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 6.5
 10K
The Lost City (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ...
Style: captivating, touching, stylized, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: politics, revolution, nightclub, idealism, cuban revolution, fidel castro, immigrant, love and romance, dictatorship, family problems, chaos, political unrest ...
Time: year 2005, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
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 5.6
 167
Favorite Son (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. Frustrated with his waning baseball career, David returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with a local lovely, reaching out to her troubled son. When David is rejected, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, surprise ending
Plot: baseball, small town, troubled youth, single parent, love and romance, wooing, parents and children, homecoming, friendship, hopes, troubled past, childhood memory ...
Time: 21st century
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Leave No Traces (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police brutality, police corruption, brutality, anti communist, fight for justice, political unrest, social injustice, witnessing a crime, wartime, political conspiracy, corrupt politician, violence ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 7.3
 10K
Ragtime (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Style: clever, bleak, cult classic, independent film, controversial ...
Plot: racism, jazz, fighting the system, racial injustice, american history, trial, female nudity, friendship, murder, anarchist, piano, pianist ...
Time: year 1981, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, eastern europe, harlem, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
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 6.6
 1K
Angel Cop (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: In the late twentieth century, the Secret Security Force was formed to stop the actions of the communist terrorist group known as the Red May. Angel, a beautiful, yet cold woman, has recently joined the small anti-terrorist group. But her first ...
Style: anime, adult anime, cyber, manga, mecha ...
Plot: cyberpunk, police, mature, cyborgs, police violence, motorcyclist, female protagonist, computer hacker, motorcycle, teleportation, bloody violence, brainwashing ...
Time: near future
Place: japan
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 7.3
 5K
The Net (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Style: bleak, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: politics, human rights, poverty, spy, military, capitalism, corruption, money, husband wife relationship, breakdown, murder, prostitute ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: north korea, east asia, korea, seoul, south korea
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 6.7
 2K
Goliath (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical ...
Plot: lawyer, lesbian couple, conference, suicide, farmer, capitalist society, agriculture, baby, police arrest, death of loved one, little girl, pesticide ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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 6.5
 17K
Zola (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.
Style: funny, sexy, road movie, freeze frame, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stripper, sex worker, male nudity, brothel, social realism, feminist, travel, girl, city life, women, human trafficking, woman ...
Time: 2020s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: florida, detroit
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style: emotional, southern gothic, intense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, adultery, betrayal, drug addiction, loneliness, movie star, justice, tragedy, character study, couple relations, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, usa
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 7.8
 18K
Just 6.5 (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The story of the six-and-a-half story narrative search for the anti-drug police is to find the great glass dealer in the capital.
Style: tense, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: iranian, drug overdose, prison, drug, drug addict, lawyer, police station, death sentence, police, rape, death, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tehran iran, iran, persia, middle east
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 7.8
 18K
Gangaajal (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: An SP Amit Kumar who is given charge of Tezpur police station in Bihar. The area is full of corruption, inefficiency, bribery, nepotism, favoritism and crime with help from the local police. Gradually Amit realizes that the local politician Sadhu ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, inspirational ...
Plot: police station, law enforcement, fighting crime, police brutality, police corruption, rivalry, bribery, vigilantism, honest law enforcer, criminal's revenge, confession, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 6.3
 863
Running Wild (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: investigation, murder, gangster, partners against crime, vigilantism, against the rules, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, legal, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, seoul, south korea
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A Man is Dead (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by ...
Style: exciting, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, visually appealing ...
Plot: working conditions, communism, strike, class struggle, worker, french politics, working class, war, superhero, communist, filmmaker, labor union ...
Time: year 1950, post world war two
Place: france
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What Will People Say (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, intense, thought provoking
Plot: boyfriend, double life, family values, women, nordic, forced marriage, woman, coming of age, sex crime, sexual abuse, human rights, refugee ...
Place: pakistan
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A Dry White Season (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style: talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: racism, lawyer, fighting the system, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, social commentary, women, slavery, children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: south africa, africa
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See How They Fall (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lgbt, vigilantism, murder, obsessive quest, midlife crisis, danger, vengeance, rivalry, dark humor, law enforcement, friendship, amateur detective ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france
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Michael's Death (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, gay, lgbt, funeral, politics, pharmacist, protest, singer, friends, couples, transvestism, estrangement ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, basque country, europe
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Wesh Wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe ? (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Kamel, a young man from the french ghetto, near Paris, is coming back to France. He was arrested for dealing drugs, he spent five years in jail and was banned from France for two years. He tries, with his family's support, to find a job and ...
Plot: lgbt, job seeking, police corruption, ex convict, drug traffic, troubled youth, police arrest, police officer, police brutality, drug abuse, drug use, drug dealer ...
Time: 2000s
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Fury in Red (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A cop/gangster actioner involving seedy corporate dealings tied with ruthless Vietnamese gangs.
Plot: police, released from prison, gun fu, trauma, shootout, carnage, fbi agent, police violence, trap, murder of a pregnant woman, gang violence, police brutality ...
Place: los angeles, hong kong
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 6.4
 550
Silent Action (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A small yet strange series of deaths of people working for the Ministry of Defense and the military hits Italy. Since all of the deaths seem to be accidental or suicides, no alarm bells start to ring anywhere. That's a problem, because the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, police, state terrorism, older man younger woman sex, police protection, criminal underworld, prostitute, impostor, years of lead, conspiracy, assassin, military coup ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
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This Revolution (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jake Cassevetes is a world renowned shooter just back from being embedded during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As a well-paid stringer for the networks, Jake does not buy into the currently vogue, left-wing conspiracy theory of a corporate-controlled ...
Style: clever, disturbing, realistic, serious, political ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, idealism, anarchist, life is a bitch, fighting the system, dishonesty, society, rebelliousness, rebellion, revolution, injustice ...
Time: september 11 2001
Place: iraq, afghanistan, new york, usa, middle east ...
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 7.3
 2K
Guilty (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, prison, legal, courtroom, false accusation, broken family, imprisonment, police brutality, injustice, judge, life turned upside down, courtroom drama ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders
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 7.4
 14K
Even the Rain (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western ...
Style: political, talky, visually appealing, tense, harsh ...
Plot: filmmaking, politics, protest, culture clash, society, rebellion, demonstration, prejudice, audition, unlikely friendships, storytelling, mentor ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: bolivia, latin america
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 6.4
 4K
Coonskin (1974)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a ...
Style: adult animation, surreal, grindhouse, psychedelic, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, lsd, racial issues, black people, social justice, black, black history, mature, furry, african, exploitation ...
Time: year 1975
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White Elephant (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gerónimo is a 45 year old man devastated by a tragic event. His friend Julian tries out afloat by encouraging him to participate in the project of a marginal town near Buenos Aires. Both are Catholic priests who decided to dedicate their life to ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, social ...
Plot: sex with a priest, fighting the system, society, life is a bitch, social decay, urban ghetto, hopes, changing lives, against the odds, catholic, liberation theology, priest ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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 7.0
 11K
The Lady (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Thailand
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film is about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi (Yeoh) who spent more than a decade under house arrest. David Thewlis portrays Suu Kyi's husband, Dr. Michael Aris. Rebecca Frayn began working on the project after she and her husband, producer ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental, educational ...
Plot: military dictatorship, resistance, politics, election, leadership, human spirit, selflessness, social activist, tragic love, idealism, biopic, social problems ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998, year 1947 ...
Place: burma, france, china, asia, oxford university
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 7.4
 26K
No (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Chile, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition ...
Style: political, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dictatorship, campaign, democracy, advertising, protest, oppression, fighting the system, underdog, politics, political conspiracy, rebellion, against the odds ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 2010s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile, south america
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 6.8
 941
Illegal (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
Style: captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, political ...
Plot: fighting the system, human spirit, social differences, injustice, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, immigrant, society, migration, hidden identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: student, party, female protagonist, police station, police, police brutality, policewoman, cycling, muslim, women, violence against women, woman ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
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