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The Dance of Reality (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro ...
Style: art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, childhood, father son relationship, coming of age, kids in trouble, family life, dysfunctional family, family relations, street kid, family problems, parents and children, misfit ...
Time: year 2014, year 2013, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: chile, latin america
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 2K
No. 6 (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In the near future, most of mankind now lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Sion, life has become a nightmare since letting a strange boy spend the night in his apartment. ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, yaoi, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: uncover truth, life turned upside down, social differences, secret organization, conspiracy, fugitives, boys love, lgbt, teenage life, life is a bitch, lgbtq, love ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
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 7.0
 7K
Sister (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, ski, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, snow, petty criminal, mountain, boy, self discovery, society, family relations, unemployment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, swiss alps, alps
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 6.2
 60K
Step Up 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
Style: romantic, teen, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer's life, happy ending, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, teenager, young lovers, dance club, high school, love and romance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.8
 2K
Crash (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crash is an American television drama series that tells the story of how the lives of how several very diverse Southern Californians intersect.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, medical drama ...
Plot: racism, social decay, police detective, injustice, family problems, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, partner, dishonesty, immigrant, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.2
 5K
Chop Shop (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles ...
Style: bleak, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: street kid, coming of age, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, working class, pitbull, urban ghetto life, teenage life, kids in trouble, family relations, youth, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 5.6
 34K
Fighting (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When ...
Style: intense, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: street fighter, boxing, martial arts, boxer, battles, streetfighting, athlete and trainer, mixed martial arts, life philosophy, rags to riches, brutality, hip hop ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, alabama ...
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What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Plot: friendship, heist, infidelity, family problems, buddies, downfall, haunted by the past, danger, criminal heroes, legal, drug addiction, introspection ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
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 6.0
 81K
Shaft (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence ...
Style: stylized, suspense, intense, hood, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: murder, blaxploitation, racism, police officer, gunfight, corruption, police investigation, police corruption, drug lord, urban, tough law enforcer, violence ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, switzerland
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 6.6
 142K
8MM (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: private investigator, investigation, obsession, videotaped sex, revenge, sexual abuse, serial killer, murder mystery, male nudity, violent sex, violent, vengeance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
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Save the Last Dance (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, teen, cute ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: dancing, ballet, interracial romance, high school, dance, dancer's life, hip hop, african american, music, street dance, ghetto, audition ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, new york
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 6.1
 154K
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: buddy, cocaine, buddy cop, car chase, police, drug, police investigation, organized crime, gangster, police detective, drug lord, justice ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2004, 2000s
Place: california, usa, chicago, san francisco
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Wedding Planners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shruti and Bittoo decide to start a wedding planning company together after they graduate from university, but romance gets in the way of business.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, wedding party, partner, friendship, unlikely partners, fall in love, dancer, wedding preparations and rituals, couples, workplace situations, love affair, graduation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, new delhi, delhi, india
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 10K
Neverland (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless, some believe, magical ...
Style: exciting, fairy tale, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: pirate, troubled teen, danger, fairy, mysterious place, peter pan, youth, orphan, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, treasure, rescue ...
Time: turn of the century, 20th century, 1900s, 18th century
Place: london
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 6.8
 21K
Unforgettable (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: police, photographic memory, female detective, police detective, partners against crime, policewoman, prodigy, murder investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, haunted by the past, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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A Touch of Frost (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story: A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R.D. Wingfield. Writing credit for the three episodes in the first 1992 series went to Richard ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, police, whodunit, investigation, riddles and clues, murder mystery, partners against crime, intrigue, intelligence agency, inspector, widower, urban setting ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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 7.7
 10K
The Practice (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons on ABC from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, clever, thrilling ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer, courtroom, moral dilemma, social problems, workplace, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, injustice ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Onizuka is an ex-biker and gang leader who has one goal, to become the greatest teacher. He learns of the power and respect possible as an intern teacher, using his strength and connections to get his students to respect him. Now, graduated, he gets ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, sincere, dorama ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, teachers and students, friendship, hardcase students, fish out of water, society, dedicated educator, lifestyle, workplace situations, mature, superhero, education ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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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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 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
Is relevant ?
 8.5
 29K
Southland (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Since premiering in 2009, Southland has redefined the police drama with its raw, authentic look at the lives and work of Los Angeles detectives and beat cops. The show centers on four main characters: Officer John Cooper (Cudlitz), a seasoned cop ...
Style: detective, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lapd, policewoman, police detective, law enforcement, partners against crime, police protagonist, fighting crime, police officer, swat, police, peril, responsibility ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, southern california, los angeles, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 240K
Role Models (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look ...
Style: funny, hilarious, entertaining, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: community service, lifestyle change, dimwit, friendship, adolescence, friends, teaching the ways of the world, youth, character change, stoner, young heroes, farce ...
Time: year 2008, medieval times, 21st century
Place: los angeles, middle east, california, usa, venice beach california
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 7.2
 264K
RocknRolla (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, stylized, witty, talky ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gangster, corruption, organized crime, twists and turns, gang leader, dark humor, mafia, heist, homosexual, chase, robbery, gay straight relations ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: family relations, african american, youth, teenager, black, culture clash, fish out of water, hip hop, misfit, eccentric family, siblings relations, verbal byplay ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 463K
Aladdin (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: princess, desert, genie, love, arabian nights, disney princess, friendship, magic, poverty, unlikely couple, rags to riches, aladdin ...
Time: middle ages, year 1992, 90s, 20th century, medieval times ...
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, sahara, arabia, iraq
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 267K
End of Watch (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
Style: tense, emotional, suspense, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: latinos, gang member, cop, police, shooting, street gang, friendship, urban ghetto, police investigation, organized crime, police officer, found footage ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, south central los angeles, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 173K
Castle (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
Style: witty, realistic, detective, thrilling, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: writers, investigation, female detective, romancing partners, crime investigation, homicide detective, police investigation, police detective, riddles and clues, police, law enforcement, who done it ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 9.3
 373K
The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 811K
Gran Torino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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