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 5.5
 564
Hidden Moon (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a mysterious, beautiful Latin woman named Miranda makes a dramatic appearance at the funeral of a man, shocking his affluent Southern California family, Victor, the man's son, heads to Mexico to find out the truth about the nature of her ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: fall in love, family business, couples, forgery, parents and children, family relations, death in the family, mysterious girl, family gatherings, dangerous attraction, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, mexico, latin america, los angeles
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 6.8
 110
True Dare Kiss (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: True Dare Kiss is a British television drama produced for BBC One. It is written by Debbie Horsfield and produced by Marcus Wilson and features Dervla Kirwan, David Bradley and Lorraine Ashbourne. It concerns the reunion of four sisters and a ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot: haunted by the past, betrayal, uncover truth, rivalry, family problems, dysfunctional family, favoritism among siblings, life is a bitch, death of father, death in the family, sister sister relationship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manchester, europe, england
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A Year Ago in Winter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, sad ...
Plot: painter, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, family relations, dancer's life, wealth, performer's life, family problems, couples, artists and showbiz, portrait, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany, munich germany, bavaria
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 7.0
 4K
Loving Leah (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, religions or cults, society, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, friendship, love and romance, hopeless romantic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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Shut Up and Shoot  Me (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, partner, gangster, criminal heroes, misfit, hitman, friendship, disorder, buddies, death wish, death in the family, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, prague, czech republic
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 6.4
 878
Tru Love (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TRU, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long...that is, until she meets ALICE, 60, a beautiful widow, who has come to town at the last minute to visit her daughter, SUZANNE, 35, a too-busy corporate ...
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: lgbtq, lesbian, lgbt, love and romance, moral dilemma, interracial relations, couples, lesbian love, city life, gender, death in the family, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 5.1
 495
13 Curses (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot: missing person, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, supernatural, friendship, family problems, homecoming, mental illness, danger, death in the family, captivity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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 5.9
 410
Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
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 5.0
 865
Soulmate (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A widow retreats to a remote cottage to recover from a suicide attempt, only to discover the place is haunted.
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, suicide, isolation, mentally unstable, death in the family, countryside, death, danger, women, mental illness, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 7.9
 21K
Awake (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, detective, serious, emotional ...
Plot: alternate reality, double life, car accident, grief, police investigation, family problems, loss, therapy, sanity, loss of spouse, loss of loved one, family relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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Saving Sarah Cain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: amish, orphan, female protagonist, redemption, fish out of water, siblings, christian, journalism, family life, family problems, betrayal, custody ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, portland oregon
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Donovan's Echo (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, afterlife, danger, nobody believes, death in the family, a vision, loss of daughter, mathematician, mental illness, subconscious ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
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I'm Going Home (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: old age, family problems, love and romance, actor's life, getting home, couples, couple relations, dealing with death, hopes, death in the family, male female relationship, love ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe
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My Father My Lord (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story: "My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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 6.1
 409
Written By (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere, offbeat
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, family relations, writer's life, parents and children, dealing with death, unfulfillment, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, alternate reality, car accident ...
Place: asia, hong kong
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: urban legend, psychic, conspiracy, twists and turns, death of wife, reporter, supernatural, supernatural power, investigation, hallucination, warning, angel ...
Time: year 2000, year 2002, 20th century, 70s
Place: west virginia, pittsburgh, virginia, washington d.c., usa ...
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 5.8
 2K
Take (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot: death row, child in peril, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, family problems, addiction, strange person, dishonesty, society, clergy, redemption, hopes ...
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 7.3
 21K
The Son's Room (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style: touching, sincere, sad, depressing, meditative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, family in crisis, overcoming, running ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disability, family problems, young lovers, starting over, estrangement, haunted by the past, death in the family, small town life, teenage life, family life, homecoming, countryside ...
Time: year 2007
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The Sky Is Falling (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: orphan, world war two, racism, parents and children, hitler youth, war, opposites attract, death in the family, family life, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, florence, switzerland ...
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 5.3
 599
Finding Home (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy ...
Plot: haunted by the past, family relations, island, homecoming, dysfunctional family, uncover truth, self discovery, family life, parents and children, family problems, couples, introspection ...
Time: 2000s
Place: maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.8
 9K
Incendiary (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: adultery, love triangle, grief, guilt, betrayal, starting over, sex scene, dangerous attraction, terrorist, haunted by the past, love affair, infidelity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: london, europe, england
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 4.8
 565
Maid of Honor (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While driving in the road, Richard Wynn crashes his car and his beloved wife Carrie Wynn dies. Along two years, his sister-in-law Laci Collins moves to his house and helps Richard to raise his son Danny Wynn and his teenage daughter Molly Wynn. When ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, vengeance, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, single parent, mentally unstable, psychopath, family problems, death in the family, manipulation, jealousy ...
Place: ohio, philadelphia
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Madea's Family Reunion (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Just as the southern matriarch, Madea buries her older sister, Irene. (There is no mention of Helen and Charles Jr. at all during the play). Her granddaughter Lisa is getting married to a very successful rich man name Ronnie at the house, but ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot: family life, wedding, eccentric family, family gatherings, family problems, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, death in the family, funeral, black, madea ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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 6.2
 555
Free Radicals (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: love affair, teenage life, introspection, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, hopes, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe, brazil, africa
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Falling Angels (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The wickedly funny story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of the 60's, free love, the Cold War, LSD and the dawn of feminism. Affectionately dubbed "Little Women on acid", ...
Style: realistic, touching, clever, serious
Plot: dysfunctional family, infidelity, family relations, family problems, parents and children, estrangement, couples, youth, siblings relations, death in the family, suburban life, teenage life ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1970
Place: canada
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Satan's School for Girls (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot: witch, college, amateur detective, loss of sister, supernatural, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, danger, death in the family, death of sister, witchcraft ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
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 5.9
 173
Lust (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: “Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, rough, bleak
Plot: social decay, family relations, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, low lives, family in crisis, family problems, realism, dealing with death, death in the family, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east
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A Family Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: biracial, self discovery, family drama, family relations, justice, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, interracial relations, racism, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: arkansas, america, chicago, usa, southern usa
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Urban Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place: los angeles
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