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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.
Style:
crying, gay cinema
Plot:
gay, male pubic hair, gay love, gay romance, gay interest, public nudity, man dances with a man, gay couple, male nudity, gay relationship, sexual attraction, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s, year 1993, year 1988 ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Style:
metafiction, dark comedy, independent film, black humor
Plot:
theater, actor, theatre play, absurd humor, entertainment, hostage situation, hostage, boredom, male protagonist, awkward situation, ordinary people, traumatic experience ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, thrilling, psychological, captivating, interesting
Plot:
aids, drug addiction, drug overdose, theater, audition, drug addict, theatre play, young couple, young lovers, couples, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
paris france, new york
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, scary, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, dark hero, vampirism, monster as victim, blood, bonding, vampire bite, child vampire ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, paris france, san francisco, france ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style:
clever, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
classical music, music, composer, genius, mozart, musician, envy, opera, character study, musician's life, mentor, prodigy ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, 1780s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, period piece, intellectual ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, sex scene, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian attraction, writers, lesbian, open marriage, woman, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1890s, year 1900, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, louisiana, marseille
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, mysterious death, sleeping, mental institution, paranormal activity, abandoned building, hallucination, experiment, stage play, fire, theater, death ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1984
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, tragicomedy, costume drama, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, secret police, jealousy, actor, love, theater, actress, illicit affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, social relations, honor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, UK, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
Style:
breathtaking, stylized, touching, sad, visual ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magician, art, magic, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, theater, very little dialogue, imagination, mentor, transformation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1959, year 2010 ...
Place:
england, scotland, france, edinburgh scotland, scottish highlands ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from ...
Style:
experimental, art film, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
theater, surrealism, lifestyle, theatre play, theatrical troupe, stage actor, memory, symbolism, archive, obsession, identity, college ...
Time:
20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, funny ...
Plot:
theater, showbiz, cowboy, stage play, culture clash, small town, homecoming, society, rivalry, rules and policies, artists and showbiz, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter ...
Style:
erotic, costume drama, melancholic, colorful, suspense ...
Plot:
dancing, female nudity, flashback, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer, dancer's life, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The epic love story tells the tragic tale of young Vietnamese bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris — but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.
Style:
emotional, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
tragic love, live performance, theater, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, longing, sacrifice, vietnam war, loss, separation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west end london, saigon, london, asia, vietnam
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
It seems like a fairy tale story. Plucked from obscurity by the legendary actress Chigusa Tsukikage, 13-year-old Maya Kitajima is given the chance of a lifetime and the opportunity to study at a legendary acting school. She'll also find an ...
Style:
anime, shoujo, sentimental
Plot:
theater, rivalry, mentor, coming of age, personal growth, female rivalry, determination, competition, backstage, perseverance, ambition, school ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Style:
political, psychological, captivating, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
british politics, live performance, theater, british history, queen, prime minister, british, monarchy, royalty, queen elizabeth ii, politics, royal family ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, buckingham palace
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story:
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard ...
Style:
anthology, romantic drama, period drama
Plot:
theater, live performance, performance art, theatre play, actress, vaudeville, public, actor, stage, studio, archival footage, costume ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
investigation, theater, genius, mind, murder suspect, murder investigation, socially awkward, social issues, crime solving, suspect, social problems, problem ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
It's a theatre adaptation of well known story of Jim Hawkins and his adventures in search of treasure of Treasure Island.
Style:
dramatic, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
pirate, theater, treasure, medieval, mutiny, greed, seafaring, betrayal, suspicion, danger, loyalty, island ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, romantic, contemplative, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
nostalgia, husband wife conflict, actress, sex orgy, orgy, dinner, theater, romanticism, husband and wife, party, drug, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the ...
Style:
experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
theater, feminism, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, iranian, minimal dialogue, arab, religious, cinema, face, women, persian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The life of a band of teenager in a suburb near Paris. But instead of showing what would be the "urban legend" of this kind of poor suburb (violence, rapes...), Abdelatif Kechiche shows us what's the daily life of those guys: not much ...
Style:
slang, semi serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, suburbs, teacher, rehearsal, school, high school, theater, fall in love, looking for love, group of friends, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Following the tragic death of her parents Fawn Harriman discovers she has inherited a theatre in the town of Amityville. She, along with 3 friends, decides to spend the weekend there looking the place over. Meanwhile one of her High School teachers ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, bleak, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
theater, curse, ouija board, supernatural horror, teenager, supernatural being, curses spells and rituals, demon, teenage girl, trapped, trap, supernatural ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
ghost, theater, supernatural power, supernatural, family relations, chase, supernatural ability, death, society, revenge, victim, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, china
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
Style:
entertaining, light, inspirational, 3d animation, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot:
creativity, singing, anthropomorphic animal, music, musician, talent show, pig, mentor, friendship, talking animal, furry, animal ...
Time:
year 2016
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, History
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Croatia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, naked man, taboo, male nudity, sexuality, renaissance, theater, human nature, painter, performer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
16th century, 2010s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling, depressing ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, theater, construction worker, family relations, theatre play, relationships, male female relationship, problem, satire, family problems, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Into the Woods takes the stories of the Brothers Grimm and gives them a dark and humorous twist. The popular tales of Red Ridinghood, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Cinderella and Rapunzel are interwoven with that of the Baker and his Wife and their ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
live performance, theater, cinderella, little red riding hood, baker, based on broadway musical, sleeping beauty, prince, woods, forest, desire, aftermath ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly's musical based on the Roald Dahl novel.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
singing, genius, female antagonist, library, child prodigy, escape artist, precocious child, circus, dysfunctional family, villain, heroes, child protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An alcoholic theater owner needs to put together a successful musical in order to pay off his mob debt, but problems arise when the wise guys want to cast their friends in the production.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
debt, theater, artists and showbiz, criminal heroes, performer's life, problem solving, problem, friends, money problems, theatrical producer, financial problem, backstage ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, witty ...
Plot:
small town, theater, opera, actor's life, artists and showbiz, performer's life, showbiz, rehearsal, opera singer, womanizer, death, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
czech republic
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