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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, sex, girl, male female relationship, passion, abusive husband, love, age difference, young love, violent content, couples, disability ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1977, year 1991
Place:
slovakia, eastern europe, munich germany, france, hamburg germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship ...
Style:
bleak, depressing, sad, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abuse, redemption, rage, character study, domestic violence, abusive husband, abused woman, society, frustration, christian, brutality, sexualized violence ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england
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14K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, atmospheric, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, vengeful ghost, abusive husband, house arrest, supernatural, woman in danger, murder, vengeance, haunted by the past, confined, confinement indoors ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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51K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot:
pregnancy, domestic violence, small town, abusive husband, lovers, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, cooking and food, infidelity, marital problem, single mother, doctor ...
Time:
90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, usa, california
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804
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a husband is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, thought provoking, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
abusive husband, courtroom drama, suicide, power relations, negligence, disability, couples, courtroom, family problems, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy ...
Style:
suspense, thought provoking, clever, intense, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, lawyer, lawsuit, domestic violence, insurance company, self defense, justice, courtroom, legal investigation, investigation, corruption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
caribbean, memphis, new jersey
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677K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, mind bending, twist ending, philosophical ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
time paradox, time travel, time, special agent, time loop, espionage, mission, terrorism, teamwork, quantum physics, cia agent, technology ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, neo noir, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
abusive husband, domestic violence, shooting, moral ambiguity, cover up, wrongful accusation, isolation, investigation, suspicion, murder mystery, female reporter, obsession ...
Time:
90s
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580
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his young wife. As the storm rages on, tension mounts in the ...
Style:
minimal cast, independent film, mind bending, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woods, mountain, abusive husband, thunderstorm, erotica, psychopath, escape, family in danger, danger, fall in love, mentally unstable, falling from height ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza ...
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
demonic possession, exorcism, supernatural, occult, curses spells and rituals, partner, catholic, supernatural horror, priest, possessed, bible, religions or cults ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2014, year 2010, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
iraq, new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, sexual, noir, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, abusive husband, voyeur, rape, prostitute, female nudity, unhappy marriage, hitman, psychopath, blonde, swimming pool, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
dominican republic, florida, miami, usa
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222K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style:
realistic, brutal, period piece, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, mafia, gangster, violent, psychopath, gay interest, organized crime, abusive husband, rise and fall, brother brother relationship, homosexual, relationships ...
Time:
60s, year 2015, year 1957, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe, west end london ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
britain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film’s story is based on Swedish author Alex Schulman’s successful novel of the same name, and is inspired by true events. It revolves around Karin Stolpe’s complex relationship with her husband Sven Stolpe and her passionate love affair ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
passionate love, abusive husband, passion, jealousy, social problems, relationships, family relations, lifestyle, social issues, generation gap, generation, society ...
Time:
1930s, 2020s, 80s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is reborn, living through turbulent times - but what is it she needs to stay alive for?
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, historical drama ...
Plot:
abusive husband, survival, alternate reality, alternate world, alternate timeline, alternate dimension, magic realism, rebirth, destiny, female protagonist, second chance, life ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era
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19K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, period piece, factual, disturbing ...
Plot:
musician, rape, preacher, abusive husband, concert, showbiz, black history, biopic, blues, celebrity, african american, black ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 1950s, year 1960, year 1969 ...
Place:
usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, los angeles, atlanta georgia, detroit ...
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437
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Nellie, née Bouchard, is divorced by wealthy Jack Givens because after a miscarriage even in vitro fails to overcome her infertility. She finds herself destitute as her own account were plundered by someone who stole her maiden identity, Eleanor ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense
Plot:
identity theft, abusive husband, false identity, relationship problems, family relations, family problems, social problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, bare chested male, sex scene, divorce ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Style:
romantic, sexy, emotional, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
circus, love story, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, couple relations, performer's life, lovers, couples, love affair, animal abuse, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 50s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To escape her abusive spouse, Sarah fakes her own death and flees. Seems like a good plan, right? Sadly, it doesn't take her estranged husband long to get wise and hunt her down. This game between them will turn deadly and it looks like only ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot:
abusive husband, presumed dead, faking own death, marital abuse, battered wife, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, man hits a woman, woman in danger, runaway, tyrant, family relations ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician, domestic violence, african american, black woman, biopic, singer, violence against women, abusive husband, rape victim, african american woman, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1993 ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, california, africa, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
tibet, usa, nevada, las vegas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, detective, erotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, investigation, corruption, police officer, police investigation, abusive husband, sociopath, betrayal, murder, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style:
scary, brutal, suspenseful, demonic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, evil child, ghost, burned alive, haunted, ghost child, investigation, abusive husband, deputy, dysfunctional family, murder ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
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27K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
disturbing, horrifying, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, torture, captivity, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual assault, sexual sadism, sexploitation, rape and revenge, incestuous relationship, eating human flesh, suffering ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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149K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, mirror, monster, paranormal, hallucination, supernatural horror, haunting, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, ghost, demon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
home invasion, murder, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, voyeur, teenage girl, abusive husband, basement, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, broken leg, teenager, family in danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, detective, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, child abuse, stephen king, abusive husband, maid, domestic violence, investigation, sexual abuse, childhood trauma, mother, small town, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, atmospheric, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, extramarital affair, doctor patient relationship, gangster, psychiatrist, love triangle, sex scene, abusive husband, lust, femme fatale, childhood trauma, uxoricide ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Thirty-something Hazel Green tries to escape a suffocating marriage — until she realizes her tech billionaire husband has implanted a revolutionary tracking device, the Made for Love, in her brain.
Style:
humorous, captivating, dark comedy, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
escape, abusive husband, technology, hi-tech, family problems, sex doll, on the run, dysfunctional marriage, fleeing, humour, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy is married to the abusive Frank, but she's building a nest egg so she can leave. For a year, she's been deaf as a result of one of his beatings. One night, he pushes her over the stairwell, and she ends up in the hospital. When a ...
Style:
neo noir, mystical, independent film, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive relationship, domestic violence, violence against women, abusive husband, marital abuse, deaf, psychopath, bad boy, dysfunctional relationship, disabled, hospital, false accusation ...
Time:
90s
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