile, latin america, south america, santiago chile, andes mountains ...
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In This World (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
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 7.0
 1K
Highway 61 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, independent film, talky, humorous ...
Plot: rock and roll, on the road, road trip, dark humor, chase, friendship, small town, car, drug dealing, devil, motorcycle gang, groupie ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new orleans, canada, usa, america
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic, art house ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: genocide, journalism, murder, missing person, photographer, violence, civil war, photograph, blood, battles, vengeance, photography ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 80s
Place: new jersey, balkan, europe, eastern europe, serbia ...
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The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: desert, military, destiny, war, fortress, literary, conformity, french foreign legion, minimalism, battles, isolation, soldier ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 70s, turn of the century
Place: austria
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style: political thriller, exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric ...
Plot: conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, hitman, assassin, politics, terrorist plot, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, terrorist, assassination ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place: paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
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 6.8
 53K
Creepshow (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style: anthology, dark comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: monster, death, murder, torture, gory, zombie, dark humor, transformation, brutality, voodoo, demon, life & death ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 19th century, 1830s, future
Place: pittsburgh
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 7.9
 527K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, end of the world, chaos, redemption, heroic mission, pandemic, post apocalyptic, fertility, dying ...
Time: future, year 2006, distant future, near future, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward ...
Style: intense, exciting, semi serious, action comedy, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, culture clash, partner, police investigation, buddy cop, serial killer, police, danger, cliche, rivalry, psychopath, cop ...
Time: 2000s
Place: canada, quebec, toronto ontario canada, montreal
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 6.0
 2K
Borderline (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers ...
Style: cult classic, neo noir, retro, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: human trafficking, machine gun, cowboy, border patrol, illegal immigration, immigrant, manhunt, murder, border crossing, partner, buddies, heroes ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
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The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. This epic, which won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1971, chronicles a ...
Style: psychedelic
Plot: world war two, mythology, survival, border, poverty, large family, landmine, farmer, countryside, village, great patriotic war, son ...
Place: soviet union, ukraine
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Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, ...
Style: retro, black and white, realistic, serious, wild
Plot: spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, struggle, anarchy, friendly fire, freedom, revolutionary, youth, time travel, world war two, conflict ...
Time: 60s
Place: persia, france, spain
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 5.5
 98K
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious ...
Style: futuristic, action packed, stylized, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot: cyberpunk, mercenary, protection, dystopia, one man army, dystopian future, distopia, post apocalyptic, smuggling, survival, heroes, master warrior ...
Time: future, year 2008, 20th century
Place: russia, new york, china, usa, mongolia ...
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An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
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Deadly Stranger (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote, Texas/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two discover the tables have been turned and they are the hunted.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: undercover, labor, misfit, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, dishonesty, workplace situations, working undercover, labor union, nudity, immigrant ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico, texas
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Disengagement (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Israel, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: destruction, family relations, society, culture clash, eviction, politics, unfulfillment, sibling relationship, siblings, last will and testament, funeral, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, germany, palestine, france
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Beyond the Border (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story: December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: soldier, missing person, against the odds, confined, undercover, danger, battles, escapades, military, world war two, secret mission, great war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: eastern europe
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My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, France, Germany, Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: law enforcement, society, rivalry, kurd, social relations, village life, village, justice, violence, police, smuggler, arab ...
Time: year 2013, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, kurdistan, middle east, maghreb, iran ...
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Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: stasi, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, international relations, cold war, iron curtain, hitchhiker, hitchhiking, dancing ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin ...
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 7.3
 2K
Border Caf? (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, islamic
Plot: cafe, starting over, love affair, family relations, single parent, love and romance, society, hopes, immigrant, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, widow ...
Place: persia, iran, middle east, asia, europe ...
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 6.6
 737
Our Father (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot: against the odds, coming of age, family relations, kids in trouble, young heroes, obsessive quest, missing person, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, tangier morocco, morocco
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 6.9
 2K
Las Acacias (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's ...
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: delivery, on the road, hitchhiker, unlikely couple, introspection, human nature, hopes, truck, mother daughter relationship, baby, brother sister relationship, border crossing ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: argentina, paraguay, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america
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