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 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
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Defending Your Life (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, heaven, life & death, reincarnation, death, fall in love, courage, destiny, courtroom, life, starting over, past life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, suicide, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, funeral, eccentricity, existentialism, misfit, alienation, old age, depression, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
Style: tragicomedy, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: friendship, friendship between men, friends, life, best friend, life philosophy, philosophy, human relationship, inspiration, humour, illness, goodhearted ...
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 6.4
 88K
Spanglish (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: single parent, immigrant, food, life, infidelity, dysfunctional family, mother, relationship problems, parent child relationship, love and romance, parents and children, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california, mexico
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 5.8
 10K
Paris Can Wait (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman at a crossroads traveling to Cannes along with her successful film producer husband, finds herself on a two-day road trip with his business associate. What follows is a carefree journey replete with diversions involving picturesque sites, ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot: travel, on the road, life, wine, husband wife relationship, film producer, american abroad, frenchman, fall in love, couple relations, love interest, marital problem ...
Place: france, paris france
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 8.2
 72K
Run Milkha Run (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style: inspirational, realistic, cult classic, meditative, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, olympics, biopic, running, life, athlete's life, indians, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2013, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1947 ...
Place: india, middle east, asia, pakistan
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 9.2
 45K
The Chosen (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him called The Chosen.
Style: biblical, psychological, thrilling, inspirational, historical drama
Plot: christian, faith, bible story, apostle, life, christianity, bible, religion, messiah, forgiveness, jesus, remorse ...
Time: 1st century, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, palestine
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The Young Victoria (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic, touching, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: royal family, royalty, marriage, queen, queen of england, queen victoria, politics, aristocracy, royal court, love and romance, british history, love story ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1800s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, buckingham palace, europe ...
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Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 2009 biopic about the early life of Coco Chanel. Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers ...
Style: stylized, inspirational, sexy, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fashion, high society, fashion designer, women, designer, rise to the top, feminist, feminism, rags to riches, dressmaker, social climbing, fashion model ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1920s, edwardian era, ancient times ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style: feel good, heartbreaking, romantic, surreal, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, love hate relationship, game, friendship, relationships, friends, best friends in love, love story, lovers, music box, prank, childhood love ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
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The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries ...
Style: philosophical, sentimental, touching, emotional, clever ...
Plot: friendship, illness, culture clash, medical, drug addiction, terminal illness, cancer, existentialism, life, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, future, september 11 2001, 2000s ...
Place: quebec, canada, montreal, philadelphia, baltimore ...
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 7.1
 4K
Wonderland (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, melancholy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, los angeles, england, europe
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 7.0
 81K
The Words (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his ...
Style: touching, suspense, romantic, inspirational, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, writer's life, white male black female relationship, guilt, literature, book, lovers, relationships, survival, love story, passion, life philosophy ...
Time: post world war two, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, paris france
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 6.7
 46K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mathematics, insanity, prodigy, university, paranoia, schizophrenia, illness, older woman younger man relationship, grief, life, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin
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 7.3
 3K
Left Luggage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot: judaism, holocaust survivor, racism, life, nazi, tragedy, justice, mentor, depression, dysfunctional family, friendship, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, year 1972
Place: europe, israel, antwerp, belgium
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My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, family drama, terminal illness, sisters, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, leukemia, family relations, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, montana, los angeles
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 6.9
 101K
A Good Year (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: wine, vineyard, fall in love, countryside, character change, love story, love and romance, starting over, doubts and hesitations, workaholic, inheritance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: provence, france, europe, england, london
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 6.5
 74K
Changing Lanes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, revenge, legal, court, courtroom, justice, drug addict, custody battle, business, corruption, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.9
 978
Among Giants (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian ...
Style: melancholic, intense, sincere, emotional, social ...
Plot: working class, friends, life, love triangle, society, human nature, friendship, male nudity, age difference, age-gap relationship, older man younger woman relationship, love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
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 7.2
 263K
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot: love, afterlife, life philosophy, love and romance, life & death, dealing with death, supernatural, love at first sight, mysterious character, lifestyle change, supernatural romance, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 13K
One True Thing (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style: touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, tragedy, family drama, life, relationships, honest, parenthood, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.7
 1.2M
Goodfellas (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
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 7.8
 159K
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style: sentimental, intense, suspense, hood, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, gangster, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, mobster, loyalty, gang leader, cosa nostra, father son relationship, friendship, mob boss ...
Time: 60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1993, 90s ...
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state
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The Great Seduction (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its residents set out to trick their way to making it happen.
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: life, town, fish, fishing, con trick, social relations, white lie, small town life, dishonesty, village life, small town, ruse ...
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 6.9
 15K
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, friendship, midlife crisis, relationships, starting over, parenthood, life philosophy, love, life, lesbian, longing, old love ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, somalia, usa
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 7.2
 178K
Steve Jobs (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Style: realistic, cerebral, factual, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: entrepreneur, business, biopic, computer, prodigy, entrepreneurship, internet, computers and web, father daughter relationship, technology, friendship, adaptation ...
Time: 20th century, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, san francisco
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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 6.7
 26K
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: sad, touching, sincere, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, cross dressing, lesbian, loneliness, master and servant, woman dressed as man, maid, hotel, servant, gender disguise, death, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1800s, year 2011
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, britain, europe
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 7.5
 22K
The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, childhood, marriage, generation gap, childbirth, relationships, parenthood, life, rebel, family life, society, acceptance ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: india, new york, usa, ohio, taj mahal
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