| Office Space (1999) | 7.6 | |
| Talk Radio (1988) | 7.2 | |
| Kennedy (1983) | 7.7 | |
| Survivor Series (2003) | 7.3 | |
| Due Date (2010) | 6.5 |
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Genre: Biography, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 540 min.
Story:
Documentary that chronicles the story of the Von Erich family, siblings and wrestlers who attained the heights of championship glory but who also struggled with despair, tragedy and suicide.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, exciting
Plot:
wrestling, fight, champion, professional wrestler, professional wrestling, muscleman, hand to hand combat, combat, wrestler, fistfight, arena, professional sports ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
dallas texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Style:
realistic, clever, funny, spiritual, tense ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
american football, football, football team, naked man, sexist, drug abuse, addiction, business, corruption, american football player, drug, nfl ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, california, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
american football, underdog, nudity, sport team, coach, desire for fame, success, ambition, fame, entrepreneur, power relations, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, florida, usa, miami, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Style:
rom com, suspense, semi serious, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
nephew, writers, literary agent, cruise, female friendship, ocean liner, ship, coming of age, friendship, aunt, secret revealed, writer's life ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, new york, cleveland ohio, dallas texas, wales
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the ...
Style:
factual, realistic, tense, intense, talky ...
Plot:
politics, racism, closeted homosexual, civil rights, president, u.s. president, african american, propaganda, biopic, election, civil rights movement, usa president ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1963, 60s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, america, vietnam, usa ...
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756
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, head of state, heroic mission, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, assassination, on the run, state affairs, politics, government agency ...
Time:
60s, future, 20th century
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
biopic, john f. kennedy, president, politics, usa president, media, state affairs, rise to the top, campaign, head of state, ambition, political election ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1963 ...
Place:
washington d.c., dallas texas, usa, texas, america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
Style:
witty, ironic, humorous, funny, avant garde ...
Plot:
acting class, dating, 40 year old, blindness, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, audition, self pity, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, actor, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, milwaukee wisconsin, miami, barcelona, new york ...
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9K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
civil rights, u.s. president, biopic, husband wife relationship, society, john f. kennedy, black maid, u.s. senator, u.s. vice president, white supremacy, world history, black history ...
Time:
60s, year 1865, year 1968, year 1961, year 1965 ...
Place:
west virginia, dallas texas, georgia, wyoming, texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Extreme passion turns deadly in the high stakes game between two men who love and need the same woman.Former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed sizzles as Lisa Blair.When she discovers that her lover's beautiful fiancee Michelle has escaped house ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian mother, erotica, passionate sex, night, obsession, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, rivalry, couples, love triangle, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, singapore, los angeles, dallas texas
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25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style:
independent film, cerebral, philosophical, satirical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anarchist, slacker, subculture, coming of age, anarchism, philosophy, loser, one day, existentialism, twenty something, teenager, hangout ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, dallas texas ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, neo western
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, gangster, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, special agent, retiring, small town, tough law enforcer, starting over, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, serial killer, psychopath, murder, gory, ghost, uncover truth, youth, teenage life, vengeance, supernatural, violence spree ...
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler (Perry) is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore (Hurley) with divorce papers.
Style:
funny, romantic, entertaining, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
chase, divorce, opposites attract, on the road, couple relations, road trip, crumbling marriage, true love, husband wife relationship, vengeance, couples, wine ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, amarillo texas, miami ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, tv reporter, history teacher, race against time, state affairs, imaginary, chases and races ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, dallas texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, looking for sex, womanizer, infidelity, love affair, looking for love, youth, love and romance, disorder, college, teenage life, love triangle ...
Place:
usa, dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting ...
Style:
psychological thriller, intense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hitman, kidnapping, hostage, woman in danger, villain, airport, fear, strong female lead, stewardess, conspiracy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
miami, dallas texas, texas, usa
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164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose ...
Style:
stylized, serious, disturbing, surreal, talky ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
gay, drug addiction, addiction, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, drug, life is a bitch, celebrity culture, party, drug addict, friends, social misfits ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
new york, indiana, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, teenage life, siblings relations, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, sarcasm, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
usa, kansas city, los angeles, boston, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A happy gay couple in Austin Texas allows a performance artist/hustler, Jonathon, to enter their lives while hiding from his past. His past with one of the couple will come back.
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
gay couple, gay relationship, love triangle, friendship, murder, betrayal, deception, blackmail, lie, gay slur, fraud, dating ...
Place:
austin texas, dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, neo noir, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, small town, couples, private detective, manipulation, murder, profanity, greed, sociopath, love triangle, infidelity, betrayal ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, miami, boston, chicago ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
death penalty, lethal injection, mental institution, death sentence, chainsaw, uncover truth, crime gone awry, rehabilitation, psychiatrist, desperation, husband wife relationship, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on ... after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.
Style:
sentimental, neo western, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
rodeo, brother in law sister in law relationship, cowboy, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, small town, bar fight, redemption, brawl, hospital, violence, modern western ...
Time:
year 1972, 19th century, 70s
Place:
arizona, california, usa, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic mission, danger, chase, confined, escapades, rivalry, terrorism, race against time, chases and races, heroes, psychopath, disaster ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
usa, texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
destiny, manic, betrayal, desert, couples, character study, psychic power, dishonesty, couple relations, a vision, business venture, business deal ...
Time:
year 2006, future
Place:
new mexico, usa, dallas texas, oklahoma city, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Dr. Sullivan Travis is a man at the top of his game, a rich and successful Dallas gynecologist whose "religion" is women. Dr. T. worships women. In his immediate family and in his office, they surround him. He is loving and giving to each ...
Style:
satirical, stylized, light, humorous, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
gynecologist, cheerleader, cheerleading, lesbian, public nudity, couple relations, family relations, women, dysfunctional family, parents and children, twists and turns, runaway ...
Time:
90s, year 2000
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, washington d.c., dallas texas ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him ...
Style:
controversial, humorous, absurd, parody, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satire, dark humor, racism, stupidity, travel, culture clash, toilet humor, stereotypes, road trip, dumb, fish out of water, masturbation ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, kazakhstan, usa, los angeles, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
kennedy assassination, head of state, politics, assassination, couple relations, state affairs, brother brother relationship, american politics, husband wife relationship, death of brother, president, john f. kennedy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963, year 1962
Place:
usa, washington d.c., texas, russia, dallas texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 430 min.
TV show
Story:
Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strong female presence, rivalry, starting over, hypocrisy, family relations, social relations, hopes, intrigue, homecoming, haunted by the past, gossip and rumors, mean girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
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