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 7.6
 18K
Afro Samurai (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: A Black samurai goes on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father in a futuristic feudal Japan.In the Afro Samurai world there are many headbands and they signify the best fighters in the world. If a person should hold number 1, they are ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, manga, adult animation, adult cartoon ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: samurai, danger, death, master warrior, escapades, imaginary, killings, sword fight, anti hero, ghost, lone wolves, sexual activity ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: japan
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 9.0
 47K
Persona (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.
Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, rape, secret, police, death, journalist, anti hero, danger, alzheimer's disease, family relations, cognitive science ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Robin Hood: The True Story (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Robin des Bois, with his friend Tuck, are bad guy: they only steal poor, women and old people. They dream to get they own brothel in town, like the Pussycat. They decide to rob Nottingham's tax office, but they meet the Sherwood gang - who ...
Style: humorous, not serious, parody, light, exciting ...
Plot: robin hood, folk hero, gang, escapades, silly humor, rich and poor, heist, disorder, anti hero, woods, danger, legend ...
Time: middle ages
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Magic Carpet Ride (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.
Style: humorous, witty, not serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: petty criminal, anti hero, working class, misfit, family problems, society, robbery, turk, caper, gangster, satire, secret hideout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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 3.4
 2K
Shark Swarm (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark attack, save the day, survival, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, anti hero, secret identity, deadly creature, killer animal, small town, resort, creature feature ...
Place: california, usa
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Juan of the Dead (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying ...
Style: scary, dark comedy, horror comedy, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie apocalypse, zombie, survival, chaos, dark humor, living dead, cannibalism, anti hero, heroes, plague, supernatural, apocalypse ...
Place: latin america, cuba
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 6.6
 35K
The Homesman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, realistic, bleak, depressing ...
Plot: old west, twists and turns, mental illness, suicide, wild west, human nature, depression, native american, anti hero, obsessive quest, unlikely partners, partner ...
Time: 19th century, year 2014, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, nebraska
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 6.7
 1K
Ghetto (2005)
Genre: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, rough ...
Plot: genocide, holocaust, war, world war two, anti semitism, survival, moral dilemma, anti hero, confined, against humanity, heroes, lifesaver ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, baltics
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 4.1
 3K
Red Water (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns up. This bull shark is different, as it can breath in fresh water, making a deadly encounter ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, fugitives, dangerous animal, treasure hunt, hostage, gory, survival, rescue, anti hero, heroic mission ...
Place: louisiana, usa, mississippi
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — attends an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans.
Style: offbeat, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: monster, prank, halloween, friends, anti hero, teachers and students, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, imaginary, disorder, misfit, surrealism ...
Time: 90s
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 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
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John Dies at the End (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: invasion, dark humor, end of the world, dog, fictional reality, monster, out of body experience, buddies, anti hero, psychic power, save the world, portal ...
Time: year 2012
Place: usa
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The Invisible Man (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: The Invisible Man is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. Somewhat more successful than previous television series involving invisible secret agents, it ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: invisibility, government agency, invisible man, spy, experiment, petty criminal, anti hero, undercover, danger, antidote, loss of sibling, secret agent ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: usa
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Dance of the Dead (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With Prom only hours away, the usual suspects of Cosa High (Cheerleaders, geeks, bad boys and the happy-go-lucky student council alike) are preoccupied with the annual rituals of teendom. On the night of the big dance when the dead unexpectedly rise ...
Style: parody, scary, bloody, atmospheric, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, high school, supernatural, virus, apocalypse, gory, prom, cheerleader, violence, survival, transformation, small town ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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 5.7
 26K
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
Style: exciting, political, cult classic, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, motorcycle, on the run, widow, farm, manhunt, showdown, hand to hand combat, police officer, one man army, one against many, fistfight ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: california, montana
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: cia, one man army, terrorism, murder, soldier, navy, diver, police, mission, revenge, prison, swat team ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: syria, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., north carolina ...
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Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 6.7
 6K
Prime Cut (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Style: tense, independent film, exciting, serious, grindhouse ...
Plot: murder, organized crime, gangster, chase, slaughterhouse, hotel, revenge, violence, vengeance, mafia, rape victim, small community ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: chicago, kansas, usa, kansas city
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 6.9
 2K
Acid (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him ...
Style: masala, entertaining, crying, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot: redemption, deportation, anti hero, injustice, ex convict, tough cop, showdown, criminal, courage, crime boss, acid, frame up ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
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, suspense, serious, visual ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, revenge, mobster, ambition, melancholy, mob boss, corruption, corrupt politician, gangster, murder ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1940s, year 1974 ...
Place: cuba, new york, las vegas, italy, sicily ...
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Style: saga, action adventure, futuristic, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: star wars, space travel, smuggler, spacecraft, organized crime, alien, spaceship, interspecies friendship, space opera, gangster, gambling, space battle ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: space western
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, futuristic, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, alien, outer space, space, space travel, superpower, chase, space battle, good versus evil, megalomaniac, patricide, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future, year 1980, year 2014 ...
Place: space western, missouri
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Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, tough heroes, organized crime, criminal's revenge, crime boss, corrupt cop, husband wife relationship, gangster ...
Time: 70s
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 7.7
 43K
Torchwood (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. Torchwood follows the exploits of a small team of alien ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: supernatural, gay, paranormal investigation, investigation, doctor who, lgbt, alien, save the world, creature, homosexual, heroic mission, time travel ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: wales, europe, united kingdom, england
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 7.7
 455K
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style: humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary, obsessive quest, friendship, prejudice, disguise, hacker, master of disguise, medal, heroes, chases and races, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 7.6
 356K
True Grit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style: tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place: texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
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 7.2
 71K
Re-Animator (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style: splatter, lovecraft, black comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, mad scientist, guts, hospital, gory, experiment, insanity, mad doctor, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, laboratory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: zurich switzerland, massachusetts, europe, austria
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
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Day of the Wacko (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style: tragicomedy, humorous, cynical, independent film, existential ...
Plot: midlife crisis, alienation, nothing goes right, social satire, loner, teacher, obsession, polish, burnout, self loathing, paranoia, mental illness ...
Time: year 2002, middle ages
Place: poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe, central europe
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