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With the Nose in the Stream (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor ...
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental
Plot: professor, philosophy, tv reporter, nature, only child, child prodigy, young boy, coming of age, boy, married couple, girl, gentleman ...
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland
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 7.3
 87K
The Strain (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, infected, epidemic, supernatural, good versus evil, chaos, disaster, survival, deadly virus, fate of humanity, save the world, plague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.2
 43K
Time Trap (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time dilation, cave, time loop, time portal, climbing, friendship, twists and turns, time traveler, college professor, missing person, youth ...
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 5.2
 3K
Time Changer (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming ...
Style: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, christian, christianity, ethics, bible, faith, dystopian future, preaching ...
Time: 1890s, future, victorian era
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found. ...
Style: intense, anime, stylized, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, justice league, alternate timeline, time travel, superman, batman, save the world, comic book, hopes, professor, captain, changing the past or future ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, paris france, washington d.c., big ben london, london
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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 6.4
 37K
Ghost Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an ...
Style: anthology, spooky, suspense, scary, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural horror, dishonesty, religion, supernatural, professor, car accident, storytelling, journalist, mental disorder, character study ...
Time: year 2017
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 6.5
 245K
Legally Blonde (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: lawyer, girl power, sorority, fashion, blonde, law school, college, law, university, trial, believe in yourself, law student ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, boston, massachusetts, los angeles, harvard university ...
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 7.9
 33K
The Conformist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style: political, art house, visual, breathtaking, neo noir ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, confession, child molestation, ambush ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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 7.4
 83K
Master (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min.
Story: An alcoholic professor is sent to a juvenile school, where he clashes with a gangster, who uses the children of the school for criminal activities.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, action thriller ...
Plot: professor, teacher, drug smuggling, drug, criminal, school teacher, gangster, gang, crime boss, criminal gang, bandit, smuggler ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.5
 143K
Still Alice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, alzheimer's disease, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family drama, terminal illness, family bonds, mental illness, psychology, relationships ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 5K
Accident (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These ...
Style: slasher, deep, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: professor, flashback, college, obsession, car accident, torment, seduction, college life, swing, family relations, love triangle, teacher student relationship ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: oxford university, england, europe, london
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Cemetery of Terror (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A professor suspects that a vicious killer may have discovered a way to return from the grave and continue his violent spree. His fears are proved true when a group of teenagers decide to pull a Halloween prank by stealing the killer's body ...
Style: slasher, bleak, suspense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: zombie, halloween, undead, cemetery, supernatural, professor, old dark house, best friend, haunted house, back from the dead, teenager, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico
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 7.5
 117K
A Single Man (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, depression, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, grief, haunted by the past, gender, tragic love ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, madrid ...
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 7.9
 13K
The Other Me (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, non-linear, confusing ...
Plot: killing spree, revenge, serial killer, investigation, professor, police, asperger's syndrome, crime wave, vigilante, victim, perjury, death ...
Time: 2010s, year 2007, 2000s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place: athens greece, ancient greece, balkan, europe, greece
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 7.2
 43K
The Wife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, serious, sad ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, love affair, award ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 2010s, year 1992 ...
Place: stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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Chasing Sleep (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot: nightmare, insomnia, professor, police, uncover truth, obsession, murder, haunted by the past, hallucination, missing person, teacher, philosophy ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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Seducción (aka Secreto De Amor) (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mexican feature film
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: professor, seductress, teacher student romance, male teacher female student affair, teacher student relationship, marital problem, affair, relationships, adultery, infidelity, marital infidelity, relationship problems ...
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Cracow Monsters (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman haunted by her past joins a mysterious professor and his group of gifted students who investigate paranormal activity — and fight demons.
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: death, professor, student, paranormal investigator, paranormal activity, mysticism, supernatural, paranormal, mythology, elite, legend, slavic mythology ...
Place: poland
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I'll Follow You Down (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, funny ...
Plot: time travel, missing person, scientist, uncover truth, professor, obsession, inventions and discoveries, puzzle, time paradox, mind game, time loop, alternate timeline ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, new jersey, usa, canada
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., new york
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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Style: melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: duck, stereotypes, treasure hunt, multiple storylines, good versus evil, professor, justice, magic, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, odd couple, partner ...
Time: year 1971
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 6.4
 8K
Arabesque (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Style: suspenseful, talky, witty, realistic, serious ...
Plot: espionage, murder, political intrigue, gangster, spy, justice, assassination, twists and turns, professor, intrigue, investigation, danger ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, oxford university, europe
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 6.0
 27K
Robot 2 (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: An ornithologist who commits suicide returns as fifth force to wreack vengeance on mankind for harming birds with mobile phone radiation. The only thing that is standing in his way is 2.0, the upgraded version of Chitti, the robot.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: scientist, tower, mad scientist, superhero, revenge, monster, good versus evil, professor, chase, rescue, supernatural power, death ...
Time: 2010s
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Secrets, Objects (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 40-year-old Sociology professor Hye-jung falls for a 21-year-old Usang, a male student who helps her project research on women's extramarital affair. Their prohibited love and secrets are watched and told by two secretive observers. They are ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, professor, adultery, husband wife relationship, sociologist, loneliness, ageism, divorce, age-gap relationship, voice over narration, sex scene, male prostitute ...
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Mara and the Firebringer (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, saga
Plot: heroine, norse god, norse mythology, strong female lead, seer, strong female character, viking, professor, teenager, battles, a vision, courage ...
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 6.1
 5K
Anesthesia (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, crime drama ...
Plot: professor, husband wife relationship, suspicion, friendship, paranoia, pursuit, promise, chase, violence, psychiatrist, money, lie ...
Time: 2010s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.6
 245K
21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
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 6.2
 247K
Knowing (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, apocalypse, supernatural, catastrophe, prophecy, foreknowledge, code, cataclysm, scientist, professor, prediction ...
Time: year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place: massachusetts, new york, boston, usa
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