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 8.0
 287K
The Graduate (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Style: sexual, melancholic, atmospheric, crying, erotic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, wedding, adultery, forbidden love, college graduate, lovers, milf, virginity, hotel, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san francisco, bay area
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Kingdom of the Vampire (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Remake of J.R. Bookwalter's 1991 shot-on-video opus.
Style: psychotronic, remake of cult film
Plot: oedipus complex, vampire, domineering mother, black bra, prostitute, fully clothed sex
Time: 2000s
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 6.6
 115K
Run All Night (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, stylized, tense, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, manhunt, assassin, on the run, murder, redemption, swat team, hitman, father son relationship, organized crime, brutality, mobster ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, peru, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, bronx new york city ...
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White House Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is ...
Style: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: secret service, terrorism, president, white house, save the day, conspiracy, treason, hostage, rescue, nuclear threat, head of state, siege ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., north america, pentagon, paris france
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 6.9
 2K
Bad Hair (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, political ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, single parent, obsession, family relations, society, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela, africa
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 6.7
 422K
Black Widow (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Natasha Romanoff, on the run from the government following her disobedience to the Sokovia Accords and for aiding Steve Rogers, finds herself on her own and is forced to deal with some of the red in her ledger.
Style: suspense, anamorphic, epic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: heroes, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, superheroine, superhero, female agent, one woman army, strong female lead, spy, one against many, female killer ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1995, 90s, year 2016 ...
Place: morocco, budapest, ohio, russia, cuba
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 6.0
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, sexy
Plot: prostitution, brothel, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, prostitute, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother ...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the "classic Spider-Man mold", Miles Morales must juggle his high school life with his status as a superhero. Until he learns by Peter Parker, the original Spider-Man, that there is a multiverse, called the "Spider-Verse", in ...
Style: feel good, anime, exciting, light, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: superhero, multiverse, teenager, peter parker character, superheroine, alternate universe, teenage life, teenage superhero, super powers, father son relationship, love, physics ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, north america, manhattan new york city
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 5.0
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First Kill (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, father son relationship, danger, rescue, conspiracy, fight, betrayal, police corruption, murder, brutality, witness, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: ohio, new york
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 7.1
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Home (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The struggle between two generations and its thin line between trust, friendship and betrayal.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, bleak, erotic
Plot: sex scene, mother son incest, teenage sexuality, teenage life, mother son relationship, coming of age, lie, school, son murders mother, erotica, oedipus complex, hand job ...
Time: 90s
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
Style: surreal, tragicomedy, not serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: oedipus complex, incest, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, mother son incest, factory, father son relationship, surrealism, eel, environment, dystopia, disorder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: copenhagen
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 6.2
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Call Boy (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the owner of a host bar over to the place where Ryo Morinaka works. Shizuka ...
Style: dorama, erotic, light, psychological, meditative ...
Plot: male prostitute, making love, male prostitution, older woman younger man sex, prostitution, escort, sexual desire, lovers, male escort, university student, prostitute, new job ...
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Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: locust, insect, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, save the day, danger, race against time, killer animal, entomologist, creature feature, monster, oedipus complex ...
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 6.8
 42K
Anonymous (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Style: stylized, serious, visually stunning, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, conspiracy theory, medieval, politics, writers, betrayal, political intrigue, incest, intrigue, incestuous sex, poet, writer's life ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, middle ages, year 2011, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, new york, wales ...
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 5.6
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Hardkor Disko (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A sociopath begins a relationship with the daughter of a couple he intends to murder.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, realistic
Plot: sociopath, voyeur, mysterious stranger, plan, male pubic hair, infidelity, hot guys, family relations, danger, oedipus complex, male nudity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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 6.5
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The Miracle (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother son incest, friendship, abandoned by mother, unrequited love, obsession, couples, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, coming of age, human nature, betrayal ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
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A Wolf Teeth Necklace (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.
Style: dread
Plot: children, youth, oedipus complex, biopic, police officer, cynicism, imprisonment, suffering, pain, homecoming, arrest, tragedy ...
Place: balkan, siberia
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What Lies Below (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her mother’s fiancé, John Smith, whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.
Style: psychological, suspense, intense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother daughter relationship, handsome man, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, scientist, basement, lust, teenage girl, betrayal, couple relations, anxiety, suspicion, monster ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, controversial, cult classic, disturbing ...
Plot: oedipus complex, kidnapped woman, exploitation, serial killer, mental institution, mental illness, home invasion, stepfather, dismemberment, violent, mental disorder, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
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Beyond the Door II (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Style: atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, satanic ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, death of husband, supernatural, vengeance, mysterious character, losing-it hero, husband wife relationship, danger, parents and children, haunted by the past, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 70s
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
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 6.3
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Mumu (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: boarding school, hardcase students, boarding school life, children, childhood, teachers and students, mischievous children, rebellion, youth, family relations, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 1940s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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 4.8
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Shut In (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: held captive, single parent, boy, isolation, stepmother, murder, missing child, child in peril, doctor, little boy, obsession, nightmare ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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The Living and the Dead (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, isolation, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, parents and children, doctors and patients, schizophrenia, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, anxiety ...
Place: england, europe
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My Mother (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal, Austria, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Style: disturbing, sexual, contemplative, controversial, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mother son incest, mother son relationship, incest, depravity, incestuous relationship, nude beach, sexual promiscuity, sexual relations, dominatrix, lust, sex with mother, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canary islands, europe, nice france, spain, france
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 766K
Knives Out (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his ...
Style: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder, death, murder investigation, mansion, mystery killer, eccentric family, large family, plot twist, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
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 5.7
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Passion (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to ...
Style: independent film
Plot: composer, piano, oedipus complex, pianist, domineering mother, genius, friend, photograph, friendship, suicide, marriage proposal, mental illness ...
Time: pre world war one, 1910s, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: new york, london, melbourne, australia
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 5.8
 2K
Track 29 (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, non-linear, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot: obsession, incest, mysticism, hitchhiker, adoption, haunted by the past, surrealism, extramarital affair, small town, teenage life, pregnancy, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina
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Pharmakon film (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Albania
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Branko is a young man of twenty five, doing a dreary job as a pharmacist in the suburbs of Tirana. He lives under the tutelage of his father, Dr. Sokrat, a socially respected oncologist, owning almost everything in his sons life, including the ...
Style: realistic, serious, art house, controversial, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, society, parents and children, young lovers, adolescence vs adulthood, inventions and discoveries, coming of age, doctor, illegal drugs, oedipus complex, freudian ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: usa
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 4.1
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The Falls (2003)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, investigation, uncover truth, ransom demand, danger, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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