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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
From the imagination of fantasy artist Dorian Cleavenger, comes four short stories of the bizarre and macabre.
Style:
scary, anthology, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
monster, tentacle, journey, creature, supernatural power, supernatural, killing, loss, hunting, death, revenge, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style:
medical horror, scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot:
mad scientist, body horror, snake, laboratory, experiment, college student, killer animal, nightmare, transformation, insanity, carnival, python ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic play.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
wedding, tomboy, housekeeper, runaway, coming of age, youth, hotel, minister, perfume, beer, police officer, melancholy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue ...
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, martial arts, revenge, female yakuza, sword fight, samurai sword, exploitation, vendetta, tattooed woman, blind woman, female protagonist, female killer ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Beautifully constructed, 1001 Nights stays true to the lush and mysterious backdrop of the well known and age old story. Tezuka remolds the story into an escapist fantasy where a 60s-era working man is transported back to an era of entirely ...
Style:
anime, adult anime, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
aladdin, female nudity, bare breasts, bare butt, love triangle, love, slavery, betrayal, murder, battles, obsession, peeping tom ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
middle east, baghdad iraq
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, humorous, tense, light ...
Plot:
monkey king, giant spider, demonic possession, kung fu, supernatural power, martial arts, monk, magic, demon, buddha, giant monster, destruction ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
china
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
One long and two short motion comic adventures of Jonah Hex, a deadly cynical bounty hunter with a lip and a horrible facial scar. He hunts a necromancer and his crony - undead Wild Bill Hickok, some robbers and a rotten old judge.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
bounty hunter, tough heroes, rivalry, mad scientist, chases and races, vengeance, gang, chase, corrupt sheriff, framed for murder, murder, gunfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus ...
Style:
dark fantasy, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly ...
Plot:
witch, fantasy world, wizards and magicians, magical, curse, magical creature, harry potter, sorcerer, wizard, witchcraft, circus, good versus evil ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
paris france, london, france, england, alps ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to ...
Style:
spiritual, touching, serious, christian film, sad ...
Plot:
afterlife, heaven, amusement park, self discovery, redemption, life is a bitch, danger, hopes, religious, heaven and hell, consciousness, grief ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allies.
Style:
action packed, entertaining, heroic, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, circus, electricity, male nudity, nazi occultism, piano, nazism, cell phone, partisan, amputee, attempted rape, superpower ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
Style:
anime, adult animation, stylized, harsh, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, batman, violent, sex scene, vigilantism, murder, psychopath, justice, cruelty, joker, hitman, computer cracker ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, medical horror, stylized, light ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mad scientist, monster, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, scientist, escapades, friendship, experiment gone awry, experiment, steampunk, doctor frankenstein ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
scotland yard, scotland, england, usa, big ben london ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal his fortune and run off with her lover, strong man Sansone. ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, clown, freak, circus, death, brutality, society, psychopath, murderer, couples, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, controversial, rough, bleak, sexy ...
Plot:
torture, fetish, tragic hero, intrigue, hallucination, obsession, violence, loner, insanity, sexual abuse, gory, child abuse ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
Style:
sexy, intense, exciting, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, manly, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, mutant, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, avenger, destruction, x men, good versus evil, revenge, superpower, comic hero, immortality ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 20th century, future, 1840s ...
Place:
new orleans, canada, usa, north america, las vegas ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to "Cirque du Freak" where they see many strange acts including ...
Style:
scary, teen, semi serious, stylized, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen fantasy, horror for children
Plot:
vampire, circus, uninhibited rivalry, supernatural ability, supernatural, chosen one, young heroes, transformation, immortality, friends, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. Two vampire ...
Style:
gothic, bloody, scary, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
vampire, violence, vampirism, female fighter, destiny, sexy female vampire, vampire human love, vengeance, vampire hunter, medieval, female warrior, human sacrifice ...
Time:
medieval times, 18th century
Place:
romania, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt (Greg Kinnear) and Bob Tenor (Matt Damon) make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to ...
Style:
funny, humorous, touching, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
happy ending, hollywood, satire, family relations, twins, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance, internet, brother brother relationship, siblings, siamese twins ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, massachusetts, beverly hills, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, saga, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, super powers, x men, escape, teamwork, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, avenger, school, mutant, mind control, comic hero ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
washington d.c., canada, usa, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
world war two, prisoner, refugee, evacuation, soccer fan, train station, female reporter, architect, bureaucracy, army, prisoner of war camp, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
Style:
manga, mystic, esoteric, realistic, spiritual
Plot:
father daughter incest, incestuous desire, runaway, mysticism, pregnant by incest, father daughter sex, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, erotica, occult, urban, artist ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt ...
Style:
gothic, mysterious, stylized, saga, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
superhero, villain, batman, revenge, christmas, femme fatale, cat, vigilante, corruption, double life, christmas season, circus ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, welder, pregnancy, vietnam war, brothers, melancholy, murder, family problems, suicide, violence, blood, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place:
nebraska, usa, america, ohio, vietnam ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, slapstick, mysterious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
circus, small town, farm, acrobat, workplace, misfit, traveling circus, love triangle, fall in love, fat woman, farmer, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
Style:
surreal, avant garde, dark, experimental, absurd
Plot:
surrealism, freakshow, handicapped, nudity, midget, feminism, dalmatian, mountain, tree, cripple, water, siamese twins ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
carnival, freak, freakshow, waitress, exploitation, fortune teller, snake charmer, underground, amusement park, diner, mountain, showbiz ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A stripper on a flight to Las Vegas has a stopover in a small Texas airport. She gets taken hostage by two Cuban gangsters on the run from the cops.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, road movie, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
skinny dipping, stripper, hostage, chase, fear, murder, fugitive, female protagonist, violence, cat and mouse, isolation, manhunt ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, las vegas
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