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Father and Guns 2 (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is experiencing intense denial towards the fact that he is growing older. An incredible opportunity ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: couples therapy, parent child relationship, undercover agent, mafia, therapy, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, partners against crime, father and son, working undercover, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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 7.7
 246
In therapie (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Psychotherapist Paul receives patients with problems daily in his practice. As a father and husband, he fails. He talks with Mira, another therapist, about his own problems.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: therapy, psychotherapist, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, life is a bitch, relationships, psychological trauma, psychoanalyst, relationship problems, social problems, psychologist
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 4.7
 310
Spirit Riders (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a rebellious teen is arrested and sentenced to an equine therapy camp, she forms a connection with a spirited thoroughbred that she helps train with the guidance of the ranch's no-nonsense owner.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience: family outing
Plot: girl horse relationship, horse ranch, therapy, horse trainer, lifestyle change, rider horse relationship, troubled youth, animal human communication, changing lives, friendship, teenage life, assistant ...
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 5.9
 100
The Cleaner (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing, crying ...
Plot: socially awkward, hiding, stalking, employer employee relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, estrangement, fired from the job, death, hiding place, neighbor neighbor relationship, stolen money ...
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Big is Beautiful (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: overweight woman, physical appearance, friendship, introspection, resort, obesity, therapy, best friend, friends, strong female presence, women, bare butt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home by whom most believe to be O.J Simpson. But what role did Glen Rogers, also known as the Casanova Killer play in their death?
Style: psychological, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense
Plot: murder, serial killer, security system, sex scene, therapy, psychiatrist, crime scene, divorce, serial murder, male nudity, prison, masked killer ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: los angeles
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A Dog Named Duke (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A homeless vet leaves his dying dog and best friend, Duke, on the doorstep of a clinic. The dedicated staff nurse Duke back to health, and then launch a campaign to locate the vet and re-unite him with his best pal.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, pets, clinic, homeless, therapy, war veteran, family relations, parents and children, human dog relationship, adolescence, bare chested male, trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, sacramento california
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 6.3
 76K
Death Wish (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
Style: suspense, detective, suspenseful, exciting, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, death of wife, home invasion, vigilantism, dark hero, father daughter relationship, violence, vengeance, revenge, moral dilemma, police, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, new york
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 6.3
 978
Coconut Hero (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite ...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, twisted
Plot: first love, suicide attempt, loneliness, high school, therapy, depression, dancing, boy, love and romance, family relations, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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Hunters and Victims (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Story: The Victims and hunters movie is inspired by the real life stories that depict where you, your family or friends could end up tomorrow. What should you do if you end up in the helix of dept? Jakub - our leading protagonist - shows you how to get rid ...
Style: intense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: debt, drug abuse, parent child relationship, police, mental institution, pregnancy, therapy, suicide attempt, therapist, brother sister relationship, drug dealer, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: prague, europe, czech republic
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot: murder, millionaire, police, fraud, therapy, trial, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, real life, boyfriend, model, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
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The Hour of the Lynx (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been ...
Style: tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, scientific research, winter, psychopath, society, characters in danger, strong female presence, clergy, race against time, danger, woman in danger, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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Second Chances (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling from her divorce, Jenny can’t help but flirt when she gets emergency calls from Jeff, a local ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single mother, firefighter, boy, good deed, therapy, male female relationship, needing money, chore, love and romance, everyday life, family relations, second chance ...
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 6.9
 320
Strings (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
Plot: love, pianist, father daughter reunion, new identity, therapy, violence, redemption, surgery, vigilante, daughter, talent show, piano ...
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Psychodrama (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A collection of hilarious and sometimes heinous moments from the real lives of three girls living in New York trying to make it as actors, or anything, really - as told to their therapist. Yes, they all see the same therapist.
Style: talky, realistic, not serious, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, strong female presence, friends, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, city life, twentysomething life, girl, communication, motivation, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Hazing Secret (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Megan loses her long term memory in an accident she had five years ago as a sorority girl. Every night, she has the same dream of a party and the death of a sister. When she's invited to a Greek reunion, she realizes it wasn't just a dream.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: obsession, investigation, memory loss, uncover truth, dishonesty, ritual, therapy, high school, mockery, sorority, college, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Intimate Strangers (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, philosophical ...
Plot: adultery, mistaken identity, obsession, marriage, fall in love, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty, rape, orgasm, crumbling marriage, impostor ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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 5K
Nobody Walks (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.
Style: tense, psychological, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, couples, profanity, disorder, eccentric family, sexual content, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, therapy, infidelity, doom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, southern california
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The Family Tree (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, profound ...
Plot: memory loss, dysfunctional family, family relations, social relations, family problems, family life, parents and children, couple relations, siblings relations, suburban life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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 4.5
 507
Blood Frenzy (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A maniac tries to kill off a group of teenagers on an encounter session in the desert.
Style: slasher, surprise ending, slasher horror, independent film, weird
Plot: desert, killer, serial killer, therapy, camping, road trip, plot twist, therapist, revenge, psychiatrist, fight, ex soldier ...
Place: mojave desert
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Prince of Tides (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, sad, therapeutic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychiatry, love, haunted by the past, rape, sexual abuse, women, memory, suicide attempt, love story, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: south carolina, new york, usa, southern usa
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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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 7.3
 71
Monogamish (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
TV show
Story: Nele and Gianni have been married for ten years and their love life seems to have died a slow, sexless death. With the help of a therapist, they decide to spice up their sex life in a darkly funny series that is not afraid to break a few taboos!
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: husband wife relationship, relationships, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis, couples therapy, marriage crisis, therapy, family relations, psychotherapy, family crisis, marital crisis ...
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 7.8
 157K
Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
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 5.9
 630
Hiccups (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Hiccups is a Canadian television series created by Corner Gas star Brent Butt, who is also the writer, show runner and executive producer of the program. The series was produced by Laura Lightbown and David Storey and airs on CTV and The Comedy ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: behavior control, mentally unstable, self control, writer's life, self discovery, doctor patient relationship, anger, treatment, therapy, doctors and patients, psychology, uptight character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.2
 105K
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style: feel good, psychological, romantic, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: loneliness, writer's block, bittersweet, writers, dream, redheaded woman, life philosophy, mental illness, novelist, manic pixie dream girl, family relations, success ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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What Fault Is It of Ours? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
Style: psychological, entertaining, captivating, satirical, humorous
Plot: psychoanalysis, group therapy, family problems, social problems, therapy, satire, social satire, psychotherapist, psychology, father son relationship, group, neurosis ...
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Insatiable Desires (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Dr. Karin Clemmons specializes in group therapy and subdues patients Tania and Justin to help them realize their fantasies. Each session heats up and soon Karin can’t help but join in the fun
Style: disturbing, erotic, psychological, captivating, sexploitation film
Plot: sexploitation, sex, erotica, sex therapy, seductress, male female relationship, seduction, relationships, therapy, eroticism, psychotherapy, longing ...
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