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Joy in the Morning (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while ...
Plot: college, campus, elopement, wedding, pregnancy, childbirth, gay friend, birth, expectant father, pregnant wife, young love, baby born ...
Time: 1920s
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 8.0
 6K
Silk (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
Style: clever, serious, realistic, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, lawyers and clients, courtroom drama, rivalry, workplace, success, workplace intrigue, uninhibited rivalry, courtroom, hotshot lawyer, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Madame Bovary (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
Style: period piece, costume drama, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, bored housewife, couples, infidelity, love affair, tragic hero, social relations, dull life, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty, village life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: france, europe
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 6.0
 915
Love My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian daughter, lesbian lover, japanese woman, lesbian couple, youth, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, gay, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo
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Double Indemnity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot: woman with a gun, wife plots to kill husband, killer, insurance fraud, murder, investigation, cons and scams, love triangle, infidelity, disorder, couples, power relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: beverly hills
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 6.7
 17K
Samba (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to ...
Style: uplifting, touching, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: immigrant, friendship, betrayal, culture clash, love story, brothers, life philosophy, stereotypes, loneliness, prejudice, justice, social differences ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, africa
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 5.6
 151
Club Le Monde (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: One eventful night at a seedy London nightclub in 1993.
Style: independent film
Plot: casual sex, cocaine, piercing, transgender, transgender woman, satire, assault, infidelity, friendship, transvestite, gay slur, beer ...
Time: 90s
Place: london
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How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 4576 min.
TV show
Story: How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: couples, friendship, roommate, friends, looking for love, singleness, dating, womanizer, couple relations, group of friends, best friend, romantic friendship ...
Time: 2030s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, madagascar, manhattan new york city, usa
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 6.7
 5K
Le Brio (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neïla Salah grew up in Créteil, a tower block suburb on the outskirts of Paris, and dreams of becoming a lawyer. She has been accepted into a major university in Paris and on her first day there she is confronted by Pierre Mazard, a professor ...
Style: realistic, talky, sweet, emotional, art house
Plot: teacher student relationship, prejudice, culture clash, mentor, professor, training, rise to the top, pride, life philosophy, fish out of water, speaker, racism ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: france, paris france
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Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Style: realistic, talky, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, legal, murder, court, biopic, trial, coma, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place: rhode island
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 6.8
 3K
Contra (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, satirical, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: debate, professor, teacher student relationship, student, satire, irony, teachers and students, college professor, teacher, discrimination, female protagonist, university professor ...
Place: frankfurt germany, germany
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Avenging Angel (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed ...
Style: action adventure, cult classic, independent film, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitution, revenge, female protagonist, vigilante, nudity, exploitation, woman with a gun, criminal, law, prostitute, hollywood, gangster ...
Time: year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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 6.5
 118K
Premium Rush (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, action packed, road movie, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: chase, delivery, organized crime, race against time, cycling, bicycle, police corruption, corrupt cop, on the run, chinese immigrant, justice, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, china
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From Prada to Nada (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, social differences, bankrupt, young lovers, teenager, siblings relations, teenage girl, fish out of water, sister sister relationship, student ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, california
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 6.7
 4K
1983 (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 448 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland’s liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: polish, investigation, femme fatale, terrorist attack, communism, killings, cold war, espionage, distopia, political conspiracy, alternate universe, alternate history ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 7.2
 18K
Nightwatch (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot: psychopath, night watchman, serial killer, doctor, murder, bet, brutality, danger, investigation, oral sex, perversion, murder mystery ...
Time: 90s
Place: scandinavia
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Vehicle for Revenge (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman who was raped by a NetCar driver takes a job with the company to exact her revenge on her attacker after she becomes frustrated with the slow pace of the criminal Justice system.
Style: psychological thriller, detective
Plot: gang, female detective, brother brother relationship, gang member, driver, vendetta, taxi, car, motel, blonde, rapist, school ...
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A hip and happenin' all girl rock group head to LA to claim lead-singer Kelly's inheritance and make it (and make it) in LA. Soon the girls fall into a morass of drugs and deceit as their recording success soars. It takes several tragedies ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: satire, lesbian, erotica, sexploitation, friendship, hippie, abortion, hollywood, music industry, price of fame, sex, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.2
 3K
Run (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: While conveying a Porsche from L.A. to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, gangster, on the run, gambling, organized crime, car chase, law student, hitman, car crash, framed for murder, accidental death, corrupt cop ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: boston, usa
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Why O Su Jae? (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A painful but exciting story of Oh Soo-jae, a cold lawyer who has become empty while pursuing only success, and Gong Chan, a law school student who is not afraid of anything to protect her.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, romantic ...
Plot: law firm, teacher student relationship, lawyer, professor, relationship vs career, ambition, male female relationship, couple relations, social problems, lifestyle, attorney, ambitious woman ...
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., new york
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, touching, realistic, scenic ...
Plot: single mother, small town life, mother son estrangement, addiction, dysfunctional family, family relations, childhood memory, teenage boy, grandmother grandson relationship, mother daughter conflict, american dream, family drama ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, year 1997, year 2011, year 1946 ...
Place: kentucky, ohio, yale university, new haven connecticut
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 6.6
 158K
House of Gucci (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The true story of how Patrizia Reggiani plotted to kill her husband Maurizio Gucci, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fashion, fashion designer, fashion industry, high society, mistress, family feud, murder, greed, job, wealthy family, biopic, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 2020s, future, 70s ...
Place: italy, sicily, milan italy, new york, tuscany ...
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 7.7
 15K
Water (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style: touching, bleak, melancholic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hinduism, women, prostitute, prostitution, friendship, love, marriage, politics, relationships, mentor, sin, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, year 1938
Place: india, asia
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View from the Top (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: stewardess, flight attendant, love story, friendship, adaptation, storytelling, follow your dream, love and romance, rise to the top, workplace situations, aviation, workplace ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place: nevada, california, arizona, usa, cleveland ohio ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
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 5.5
 2K
Side Out (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, inspirational, funny ...
Plot: underdog, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, volleyball, friends, self discovery, rivalry, summer, teenager, college, beach ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 4.4
 63
Murder101 (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With a passion for solving crime, fueled by the unsolved murder of her father’s death at the hands of a mass murderer days before she was born, law student Fiona Reid sets about the task of catching a mass murderer.
Style: realistic, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, law enforcement, mass murder, danger, amateur detective, college, woman in danger, student life, teachers and students, campus, college life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 333
Agonie (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: male nudity, friendship between men, closeted homosexual, male pubic hair, lgbt, emotional abuse, student, socially awkward, university, male objectification, domineering father, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place: central europe, vienna
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 7.2
 12K
Lammbock (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with plant-louses.
Style: humorous, funny, light, witty, talky ...
Plot: drug dealing, stoner, marijuana, undercover cop, weed, friendship, adolescence, loneliness, drug, undercover agent, small town life, incest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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