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Arrest and Trial (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: legal, crime investigation, courtroom, trial, police, criminal trial, police detective, defense attorney
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 7.5
 1K
Police Story (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it ...
Style: anthology, detective, vintage
Plot: police, police officer, vietnam war, car chase, cop, lapd, police station, police protagonist, police car
Time: 20th century
Place: los angeles
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 8.0
 496
The Defenders (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom, courtroom drama, workplace situations, lawyers and clients, parents and children, workplace, parent child relationship, family relations, society, father son relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 8.0
 86K
The Hustler (1961)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Style: black and white, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, cynical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: billiards, gambling, hustler, suicide, success, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, championship, cons and scams, obsession, idealism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: usa, california, louisville kentucky, san francisco, kentucky
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 8.1
 5K
The Fugitive (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor who is falsely convicted of his ...
Style: captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, false accusation, on the run, chase, escape, murder, uncover truth, dishonesty, fugitives, injustice, twists and turns, death sentence ...
Time: 20th century, future, 60s
Place: tucson arizona, indiana, chicago, arizona, phoenix arizona ...
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America America (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style: aesthetic, road movie, art house, social, existential ...
Plot: greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, social injustice, time travel, yacht, refugee ...
Time: 19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place: greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey ...
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 7.3
 7K
Billy Liar (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity ...
Style: humorous, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, coming of age, working class, train, imagination, drinking, fantasy world, hospital, storytelling, friendship, dream, lie ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, big ben london ...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Mike Nichols’ film from Edward Albee's play brought new themes to the film industry. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have never been more brilliant together as they portray an experienced married couple who love each other yet verbally ...
Style: black and white, psychological, clever, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: humiliation, alcoholic, conversation, battle of the sexes, alcoholism, guest, night, adultery, love hate relationship, crumbling marriage, marriage crisis, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: new england, usa
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style: road movie, controversial, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: lovers on the run, bank robbery, heist, fugitives, on the run, bank robber, on the road, gang, true crime, murderous pair, great depression, chase ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
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 8.0
 233K
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, paranoia, devil, satanism, murder, pregnancy, supernatural, witchcraft, coven, supernatural horror, secret society, demonic possession ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1966, year 1965
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa
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 7.9
 617
Longstreet (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, police, murder, private detective, insurance, seeing eye dog, attempted murder, martial arts, obstacle, dog
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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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 8.1
 52K
Paper Moon (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Style: road movie, sentimental, black and white, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: father daughter relationship, friendship, great depression, mischievous children, orphan, girl, road trip, tomboy, con men, on the road, con man, bible ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: missouri, kansas, usa
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 6.4
 5K
Scorpio (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. ...
Style: neo noir, political thriller, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, kgb, secret agent, espionage, undercover, revenge, hitman, police officer, spy thriller, killer, assassination, cia ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, washington d.c., langley virginia, europe, berlin germany
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 7.4
 205K
Carrie (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style: tense, gothic, intense, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: prank, bullying, vengeance, telekinesis, cruelty, rage, prom, female protagonist, revenge, abusive mother, high school, social misfits ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s, future, year 1979 ...
Place: maine, usa
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WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: radio, workplace, radio station, radio dj, stoner, team, new year, christmas, lust, secretary, satire, power relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio
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 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
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 8.4
 705K
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, visual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, insanity, jungle, mission, anti war, army, military, violence, secret mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines
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 8.5
 1.4M
The Prestige (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, magic, magician, secret, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, deception ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2006, edwardian era, future ...
Place: london, colorado, britain, peru, los angeles ...
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 7.5
 142K
The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
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 7.3
 93K
Jane Eyre (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, master and servant, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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The Golden Girls (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: female protagonist, old woman, elderly, senior citizen, storytelling, sicilian, dating, family relations, singleness, parents and children, lifestyle, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: florida, miami, atlanta georgia, sicily, brooklyn new york city ...
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If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 304 min.
TV show
Story: This mini-series focuses on two people, Tracy Whitney and Jeff Stevens. In the beginning, Tracy was an innocent, who was in love and pregnant, with the son of an affluent family. Obviously her family did not approve of her. She would sent ot prison ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: diamond theft, art thief, romantic rivalry, couples, caper, revenge, possessed human, mentor protege relationship, chess, con artists, women's prison, professional rivalry ...
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 7.2
 45K
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
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 5.9
 37K
Barbarella (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Style: futuristic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: space opera, mad scientist, alien planet, angel, female nudity, space, striptease, evil queen, laser gun, sexual fantasy, sex, alien ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: yukon
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 6.6
 54K
THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
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 6.4
 34K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: plague, post apocalypse, survival, vampire, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, virus, pandemic, dystopia, apocalypse, transformation ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, near future, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, soviet union, china, california ...
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 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 7.0
 70K
Soylent Green (1973)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style: futuristic, mindfuck, twist ending, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: dystopia, food, cannibalism, distopia, cannibal, conspiracy, overpopulation, murder, environmental, post apocalyptic, death, police detective ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 63K
Westworld (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot, old west, technology gone awry, computer, vacation, dystopia, man versus machine, cyborgs, distopia, villain played by lead actor ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, year 1973, 19th century
Place: space western, usa
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