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The Impressionists (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Three hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: bohemian life, painting, painter, artist, historical character, career, art, talented, poverty, rise and fall, lifestyle, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century
Place: france, britain, paris france
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 7.8
 2K
Lead Balloon (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, cynical, hilarious ...
Plot: comedian, everyday life, nothing goes right, socially awkward, artists and showbiz, career, alienation, struggle, self involved, frustration, antisocial behavior, backstage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, london, england
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 6.7
 143K
The Rundown (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely ...
Style: stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, treasure, buddy, lone hero, chase, bounty hunter, fight, gold, tough guy, tough heroes, respect ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, los angeles
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 7.3
 138K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: psychological, feel good, entertaining, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, cons and scams, mental illness, con men, heist, greed, slick, plot twist, psychology, father daughter relationship, obsession ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, touching, mockumentary, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: dj, music, disability, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, rise to the top, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ibiza
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 6.7
 66K
Goal! (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer...However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him ...
Style: inspirational, harsh, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: soccer, football, coach, sport team, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, dream come true, against the odds, rivalry ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, england, europe, london, mexico
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 8.2
 21K
Looking (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, friendship, gay latino, homosexuality, group of friends, gay sex, friendship between men, gay slur ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, idaho, california, usa, los angeles ...
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 7.8
 6K
Chasing Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: April is a smart aspiring journalist in her 20s who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, rebellious little sister, and her grandmother. We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: journalist, cancer, dying, lesbian, workplace romance, coping, fighting illness, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, love and romance, female protagonist, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
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Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style: inspirational, touching, melancholic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, baseball, aging, blind character, lawyer, pitcher, kids and family, good versus evil, parents and children, ambitious, accident, career ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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 7.2
 105K
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style: feel good, psychological, romantic, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: loneliness, writer's block, bittersweet, writers, dream, redheaded woman, life philosophy, mental illness, novelist, manic pixie dream girl, family relations, success ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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Life's Too Short (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant from an idea by Warwick Davis, and is as described by Gervais, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf".
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, funny, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, actor, humour, fame, everyday life, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, career, dark humor, workplace, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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 7.2
 5K
Off the Map (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: La Ciudad de las Estrellas, a tiny town in the South American jungle, is home to an understaffed, understocked medical clinic where three idealistic doctors come looking for change.
Style: medical drama, sincere, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nurse, doctor, doctors and patients, medical, patient, workplace, idealism, surgery, career, love and romance, cure, clinic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, latin america
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 7.2
 23K
Royal Pains (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to ...
Style: medical drama, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: doctor, medical, doctors and patients, family relations, physician, high society, starting over, rich, flirting, millionaire, mogul, health situation ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
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 7.0
 40K
JCVD (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country ...
Style: dark comedy, talky, realistic, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: hostage, martial arts, down on your luck, actor, existentialism, police investigation, storytelling, filmmaking, lifestyle, midlife crisis, showbiz, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: europe, belgium, los angeles, brussels belgium
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Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Helen Mirren returns for the final time as Jane Tennison in the long-awaited Prime Suspect 7. Retirement looms for Detective Superintendent Tennison, but as her career draws to a close, the body of a missing schoolgirl is found, and the hunt for her ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, bleak
Plot: policewoman, law enforcement, police investigation, suspicion, haunted by the past, career, murder, whodunit, prime suspect, suspect, teen angst, politics ...
Place: england, europe
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 7.2
 49K
Glory Road (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sincere, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens, kids
Plot: basketball, underdog, racism, athlete and trainer, coach, college, racial slur, teamwork, racial segregation, justice, unlikely friendships, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place: texas, usa, america, mexico, maryland ...
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, intense, entirely dialogue, cult classic ...
Plot: office, greed, business, workplace, economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, finance, real estate, real estate agent, rivalry, wall street ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, new york, illinois, arizona, florida ...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Style: sitcom, funny, humorous, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: antisocial behavior, comedian, bad luck, lifestyle, misunderstanding, mishap, socially awkward, career, everyday life, actress, actor, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.4
 189K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, breakup, rock, musician's life, love and romance, musician, rock and roll, character study, self discovery, love story, love, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
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 8.1
 378K
Raging Bull (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style: black and white, stylized, atmospheric, visual, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, boxing, redemption, rise and fall, violent, boxer, biopic, bad temper, tragedy, jealousy, gangster, paranoia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1980, 60s, 1940s ...
Place: new york, chicago, bronx new york city, italy, miami ...
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 8.1
 495K
Warrior (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine ...
Style: emotional, rough, serious, inspirational, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, boxing, courage, brother brother relationship, fight scenes, underdog, muscleman, teacher, brothers, estrangement, father son relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa, iraq, atlantic city new jersey, el paso texas ...
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 7.8
 387K
The Fighter (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, realistic, uplifting, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: boxing, boxer, addiction, underdog, biopic, athlete's life, drug abuse, drug addiction, arrest, white trash, fight, working class ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, new jersey, america, usa ...
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 6.3
 66K
Wimbledon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, inspirational, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: tennis, tennis player, underdog, ambition, love, competition, love story, couple relations, motivation, secret relationship, career, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, big ben london, new york, brighton ...
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 6.3
 19K
Baby Boom (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Style: light, touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: adoption, baby, babies and infants, career woman, love affair, single mother, motherhood, women, single parent, starting over, relationship problems, business ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state ...
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On the Verge of Insanity (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: It follows the story of middle-aged office workers struggling to survive in a turbulent workplace.
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot: office, career, workplace, office worker, co worker co worker relationship, satire, middle class, lifestyle, boss, middle aged, ambitious, office work ...
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 6.2
 20K
Ricochet (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, on the run, law enforcement, false accusation, murder, frame up, friendship, rivalry, haunted by the past, career, dishonesty, african american ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
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 6.7
 654
It's Winter (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: winter, society, unemployment, working class, love affair, social issues, marriage crisis, realism, human nature, life is a bitch, survival, leaving home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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 4.6
 43K
Driven (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's ...
Style: intense, serious, realistic, stylized, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racing, car chase, auto racing, race, competition, rivalry, contests and competitions, lifestyle, chases and races, car race, career, ambition ...
Time: year 2001
Place: toronto ontario canada, miami, tokyo, detroit, rio de janeiro ...
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Ladies in Black (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, captivating, light, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: fashion, department store, career, woman, women, love, workplace, post war, happy ending, opportunity, immigrant, nylons ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place: sydney australia, australia
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 8.0
 3K
Bakuman (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high school student, content to live out a relatively normal life as any other does, is persuaded by his classmate, Akito Takagi, to become an aspiring mangaka when the latter realizes his natural talent as an artist. ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, captivating, light ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, painter, youth, career, couples, partner, shared dream, heroes, rivalry, slice of life, artist
Place: japan
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