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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot:
impossible love, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, starting over, couples, family life, false accusation, fall in love, society, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, sincere, indie film ...
Plot:
greek, chef, love and romance, food, self discovery, teenage life, grandparent grandchild relationship, human nature, youth, fall in love, family life, friendship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, athens greece, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secret relationship, high school, prodigy, self discovery, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, human nature, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, racism, boy, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, hopes, orphan, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s
Place:
africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
chaos, environmentalism, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace, society, human nature, state affairs, danger, workplace situations, political corruption, renaissance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
Story:
Ever since she was a little girl, growing up in the fourth world country of Crapistan, Natasha has devoured all things American. Finally, through the wonders of the Internet, she finds her way to a Bel Air mansion and into the loving arms of a ...
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, uplifting, romantic comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mail order bride, fish out of water, satire, culture clash, female protagonist, optimism, american dream, aspiration, social commentary, young adult, online dating, third world ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Austria, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the object of a sociopath's obsession.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
killer clown, found footage, crime investigation, uncover truth, female protagonist, abduction, cold case, obsession, investigation, evil clown, witch, tourist ...
Place:
thailand
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6K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style:
disturbing, stylized, bleak, controversial, neo noir ...
Plot:
poverty, poet, rickshaw, vietnam war, prostitution, gangster, gang, coming of age, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, violence ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s
Place:
saigon, vietnam, asia, hong kong
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Nigeria
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family comedy about what happens when a happily married couple's life is suddenly turned upside-down during an unwelcome visit from the husband's very traditional and very opinionated Nigerian Mom.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, independent film
Plot:
african american, culture clash, dysfunctional family, love interest, marital crisis, love affair, married couple, satire, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, love story ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
foreign legion, immigrant, french foreign legion, hostage, soldier, military, oil field, black man, illegal immigration, military training, guilt, rebel ...
Place:
paris france, france, guyana
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A lonely South Asian American college student, who desperately attempts to escape his fate, unwittingly descends into a world of crime and violence.
Style:
independent film, dark, neo noir, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fatalism, loneliness, existentialism, alienation, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, mental breakdown, urban, identity crisis, urban decay, street crime ...
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180
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Style:
thought provoking, art house, independent film, political drama
Plot:
migration, poverty, refugee, inequality, colonialism, desperation, solidarity, journey, exodus, social justice, border crossing, interracial relations ...
Place:
africa, north africa, spain
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man travels back in time to fight slavery.
Style:
tense, romantic, captivating, independent film, neo noir ...
Plot:
african, african american, warrior, slavery, romantic relationship, saving a life, social problems, captivity, battles, love and romance, fight, society ...
Place:
africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression in this down-beat drama, the directorial debut of Argentine filmmaker Torre-Nilsson.
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, period piece, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, parent child relationship, marriage, grief, loss, desperation, social realism, dysfunctional family, relocation, melancholy, isolation, survival ...
Time:
60s
Place:
puerto rico
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Stealing is a crime. Getting away with it is an art.
Style:
suspense, tension, crime drama, fast paced, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stealing, heist, planning, execution, risk, deception, escape, cat and mouse, caper, anti hero, moral ambiguity, ruse ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Have you ever been tempted to fall in love with your best friend? Well meet Whitney. When she is down on her luck with guys she turns to the one person who understands her, Dawson. His advice wasn't doing nothing but taking her heart. For ...
Style:
romantic drama, romantic comedy, hispanic, independent film, student film ...
Plot:
infidelity, affair, heartbreak, cheating, love triangle, adultery, temptation, marital problem, jealousy, seduction, female protagonist, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
miami
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Devil Gold is director José Novoa's third collaboration with producer Elia Schneider, and like the previous two films, Huelepega (or Glue Sniffer, which Schneider directed in 2000) and Sicario (1994), the film is a thriller-melodrama that ...
Style:
crime drama, art house, tragic
Plot:
amazon, violence, contamination, greed, poverty, realism, environmental destruction, social realism, human rights, slum, lawlessness, rain forest ...
Place:
venezuela, latin america, south america
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135
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, bleak
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, youth, friendship, grownups, coming of age, post soviet, slice of life, realism, small town, alcoholism, provincial ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
TIERRA MADRE is based on the true story of Aidee Gonzalez, a woman determined to raise her children with her female partner in the Mexican border town of Tecate. Aidee works hard as an exotic dancer providing for her family. One day her girlfriend ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, society, gays and lesbians, friendship, couples, friends, gay parent, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
black, youth, women of color, african, little boy, international relations, racial issues, boy, woman, blaxploitation, grandmother, school ...
Time:
1930s, year 1983
Place:
africa, indiana, europe, france
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the drought-plagued Brazilian badlands of the 1940s, Black God, White Devil explores the climate of superstition, physical and spiritual terrorism, and fear that gripped the country. The central characters, Manuel and Rosa, are on the run, ...
Style:
mystic, political, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
desert, religion, mysticism, religious fanatic, lesbian subtext, religious sect, revolutionary, fanaticism, anti christianity, underground, landscape, anarchist ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Style:
grindhouse, teen, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
punk, male nudity, public nudity, american football, male pubic hair, drug addiction, high school, friendship, campus, teenager, subculture, slacker ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new jersey, seattle, texas, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
lesbian, politics, terrorism, berlin wall, runaway, raf, loneliness, existentialism, starting over, danger, state affairs, lesbian sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of ...
Style:
surprise ending, parody, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
female nudity, pagan cult, odd couple, nude girl, husband leaves wife, italian abroad, mission, stealing a car, missing person, broken down car, ostrich, rain ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
africa, portugal, angola, kenya, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, Argentina
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever changing circumstances he puts up a brave fight, being ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
martial law, disease, quarantine, epidemic, female nudity, female masturbation, isolation, doctor, danger, journalism, apocalypse, medical profession ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
south america, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, armored car, rescue, head of state, danger, secret agent, law enforcement, die hard, trucker, politics ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
south america, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. ...
Style:
independent film, talky, clever, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
businessman, culture clash, cold war, hospital, drinking, cousin cousin relationship, marijuana, preppy, conservative, economics, stoner, hipster ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, madrid, pentagon ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style:
realistic, clever, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
cooking, food, dishonesty, power relations, cons and scams, society, master and servant, couple relations, unlikely criminals, family relations, cooking and food, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, new delhi, india
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