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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, coming of age, manslaughter, drug use, crime and punishment, society, friends, chaos and mayhem, bong ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style:
cynical, erotic, cult classic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, price of fame, singer, actress, sex, showbiz, drinking, psychiatric nurse, swimming pool, lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new england, new york ...
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107K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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67K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Style:
tense, harsh, intense, breathtaking, disturbing ...
Plot:
gangster, running from police, heist gone wrong, bank robbery, heist, death of friend, group of friends, drunk, panic attack, language barrier, bullet wound, crime gone awry ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, y2k, 90s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, peru, spain
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286K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug lord, drug dealing, drug abuse, drug, drug traffic, drug cartel, rise and fall, drug use, friendship, addiction, gangster ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 80s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
latin america, california, south america, usa, colombia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drug, heroin addict, drug addict, heroin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of pet, life philosophy, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar, Argentina, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
drug cartel, friendship, drug, social issues, social problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, organized crime, teenager, city life, friends, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place:
mexico, south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
sexual relations, making love, lust, older woman younger man relationship, tourist, looking for love, lifestyle, unfulfillment, love and romance, sex scene, age-gap relationship, drug use ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 20th century
Place:
haiti, caribbean, africa, savannah georgia, boston
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259K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, dark comedy, intense, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, cocaine, lovers on the run, gangster, mafia, gunfight, shootout, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, bodyguard, love, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, seattle, michigan ...
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58K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark ...
Style:
sentimental, stylized, lyrical, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, bohemian life, aids, lgbtq, gay, drug abuse, hiv, glbt, drug addiction, christmas, friendship, drag queen ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 2005, future, 90s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, new mexico ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Style:
funny, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time machine, party, friendship, stupidity, changing the past or future, time loop, casual sex, ski resort, sex in a hot tub, sex scene, foul language ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, chernobyl, california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations, falling deeper into her own ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, captivating, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
missing child, loss of child, self harm, disappearance, kidnapping, drug use, hot and sexy, lonely, lost child, family relations, extramarital affair, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, dentist, frame up, drug use, femme fatale, betrayal, dark humor, false accusation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, couples, disorder ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wisconsin, usa, arizona, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style:
sincere, unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
israeli, arab, dating, judaism, friendship, student, female friendship, young woman, university, drug use, roommate, single woman ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, indiana, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Tells the story of a Las Vegas drug dealer who lives a crazed drugged out lifestyle alongside many gonzo cronies, but eventually opts out of the business before it destroys him.
Style:
enigmatic, tense, cynical, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
methamphetamine, drug addiction, chauffeur, drug dealer, drug, drug use, drug dealing, car theft, paranoia, drinking, party, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Shane inherits a gentleman's club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for Los Angeles. Run by a booze hound and employing a dozen out of control strippers, Shane must do everything he can to save the club from ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
stripper, strip club, female nudity, drug use, workplace, workplace situations, bankruptcy, disorder, boss and employee, nightclub, save the day, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Other Girls tells the story of four young girls nearing graduation, all of them struggling with various issues.
Style:
psychological, suspense, touching, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school student, group of friends, friendship, drug use, teenage protagonist, fall in love, couples, teenager, lesbian, young woman, unplanned pregnancy, anger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland, lithuania, helsinki finland
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677
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot:
drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, life is a bitch, downfall, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight, rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her ...
Style:
erotic drama, captivating, serious, realistic, sensual ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
prostitution, call girl, phone sex, sexual relations, sex, teenage prostitute, female nudity, teenage prostitution, prostitute, innocence lost, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story:
Lea is an ambitious boxer with a dubious past who wants to do everything she can to become world champion. When an inspector suspects her of cheating, she must decide whether she is willing to risk everything for her dream.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
boxing, dark past, female protagonist, female boxer, boxing training, choice, ambition, determination, athlete and trainer, boxing trainer, professional sports, tragic past ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Piet, who is studying computer science, is as inexperienced sexually as he is intelligent. When he notices that his feelings for Klara, a fellow student, are not really reciprocal, he is deeply hurt. After trying out sleeping pills on himself, he ...
Style:
dark, intense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
love story, mental disorder, young love, stalker, fear, geek, drug use, murder, dismemberment, mutilation, rape, loneliness ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The decade of the hippies is at an end and the 80's are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two doped out guys who lives in harmony with the world around them and let life pass by in an eternal hash high. They have been peddling hashish for a ...
Style:
humorous, disturbing, feel good, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot:
marijuana, stoned, money, adult humor, drug use, friendship between men, countryside, drug dealing, death of girlfriend, love, criminal, paranoia ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
exile, cult leader, amputation, cannibalism, desert, cannibal, dystopia, hallucinogenic drug, isolated community, amputee, dismemberment, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
austin texas
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125K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style:
disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, social ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, boy, teenage boy, father son relationship, divorce, coming of age, rehabilitation, methamphetamine, drug use, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the people closest to him.
Style:
mind bending, detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
riddles and clues, mysterious stranger, infidelity, hacker, secrets, drug use, memory loss, husband wife relationship, betrayal, investigation, family relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
Style:
rough, enigmatic, suspenseful, harsh, suspense ...
Plot:
ex convict, murder, kidnapping, dead body, police brutality, baby, drug use, violence, dark humor, criminal gang, betrayal, impersonating a police officer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Style:
independent film, atmospheric, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
rave, dj, bisexual, drug dealing, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, nightlife, city life, gay, party, drug use ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, new york, california
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