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106K
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, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wine, vineyard, countryside, fall in love, love story, character change, inheritance, love and romance, workaholic, stock broker, starting over, doubts and hesitations ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
provence, france, europe, england, london ...
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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, emotional, melancholic, realistic, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, grief, relationships, homecoming, tragedy, family drama, argument ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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1.4M
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, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
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182K
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, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, mentor, gangster, organized crime, gang leader, father son relationship, mobster, african american, friendship, mob boss, white male black female relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Diego has just been voted best young player in Europe and at the age of 20 he is on his way to making his team, Atlético de Madrid, champions of La Liga. But his impulsive and conflictive character makes the club, fed up with his excesses, hire ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
soccer, football, life, changing lives, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, soccer coach, problem, sports man, playing football, football player, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
teenager, teenage girl, mental illness, love, female protagonist, life, friends, friendship, teenage protagonist, love affair, adolescence, lifestyle ...
Place:
indianapolis indiana
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by true events, this is the story of how Rocco Siffredi escaped a humble life and emerged as the world's greatest porn star.
Style:
realistic
Plot:
sex scene, porn industry, sex worker, female nudity, life, sex, porn star, strong sexual content, problem, sexual relations, love, simulated cunilingus ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1986, 80s
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47K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
best friend, hypocrisy, life, parenting, parenthood, parents, friends, lifestyle, social problems, satire, friendship, social satire ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After a string of bad contacts, Argentina’s greatest heavyweight boxer, Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena, arrives in Nevada in 1976 seeking to restart his career. There, Ringo unknowingly stumbles into the criminal world of Joe Conforte, who promises ...
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, psychological, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
boxing, ambition, life, boxer, based on real people, tragic hero, rise and fall, biopic, professional sports, career, problem, sporting event ...
Time:
70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
argentina, nevada, usa, las vegas
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of a surgeon. Dodger's past returns to haunt him with the arrival of ...
Style:
period piece, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
heist, surgeon, life, thief, male protagonist, master criminal, criminal underworld, criminal, pickpocket, thievery, surgery, class differences ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
australia
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53K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, absurd, period drama
Plot:
life, career, male female relationship, friendship, love affair, couple relations, relationships, friends, husband wife relationship, rock and roll, female protagonist, dog ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1960, year 1967 ...
Place:
los angeles, memphis, las vegas, west germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On her 40th birthday, Amelia makes a fateful wish to be 18 again back in 2002 but soon regrets it when she's stuck reliving the day over and over again.
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
time loop, desire, life, birthday, friendship, 40 year old, father, mother, love, women, wish fulfillment, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2002, year 1997, year 1991, year 1992, 2000s ...
Place:
eastern europe
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168K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends are separated after one’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one week as they confront notions of destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, semi autobiographical, independent film ...
Plot:
childhood friend, love, husband wife relationship, city, travel, life, male female relationship, friendship, korean american, immigrant, coming of age, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, year 2000 ...
Place:
korea, new york, south korea, seoul
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
life, buddy, basketball player, arena, tournament, coach, friendship, basketball coach, black, african american, african american man, sports man ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 16 min.
TV show
Story:
Tatsu, a notorious and feared yakuza leader nicknamed "The Immortal Dragon," withdraws from the criminal syndicate and becomes a housekeeper to help his wife, Miku. The series features a variety of comedic settings, typically showing ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
slice of life, husband, life, mafia, housewife, criminal, chores, gangster, criminal gang, bandit, satire, criminal underworld ...
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118K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by the powerful New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Maid will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to - barely - make ends meet as she battles ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, deep, political ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
homelessness, single mother, children, memories, life, poor family, custody, sexualized violence, sexual abuse, job, life is a bitch, domestic violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
TV show
Story:
It tells the story of the people's enhanced sense of gain, happiness and security during the ten years from 2012 to 2022.
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
life, happiness, social change, security, slice of life, realism, relationships, love affair, lifestyle, personal growth, resilience, community ...
Place:
china
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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:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, france, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
TV show
Story:
Several roasters, and the master himself Kevin Hart, make fun of Justin Bieber.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, factual, feel good, controversial ...
Plot:
comedian, celebrity, honest, life, stereotypes, moral ambiguity, storytelling, irreverent, stand up comedy, pop culture, ridicule, adult humor ...
Time:
2010s
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35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Style:
melancholic, sexual, erotic, sentimental, colorful ...
Plot:
loneliness, guilt, childhood, sex, mother daughter estrangement, depression, hospital, female nudity, death of husband, family drama, mother daughter relationship, autobiography ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 80s, 90s
Place:
spain, galicia, portugal, madrid, switzerland
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186K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
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:
cerebral, realistic, factual, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, entrepreneurship, marketing, computer, biopic, prodigy, internet, father daughter relationship, computers and web, technology, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
20th century, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, year 1998 ...
Place:
san francisco, north america, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, teen, reflective, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, older man younger woman relationship, parents and children, youth, sex, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sex with a minor, sexuality, teenage girl, teenager, older man young girl relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, usa, san francisco
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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, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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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:
touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
gender, loneliness, cross dressing, lesbian, lgbtq, master and servant, woman dressed as man, relationships, society, death, maid, gender disguise ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style:
road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, on the road, friendship, father son relationship, self discovery, road trip, native, adolescence, orphan, life, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place:
idaho, arizona, america, indiana, phoenix arizona ...
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352K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style:
touching, inspirational, tragicomedy, independent film, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
cancer, friendship, terminal illness, happy ending, relationships, chemotherapy, meaning of life, doctor, hopes, buddies, patient, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2011, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, iran, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan, India
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:
sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immigrant, childhood, relationships, marriage, generation gap, childbirth, train, life, parenthood, rebel, family life, society ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, usa, taj mahal, ohio ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, thought provoking, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, male pubic hair, vandalism, free spirit, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, bus, life, stranger, friends ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, new jersey, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style:
hood, independent film, disturbing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, prison rape, revenge killing, ghetto, violence, drug dealer, gangster, hip hop, character study, life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, california, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, grief, road trip, memory, life, family relations, male friendship, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, california
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