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Blue Mountain State (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: college, american football, youth, athlete's life, sexual activity, college life, teenage life, abuse, disorder, social relations, ambition, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.4
 109K
Turbo (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.
Style: exciting, humorous, inspirational, light, computer animated ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: racing, snail, contests and competitions, chases and races, friends, follow your dream, animal life, race, ambition, escapades, supportive friend, ambitious ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 2010s
Place: indiana, usa, indianapolis indiana, midwest
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 3.9
 23K
Material Girls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.
Style: teen, realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: downfall, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, youth, teenager, fish out of water, rise to the top, rise and fall, ambition, sibling relationship, disorder ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 8.3
 93K
Ray Donovan (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, clever, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: identity crisis, hollywood, nudity, power relations, blackmail, relatives, family feud, family problems, trauma, family relations, businessman, family secret ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, chicago, new york
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Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, light ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, family friendly, kids
Plot: horse, teenage love, jealousy, youth, friends, save the day, contests and competitions, ambition, teenage life, parents and children, money raising, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
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High School Musical (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: high school, music, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, basketball, friendship, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, teenager, dancing ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, utah
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High School Musical 2 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The East High Wildcats are ready to have the time of their lives. Troy (Zac Efron) is thrilled when he’s offered a job in a country club, but it’s all part of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) plot to lure him away from Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). ...
Style: teen, melancholic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: teenage love, high school life, teenager, teenage girl, music, dancing, youth, love and romance, ambition, country club, talent show, dance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
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Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Christina Milian stars as sassy cheer captain Lina Cruz, whose world is turned upside-down when her family moves from the urban streets of East Los Angeles to the sunny beach town of Malibu. At her new school, Lina clashes with Avery, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, teenage love, interracial couple, high school, youth, lifestyle, high school hunk, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
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The Disaster Artist (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Style: feel good, light, humorous, absurd, funny ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: friendship, filmmaking, hollywood, bromance, strange person, ambition, aspiring actor, actor, friendship between men, biopic, love, promise ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, america, san francisco
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 6.8
 13K
Populaire (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in 1958, Populaire focuses on Rose Pamphyle, who lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. Rose travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard. Louis ...
Style: romantic, sweet, sentimental, sexy, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: secretary, boss and employee, fall in love, receptionist, employer employee relationship, workplace, love and romance, competition, ambition, love story, contests and competitions, happy ending ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place: france, paris france, new york, normandy
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 7.6
 3K
Dream High (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Dream High is a South Korean television series broadcast by KBS in 2011. It features miss A's Suzy, Kim Soo-hyun, T-ara's Eunjung, IU and 2PM. The drama was popular among teenagers, and brought in viewership ratings in the 18 to 20 ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, dorama, romantic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, high school, youth, music industry, music, ambition, friendship, love triangle, follow your dream, musician's life, against the odds, prodigy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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 5.4
 19K
Bel Ami (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, poverty, ambition, nudity, extramarital affair, rise to the top, marriage, journalist, society, dishonesty, rich and poor ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 7.7
 25K
Guru (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Plot: couples, society, research, ambition, rise to power, industrialist, idealism, newspaper, success, doubts and hesitations, businessman, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: asia, india, istanbul turkey, mumbai india, turkey
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 6.9
 13K
Fashion (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Fashion begins in, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) expresses her wish to go to Mumbai and pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel. Through her eyes we see that behind the glitz and glamour of the world of fashion not ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot: fashion, model, ambition, drug abuse, rise to the top, lifestyle, follow your dream, abortion, friendship, desire for fame, infidelity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Isn't She Great (2000)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a ...
Style: light, satirical, touching, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: female protagonist, writers, ambition, eccentricity, showbiz, fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, aging, love and romance, autism, marriage ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, connecticut
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The Damned United (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous ...
Style: factual, inspirational, tense, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, football, discipline, biopic, soccer coach, friendship, ambition, mentor, training, rivalry, justice, life philosophy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2009, 60s, year 1974
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, mallorca ...
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 6.8
 52K
To Die For (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, satirical, sexy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: journalism, femme fatale, female protagonist, older woman younger man relationship, murder, manipulation, oral sex, erotic fantasy, television, adultery, teenage girl, age difference ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: new hampshire, usa
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 6.7
 9K
Pope Joan (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Italy, Spain
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Style: serious, captivating, costume drama, historical drama, epic ...
Plot: pope, vatican, clergy, religion, medieval, monk, monastery, catholic priest, healing power, cross dressing, ambition, hidden identity ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 9th century, year 2010, ancient times
Place: germany, rome italy, europe, italy
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 6.1
 2K
The Borgia (2006)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.
Style: realistic, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, costume drama ...
Plot: state affairs, leadership, society, dishonesty, betrayal, downfall, biopic, uninhibited rivalry, medieval, royal family, political unrest, ambition ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
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 6.8
 1K
Starstruck (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A new-wave extravaganza in which a young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
Style: realistic, psychotronic, erotic, laugh out loud, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, hopes, friends, cinderella story, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, love and romance, ambition, showbiz, rock and roll, musician's life, rising to stardom ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: australia, sydney australia, new south wales
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Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, powerful ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: communism, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, dancing, ambition, promise, immigrant, human spirit, follow your dream, self fulfillment ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
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Shattered Glass (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fact-based 2003 drama about the young journalist Stephen Glass, who got a job at The New Republic in 1995 and for three years fabricated at least half of the stories he wrote.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: journalism, writers, workplace, ethics, journalist, media, ambition, suspicion, research, workaholic, career, character study ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., haiti, palo alto california
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out ...
Style: stylized, captivating, psychological, informative, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, manly
Plot: wall street, stock broker, finance, greed, stock market crash, stock market, business, corporate greed, betrayal, rivalry, corporate world, economics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2001, 2000s, year 2008 ...
Place: new york, usa, london, manhattan new york city, tower bridge london ...
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 28K
The Warlords (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, epic, serious, rough ...
Plot: war, martial arts, fight, soldier, ambition, civil war, kung fu, battles, pow, political unrest, treason, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, medieval times, 1800s, year 2007 ...
Place: china, east asia, ancient china, asia, beijing china
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 7.0
 246K
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, slapstick, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: golf, dumb, underdog, rivalry, anger, hockey, eccentricity, ambition, stupidity, contests and competitions, against the odds, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
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Peaceful Warrior (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
Style: inspirational, philosophical, spiritual, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: self discovery, mentor, teaching the ways of the world, wisdom of life, enlightenment, wise man, philosophy, human spirit, life philosophy, gymnastics, athlete and trainer, coach ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: tibet, california, usa
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Burn After Reading (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stupidity, espionage, paranoia, farce, divorce, infidelity, spy, gym, violence, online dating, great ending, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, virginia, persia, america ...
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 6.6
 180
La Run (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Guillaume is a good young man. He has never taken hard drugs in his life, doesn't plan on trying, and has an honest job. Everything goes chaotic when he witnesses his father's attempted suicide over a heavy gambling debt. In order to pay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychedelic
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, ambition, jealousy, drug dealing, drug, money, violence, family relations, wrestler
Place: montreal
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 8.1
 510K
Rush (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style: inspirational, realistic, motivational, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: racing, race, car race, race car, racecar driver, rise to the top, motor sport, success, formula 1, car racing, world champion, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: europe, britain, australia, usa, monte carlo ...
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