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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys aspire to win a backyard wrestling championship and a chance to appear on a national TV show.
Style:
witty, semi serious, realistic, independent film, feel good ...
Plot:
wrestling, ambition, rivalry, rise to the top, male bonding, friendship, coming of age, small town, life lesson, martial arts, teen angst, partner ...
Time:
year 2016, turn of the century, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Musical is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Ku Hye-sun, Choi Daniel, Park Ki-woong, Ock Joo-hyun and Kim Eun-se. It aired on SBS from September 2 to December 23, 2011 on Fridays at 22:00 for 15 episodes.
Filming began in July ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, romantic drama
Plot:
love triangle, ambition, showbiz, follow your dream, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, couples, musician's life, hopes, theater, aspiring actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul, new york, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka. Ayako was the mother of ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, family saga ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, ambition, follow your dream, rise to the top, lifestyle, workplace, hopes, family relations, workplace situations, parents and children, biopic, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
wall street, ambition, office, trading, dishonesty, rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, stock broker, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!
Style:
semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, showbiz, actor's life, working undercover, blind ambition, rise to the top, escapades, moral ambiguity, obsession, deception, theater ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, captivating, fast paced ...
Plot:
law firm, ambition, lawyer, workplace, lawsuit, jury, workplace situations, legal, urban, rivalry, female protagonist, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, rivalry, profanity, urban, music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, rap, music industry ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, orlando florida, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
gangster, mafia, organized crime, drug lord, gunfight, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, violence, badass ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
miami, miami beach, bolivia, cuba, florida ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, beauty pageant, contests and competitions, resort, homecoming, social relations, love and romance, farce, friendship, competition, ski resort ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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183K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Style:
epic, period piece, breathtaking, serious, factual ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
ancient history, war, conquering, medieval, battles, warlord, destiny, greek, ambition, ruler, gay, knight ...
Time:
ancient times, year 2004, middle ages
Place:
ancient greece, greece, persia, macedonia, egypt ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tragic ending, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
ballet, ambition, complex characters, father daughter relationship, loner, dancer, career, dance, choreography, legacy, risk, blind ambition ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Plot:
hockey, friendship, rivalry, ice hockey, ambition, athlete and trainer, buddies, contests and competitions, underdog, small town, team, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
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Genre: Animation
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Every weekend, Samy and his friends meet up at a mall under construction that became their private street football arena, hidden from the eyes of the townspeople, A new and spectacular game has emerged, incorporating other urban sports such as ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, semi serious, computer animated, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, american football, soccer, athlete's life, contests and competitions, friends, sport team, extreme sports, teamwork, friendship, youth culture ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
gambling, friends, ambition, partner, buddies, misfit partners, contests and competitions, disorder, rivalry, horse race, racehorse, chance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, monte carlo, france, french riviera
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Qiao Nuo, a fresh graduate, comes across an unexpected opportunity to become an intern for the city court. Because of her lack of knowledge for what the work entails, her abilities are questioned by the judge. Qiao Nuo witnesses the intense ...
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom, judge, ambition, trial, prosecutor, law, legal action, advocate, court, courtroom drama, lawyer, lawsuit ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, multicultural ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, ambition, hopes, teenage life, follow your dream, society, hip hop, family relations, music, urban, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
theater, sex scene, female nudity, ambition, media manipulation, hashish, poet, male nudity, death, infidelity, nudity, dandy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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294K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.
Style:
epic, sexy, historical drama, sexual, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ancient rome, ancient history, roman empire, gladiator, sword fight, rebellion, battles, swords and armor, friendship between men, sex, slavery, medieval ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century, 2000s
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After rescuing Last Order and subsequently taking a bullet to the head, Academy City’s top-ranked esper rests in the hospital. But Accelerator’s recovery is cut short when a mysterious girl carrying a photo of his little clone companion asks for ...
Style:
anime, exciting, tense, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, kids
Plot:
supernatural ability, ambition, villain, fight, death, violence, heroes, hopes, self discovery, betrayal, teenage boy, friendship ...
Place:
japan
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81K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
striptease, showgirl, stripper, sex scene, erotica, nudity, rape, female nudity, strip club, seduction, showbiz, pole dancing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three young gay men arrive in Los Angeles to fulfill their dreams and aspirations, during a summer which will change their lives. In a world of You Tube celebrities, unemployment, downward mobility, and socializing through Facebook, they make a wish ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, ambition, lgbt, gender, lgbtq, looking for love, personal growth, aspiration, young adult, self discovery, sexuality, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
ambition, obsession, relationship problems, couple relations, hotel, couples, crumbling marriage, relationship vs career, corruption, jealousy, marriage, determination ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, high school sports, youth, coach, high school football, sport team ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
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107K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Style:
inspirational, serious, factual, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, creativity, computer, rise to the top, entrepreneurship, biopic, inventor, marketing, inventions and discoveries, prodigy, startup ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2013, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, india, new jersey
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7K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
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26K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts
Style:
inspirational, teen, retro, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, music, teacher, high school, audition, coming of age, dancing, dance, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, piano, musician ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
ambiguous ending, melancholic, epic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, gunfight, murder, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, america, china ...
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12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the ...
Style:
political, horror musical, art film, mind twisting, disturbing ...
Plot:
nazi, nazi germany, actor, pact with the devil, theater, nazism, ambition, ethics, success, price of fame, female nudity, biopic ...
Time:
year 1981, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, berlin germany, eastern europe, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, rom com, cynical, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
female bonding, fish out of water, ambition, impersonation, class differences, rags to riches, african american, terminal illness, inheritance, female protagonist, culture clash, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, georgia
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