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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.
Style:
independent film, neorealism
Plot:
grief, road trip, woman, flash forward, feces, gas station, following someone, snow, gay relationship, sister sister relationship, photograph, celebration ...
Place:
kansas, minnesota, south dakota, nebraska, minneapolis minnesota ...
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65K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Style:
feel good, teen, semi serious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, girls' night, horror for children ...
Plot:
high school, werewolf, coming of age, teenager, school, high school life, friends, basketball, happy ending, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, transformation ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
new jersey, nebraska, north america, california
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6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Stand-up comedian Max Bernal lives with his father Stan while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son's future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
autism, divorced parents, road trip, parenting, stand up comedian, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, comedian, father and son, family problems ...
Place:
nebraska, michigan
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur ...
Style:
tense, light, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
dog, lost dog, animal, animal life, animal human communication, pets, animal protagonist, adventure hero, adventurer, human animal relationship, airport, working class ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
denver colorado, maryland, indiana, illinois, puerto rico ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, demonic, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
curse, supernatural, ghost, spell, small town, clergy, suicide, social misfits, mass suicide, danger, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, missouri, kentucky, new york, utah ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear explosion, world war three, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, nuclear bomb, doom, post apocalypse, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Before heading off to college, an overthinking teenager asks out a former girlfriend in an effort to reconnect and hold on to his past.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, cynical, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, first kiss, teenager, teenage life, couple relations, confronting the past, introspection, social problems, relationships, high school football, old love ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, nebraska, ukraine, virginia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
Style:
romantic, light, entertaining, realistic
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rancher, horse, family history, small town life, small town, ranch, inheritance, romanticism, love and romance, suburban life, relationships, grandfather ...
Place:
usa, nebraska
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Stranded in New York as a porn actress, Lillian decides to return to her homeland, Russia, on foot. She resolutely sets out on the long journey. A road movie that goes straight across the USA into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow ...
Style:
road movie, exciting, captivating, tense, touching
Plot:
mountain, walking, journey, female protagonist, tourist, storytelling, map, sea, emigrant, girl, feminist, heat wave ...
Place:
usa, new york, nebraska, iowa, mississippi
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78K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, enigmatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
stephen king, farmer, corpse, murder, hallucination, cornfield, husband murders wife, guilt, infection, murder of wife, husband wife relationship, psychosis ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
usa, america, nebraska
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
After dropping everything to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, Rio and Mike soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they planned.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, sex scene, husband wife relationship, small town, justice, love and romance, nothing goes right, silly humor, couple relations, adaptation, couples, obsessive quest ...
Place:
nebraska
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, suspense, dark comedy, crying ...
Plot:
loss of lover, ranch, alcoholism, fury, wild west, rifleman, couples, quarrel, shootout, pistol, cowboy, ruse ...
Place:
texas, nebraska
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When she was a teenager, a woman got pregnant and wound up giving up the baby up for adoption. Now, 30 years later, she sets out to find her now-grown child.
Plot:
brother sister kiss, horse, adoption, child abuse, hung over, family relations, horse ranch, casual sex, bar fight, historian, half sister, diary ...
Place:
san francisco, nebraska
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, misfit, teenage boy, supermarket, van, sex scene, on the road, adolescence, naked in public, motel ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
oklahoma city, kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, elderly, elderly man, widower, neighbor, love and romance, aging, couples, terminal illness, elderly woman, romanticism, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, england, europe, louisiana, nebraska ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
Style:
suspense, slasher, dark, suspenseful, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, dead teenager, high school, supernatural, murder, youth, revenge, tragedy, teenage life, social relations, ghost, teenager ...
Time:
year 1993, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
usa, nebraska
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Style:
suspense, harsh, serious, period piece, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
cowboy, billy the kid, old west, gunfight, brutality, vigilante, chase, modern western, cowboys and outlaws, wild west, revenge, gunslinger ...
Time:
1870s, 20th century, 19th century, 80s
Place:
new mexico, america, usa, arizona, nebraska ...
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403K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Style:
feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life, life changing experience, lifestyle change, love and romance, character change, change of heart, philosophy, life philosophy, optimism, couples, motivational speaker, self esteem ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, north america, nebraska ...
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10K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style:
harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, curse, juvenile delinquency, murder, homelessness, tragedy, lifestyle, danger, parents and children, single father, violence, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska ...
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25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style:
touching, reflective, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
depression, fall in love, older man younger woman relationship, love, age difference, love story, artist, salesman, older man younger woman romance, dating, slacker, honest ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, new york ...
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81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without ...
Style:
teen, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, date night, family outing ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, youth, comedy of errors, on the road, disorder, getting home, nothing goes right, teenage life, fish out of water, friendship, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, new york, usa, nebraska, iowa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Plot:
world war one, aviation, pilot, aerial combat, biplane, stuntman, great war, warplane, jazz, flying, travel, fighter plane ...
Time:
year 1975, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the ...
Style:
exciting, scary, breathtaking, saga, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, monster, deadly creature, save the world, alien invasion, alien creature, predator, evil alien, space, human sacrifice, superheroine, technology ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2000s, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
antarctica, nepal, nebraska, mexico, egypt
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A homesteading family in the 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
Style:
spaghetti western, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
wagon train, woman with a gun, youth, settler, prairie, heroes, fugitives, chases and races, dealing with death, starting over, feminism, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
wyoming, usa, indiana, nebraska
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to ...
Style:
juvenile, stylized, tense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
friendship, team, old west, partner, teaching the ways of the world, small town, temperamental, power relations, friends, young heroes, lifestyle, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1800s
Place:
kansas, usa, nebraska
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, road movie, suspenseful, romantic drama ...
Plot:
interracial romance, dark secret, road trip, tragic romance, forbidden romance, female protagonist, partners in crime, cannibal, drifter, flesh eating, father, teenager ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, year 1988
Place:
kentucky, ohio, wisconsin, iowa, missouri ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After ...
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, absurd, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
road trip, dumb, dimwit, stupidity, buddies, toilet humor, parakeet, odd couple, friendship, bromance, misfit, travel ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
utah, rhode island, colorado, usa, north america ...
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