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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Qatar
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Style: tense, thought provoking, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, culture clash, 9/11, wall street, terrorism, conspiracy, political unrest, muslim, civil rights, american dream, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, pakistan, istanbul turkey, usa
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Dangerous Ground (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at ...
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: culture clash, gang, justice, homecoming, drug dealing, prostitute, police corruption, urban ghetto, fighting the system, hip hop, drug abuse, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: africa, south africa
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 6.4
 17K
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up ...
Style: sexual, psychological, independent film, sexy, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, culture clash, intern, music business, psychiatry, music, relationships, lesbian, fish out of water, couples, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 7.2
 5K
Sugar (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull ...
Style: atmospheric, uplifting, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, immigrant, athlete, culture clash, follow your dream, rags to riches, fish out of water, american dream, ambition, against the odds, character study, rookie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iowa, africa, new york, puerto rico, kansas ...
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, adventurer, farce, rescue, goofy hero, danger, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, friendship, beautiful scenery, desert ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, south africa, persia
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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a loop when a prestigious Los Angeles newspaper offers his honey a job. The family migrates ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, fast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adventurer, culture clash, jungle, wild ride, escapades, danger, friendship, art theft, traffic jam, treasure hunt, swamp, stolen painting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, australia, usa, beverly hills
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The Green Berets (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, propaganda, green beret, military, culture clash, politics, war, freedom, soldier, battlefield, journalism, special forces ...
Place: vietnam, asia
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Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot: culture clash, village, friendship, small town, unemployment, doctor, goofy hero, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
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Dark Blue World (2001)
Genre: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new ...
Style: sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, non-linear ...
Plot: aviation, world war two, war, friendship, culture clash, air battle, love triangle, wartime life, battle zone, world war, wartime, prison ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2001, post world war two, year 1939 ...
Place: england, london, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia ...
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, meet the parents, eccentric family, parents and children, father in law son in law relationship, wedding, farce, culture clash, family bonds, parenthood, ex law enforcer ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, chicago
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What's Cooking? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, cooking, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family problems, family life, family gatherings, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style: sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, culture clash, forbidden love, prejudice, justice, murder mystery, fisherman, betrayal, jury, courtroom ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, japan, asia, pearl harbor, fictional island ...
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Turkish for Beginners (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuss) together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk (Elyas M'Barek) must fight for survival. After initially ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, remote island, opposites attract, adolescence, youth, island, culture clash, stranded on an island, teenage life, love and romance, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 6.7
 2K
War Bride (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, culture clash, love and romance, against the odds, wartime life, couples, family problems, family relations, society, fall in love, parents and children, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada, london
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style: art house, political, atmospheric, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: racism, immigrant, older woman younger man relationship, relationships, female nudity, working class, culture clash, foreigner, marriage, loneliness, age-gap relationship, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: germany, morocco, munich germany, west germany, europe ...
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Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the ...
Style: road movie, humorous, anamorphic, hilarious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, elephant, rescue, village, culture clash, military, airplane, journey, boy, cargo plane, chase, politics ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 1962
Place: vietnam, asia
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 6.2
 128K
Daddy's Home (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the ...
Style: funny, sweet, entertaining, satirical, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father, children, uninhibited rivalry, christmas, kids and family, parents, stepfather stepson relationship, parenting, step parent, divorce, dumb, bullying ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: louisiana
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 6.5
 111K
Home (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid ...
Style: light, entertaining, exciting, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot: alien, friendship, benign alien, alien invasion, imaginary, culture clash, loneliness, save the world, odd couple, animal, escapades, space and aliens ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, france, australia ...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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 5.8
 24K
St. Trinian's (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
Style: teen, inspirational, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, school, teachers and students, family relations, heist, adolescence, friendship, high school, culture clash, transformation, police investigation, teenage life ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, britain, europe, england
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas special, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly
Plot: christmas, holiday, parents and children, winter, christmas season, dysfunctional family, vacation, snow, family gatherings, xmas, culture clash, creativity ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and ...
Style: independent film, emotional, touching, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, culture clash, dysfunctional family, transgender, hospital, food, blaxploitation, racial issues, wine, american history, transvestism, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles, california
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 6.7
 202K
Pocahontas (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: History comes gloriously to life in Disney's epic animated tale about love and adventure in the New World. Pocahontas is a Native American woman whose father has arranged for her to marry her village's best warrior. But a vision tells her ...
Style: touching, romantic, captivating, fairy tale, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: native american, princess, interracial romance, disney princess, forbidden love, culture clash, tragic love, native american tribe, female protagonist, raccoon, childhood, tribe ...
Time: 17th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: virginia, usa, england, europe, london
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The Best Man's Wedding (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Roro and Måns who are best friends, work at the park management and get to do all the shit jobs - clean up duck ponds and pick up dog poop. Roro's Swedish girlfriend Lisa wants to be introduced to his family but he refuses for a long time ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, impotence, culture clash, couples, friends, love triangle, sexual dysfunction, nothing goes right, understanding, proposal, sexual relations, family values ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: lebanon, europe, eastern europe
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: snow, murder, investigation, culture clash, family problems, amateur detective, death in the family, mathematics, winter, disorder, law enforcement, human nature ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: denmark, copenhagen, europe, greenland
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 7.4
 14K
Even the Rain (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western ...
Style: political, talky, visually appealing, tense, harsh ...
Plot: filmmaking, politics, protest, culture clash, society, rebellion, demonstration, prejudice, audition, unlikely friendships, storytelling, mentor ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: bolivia, latin america
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 6.5
 14K
Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
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Bulletproof Monk (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
Style: humorous, exciting, sexy, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, good versus evil, prophecy, monk, heroes, immortality, culture clash, master warrior, supernatural, supernatural ability, kung fu, knife fight ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943, 21st century
Place: tibet, seattle, san francisco, usa, asia
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Remember the Titans (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: racism, african american, civil rights, american football, high school, racial tension, racial prejudice, football, against the odds, racial slur, prejudice, friendship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: virginia, boston, america, africa, usa ...
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
Story: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, teens, family outing, kids
Plot: desert, world war one, military, british empire, camel, imperialism, historical character, battles, islam, politics, great war, train ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1962, victorian era ...
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, ottoman empire, arabia, africa ...
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