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Escape From Pretoria (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison…
Style: political, suspense, tense, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, apartheid, prison, political activism, escape, political prisoner, prison break, human spirit, human rights, freedom, political activist, politics ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa, australia, south australia ...
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Against the Sun (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, world war two, military, human spirit, danger, water, ocean, disaster, soldier, human nature, getting home, isolation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean
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The Other Side of Heaven (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. ...
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, biblical ...
Plot: missionary, human spirit, true love, life philosophy, biopic, friendship, fish out of water, christianity, church, love and romance, hopes, mormon ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 50s, 20th century
Place: idaho, usa
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 7.6
 860K
300 (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band ...
Style: epic, exciting, intense, scenic, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: sword fight, war, warrior, ancient, battles, courage, military, ancient world, gory, mythology, human spirit, legends and myths ...
Time: year 2006, ancient times, 2000s, middle ages, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy, hellas, europe
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 7.1
 64K
Alive (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
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Merry Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2005, 1920s, year 1914
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, holland, prussia ...
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 7.7
 42K
Zulu (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an ...
Style: realistic, epic, factual, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: military, war, british empire, siege, british colonialism, british army, colonialism, human spirit, battles, zulu, soldier, historical event ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, 1870s
Place: africa, south africa, britain, united kingdom
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 8.4
 19K
Roots (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
TV show
Story: African teen Kunta Kinte, brought to America to be enslaved, and the generations of his family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, suspense ...
Plot: slavery, racism, civil war, american civil war, family history, human spirit, slave trade, african american, american south, escape attempt, black, justice ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, 1860s ...
Place: africa, usa, america, tennessee
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 8.1
 57K
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 205 min.
Story: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, art house, black and white, philosophical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artist, painter, religion, art, biopic, monk, human spirit, medieval, painting, christianity, hunger, art history ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, year 1966, ancient times ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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The Miracle of Bern (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, sentimental
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds, contests and competitions, football, hopes, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
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 6.4
 3K
First Match (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
Style: inspirational, realistic, uplifting, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: human spirit, martial arts, coming of age, fight, black, teenager, rivalry, perseverance, contests and competitions, ambition, mentor, friendship ...
Place: brooklyn new york city
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 7.3
 243K
The Karate Kid (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hassled by the school bullies, Daniel LaRusso has his share of adolescent woes. Luckily, his apartment building houses a resident martial arts master: Kesuke Miyagi, who agrees to train Daniel ... and ends up teaching him much more than ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: martial arts, teenager, karate, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, underdog, teacher, bullying, coming of age, high school, childhood, martial arts tournament ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Book of Negroes (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story: Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, human spirit, racism, life is a bitch, hopes, injustice, escapades, confined, society, american revolution, black history, black ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: south carolina, usa, africa, america, nova scotia
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 7.2
 23K
The Express (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, emotional, factual, serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: american football, african american, racism, athlete and trainer, football, college, human spirit, biopic, mentor, friendship, courage, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 60s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, cleveland ohio
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 8.2
 98K
Swades (2004)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist ...
Style: touching, sincere, patriotic, inspirational, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: poverty, discrimination, village, immigrant, self discovery, obsessive quest, follow your dream, human spirit, homecoming, journey, social differences, change of heart ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia
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 7.8
 144K
Glory (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Style: epic, inspirational, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, battles, slavery, freedom, military, racism, prejudice, war, black history, army, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, year 1989, victorian era ...
Place: massachusetts, america, south carolina, georgia, africa ...
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 7.3
 24K
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, medical, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, family drama, boy, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place: washington d.c., pittsburgh, italy, rome italy, boston ...
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 7.5
 102K
42 (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, emotional, touching, factual ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: racism, baseball, african american, athlete and trainer, civil rights, rise to the top, hopes, human spirit, racial segregation, athlete's life, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1947 ...
Place: africa, new york, usa, new orleans, pittsburgh ...
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 7.3
 170K
Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Style: inspirational, motivational, touching, hood, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: basketball, teacher, high school, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california
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 8.0
 916K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, space travel, stranded, nasa, isolation, outer space, science, scientist, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 2030s, near future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, north america ...
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of the real-life unlikely relationship between an outspoken civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader in 1971 North Carolina.
Style: rough, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: interracial friendship, civil rights, human spirit, human rights, racism, black, tiredness, name calling, african american, danger, court, interracial relations ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, year 2005, year 2016
Place: north carolina
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The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: life is a bitch, human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, escapades, on the run, danger, society, prisoner, injustice, survival, female whipping ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place: australia, england, europe
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1 Litre of Tears (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: 1 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
Style: touching, thought provoking, emotional, dorama, sincere ...
Plot: terminal illness, school, high school life, tragedy, human spirit, illness, disabled child, family problems, family relations, high school, wheelchair bound, child illness ...
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The Longshots (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, hip hop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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 7.2
 23K
Le Havre (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a ...
Style: sentimental, surreal, atmospheric, romantic, uplifting ...
Plot: refugee, poverty, friendship, immigrant, human spirit, bohemian life, working class, migrant, elderly, social misfits, misfit, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, africa, europe, normandy
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 7.2
 3K
Run Boy Run (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...
Style: touching, captivating, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, youth, human spirit, boy, hidden identity, on the run, young heroes, orphan, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, poland
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 6.6
 16K
Luther (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, USA, Czech Republic, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Style: uplifting, political, biblical, christian film, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christianity, renaissance, christian, religion, clergy, medieval, rebellion, inquisition, politics, reformation, idealism, human spirit ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2003, medieval times
Place: germany, rome italy, austria, europe
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Facing the Giants (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, christian film, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: christian, underdog, religious, faith, football, american football, high school football, human spirit, athlete and trainer, christianity, ambition, athlete's life ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
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