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 6.9
 19
Lhong Fai (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Karnkaew, a girl studying in the province Bangkok. She can upgrade herself to a higher class when she gets an income as a courtesan. Her best friend is Chala, an unambitious girl who works as waitress to paid her credit fee. Karnkaew goes out with ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, romantic
Plot: female protagonist, poverty, country girl, lifestyle change, changing lives, countryside, aspiration, social issues, social problems, direction and purpose, village life, society ...
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand
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Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Nagata works as a writer and director for theater company Oroka. His work has not received positive responses and ticket sales has not increased. Making things worse, his relationship with the theatrical troupe is not good. Nagata feels lonely. One ...
Style: romantic, touching, talky, psychological, romantic drama
Plot: japanese girl, love and romance, relationships, love story, couple relations, young lovers, fall in love, teenage love, teenager, true love, friendship, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Strawberry Night Saga (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Reiko Himekawa is just 27-years-old, but she has already received a promotion to become an assistant police inspector. She leads the 10th murder investigation team at the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: murder, japanese police, japanese woman, policewoman, corpse, police, police detective, murder mystery, murder investigation, police investigation, partner, chase ...
Place: tokyo
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The Cowards who Looked to the Sky (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: infidelity, couples, estrangement, love affair, love and romance, strong sexual content, unfulfillment, japanese woman, cosplay, relationships, love interest, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 6.2
 1K
It Comes (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, scary, contemplative ...
Plot: exorcist, supernatural power, ghost, little girl, japanese woman, japanese girl, ghost hunter, paranormal investigation, mission, family relations, paranormal, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Stolen Identity (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After a man accidentally leaves his smartphone in a taxi, he and his girlfriend are plagued by stalkers and cybercrimes.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, stolen identity, fake identity, police investigation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret, police arrest, scam, corpse, cell phone, dead body, social network ...
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 5.9
 6K
Cold Courage (2020)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Two young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law. But, as their battle against exploitation, violence and corporate greed intensifies, will the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: secret organization, women, lawlessness, social problems, corporate greed, greed, legal, female protagonist, violence, breaking the law, wrongful imprisonment
Place: london
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 6.8
 4K
Too Close (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
TV show
Story: A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a despicable crime.
Style: melancholic, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: mental institution, doctor patient relationship, psychiatric patient, grieving mother, grief, psychiatric hospital, murder mystery, female psychopath, uncover truth, forensics, crime solving, unsolved crime ...
Place: london, england
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 7.4
 7K
Grace (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries ...
Style: detective, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: detective inspector, police partner, police, british police, police detective, unsolved crime, forensics, sleuth, crime solving, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation ...
Time: future
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The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the ...
Style: serious, stylized, emotional, romantic, romantic drama ...
Plot: forbidden love, jealous husband, love affair, aristocracy, society, unfaithful wife, royal court, princess, french history, heir, duke, passion ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 6.3
 27K
Crooked House (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: whodunit, murder mystery, private detective, mansion, murder, family secret, twists and turns, investigation, servant, poison, secret, spy ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: london, cairo egypt, scotland yard
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A Timeless Christmas (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, light, romantic ...
Plot: christmas, time travel, holiday, christmas romance, love and romance, couple relations, stereotypes, fall in love, supernatural, love story, life philosophy, culture clash ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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Top Dog (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious disappearance makes two completely separate worlds collide, creating an extremely odd couple – the lawyer Emily and recently released convict Teddy. They have two opposing desires. She wants up. He wants out. She wants to secure her ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: mafia, lawyer, attorney, criminal underworld, investigation, ex convict, female lawyer, crime boss, law firm, prison, brother brother relationship, family tragedy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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 6.7
 35K
Let Him Go (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Style: suspense, emotional, brutal, tense, rough ...
Plot: horse, grief, grandson, father in law daughter in law relationship, husband wife relationship, brutality, abusive husband, death, sheriff, retired, fight, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1952
Place: north dakota, montana
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 5.6
 2K
The Trial (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, legal action, lawyer, legal, legal investigation, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, introspection, dealing with death, haunted by the past, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, north carolina
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The Sandhamn Murders (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
Style: detective, disturbing, surprise ending, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: murder mystery, crime investigation, murder, suspect, police detective, uncover truth, serial killer, social relations, nordic, european, investigation, swedish ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 7.2
 122K
Silence (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style: philosophical, stylized, cerebral, melancholic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: missionary, religion, christianity, religious persecution, culture clash, crisis of faith, faith, torture, doubt, betrayal, christian, clergy ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: japan, portugal, asia
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 5.5
 45K
High-Rise (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Style: disturbing, psychological, surreal, futuristic, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, decadence, tower, existentialism, dark humor, violence, insanity, surrealism, class conflict, apartment building, violent, visceral ...
Time: future, 70s, 2010s, year 2016, year 2015 ...
Place: london, england, ireland
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Innocent (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, legal, murder, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, father son relationship, uncover truth, law, couple relations, judge, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.5
 6K
The Watch (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 381 min.
TV show
Story: A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.
Style: captivating, tense, semi serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: discworld
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, police officer, police protagonist, police investigation, fantasy world, security guard, serial killer, society, monster, survival, social relations ...
Time: future
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, mentor, haunted by the past, funeral, sexual tension, family problems, parents and children, family relations, drinking problem, love, coming of age, love story ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, alabama
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The Lacemaker (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class ...
Style: art house, sad, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: female nudity, first love, mental disorder, character study, young lovers, mental institution, social differences, university student, introvert, young woman, breakup, nightclub ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, normandy, paris france
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant ...
Plot: samurai, harlot, easy woman, loose woman, affair, revenge, unfaithfulness, cheating, japanese wife, con artists, getting home, japanese woman ...
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Somebody's Xylophone (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: stalker, obsession, stylist, beauty salon, husband wife relationship, slutty attitude, relationship problems, family problems, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, love triangle ...
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64: Part 2 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, enigmatic
Plot: cop, kidnapping, japanese police, secret, puzzle, crime investigation, investigation, abduction, police investigation, public relations, murder, japanese girl ...
Place: japan
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 6.5
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64: Part I (2016)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, unsolved crime, kidnapped girl, japanese police, police, police department, kidnapping, crime solving, murder investigation, murder mystery, investigation, uncover truth ...
Place: japan
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 5.6
 145K
The Dark Tower (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, action adventure, horrifying ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: stephen king, gunslinger, humanity in peril, alternate dimension, one against many, mission, revenge, murder, loner, gun fu, boy, psychic ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 5.8
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The Lowlife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry .
Style: captivating
Plot: porn actress, japanese schoolgirl, women, female protagonist, relationships, erotica, social problems, mother daughter relationship, family relations, life, porn, female nudity ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: dog, survival, wilderness, german shepherd, stranded, canine, landscape, animal, escapades, pets, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: alaska, canada, england, london
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 4.9
 879
Brave New Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Holly has everything it takes to be a star; the voice, the dream and the dedication, but she lacks the means to break away from her humble Texas upbringing. Then she gets the chance to attend an art and music school on the East coast and her future ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, cute ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, showbiz, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, music, rising to stardom, mother daughter relationship, fish out of water, female protagonist, humiliation, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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