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 6.5
 17K
Spontaneous (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, brutal, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, unrequited love, dying, high school, teenager, parents and children, alienation, teenage life, breaking point, rivalry, humiliation, extreme violence ...
Time: 2020s
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Responsible Child (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ray, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence who finds himself standing trial for murder. Moving into his mother Veronica's home to be with his elder brother Nathan, 23, Ray witnesses an argument which escalates into a violent axe attack ...
Style: factual, realistic, bleak, brutal, suspense ...
Plot: killer child, mother son relationship, stepfather stepson relationship, legal action, murder, murderer, brutality, punishment, estranged family member, court, crime and punishment, brother brother relationship ...
Place: england
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Girlfriends of Christmas Past (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When three hilarious, strong-willed women join forces to seek the ultimate revenge on their cheating ex at his upcoming holiday retreat, love struck event planner Livvy meets Carter, the property manager organizing it all, leaving Livvy to question ...
Style: not serious, feel good, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, male female relationship, happy ending, unlikely friendships, unlikely partners, transformation, manipulation, battle of the sexes, initially antagonists, new love, couple relations ...
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 6.9
 9K
Neds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street kid, bullying, coming of age, gang war, youth, social decay, teenage life, society, realism, social problems, rebellion ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
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 8.6
 27K
Goblin (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Shin is an immortal “goblin,” and has the rather honorable title of being the Protector of Souls. His roommate Wang Yeo also happens to have the equally lofty, if thoroughly opposing, title of Angel of Death, and he acts as the storied grim ...
Style: romantic, mysterious, emotional, humorous, dorama ...
Plot: reincarnation, past life, ghost, supernatural, immortal, punishment, orphan, fiancee, angel of death, supernatural power, destiny, death ...
Place: korea, thailand
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 8.0
 21K
Silenced (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sex crime, child abuse, rape, deaf mute, disability, mute or deaf, sign language, punishment, school, life is a bitch, deaf, youth ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
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 7.7
 167K
Dirty Harry (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in ...
Style: serious, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police, psychopath, gunfight, vigilante, tough law enforcer, urban, investigation, murder, violence, city, urban setting ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television. It starred Karl ...
Style: detective, realistic, retro, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police detective, cop, vietnam war, fighting crime, car chase, investigation, police officer, team, punishment, american football, police inspector ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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 7.5
 198K
The Crow (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, dark fantasy, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, superhero, vigilante, good versus evil, goth, halloween, murder, afterlife, justice, vigilantism, gunfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, near future, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, seattle
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 7.2
 4K
Profiler (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Profiler is an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the FBI's fictional Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ally Walker starred as ...
Style: tense, detective, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, profiler, murder, good versus evil, law enforcement, fighting crime, female detective, danger, fbi, forensics, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: atlanta georgia
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 5.9
 76K
Daylight (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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 7.6
 152K
Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot: insanity, surrealism, murder, doppelganger, parallel universe, transformation, graphic violence, hallucination, dream, time loop, erotica, art ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: los angeles, persia, north america
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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 7.4
 356K
The Rock (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, hostage, prison, alcatraz, twists and turns, military, mercenary, car chase, prison escape, gunfight, chemical weapon, swat team ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, bay area
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 6.4
 124K
The Jackal (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, cold war, terrorism, lone wolves, assassination, gangster, conspiracy, murder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: chicago, washington d.c., russia, montreal, ireland ...
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 5.3
 28K
The Watcher (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, psychopath, psychiatrist, obsession, serial murder, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, killer ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa, california
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 5.7
 13K
Bait (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the incarcerated half of the pair of high-tech thieves responsible for the missing gold. His partner, Bristol, is still at large. Alvin wants only to get ...
Style: humorous, intense, exciting, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: black, rivalry, nothing goes right, going straight, crime gone awry, bait, law enforcement, prison, betrayal, urban, chase, race against time ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
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The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Domenic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, undercover cop, car, chase, car race, street racing, drag racing, chases and races, gang, heist, undercover, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.1
 153K
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: swat, swat team, police, basic training, squad, police brutality, sniper, tough law enforcer, corrupt cop, hostage, shootout, drug lord ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, north america
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 6.4
 48K
High Crimes (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military ...
Style: clever, suspenseful, twist ending, serious, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, twists and turns, justice, murder, fbi, false accusation, marines, legal, army investigation, courtroom, life turned upside down, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2002, 80s, year 1988, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, los angeles, mexico
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Don't Say a Word (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Switzerland, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, kidnapping, mental illness, haunted by the past, murder, bank robbery, police investigation, torture, manipulation, mind game, spy, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 1991, year 2001
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Murder by Numbers (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, intense, suspense thriller ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: murder, psychopath, mind game, haunted by the past, investigation, sociopath, murder investigation, serial killer, murderous pair, perfect crime, police investigation, police detective ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: persia, california, usa
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 6.0
 49K
A Man Apart (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when ...
Style: suspense, harsh, emotional, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilantism, drug cartel, vigilante, drug, lone hero, justice, gang, gangster, violence, corruption, brutality ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, california, latin america ...
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 6.7
 237K
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, exciting, action comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: martial arts, buddy, kung fu, buddy cop, kick-butt women, police investigation, partner, culture clash, chase, odd couple, gang, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, las vegas, los angeles ...
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Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Style: exciting, intense, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police corruption, kung fu, conspiracy, reconnaissance, framed for murder, heroin, murder, fight, prostitute, one against many, drug lord ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Style: detective, tense, realistic, serious, clever ...
Audience: kids
Plot: law and order, lawyer, murder investigation, trial, workplace situations, murder, power relations, mind game, partner, police, investigation, judiciary ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Crossing Jordan (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, tense, clever ...
Plot: forensics, medical, investigation, murder investigation, police, female detective, female protagonist, uncover truth, fighting crime, police detective, who done it, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.6
 142K
The Recruit (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Style: surprise ending, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, cia, twists and turns, secret service, espionage, double agent, basic training, undercover, hotshot hero, rookie, recruit, deception ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., boston, usa, peru, langley virginia ...
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 6.3
 5K
Poison (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, anthology, avant garde, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual, gay erotica, surrealism, prison, life is a bitch, social misfits, riddles and clues, body horror, homoeroticism, experiment ...
Time: 90s
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