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London Boulevard (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Style: melancholic, visually appealing, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fall in love, gangster, violence, love and romance, organized crime, going straight, mentor, runaway, criminal heroes, dishonor among criminals, brother sister relationship, starting over ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, los angeles
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10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Prime Suspect 3 (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story: Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police. Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: policewoman, vice squad, pedophile, male prostitute, child rape, prime suspect, suspect, pimp, child killer, lgbt, gay slur, street kid ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, england, manchester, london, wales
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 8.2
 2K
Murder One (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder trial, he is now involved in the ...
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, detective, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, law, murder, courtroom, couples, boss and employee, investigation, hotshot lawyer, couple relations, workplace situations, trial ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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 170K
Wayne's World (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a sleazy TV exec offers Wayne and Garth a fat contract to tape their late-night public access show at his network, they can't believe their good fortune. But they soon discover the road from basement to big-time is a gnarly one, fraught ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, spoof, slapstick ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, date night
Plot: buddy, rock and roll, heavy metal, music, rock, stoner, musician, basement, hard rock, dumb, satire, stupidity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, seattle, wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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The Commitments (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: musician, music, working class, rock and roll, singer, friendship, profanity, rock, bittersweet, blues, rock music, trouble ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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 7.2
 974
Gravitation (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Gravitation follows goofy, wannabe pop star Shuichi Shindo, on his journey to fame with his best friend Hiroshi Nakano and their band, Bad Luck.  Along the way, Shuichi meets famous (male) author, playboy Eiri Yuki, and falls in love.  Bad Luck is ...
Style: anime, yaoi, shoujo, fast, realistic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, musician, music band, true love, gay interest, lgbtq, occupation, homosexual, friends, stranger, singer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, grim, neo noir ...
Plot: immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, nigeria, england, britain, europe ...
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 8.0
 62K
Cheers (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC and created by the team of James Burrows, Glen ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, realistic, feel good, not serious ...
Plot: couples, workplace, womanizer, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, opposites attract, proposal, financial problem, workplace romance, drinking problem, everyday life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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ShakespeaRe-Told (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, funny, anthology ...
Plot: true love, opposites attract, starting over, fall in love, haunted by the past, aristocracy, love triangle, insanity, shakespeare, wedding, dream, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 6.7
 106K
Waiting... (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace, workplace romance, college, staff, prank, buddies, workplace situations, wooing ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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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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 7.7
 13K
The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, ambition, workplace, nouveau riche, love affair, love and romance, department store, success, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
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 6.3
 214K
The Internship (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style: funny, motivational, light, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: workplace, starting over, new job, career, computers and web, rivalry, boss and employee, fish out of water, middle aged, lifestyle change, underdog, staff ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, 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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 7.8
 5K
Bomb Girls (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, working woman, factory, life is a bitch, sexism, workplace, society, gender, accident, strong female presence, lesbian love ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada
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 7.4
 26K
House of Lies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: greed, satire, fraud, single parent, workplace situations, power relations, father son relationship, african american, profanity, flirting, ambitious, boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style: sentimental, period piece, romantic, factual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: movie star, historical figure, biopic, fame, hollywood, actress, actor's life, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time: 50s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 7.6
 13K
Outsourced (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Outsourced is an American television sitcom set in an Indian workplace. It is based on the John Jeffcoat film of the same name and adapted by Robert Borden of George Lopez and Universal Media Studios for NBC. The series originally ran from September ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: call center, office, workplace, workplace problem, corporate world, workplace situations, staff, culture clash, boss and employee, love and romance, boss, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
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 6.8
 5K
The Game (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The Game is an American comedy-drama television series created by Mara Brock Akil. Premiering on October 1, 2006, the series debuted as the only new comedy series chosen for The CW's primetime schedule. Along with Runaway, it was one of only ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sitcom, captivating ...
Plot: american football, football, lifestyle, ambition, relationship vs career, high society, couple relations, best friend, social climbing, couples, success, millionaire ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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The Damned United (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous ...
Style: factual, inspirational, tense, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, football, discipline, biopic, soccer coach, friendship, ambition, mentor, training, rivalry, justice, life philosophy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2009, 60s, year 1974
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, mallorca ...
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
Style: funny, romantic, light, humorous, intellectual ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: journalism, starlet, workplace romance, journalist, love triangle, rags to riches, love story, obsession, fashion, rise to the top, fame, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, britain, usa
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 7.6
 68K
Control (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Japan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, black and white, stylized, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, singer, depression, suicide, musician's life, punk rock, musician, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 2007, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place: england, manchester, london, northern england, europe
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 8.5
 122K
The Office (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 455 min.
TV show
Story: The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office ...
Style: humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, everyday life, office, boss and employee, job, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, boss, coworker, storytelling, humour, sketch ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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 7.6
 530K
Love Actually (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: christmas, love, holiday, relationships, love story, multiple storylines, love and romance, fall in love, marriage, couples, first love, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, united kingdom ...
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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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Flight of the Conchords (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand ...
Style: surreal, sitcom, humorous, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, musician, aspiring singer, folklore, roommate, buddies, music band, artists and showbiz, goofy hero, lifestyle, odd couple, rock ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new zealand, usa
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 8.7
 259K
Mad Men (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 4400 min.
TV show
Story: Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, stylized, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: advertising, workplace, career, boss and employee, family problems, office, businessman, womanizer, cigarette smoking, advertising agency, housewife, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, syria
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 9.0
 701K
The Office (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: workplace, job, office, salesman, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, popularity, satire, office romance, workplace situations, love and romance, promotion ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania
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