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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tony Costas, a brash, obnoxious, sexist and racist Detroit cop who has long since stopped following the rules, gets told that he will have to work with Inspector Fuji, a straightlaced policeman from Japan. Fuji is in Detroit searching for a Japanese ...
Style:
detective, action comedy, independent film, fast, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
murder, buddy cop, car chase, villain, investigation, shootout, crime boss, tough cop, fight, hitman, culture clash, buddy ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa, asia, japan
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
evil wins, psycho killer, serial killer, truck driver, sadistic horror, road rage, truck, murder, highway, killer car, urban legend, race car ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for ...
Style:
suspense, visually stunning, perverse, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot:
curse, investigation, inheritance, rescue, disappearance, geisha, criminal, escapades, heroic mission, heroes, brutality, mission ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, japan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
zombie, undead, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak, apocalypse, walking dead, battlefield, living dead, mercenary, heist, female warrior, invulnerability ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah, las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms ...
Style:
independent film, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marital rape, kidnapping, love affair, domestic violence, daughter, junkyard, racecar driver, car, race, chase, family relations, love and romance ...
Time:
future, year 1981, 80s
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
car chase, car, existentialism, carsploitation, police detective, driver, heist, gambling, witness, one last job, on the run, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does ...
Style:
futuristic, action adventure, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, female protagonist, cyborgs, distopia, post apocalypse, female warrior, tough girl, adaptation, martial arts, woman fights a man, bounty hunter, danger ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2019, 2010s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Style:
slapstick, humorous, independent film, not serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
stupidity, conspiracy theory, chase, dimwit, paranoia, warehouse, junkyard, arms deal, stupid kid, erotica, satire, arms dealing ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don’t play with your food.
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
exile, cult leader, amputation, cannibalism, desert, cannibal, dystopia, hallucinogenic drug, isolated community, amputee, dismemberment, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
austin texas
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Richard Davalos plays Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk who comes to the attention of car enthusiast Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a race car driver. Bowman eventually accepts and becomes entranced ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
auto racing, racing, motor racing, race, exploitation, car, carsploitation, junkyard, automobile, classic car, car race, drag racing ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dennis (Sam Bottoms) is a handsome, successful and well-liked civic leader who lives in his hometown with his lovely wife (Lisa Eichhorn) and their new baby. When Enrique Vasquez (Marco Rodriguez) and his striking teen daughter Angela (Yeniffer ...
Style:
crying, sensual
Plot:
love, neighbor, babysitter, unfaithfulness, nudity, harassment, dancer, dancing, pursuit, telephone call, friendship, female nudity ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After WWIII has devastated America, a small band of female warriors attempt to survive long enough to make it to the last city left. The problem is dictator Rollins doesn't want her city overpopulating so she sends out her team of mercenaries ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot:
post apocalypse, guts, post-apocalyptic future, killing, nudity, chase, violence, blood, death, female nudity, abandoned city, danger ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
Style:
sexy, road movie, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage boy, friendship, coming of age, friendship between boys, road trip, best friend, school bully, erotic fantasy, insomnia, on the road, summer vacation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style:
futuristic, saga, exciting, scenic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot:
star wars, alien, space travel, death, obesity, space opera, resistance fighter, destiny, fantasy world, super weapon, space and aliens, duel ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
space western
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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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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style:
scary, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, gory, supernatural horror, ghost child, confined, machine, inheritance, blood, family in danger, danger ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
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16K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting, epic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vigilante, superhero, comic book, african american protagonist, paraplegic, one man army, african american, villain, good versus evil, military, soldier, gang ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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22K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, drifter, road trip, buddies, attempted rape, on the road, prison, mental breakdown, car wash, telephone call, hitchhiking, character study ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, denver colorado, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, detroit ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup, Scamp, gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family, and longs for a wild and free lifestyle. He runs away from home and into the streets where he joins a pack of stray dogs known ...
Style:
sweet, cute, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
cartoon dog, love, dog, puppy, independence day, dogcatcher, friendship, talking dog, gang, talking animal, singing, parents ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
new england
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, sad, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
robot, giant robot, friendship, small town, prejudice, self sacrifice, childhood, boy, benign alien, cold war, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1957, future ...
Place:
usa, maine, iceland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, road movie, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, obsession, car chase, psychopath, murder, hit and run, death of wife, insanity, killer car, car accident, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, funeral, older woman younger man relationship, eccentricity, misfit, old age, alienation, age difference, couples, cemetery, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area, usa
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227K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized ...
Style:
exciting, fast, visually appealing, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
prison, car chase, racing, revenge, violence, car race, murder, betrayal, survival, tough guy, rivalry, ex convict ...
Time:
year 2008, future, year 2012, 2010s, 2020s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' ...
Style:
retro, suspense, southern gothic, neo noir, crime drama ...
Plot:
racism, social commentary, manhunt, adultery, small town, lynch mob, drunkenness, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, escaped prisoner, on the run ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, southern usa, new jersey, california
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A gritty psychological-horror-thriller that delves the demented mind of a cannibalistic serial rapist who kidnaps his tenth victim in as many months on Halloween night.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, cannibal, cannibalism, captivity, violent content, confined, danger, law enforcement, eye, psycho killer, female fighter ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee
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16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, betrayal, chase, on the run, faked death, drug dealing, vengeance, drug trade, dishonesty, danger, criminal heroes, corrupt law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, latin america, usa, san diego california, mexico ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York ...
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, hitman, italian police, police, italian mafia, pimp, hooker, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, milan italy
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Style:
dark comedy, slapstick, picaresque, suspense, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
circus, satire, working class, manipulation, greed, desperation, debt, survival, outsider, farce, small town, rescue ...
Time:
70s
Place:
munich germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Gangster boss Carlos orders the dodgy Viennese junkyard owner Harry to bring him a bag from Poland. Harry passes the order on to his "best man" Schorsch. Schorsch, not exactly the brightest, is currently without a driver's license and ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, absurd, buddy comedy, road movie ...
Plot:
chase, disorder, criminal heroes, cons and scams, stoner, marijuana, misadventure, journey, irreverent, gangster, drug trip, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, poland, vienna, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. stars in this cross between a blaxploitation film and a spaghetti western. They must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they encounter racist ...
Style:
crime drama, independent film, eighties
Plot:
hip hop, rap, released from prison, black, urban, junkyard, blaxploitation, airplane, murder, secretary, friendship between men, chauffeur ...
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