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 7.2
 6K
Mirage (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: amnesia, manhunt, investigation, chase, police detective, private detective, murder, dishonesty, mind game, uncover truth, spy, russian roulette ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, california
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 7.4
 190
Mental (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Four young adults with different stories but the same destination; closed psychiatric ward.
Style: psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating
Plot: mental health, drug abuse, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, mental patient, nervous breakdown, mental disorder, psychiatric patient, youth, mental illness, satire, suicide attempt ...
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 5.3
 17K
Are You Here (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ...
Style: light, funny, intense, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, existentialism, eccentricity, family drama, mental illness, family relations, homecoming, road trip, childhood friend, womanizer, relationships, friends ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, maryland
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 7.2
 1K
Rapture (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Style: independent film, noir, serious, realistic
Plot: unhappy ending, female protagonist, scarecrow, coming of age, teenager, seaside, farm, parents and children, tragic love, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, europe, brittany
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 5.3
 749
Body of Water (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, serious ...
Plot: legend, countryside, supernatural, uncover truth, life is a bitch, ghost, river, family secret, secret, past, repressed memory, swimming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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 6.8
 935
Little Wing (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding ...
Style: suspenseful, touching, captivating, serious, uplifting
Plot: childhood, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, search for father, single mother, motherhood, stealing a car, father daughter relationship, child, coming of age, woman, single parent ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland
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 6.6
 21K
Snowtown (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, true crime, male rape victim, murder, mother's boyfriend, tortured to death, torture, suspicion, manipulation, single mother, gang ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1999
Place: australia, oceania, south australia, adelaide south australia
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A Soul to Redeem (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The detective story set in the early 20th century is full of suspense, twists and emotions. Love, hate and desire for revenge are the strongest motivation for the trio of its protagonists. Military trenches are still full of war victims when ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, esoteric ...
Plot: mystery woman, police detective, investigation, ritual, murder mystery, girl, mentally unstable, serial murder, femme fatale, strong female character, mother daughter relationship, murder ...
Time: 1910s, year 1915
Place: central europe, europe
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 6.1
 24K
Excision (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, surgeon, high school, sister sister relationship, gory, surgical operation, mentally unstable, teacher, mentally unstable protagonist, erotic dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa
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 7.0
 5K
Respiro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style: sincere, talky, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: island, coming of age, family relations, mental illness, skinny dipping, villager, mentally unstable, human nature, family life, injustice, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea
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 5.9
 20K
Welcome to Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Style: humorous, black comedy, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, depression, obsession, borderline personality disorder, loneliness, mental disorder, storytelling, life turned upside down, media, mental health, satire, friendship ...
Time: year 1989, year 1971, year 1996, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa, palm springs california, california
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 6.6
 51K
The Beaver (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Swedish Moment (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
Style: suspense, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: secret past, pop singer, musician, jealousy, secret, singer, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, criminal, mental disorder, past ...
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 7.1
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Khilona (1970)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Thakur Suraj Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife; three sons - Kishore, his wife Laxmi & two children Pappu and Laali; Vijaykamal, & Mohan; and an unmarried daughter, Radha. Kishore looks after the family business, while ...
Plot: heartbreak, brother brother relationship, unrequited love, revelation, deception, hypocrisy, prostitute, grief, lie, rape, suicide, love ...
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Dolly and Her Lover (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Räpsy is a loser who tries to take advantage other losers.
Plot: age-gap relationship, nudity, alcoholism, released from prison, ex convict, friend, sex, jail, love, male nudity, police, female nudity ...
Place: paris france
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The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Style: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, feel good ...
Plot: pilot, airplane, abduction, hostage, journalist, ransom, airport, reporter, money, husband wife relationship, hijacking, passenger ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
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 6.7
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Beyond the Law (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she ...
Style: crying
Plot: revenge, rape, vigilante, rape and revenge, women's rights, female nudity, courtroom, death, brother, legal system, psychopath, lawyer ...
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The Girl (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pat Carlsson is a 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who though very young is very streetwise as she offers sex, for a price, to middle-aged attorney John Berg who can not resist the young girl. What starts as an immoral sexual escape, becomes a ...
Style: erotic, detective, independent film
Plot: sex with a minor, teenage sex, seductress, coming of age, age-gap relationship, schoolgirl, teenage sexuality, female sexuality, sexy teenager, cheating wife, murderer, underage girl ...
Place: venice, italy
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 5.3
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Interval (1973)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An emotionally fragile older woman (Merle Oberon) embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist (Robert Wolders) while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Style: independent film, soap opera
Plot: painter, age-gap relationship, frustration, mental disorder, mental illness, hotel, flashback, mental institution, older woman younger man relationship, thirty something, accidental death, storm ...
Place: mexico
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 6.6
 554
Three Wise Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a ...
Plot: christmas, terminal illness, mental disorder, grief, improv, christmas present, storytelling, friend, drinking, photographer, friendship, adultery ...
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The Life of Aleksis Kivi (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: art, love interest, mental breakdown, class society, friendship, student, creativity, writers, money problems, university, politics, writer's life ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, 1870s, 1800s, 1860s
Place: finland
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 6.7
 206
Inocente de Ti (2004)
Genre: Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Inocente de Ti is a Miami-based 130 episode telenovela that first aired on the Univision network in 2005. It features Camila Sodi, Valentino Lanús, and Helena Rojo.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, novela ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, irony of fate, fall in love, estranged mother, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, women, sisters, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, love interest ...
Place: miami
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 5.7
 553
Love and Fury (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Audience: teens
Plot: writers, novelist, love story, love, literature, depression, insanity, writer's block, love and romance, creative block, male female relationship, romantic relationship ...
Time: year 1996, 80s
Place: scandinavia, finland, helsinki finland
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Nora Roberts' Angels Fall (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods......
Style: serious, realistic, touching, exciting, emotional ...
Plot: restaurant, murder, woman in danger, dishonesty, hidden identity, small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cooking, adultery, chef, beautiful scenery, disability ...
Place: usa, wyoming
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Angel's Dance (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, gangster, love and romance, odd couple, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, relationship vs career, father daughter relationship, organized crime, gang, special agent, multiple personality disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, chicago
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404: Error Not Found (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A brilliant student starts hallucinating after moving into a room that was occupied by another who committed suicide.
Style: bleak, serious, psychological, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, diary, medical school, split personality, haunted by the past, college life, dealing with death, suicide, mental disorder, student, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Long Live Freedom (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, clever, funny ...
Plot: twins, politics, campaign, switching roles, disorder, dishonesty, hidden identity, state affairs, political party, impostor, political rally, politician ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, france
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 7.0
 5K
Himizu (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan
Style: psychological, serious, stylized, bleak, existential ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teen angst, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, human nature, teenage life, earthquake, teenager, mental illness, suicide, obsession, heartwarming, dystopia ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.2
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Timeless Love (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Renata, a spirited woman, is treated cruelly by her mother and sister. Falling in love with Jerónimo changes her life for the better, but his misguided quest to avenge his brother's death jeopardizes their relationship.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, soap opera, captivating ...
Plot: mistaken identity, family relations, scandal, dysfunctional family, manipulation, fall in love, vengeance, couples, rivalry, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
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