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 7.7
 82K
Carnival Row (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and ...
Style: dark fantasy, detective, captivating, sweet, sensual ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: steampunk, mythical creature, fairy, interspecies romance, fantasy world, social injustice, politician, monster, alternate reality, class differences, family secret, sorceress ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
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 5.7
 1K
Storyville (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot: politics, murder, politician, blackmail, family secret, frame up, campaign, manipulation, false accusation, intrigue, political conspiracy, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Controra - House of Shadows (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A couple inherits their family's ancient Italian palazzo where sinister shadows from the past reappear.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, family secret, demon, haunted house, isolation, supernatural power, hallucination, love, betrayal, husband wife relationship, deception, family relations ...
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Demons of the Mind (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: incest, murder, family secret, parents and children, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, danger, estate, siblings relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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 7.2
 6K
Empire Falls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, lead by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, restaurant, family secret, family life, family problems, love and romance, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, parents and children, working class, breakup, husband wife relationship ...
Place: maine, new england, usa, boston, key west florida ...
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 6.8
 14K
Tetro (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their ...
Style: psychological, black and white, talky, enigmatic, intense ...
Plot: road trip, family relations, confession, family drama, adaptation, art, dysfunctional family, creativity, family secret, musician, haunted by the past, greed ...
Time: year 2009
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina, south america, usa, new york ...
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 6.2
 279K
Dark Shadows (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, parody, humorous, gothic horror ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night
Plot: vampire, witch, eccentric family, immortality, dark humor, witchcraft, magic, supernatural, curse, werewolf, ghost, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new england, usa, liverpool, england, maine
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American Gothic (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A prominent Boston family attempts to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, anthology, slasher ...
Plot: murder, suspicion, husband wife relationship, murder investigation, serial killer, betrayal, female politician, family relations, dysfunctional family, family secret, marital crisis, police ...
Place: usa, boston
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 7.8
 383K
About Time (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, time loop, life philosophy, fall in love, true love, couple relations, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, life, father son relationship, young woman ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
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The Tree of Blood (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, family secret, infidelity, cheating girlfriend, unhappy marriage, lgbt, family problems, tragic love, secret past, couple relations, troubled marriage, relationship problems ...
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Everybody Knows (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot: kidnapping, ransom demand, wedding, family secret, ex-lover, investigation, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, lie, mother daughter relationship, deception, expose ...
Place: iran, middle east, barcelona, persia, spain
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 5.5
 3K
Holy Mess (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, christmas, gay couple, family secret, father son relationship, family dinner, gay slur, lgbtq, mother son relationship, glbt, lgbtqi ...
Place: eastern europe
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 6.5
 244
The O'Briens (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien (Tommy O’Neil) summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn (Liam McMahon) travels from New York, Gareth (Emmett Hughes) from London, and daughter Una ...
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere, semi serious, realistic
Plot: family relations, family gatherings, family secret, scandal, love triangle, death of mother, family reunited, rejection, father son relationship, secret, family home, dysfunctional family ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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Matt Hatter Chronicles (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, India
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Adventure-comedy series about Matt, an ordinary boy who discovers his family defends a gateway to a different dimension called the Multiverse
Style: computer animated, exciting, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: family secret, good versus evil, boy, parallel world, secret place, rivalry, danger, young heroes, rescue, master villain, heroic mission, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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The Almighty Johnsons (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: The Almighty Johnsons is a New Zealand fantasy comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and is produced by South Pacific Pictures. It began airing its first series of ten episodes in New Zealand on 7 ...
Style: exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, heroes, brother brother relationship, family secret, supernatural ability, life turned upside down, escapades, family relations, rivalry, villain, norse god, viking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
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 7.8
 23K
Transparent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sitcom, captivating, heartfelt ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, transgender, gay interest, eccentric family, secret, dark humor, family secret, family life, life turned upside down, dysfunctional family, disorder, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, indiana, idaho, usa
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What's in a Name (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the ...
Style: cynical, talky, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: dinner party, under the surface, joke, friendship, pregnancy, family secret, family gatherings, siblings relations, couple relations, prank, friends, family problems ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 7.2
 13K
Loose Cannons (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, uplifting, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay son, gay interest, lifestyle, lgbtq, family secret, father son relationship, family disapproval, love affair, parents and children, family life, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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 6.5
 272K
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot: wedding, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, dancing, greek island, dance, single mother, broadway, single parent, parents and children, meet the parents, free spirited ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, italy, fictional island, new york
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Secondhand Lions (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, inspirational, period piece ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, coming of age, fish out of water, greed, childhood, misfit, youth, bittersweet, courage, aging, suicidal, family relations ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 1910s, 60s
Place: texas, africa, austin texas, usa, france ...
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 7.0
 34K
8 Women (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Style: black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, talky, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, multiple suspects, dysfunctional family, christmas, murder, eccentric family, estate, lesbian, suicide, family relations, maid, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, year 2002, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, europe
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The Automatic Hate (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Davis Green's (Joseph Cross) alluring young cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens) appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, mumblecore
Plot: sex between cousins, cousins incest, cousin cousin relationship, family secret, overheard conversation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, dark secret, sister sister relationship, female nudity, male protagonist, brother brother conflict, open ending ...
Place: new york state, boston
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 5.5
 26
Homesick (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The daughter of the Li family has been missing for many years - suddenly she appears causing a turmoil in the town. The secrets hidden in the Li family gradually surface...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: missing daughter, family reunited, family secret, dysfunctional family, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, father daughter relationship, mysterious disappearance, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
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Savages Crossing (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, suspense
Plot: flooding, natural disaster, family secret, flood, australian outback, murderer, survival, isolation, insecurity, group of strangers
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The Lady with the Black Veil (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Clara is a young and noblewoman with a free and rebellious spirit who was separated from her twin brother and forced into an arranged marriage. Despite this, she falls in love with her husband and fights to win his love. Clara however, falls victim ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: family secret, unhappy marriage, female protagonist, inheritance, presumed dead, dead woman, family life, secret, dysfunctional marriage, family relations, legacy, family problems ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century
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My Father's Other Family (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shelby is devastated after her father's death. Curious about her family connections, she decides to look up the DNA-based family tree, and is surprised to find out that her father had another daughter. She goes on a mission to find her sibling ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: family secret, death of father, stepsister stepsister relationship, double life, half sister, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, inheritance, heiress, family problems, step siblings, social problems ...
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 6.4
 1K
Jonathan (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: male homosexuality, gay father, homoeroticism, lgbt, gay, gay interest, unrequited love, male nudity, family secret, secret love, love triangle, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 8.4
 223K
Big Little Lies (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: Subversive, darkly comedic drama Big Little Lies tells the tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Style: disturbing, surprise ending, enigmatic, crime thriller, grindhouse ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: domestic violence, feminist, female friendship, murder mystery, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, murder, secret, infidelity, rape, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: monterey california, syria
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 6.3
 5K
All Is True (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style: captivating, tense, touching, psychological, historical drama ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: playwright, british history, shakespeare, historical figure, father daughter relationship, family secret, death of son, retirement, church, tudors, writers, biopic ...
Time: ancient times, 17th century
Place: united kingdom
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 7.7
 152K
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, idealism, communism, society, cold war, culture clash, childhood, amnesia, communist ...
Time: year 2003, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, east berlin ...
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