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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A timid painter falls for a charming window arranger but his inexperience, her jealous boyfriend and her sudden disappearance pose romantic challenges.
Style:
romantic
Plot:
love triangle, father son relationship, jealousy, painter, painting, neighbor, drunkenness, bankruptcy, breakup, political persecution, coworker relationship, suicidal ...
Place:
europe, prague, czech republic
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Stampylonghead, referred to as Stampy, creates a fictional world within the video game Minecraft. Minecraft is a sandbox video game, allowing for complete freedom of the player to do whatever they want. With his friends, Stampy builds incredible ...
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
alien, theater, combat, revenge, hotel, radio station, one against many, voice over narration, christmas, anti hero, bank, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2012, 2010s, year 2019, year 2016 ...
Place:
united kingdom, britain
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334
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole.
Style:
satirical, captivating, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
chicken farm, bankruptcy, theater, farm, escapades, changing lives, cattle ranch, satire, money problems, secret past, self discovery, ambition ...
Place:
brittany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1965, Takeshi Kitano drops out of a university and enters the Asakusa France Za, which is a performance theater. He becomes an apprentice to Senzaburo Fukami, who is a legendary entertainer. Senzaburo Fukami demands that Takeshi Kitano keep the ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
kids
Plot:
popularity, life, theater, theatre play, rising to stardom, stage actor, training, entertainment industry, desire for fame, comedian, legend, university ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1965, 60s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In 1930, two years after the events of So Long, My Love, the Great Demon War results in the annihilation of the Imperial, Paris and New York Combat Revues' Flower Divisions. With Earth at peace and the revues' actions becoming public, the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, mecha, shounen
Plot:
combat, theatrical troupe, theater, good versus evil, protector, fight, demon, battles, supernatural, showdown, teamwork, squad ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
politics, husband wife relationship, dancer, father son relationship, death of father, loss of job, sabotage, village, theater, effeminacy, theatrical troupe, lgbt ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
losing-it hero, actor's life, artists and showbiz, power relations, actress, mentor protege relationship, self destructing, audition, theater, casting, disability, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Asako meets her boyfriend's perfect double two years after his abrupt disappearance.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
power of love, love at first sight, theater, love affair, memory loss, young woman, destiny, doppelganger, earthquake, asian, dialogue, adultery ...
Place:
tokyo, osaka japan, india
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, costume drama, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
ballet, longing, royal romance, palace intrigue, ballerina, royal family, impossible love, female nudity, doomed love, forbidden love, passion, aristocracy ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century, 19th century, 12th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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404
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In order to win over a tough dramatist at her next audition, a young actress turns to method acting to such an extreme that she slowly loses herself in the coveted role of a promiscuous bisexual self-destructive wild girl and starts sleeping around, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sincere, erotic ...
Plot:
identity crisis, older woman younger woman relationship, lesbian sex, bisexual woman, audition, indifference, bisexual, theater, promiscuity, lgbt, lesbian, actress ...
Place:
paris france, london
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A haunted theatre, filled with the vengeful spirits of a tragically-trapped performance troupe murdered in a fire 13 years ago, waits for the once-grand palatial playhouse to re-open with a new show - and bring in new victims.
Style:
suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, director, revenge, theater, supernatural horror, supernatural power, demon, supernatural, killing, violence, paranormal, fear ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, sincere, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot:
night, theater, monkey, zoo, problem solving, theatrical agent, love story, love and romance, changing lives, satire, money problems, financial problem ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Comedy - Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Blake Michael
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, uplifting, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
friendship, youth, school, save the day, friends, theater, reconciliation, self esteem, family values, middle school, respect, society ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing the dream of staging their production of Cyrano de Bergerac, but love for the same lady will tear their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, friends, male friendship, friendship, theater, bittersweet, love triangle, romantic rivalry, working class, flashback, betrayal, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, europe, sicily
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, psychological, intellectual, dark ...
Plot:
painter, theater, artist, murder, gallery, investigation, obsession, missing person, slow burn, identity, memory, literary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A writer, possessed by a terrifying story hunts for its secret heart in a mysterious landscape. He journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory.
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, art house, psychedelic ...
Plot:
folk horror, theater, hallucination, factory, macabre, unsettling, ritual, memory, obsession, occult, remote village, arthouse horror ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 420 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Traveling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know ...
Style:
costume drama, melancholic, sentimental, entertaining, period drama
Plot:
theater, coming of age, magic trick, vaudeville, nostalgia, illusion, uncle nephew relationship, social change, entertainment industry, bittersweet, loss of innocence, escape ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, year 1914
Place:
britain
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Genre: Horror
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Frank, a vet, discovers that his daughter has a lesbian relationship. When he tries to confront her rehearsal of a play named "The Flemish Vampire" something unexpected happens.
Style:
intense, suspense, psychological, gothic, queer horror ...
Plot:
vampire, theater, parent child relationship, supernatural, lesbian relationship, stage play, family conflict, family drama, rehearsal, demon, intolerance, darkness ...
Place:
flanders, belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
At the impressionable age of 16, young Mateo faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members' political activities.
Style:
emotional, independent film, tension, suspense, educational
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, theater, self discovery, youth, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, mother son relationship, infiltration, corruption, crime boss, identity, extortion ...
Place:
colombia
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443
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, intense, experimental ...
Plot:
shakespeare, theater, tragedy, adaptation, minimalism, literary, power, guilt, ambition, madness, intimate, fate ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany, Cuba, France, UK
Duration: 155 min.
TV show
Story:
The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually ...
Style:
inspirational, poignant, melancholic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, russian empire, dance, theater, children, female protagonist, legacy, performance art, fame, cultural icon, ambition ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
paris france, london, russia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
Style:
dramatic, intense, art film, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, theater, live performance, orchestra, adaptation, passion, jealousy, train conductor, seduction, tragic love, performance art ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
london, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in the '50s in a movie theatre showing a serial called "Space Patrol," this particular episode being "Back from the Future." The evil scientist on the serial goes back to the '50s and his crew members have to chase ...
Style:
period piece, retro, suspense, slasher, meta ...
Plot:
space exploration, theater, panic, alien invasion, alien, martian, creature feature, isolation, mad scientist, monster, exploitation, massacre ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
This scintillating production of Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy will stir your emotions even as it challenges you with its pointed social commentary. Is the story of Kate and Petruchio one of courtship or of conquest? The breaking down of a ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot:
marriage, shakespeare, satire, gender roles, theater, stage play, male female relationship, troubled marriage, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, sister sister relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
rivalry, theatre play, jealousy, ego, artist, theater, relationship problems, second chance, blind ambition, stage actor, troubled past, music ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece, France, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in ...
Style:
experimental, postmodern, tension, unpredictable, surreal ...
Plot:
theater, moral ambiguity, live performance, performance art, ambiguity, adaptation, social commentary, single, urban, ritual, claustrophobia, intimate ...
Place:
athens greece, ancient greece, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Born and raised in the countryside of Japan, Hinako "Hina" Sakuragi gets anxious easily when she talks to new people—so much so that she resembles a stiff scarecrow. To overcome this, Hina hopes to get involved in theater, inspired by a ...
Style:
anime, feel good, cute, light hearted, entertaining ...
Plot:
slice of life, friendship, heartwarming, high school life, theater, high school, everyday life, dream, friends, school, actress, schoolgirl ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman discovers just how far she will go to achieve immortality while receiving the role of a lifetime in a mysterious stage play said to be cursed.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, captivating, thrilling, mystic ...
Plot:
curse, immortality, female protagonist, stage play, theater, paranormal phenomena, curses spells and rituals, cursed, paranormal activity, paranormal, mysticism, obsession ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 321 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Carlo Collodi's classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.
Style:
light, fairy tale, humorous, controversial
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
carabinieri, pinocchio, father son relationship, young heroes, puppet, friendship, cons and scams, friends, fairy, escapades, theater, danger ...
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