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Wild Hogs (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Restless and ready for adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Style: road movie, funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, motorcycle, midlife crisis, motorcycle gang, biker gang, on the road, biker, small town, self discovery, happy ending, chase, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new mexico, california, ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio ...
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Then She Found Me (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: midlife crisis, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, jewish american, unfulfillment, parents and children, birth mother, love, pregnancy ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Box of Moon Light (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering ...
Style: road movie, scenic, thought provoking, humorous, touching ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, free spirit, vandalism, male pubic hair, life, stranger, male nudity, bare chested male, nudity, friends, introspection ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: chicago, tennessee
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The Banger Sisters (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the late '60s, the self-proclaimed belles of the rock 'n' roll ball, rocked the worlds of every music legend whose pants they could take off -- and they have the pictures to prove it. But it's been more than two decades since ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, rock star, odd couple, female bonding, women, secret past, self discovery, family relations, artists and showbiz, female protagonist, road trip ...
Time: year 2002
Place: los angeles, phoenix arizona, usa
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The Good Night (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, midlife crisis, friendship, obsession, advertising, unlikely friendships, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, thirtysomething life, musician's life, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, new york, usa, london
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Skin Deep (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking ...
Style: sexy, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: manly
Plot: divorce, womanizer, midlife crisis, lust, alcoholic, male nudity, redemption, police investigation, love story, couple relations, reconciliation, drunkenness ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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The Swimmer (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, swimming pool, swimming, swimmer, surrealism, nudist, neighbor, existentialism, life philosophy, character study, social relations, neighborhood ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: connecticut, usa
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Happily Ever After (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, paris france
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Edmond (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, intense, stylized ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, murder, midlife crisis, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, sodomy, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to ...
Style: sexy, talky, witty, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: midlife crisis, destiny, unrequited love, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, loneliness, art ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, sincere, touching, romantic ...
Plot: love affair, midlife crisis, family problems, family in crisis, infidelity, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, youth, unfaithful wife, audition ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Nine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from ...
Style: emotional, clever, lyrical, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: infidelity, filmmaking, midlife crisis, memory, broadway, lifestyle, femme fatale, self discovery, dancing, couples, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 2000s, year 2009, 1920s ...
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of ...
Style: saga, futuristic, epic, action adventure, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, revenge, star trek, planet, space opera, self sacrifice, midlife crisis, space station, space, villain, trap, brainwashing ...
Time: future, year 1982, 23rd century
Place: space western
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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Another Round (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
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Winter Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style: philosophical, art house, meditative, independent film, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family problems, winter, art, storytelling, snow, social differences, haunted by the past, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, cappadocia turkey, turkey
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Inadequate People (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adequacy is relative.Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling and a personal couch doctor, Vitalik looks as adequate as a human can possibly be. Wait till he drinks and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, uplifting, non-linear
Audience: date night, teen drama
Plot: age difference, forbidden love, love and romance, unlikely couple, older man younger woman relationship, psychologist, midlife crisis, fall in love, male objectification, life turned upside down, teenage sexuality, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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Queen to Play (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a small Corsican village, the life of Hélène, ordinary and single, She works as a maid in a hotel and is married happily with her Husband Ange and her fifteen year-old daughter. Her modest and monotonous life seems to be predetermined... One ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good
Plot: chess, midlife crisis, family relations, island, couples, self discovery, follow your dream, hopes, dull life, parents and children, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe, corsica
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
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Lolita (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, sexy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: forbidden love, lolita, age difference, pedophilia, girl man relationship, seduction, older man younger woman relationship, lust, teenage girl, nymphet, obsession, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future, 1950s ...
Place: new hampshire, usa, ohio
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Things to Come (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very ...
Style: art house, psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, divorce, human animal relationship, midlife crisis, female teacher, black cat, ex husband ex wife relationship, female writer, loss of mother, book, anarchism ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 2010s
Place: france
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
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The Weather Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Style: depressing, realistic, dark comedy, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: weatherman, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, relationship vs career, introspection, father son relationship, family problems, character study, hopes, father, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york
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Shrek Forever After (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and ...
Style: fairy tale, computer animated, funny, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: ogre, princess, magical, talking animal, dragon, female warrior, true love, magic, animal, midlife crisis, time travel, imaginary kingdom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, medieval times, middle ages
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Son of the Bride (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment ...
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, witty, romantic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family relations, heart attack, self discovery, childhood, introspection, fall in love, couple relations, human nature, old friend, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2001
Place: latin america, argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina, italy ...
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Panic (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He ...
Style: dark comedy, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, midlife crisis, therapy, family business, character study, psychologist, infidelity, love affair, crumbling marriage, going straight, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Style: surreal, talky, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot: midlife crisis, car salesman, adaptation, surrealism, losing-it hero, self discovery, success, against the rules, couple relations, small town, small town life, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: indiana, hawaii
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The Taste of Others (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
Style: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, bohemian life, extramarital affair, opposites attract, fish out of water, disorder, snobbism, couple relations, fall in love, adultery, artist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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Please Give (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Style: melancholic, depressing, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: midlife crisis, family drama, loneliness, complex characters, depression, human nature, parents and children, adultery, teenage life, suicide, cancer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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