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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, suspense, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: writers, revenge, husband wife relationship, divorce, loss of family, infidelity, abortion, rape, rape and murder, symbolism, ex husband, grief ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: texas, los angeles, new york
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 7.2
 289K
Red Dragon (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, psychological, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, investigation, mind game, murder, killer, torture, profiler, split personality, reporter, blindness ...
Time: 2000s, 80s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, washington d.c., florida, baltimore, birmingham alabama ...
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 7.4
 609K
Limitless (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style: clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: intelligence, success, drug, drug abuse, creativity, ambition, rags to riches, rise to the top, life turned upside down, prodigy, experimental drug, overnight success ...
Time: year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 6.3
 10K
Ghost Story (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Style: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, light ...
Plot: ghost story, ghost, supernatural, haunted house, life & death, guilt, death, vengeance, small town, murder, justice, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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 6.5
 126K
Gerald's Game (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological horror, disturbing, scary ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: stephen king, survival, childhood trauma, hallucination, mind game, perseverance, sex game, split personality, childhood memory, symbolism, child abuse, eclipse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: america, alabama, new orleans
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Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town? (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Lloyd is a novice adventurer whose dream is to discover “true strength” in the capital he’s always admired, despite growing up with neighbors who always considered him weak. The story starts with him departing from his hometown, which just so ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, light, shounen ...
Plot: magic, escapades, fantasy world, monster, daydreamer, ambition, wizard, follow your dream, wizards and magicians, satire, isekai, food ...
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 6.6
 8K
The Woods (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 306 min.
TV show
Story: Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, detective, crime thriller ...
Plot: murder mystery, prosecutor, murder investigation, murder, homicide detective, depression, child murder, police investigation, police detective, uncover truth, past coming back to haunt, brutal murder ...
Place: warsaw poland, poland
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Eternal Love of Dream (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Having been saved by Emperor Dong Hua from a vicious monster attack, Princess of Qingqiu, Bai Fengjiu becomes immensely indebted to him. To repay him, Fengjiu follows Donghua around on his adventures to eliminate evil but unwittingly realizes that ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, romantic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, manipulative woman, friendship, destiny, hopes, love and romance, love story, couples, battles, male female relationship, showdown, supernatural ability ...
Place: china
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 6.5
 70K
Shadowhunters (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.
Style: captivating, tense, dark fantasy, serious, gothic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: supernatural, vampire, magic, demon, gay, female protagonist, supernatural being, werewolf, supernatural power, good versus evil, friendship, vampire human love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Serious Game (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, sincere, costume drama
Plot: love, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, loveless marriage, opera, unhappy marriage, love and romance, romantic triangle, ex couple relations, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 1910s
Place: eastern europe
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, teen, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, youth, sexual promiscuity, sexual awakening, love affair, female nudity, sex with a minor, voyeurism, defloration, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey, usa, san francisco
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Mary Poppins, Goodbye (1984)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Style: unusual plot structure, sincere, captivating, psychological, surreal
Audience: kids
Plot: nanny, family relations, children, twists and turns, parents and children, kids and family, fictional reality, adaptation, talking to the dead, mary poppins, magic, babysitting ...
Time: 80s
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 8.0
 111K
Good Omens (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In 2019 the world is on the brink of an apocalypse as humanity prepares for a final judgment. But follies ensue — Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a demon aren’t enthusiastic about the end of the world, and can’t seem to find ...
Style: witty, atmospheric, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: angel, armageddon, devil, demon, prophecy, heaven and hell, foe turned friend, supernatural, fallen angel, witchcraft, good versus evil, satan ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, usa, africa
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The Shannara Chronicles (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, elf, demon, fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, danger, good versus evil, magic, young heroes, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
Place: san francisco
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, passion, adultery, photography, waitress, female nudity, love triangle, menage a trois, sexual promiscuity, voyeurism, existentialism ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, switzerland, california ...
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 7.5
 180K
A Time to Kill (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style: sincere, suspense, serious, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, court, justice, lawyer, courtroom, murder, trial, small town, rape, injustice, revenge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
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 6.7
 18K
The Entity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, female nudity, demon rape, paranormal phenomena, ghost, haunted, sexual assault, invisibility, torment, sex crime ...
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 8.2
 940K
Die Hard (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, stranded, coming of age, love and romance, shipwreck, survival, young love, beautiful scenery, teenage love, youth, fall in love, desert island ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1980, 1890s ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a ...
Style: romantic, exciting, humorous, costume drama, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: zombie, prejudice, unlikely couple, couples, female warrior, wooing, supernatural, looking for love, zombie survival, plague, shaolin, virus ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1800s, 2010s, victorian era ...
Place: england, europe, britain, london
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 187K
Altered Carbon (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style: futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, virtual reality, murder, resistance fighter, twists and turns, body swapping, female nudity, doppelganger, multiple storylines ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: san francisco
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 5.0
 22K
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: dystopia, book, shark, society, firefighter, resistance, partner, childhood memory, fire, meaning of life, murder, couple relations ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: bdsm, sex, sex scene, love story, erotica, rich, virginity, sex toy, dangerous attraction, rich man poor woman, sexual relations, billionaire ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c., mexico
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Anne of Green Gables (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, uplifting, compassionate ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, friendship, foster parent, foster child, family drama, anne of green gables, parent child relationship, family relations, parents and children, girl, happy ending ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, UK, Australia, Germany, Guatemala, New Zealand
Duration: 150 min.
Story: One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful ...
Style: fairy tale, epic, feel good, saga, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: fantasy world, sword fight, witch, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, queen, prince, talking animal, centaur, sibling relationship, parallel world, animal ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: london
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 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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