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12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slavery, racism, survival, civil rights, torture, african american, freedom, american history, life is a bitch, black history, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: louisiana, new orleans, america, africa, usa ...
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 7.1
 73K
Agora (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Malta, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Style: sincere, philosophical, stylized, epic, political ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, mathematics, atheism, medieval, impossible love, political unrest, antiquity, ancient world, historical character, religions or cults, unrequited love ...
Time: 5th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place: ancient greece, egypt, alexandria egypt, greece, iberian peninsula ...
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 6.8
 34K
Oliver Twist (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: boy, orphan, orphanage, poverty, child abuse, childhood, children, child, friendship, kidnapping, death sentence, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, year 2005, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, europe
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style: enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: artist, painter, art, painting, maid, master and servant, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, portrait, age difference ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era
Place: holland, netherlands, europe, america
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 7.1
 15K
Code Unknown (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Romania, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' ...
Style: sincere, bleak, clever, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot: alienation, homeless, social differences, misfit, life is a bitch, society, breaking point, social decay, old lady, existentialism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, refugee ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: germany, france, kosovo, europe, africa ...
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 7.2
 12K
Avanti! (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Style: humorous, sentimental, witty, romantic, touching ...
Plot: death of father, hotel, secret lover, opposites attract, love affair, family problems, nothing goes right, twists and turns, death in the family, couples, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, baltimore
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian ...
Style: disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, organized crime, lovers on the run, love triangle, gang, rivalry, master criminal, danger, chase, drug dealing, hitman, martial arts ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 7.5
 10K
The Son (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Style: psychological, bleak, compassionate, meditative, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, obsession, redemption, forgiveness, apprentice, going straight, teenage life, family problems, working class, parents and children, teachers and students, death in the family ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: france, usa, belgium, europe, los angeles
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 6.7
 11K
Morvern Callar (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
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 7.2
 133K
About Schmidt (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style: road movie, depressing, dark comedy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, parenthood, wedding, elderly, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, great ending, workplace, philosophy ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, colorado, denver colorado, kansas
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My Mother's Castle (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures ...
Style: talky, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: countryside, teacher, childhood, coming of age, friendship, memories, school, family relations, weekend, couples, apprentice, little girl ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1990, 20th century, 1910s
Place: provence, france, europe, marseille
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My Father's Glory (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, coming of age, countryside, childhood, children, brother brother relationship, childhood memory, country house, childhood friend, cottage, boy, heartwarming ...
Time: 1900s, turn of the century, year 1990, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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 6.3
 15K
Ararat (2002)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, sexy, meta ...
Plot: genocide, armenian genocide, filmmaking, politics, freedom, atrocity, war crime, self discovery, haunted by the past, against humanity, family problems, painting ...
Time: year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, year 1915, 1930s ...
Place: armenia, canada, ottoman empire, middle east, new york ...
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Far from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style: sincere, emotional, stylized, visual, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: racism, gay husband, gay, homosexuality, housewife, infidelity, crumbling marriage, friendship, couples, forbidden love, african american, prejudice ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2002, year 1957 ...
Place: connecticut, usa, miami, new england, baltimore
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tricky, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, infidelity, dangerous attraction, incest, women, amateur detective, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation, photograph ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place: maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england
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The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Concert pianist Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) is trying to have an affair with a married woman, Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss), while two teenage private-school girls, Valerie Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth), stalk him and ...
Style: funny, avant garde, retro, christmas classics, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, obsession, father daughter relationship, christmas, chase, womanizer, unlikely couple, divorce, friendship, teenager, stalking ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, bronx new york city
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 7.3
 14K
Good Work (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style: surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot: foreign legion, military, military training, gay, soldier, french foreign legion, desert, obsession, transformation, lgbt, battles, discipline ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: africa, france, south africa, east africa, salt lake city utah ...
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 6.8
 18K
Roger Dodger (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.
Style: sex comedy, realistic, biting, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: virginity, womanizer, nightlife, seduction, coming of age, relationships, sexuality, battle of the sexes, youth, flirting, dating, libertine ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, ohio, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 95K
Frida (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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 7.5
 11K
All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
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My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
Style: philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, minimal cast, existential ...
Plot: conversation, restaurant, philosophy, food, existentialism, art, dialogue, cooking, dinner, realism, transcendence, occult ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, poland, middle east, manhattan new york city, sahara ...
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.
Style: surreal, sexy, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: sex, sexuality, couple relations, relationships, adultery, love affair, self discovery, sexual relations, mysterious character, starting over, unlikely couple, couples ...
Time: year 2001, post world war two, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 7.3
 4K
Chocolate (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: racism, colonialism, coming of age, youth, imperialism, culture clash, interracial relations, farm, woman, animal abuse, summer, priest ...
Time: 1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place: africa
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Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He ...
Style: surreal, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: biopic, artist, art, painter, art history, painting, storytelling, napoleonic wars, exile, artwork, famous, ancient ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, year 1999, ancient times ...
Place: spain, france, europe
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Skipped Parts (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, sex, virginity, friendship, high school, sexual awakening, single parent, youth, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 90s
Place: wyoming, missouri
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 7.0
 23K
Croupier (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino ...
Style: neo noir, tense, clever, noir, serious ...
Plot: gambling, casino, croupier, writers, caper, addiction, relationships, greed, bet, career change, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place: england, london, ireland, europe, south africa ...
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 7.0
 9K
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ...
Style: witty, melancholic, stylized, political, talky ...
Plot: abortion, drug abuse, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, addiction, pregnancy, politics, female protagonist, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, youth, women ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: nebraska, vietnam
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, light, absurd ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: mad scientist, robot, space and aliens, space travel, satire, stupidity, outer space, teleportation, irreverent, scientist, time, imaginary ...
Place: minnesota
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