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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Starting from the determination and great desire to create a music concert to embrace peace in Ambon City, Glenn ultimately gave up all his income to hold the concert.
Plot:
jazz, biopic, jazz singer, married, manager, sister, friend, church, pregnancy, social issues, children, wedding ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2003, 2000s, year 2008, 2010s ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.
Style:
captivating, crying, weeping, entertaining
Plot:
adoptive father, japanese teenager, friend, teenage life, athlete's life, teenager, mean girl, feeling, narration, sibling relationship, game playing, limousine ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Dance your way to a magical adventure with Barbie as Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams! When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend, Hailey, are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world. There, Kristyn discovers ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
barbie, ballet, princess, dancehall girl, best friend, talent, escapades, good versus evil, friends, prince, dancing, aspiration ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
Plot:
scoundrel, poker, nightclub, dancer, beauty, con man, con game, wealth, friend, impersonation, police officer, card playing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren (b. 1936) was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest ...
Style:
freeze frame, semi documentary
Plot:
wedding, marriage, voice over narration, nudity, escapism, con man, dancing, farce, prisoner, singer, priest, male nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the ...
Plot:
pirate, pirate ship, singing, music conductor, musician, dancing, singer, sword fight, mirror, maiden, operetta, sailboat ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
LUCY GETS LUCKY finds the wacky redhead pulling out all the stops in Las Vegas to see her favorite entertainer, Dean Martin. Lucy gets a job working at the MGM Grand casino and high stakes hijinks follow.
Style:
entertaining
Plot:
casino, gambling, concert, klutz, music band, luxury hotel, job interview, manager, fan, ritual, pianist, jet plane ...
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, lighthearted, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
animal shelter, friendship, lost dog, rescue mission, buddy, drifter, misadventure, vaudeville, odd couple, heartwarming, working class, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
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306
Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
A mulitcultural musical potpourri, Barbra's fifth television spectacular is her most adventurous. Performing a startling array of new songs and classic hits, with genre-bending arrangements, Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments is ...
Style:
entertaining
Plot:
showbiz, makeover, belly dancing, performer, parrot, flamenco, pianist, camel, orchestra, organist, musician, singer ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An abducted and sexually abused girl has her traditional views towards sexuality changed after finding refuge and kindness with a transvestite.
Plot:
lgbt, transsexuality, transgender, rape, dancer, gender disguise, friendship, dancing, singing, love, escape, man disguised as a woman ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Story:
Nobody, nobody but...Juan tells the story of a U.S.-based senior citizen named Juan (Dolphy) who lives in a senior citizens' home run by his son (Eric Quizon) and daughter-in-law (G. Toengi). Juan's favorite pastime is watching Wowowee on ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
nostalgia, homesickness, loneliness, elderly man, senior citizen, diaspora, variety show, reminiscence, retirement home, isolation, longing, old love ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines, chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mario Cantone performs his one-man show at Broadway's Cort Theatre in 2004
Style:
one man show
Plot:
impersonation, gay interest, impostor, broadway, homosexual, gay, actor, theater, heterosexuality, gay sex, performer, sister ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, detective, crying
Plot:
investigation, murder, secret, murder mystery, doctor, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, sleuth, forensics, crime solving, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
melbourne, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
politics, husband wife relationship, dancer, father son relationship, death of father, loss of job, sabotage, village, theater, effeminacy, theatrical troupe, lgbt ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.
Style:
black humor
Plot:
fear, anger, friend, rage, dreaming, discussion, doubt, performer, frustration, man with glasses, argument, girl ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Les Enfants Du Désordre " depicts a lost generation ,a distraught youth who finds comfort in drugs .Marie ,an unwed young mother, a former junkie- prostitute, is in a reformatory school :she has been a misfit for most of her life. If ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic
Plot:
character study, drug addiction, substance abuse, female protagonist, desperation, rehabilitation, alienation, realism, street life, prostitution, social commentary, single mother ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
children, art, monkey, women, true love, coming of age, circus, artist, opera, poverty, culture clash, loneliness ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
china, asia, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, boat, twins, love triangle, down on your luck, rock, showbiz, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
mississippi, new york, manhattan new york city, louisiana, new orleans ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
Style:
black and white, psychological, atmospheric, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
stand up comedian, drug abuse, judaism, showbiz, addiction, biopic, rise and fall, adult humor, courtroom, drug addiction, civil rights, drug ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1974, 50s, 70s
Place:
usa
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39K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
Style:
inspirational, touching, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician's life, biopic, rock and roll, interracial romance, musician, happy ending, love story, rock, rock music, music business, racism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, southern california, new york, tijuana mexico ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, nothing goes right, farce, father son relationship, mafia, casino, satire, american football, femme fatale, assassination, voice over narration, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place:
las vegas, sicily, italy, europe, usa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, fairy tale, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night
Plot:
surrealism, imaginary kingdom, deal with the devil, mysterious character, imagination, steampunk, bet, transformation, devil, imaginary world, sex with teenager, circus ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, year 2010
Place:
britain, london
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26K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Jack Nicholson's portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion ...
Style:
tense, serious, neo noir, suspense, factual ...
Plot:
labor union, organized crime, mafia, politics, gangster, conspiracy, disappearance, union, working class, social activist, prison, profanity ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, new york, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pinhead returns to terrorize computer hackers who have opened a virtual Lament Configuration on the website Hellworld.com.
Style:
scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, hellraiser, curses spells and rituals, danger, chaos, losing-it hero, vengeance, mind game, strong violent content, afterlife, body horror, evil dead ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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106K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style:
psychedelic, sexy, factual, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
rock and roll, music band, musician, drug addiction, addiction, musician's life, life philosophy, music, biopic, drug abuse, rise and fall, hippie ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1965, year 1969 ...
Place:
california, paris france, los angeles, usa, miami ...
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An all-Irish cast (including Donal McCann, Rachael Dowling and Colm Meaney) lends authenticity and gravitas to director John Huston's final film, an elegiac take on a short story by James Joyce (from The Dubliners). After a convivial holiday ...
Style:
romantic, historical drama, social, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
dinner party, lost love, literary, drunkenness, art, artist, food, passion, christmas, haunted by the past, death, memory ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, year 1987, edwardian era, 90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style:
light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the story of Elisabeth Bathory, the 18th century Countess who indulged herself in an orgy of murder and vampirism before before being walled up in her room by the authorities. The ageing Countess Dracula discovers that the blood of young ...
Style:
sexy, gothic horror, gothic, psychotronic, grindhouse ...
Plot:
dracula, eternal youth, supernatural, serial killer, vampire, ghost, palace intrigue, occult, monster, magic, killer, devil ...
Time:
17th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1971, 16th century
Place:
hungary, transylvania, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
2009 biopic about the early life of Coco Chanel. Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, costume drama, period piece, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, women, high society, feminist, fashion designer, designer, rise to the top, gender, feminism, dressmaker, rags to riches, social climbing ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century, 1900s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada, new jersey ...
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