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Between Calmness and Passion (2001)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.
Style: captivating, romantic, psychological, disturbing, sweet
Plot: unrequited love, unfulfilled love, love and romance, in love, male female relationship, love story, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, lovers apart, romantic relationship, relationships ...
Place: florence
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Ru: Taiwan Express (2020)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan, Taiwan
TV show
Story: In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to ...
Style: talky, psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic
Plot: east asian woman, japanese woman, couple relations, love and romance, lovers reunited, young lovers, youth, fall in love, love interest, couples, true love, lovers ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, tokyo
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My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend ...
Style: captivating, light, sincere
Plot: parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, daughter, brother sister relationship, father, relationships, parents and children, living together, family relations, family life, family problems ...
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: family conflict, life & death, hospitalized person, hospital, hospitalization, mother daughter relationship, mother and daughter, family tragedy, life is a bitch, parents and children, tragedy, moral dilemma ...
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The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Kyoko was a child her stepfather loved her sexually. She took refuge in the world of fantasy and multiple personalities. Kyoko has three flat-mates now one of whom is a lesbian who is into Kyoko. In turn, Kyoko is beginning to be horny. ...
Style: erotic, psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: dissociative identity disorder, lesbian, lgbt, childhood trauma, borderline personality disorder, disturbed individual, sexualized violence, mental patient, violence, secret identity, split personality, child abuse ...
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 6.6
 109
Love of Sage (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Starring by Miho Nakayama! Amy Yamada's high impact love-hate drama is now draw a curtain. A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years. Because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, revenge, age difference, mature, house, neighbor, romantic relationship, forbidden love, couple relations, relationships, sex, love and romance ...
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Cafe Funiculi Funicula (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Kazu works at “Funiculi Funicula" cafe. There is a mysterious rumour that if a customer takes a specific seat at the cafe, that customer can travel back to a time of their choice.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, suspense, tense ...
Plot: time travel, amnesiac, mother daughter relationship, siblings, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, girlfriend, paranormal phenomena, friend, lie, waitress, food ...
Time: future
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 6.8
 2K
The Turncoat (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: world war two, partisan, german soldier, nazi germany, pow, eastern front, defector, border crossing, brother brother relationship, loyalty, abuse, jail ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, year 1956, post world war two, year 1944
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, hamburg germany
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 7.2
 171
Rautatie (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Plot: train, railroad, rural setting, train station, married couple, drunk, farmer, train travel, summer, simple man, rain, winter ...
Place: finland
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Paradise America (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
Style: road movie
Plot: bare butt, nudity, escape, businessman, drunk, immigration, trial, arson, pregnancy, brothel, insurance fraud, wife leaves husband ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, miami, finland, everglades, usa
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A Charming Mass Suicide (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: mass suicide, road trip, dead body, nudity, voice over narration, bare butt, alcoholism, wife abuse, card playing, male female relationship, death, restaurant ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland, swiss alps, france, switzerland ...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style: detective, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: racism, small town, prejudice, police, murder, racial tension, african american, civil rights, racial slur, deep south, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, north carolina
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Priest of Evil (2010)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop;one of the city's very best;who loses his daughter in tragic circumstances. Despite the support he receives;Timo is unable to recover ...
Style: twist ending, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, surprise ending, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, police, police corruption, chase, revenge, marital problem, dysfunctional marriage, death of child, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, violence, death of daughter ...
Time: 2000s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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Coup de torchon (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1938 in the french West Africa, Lucien Cordier is a weak and corrupted policeman despised by the local bad boys. His wife is openly cheating on him and he hasn't got any self-respect anymore. But when comes the occasion, his revenge will be ...
Style: humorous, offbeat, dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, infidelity, adultery, lust, colonialism, unhappy marriage, voyeur, pimp, extramarital affair, female nudity, woman in jeopardy ...
Time: pre world war two, year 1938, 1930s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: africa, france, senegal, west africa
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The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.
Style: realistic, humorous, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, secret agent, spy, spy spoof, master villain, race against time, master criminal, terrorism, escapades, save the day, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 60s
Place: scandinavia, denmark, copenhagen
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The Silencers (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
Style: retro, spoof, grindhouse, crime thriller, laugh out loud ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, undercover, cold war, spying, undercover agent, espionage, criminal activity, satire, entity, truck, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: new mexico, phoenix arizona, arizona, santa fe new mexico
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 6.9
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Whistleblower (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
Plot: company, hierarchy, corporation, ceo, scandal, corporate corruption, man with glasses, factory, japanese woman, customer, donut, cover up ...
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I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yui is an office worker and single. She works nine to five and leaves the office on time. Her ex and father, however, are workaholics who burn the midnight oil at the office. Moreover, she completes her work efficiently so there is no need to stay ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: office, workaholic, workplace, employer, single woman, father daughter relationship, employment, co worker co worker relationship, office work, office worker, workplace situations, office politics ...
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Churchill's Secret (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Style: captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, emotional, historically accurate ...
Plot: winston churchill, stroke, secret, historical figure, rehabilitation, politician, family problems, parents and children, philosopher, wartime, world war one, british history ...
Time: year 1953, 1950s
Place: united kingdom, london
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Come Back to Me (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sarah & Josh are married suburbanites. After a car accident, Sarah suffers blackouts & ends up pregnant though Josh is sterile. As her life spirals she hides a camera in her home & unlocks a horrific secret with far-reaching ...
Style: scary, mysterious, serious, tense, spooky ...
Plot: hidden camera, resurrection, neighbor, home invasion, losing-it hero, supernatural, memory loss, life turned upside down, woman in danger, couples, couple relations, nightmare comes true ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada
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War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
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War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade magically springs to life with a secret world of witches and ...
Style: spooky, entertaining, humorous, fairy tale, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, horror for children, adult
Plot: haunted house, halloween, magician, spell, child, medieval, paranormal, book of magic, magic, wizard, youth, sword and sorcery ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: michigan, germany
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 5.7
 206K
The Meg (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, slasher, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot: shark, animal attack, giant monster, underwater, sea monster, ocean, giant creature, giant animal, killer shark, professor, survival, mission ...
Time: 2010s, jurassic, prehistory, 21st century
Place: shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
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 6.9
 537
A Long Goodbye (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father ...
Style: crying, emotional
Plot: cheerleader, alzheimer's disease, cooking, husband, family relations, photograph, train, mother, father, husband wife relationship, man with glasses, divorce ...
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Love Me If You Dare (2015)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Getting inside the head of a violent criminal is not easy. But Simon Bo, a brilliant criminal psychologist, has the ability to get into the minds of even the most mysterious and violent criminals. He’s a professor at The University of Maryland and ...
Style: detective, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: maniac, serial killer, investigation, cruelty, whodunit, sociopath, psychological manipulation, love, psychopath, justice, police, good versus evil ...
Place: shanghai
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 7.1
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Where I Belong (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Izumi (Kento Hayashi) was abandoned by his parents. He now commits burglary, targeting women and the elderly. He is chased by the cops. While on the run, in the mountains of Miyazaki Prefecture, he helps an injured elderly woman, Suma (Etsuko ...
Plot: cash, pig, mother, fight, pet dog, daughter, old man, car, mobile phone, son, dog, criminal ...
Place: osaka japan
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 6.2
 13K
Monkey Shines (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: monkey, zombie, revenge, murder, disability, experiment, rage, macabre, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, animal attack, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: pittsburgh
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