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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
After being named CEO of the world's largest and most non-sensical corporation, Sebben & Sebben, Judy Ken Sebben aka Birdgirl has to find a way to maintain her work/superhero life balance.
Style:
anime, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
alter ego, female protagonist, businesswoman, double life, superpower, supernatural ability, teamwork, superhero team, supernatural power, satire, feminist, masseur ...
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39K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.
Style:
suspense, sexy, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
suicide, doppelganger, sex work, sex worker, erotica, shame, stolen identity, social media, ambition, sex, terror, hacking ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
Style:
sex comedy, sensual, erotic, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
alter ego, transformation, female scientist, sexual awakening, nymphomania, orgy, sexploitation, entrapment, identity crisis, sexually liberated, double life, obsession ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A documentary from Nick Peterson.
Style:
existential, contemplative, psychological, surreal, melancholic ...
Plot:
alter ego, isolation, flashback, suicide, existential crisis, identity crisis, memory, mental illness, guilt, stream of consciousness, regret, mental breakdown ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harris, his wife, his mistress and his half German sister arrive with a boat to a distant Aegean island, assessable only by boat. The boat man forgets them and they are stranded there. Harris gets stung by a bee, and he develops an allergy. He gets ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, semi serious
Plot:
mistress, split personality, alter ego, male female relationship, secret, transformation, isolation, truth, boat, friend, half sister, bee ...
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13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, faked death, dissociative identity disorder, small town, mental disorder, double life, single mother, secret life, guilt, small town life, social relations ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
nebraska, usa, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him ...
Style:
slapstick, funny, humorous, feel good, parody ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
professor, jekyll and hyde, potion, college, chemistry, nerd, transformation, love, alter ego, laboratory, hidden identity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving ...
Style:
anime, psychological, suspense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
ogre, high school, supernatural, urban legend, murderer, alter ego, monster, supernatural power, high school student, killing, evil, good versus evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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594
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect ...
Style:
psychotronic, allegory, captivating, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
beetle, insect, cockroach, hallucination, pregnancy, newborn baby, murder, dog, baby, director, actor, dark humor ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two mischievous kids hypnotize their mean elementary school principal and turn him into their comic book creation, the kind-hearted and elastic-banded Captain Underpants.
Style:
spoof, 3d animation, feel good, computer animated, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
superhero, teacher, invention, boy, school, elementary school, hypnosis, friend, alter ego, secret identity, battles, hot dog ...
Time:
20th century, year 2017
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The Pogo Film Project shows the intimate side of Gacy’s atrocities; the murders themselves! With a bit of embellishing on the part of the writer, several scenarios play out illustrating how Gacy was able to subdue, torture and murder several young ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
clown, serial killer, murder, college student, death, strangulation, alter ego, gay interest, violence, revenge, maniac, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life and introduces him to a life of sin and corruption.
Style:
neurotic, suspenseful, suspense, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
writer's block, aspiring writer, writers, desperation, buddy, screenwriter, femme fatale, filmmaking, film producer, deadpan, businessman, alter ego ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman's alter ego emerges after years of dormancy to exact revenge on her unsuspecting boyfriend and his mistress.
Style:
suspense, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, mistress, psycho killer, violent behavior, violence, betrayal, alter ego, erotica, paranoia, maniac, murder, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alter Ego: a successful Greek rock group, with a potential that surpasses the limits of the local music industry and hundreds of thousands of fans getting wild at every concert and public appearance of theirs. Fame, success, money, in a world of ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, happy
Plot:
alter ego, fame, rock, music, rock music, musician, music band, glory, concert, backstage, fan, success ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
The story of two girls bound in friendship, as well as Black Rock Star's struggle unfolding in another world. But when the two worlds come together... what will happen?
Style:
seinen, anime, colorful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
isolation, violence, friendship, parallel world, alter ego, female friendship, girl, teenager, save the day, parallel universe, coming of age, high school life ...
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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: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People ...
Style:
3d animation, psychotronic, exciting, action comedy, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
superhero, peter parker character, villain, tyrannosaurus rex, african american, superheroine, spider man, surrealism, parallel world, teenager, secret identity, laboratory ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, india, london, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kyle Carson is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, also known as DID. He despises his community after doing a background search on everyone who he believes has committed a crime without punishment. When one of his multiple personalities, ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, intense, crime drama, tense ...
Plot:
alter ego, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, mind game, police investigation, psychological manipulation, serial killer, cat and mouse, identity crisis, paranoia, urban, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Bharath has lost everything since his childhood, including his family. Will his alter ego, Bhargava, help him or destroy him?
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
male protagonist, childhood trauma, alter ego, identity crisis, split personality, mental health, friendship, moral ambiguity, family tragedy, moral dilemma, survival, betrayal ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Straight to video version of the classic story
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, grim, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, alter ego, split personality, laboratory, serum, obsession, transformation, repression, mad scientist, scientific experiment, identity crisis, moral corruption ...
Time:
victorian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Going to school and making new friends can be tough. Having to do both while wearing a bulky hearing aid on your chest? That takes superpowers! With a little help from her superhero alter ego, El Deafo, Cece learns to embrace her differences.
Style:
thought provoking, feel good, entertaining, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
deafness, superhero, disability, self acceptance, alter ego, deaf child, schoolboy, mute or deaf, deaf, hearing, child, identity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An anonymous advice columnist finds herself caught in an unlikely romance with the man who has been hired to kill her alter ego.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hitman, murder, alter ego, duplicity, satire, fall in love, hidden identity, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, in love, love interest ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Posy Pinkerton needs to step out of her shell. For this late-20s serial monogamist, life has been smooth sailing. She's got Tom, her doctor fiancé; her burgeoning career as a medical illustrator and a side hobby as a visual artist. But after a ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
alter ego, secret, love affair, split personality, couple relations, in love, intrigue, love interest, duplicity, female protagonist, love triangle, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Shy corporate employee Jorge Rizzi's life takes an uproarious turn when he participates in a hypnosis session that rips off his inhibitions and releases a hilarious alter ego.
Style:
funny, satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
shy man, hypnosis, shyness, alternative lifestyle, alter ego, male protagonist, relationship problems, uncertainty, self doubt, satire, lifestyle, social problems ...
Time:
60s, year 1962
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, alter ego, split personality, doppelganger, hostage, supernatural power, violent, child abduction, psychopath, abduction, held captive, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
Style:
unusual plot structure, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
home invasion, robbery, brutality, violence, murder, psychopath, alter ego, danger, blood, chase, death, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 ...
Style:
costume drama, realistic, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, murder, british police, alter ego, hidden identity, criminal, mentally unstable, male female relationship, british, murderer, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Style:
funny, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
alien, stupidity, space, benign alien, friendship, alien invasion, humanity, robot, alien encounter, disorder, crew, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nine high school kids celebrate graduation at a secluded home in the wilderness. They fight, philander, and feel nostalgic as they embark on a life away from home, in college. Once the party dies down they play a game: Dead Body. But when one ...
Style:
slasher, scary, teen horror, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, fear, murder, darkness, who done it, maniac, serial murder, friends, forest, characters killed one by one, masked killer, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, History
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, women, woman in danger, murder, serial murder, violence, violent, maniac, small town, young woman, pursuit ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1800s
Place:
germany
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