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 5.5
 245
Edison & Leo (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them.
Style: humorous, captivating, adult animation, independent film, not serious ...
Plot: stop motion, experiment gone awry, obsession, mad scientist, estrangement, parents and children, family relations, nothing goes right, dark humor, inventions and discoveries, coming of age, belly dancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.3
 866
Exit Marrakech (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, teenage boy, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, family problems, estrangement, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
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Scents and Sensibility (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A twist on the classic Jane Austen novel.
Style: serious, realistic, rom com, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love triangle, eccentric family, love affair, family business, youth, social differences, going straight, estrangement, family relations, wooing, dishonesty, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
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 4.8
 3K
Main Street (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, anamorphic ...
Plot: introspection, estrangement, small town life, social relations, small town, dishonesty, hopes, slice of life, voice over narration, business, high school sweetheart, loss of job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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 6.4
 801
Cut (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, USA, South Korea, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a ...
Style: rough, tense, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot: filmmaking, gangster, life is a bitch, obsession, estrangement, violence spree, asian, strong violent content, yakuza, eastern
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Color Wheel (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, ...
Style: mumblecore, witty, cynical, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: siblings relations, sex with brother, on the road, family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, quibbling, brother sister incest, sex with sister, love, older sister ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 883
Offline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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 6.7
 951
Lullaby for Pi (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name.
Style: serious, humorous, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, unlikely couple, opposites attract, infidelity, private detective, estrangement, social misfits, love and romance, fall in love, disability, vicious ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york
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 6.9
 1K
Dealer (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
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 5.8
 1K
Floundering (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, buddies, dark humor, down on your luck, friendship, lifestyle, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle, los angeles, italy, venice, usa ...
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 6.7
 780
Blessed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style: atmospheric, sincere, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, juvenile delinquency, missing child, teenage life, youth, family relations, rebellion, dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, family problems, estrangement, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne, australia
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 5.7
 107
Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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 6.8
 3K
Hell (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, islamic ...
Plot: false accusation, sister sister relationship, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, family problems, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, disability, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, siblings ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.1
 153
Story of Jen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man commits suicide leaving a disturbing note. His wife and his daughter try to cope with it when the step-brother of the deceased visits them.
Style: tense, serious, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, estrangement, family relations, escapades, odd couple, on the run, youth, parents and children, teenage life, single parent, death in the family, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.8
 565
Wetlands (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, avant garde ...
Plot: family problems, death in the family, estrangement, family relations, family business, parents and children, life is a bitch, down on your luck, voyeurism, forgiveness, gay, gay erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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Clapham Junction (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, melancholic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, first gay sexual experience, gay cruising, gay slur, infidelity, male nudity, masturbation, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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 6.5
 260
Phobidilia (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in todays world all his needs can be easily met: sexual satisfaction via the internet, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, offbeat ...
Plot: losing-it hero, opposites attract, confined, impossible love, isolation, mental illness, love and romance, misfit, estrangement, couples, eviction, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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Inch'Allah Sunday (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, ...
Style: contemplative, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: culture clash, immigrant, abusive husband, estrangement, injustice, human spirit, self discovery, society, dysfunctional family, family problems, gender, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, algeria, europe
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My Nanny's Secret (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the house is robbed and the nanny's brother is a suspect, she lies to protect him, but she then realizes he isn't the only one with a secret.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: estrangement, investigation, family relations, nanny, dishonesty, heist, employer employee relationship, child in peril, husband wife relationship, little boy, false accusation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, monk, sadomasochism, religion, society, greed, mistaken identity, visceral, estrangement, social decay, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 8.1
 47K
Flight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, self discovery, friendship, family reunited, parents and children, homecoming, family relations, estrangement, step siblings, family problems, youth ...
Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place: middle east, india, asia
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 6.9
 5K
Breath (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Style: contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, prison, suicide attempt, surveillance camera, prison guard, passion, mission, moving, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, seoul, korea, asia
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The Far Side of the Moon (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.
Style: psychological, serious, touching, clever, existential ...
Plot: gay, space travel, lifestyle, astronaut, self discovery, introspection, human nature, estrangement, family problems, brother brother relationship, universe, space exploration ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: canada, russia, montreal, quebec
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 6.4
 298
Islander (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film
Plot: hopes, redemption, island, starting over, family problems, estrangement, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, friendship, ocean, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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 7.1
 195K
Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, psychological, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, end of the world, wedding, human nature, sister sister relationship, apocalypse, nihilism, collision, disaster, dysfunctional family, suicide, trippy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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The Conrad Boys (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After his mother dies, 19-year-old Charlie Conrad skips college to raise his 9-year-old brother, Ben, in this moving drama. But the heavy responsibility soon causes Charlie to yearn for a normal life. Things start to look up when he embarks on a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, lgbt, family relations, first love, college, dysfunctional family, absent father, child as adult, longing, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Alison Dodge, a 17-year old raised by her mother, decides on her own to spend her last summer before college getting to know her father
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: estranged father, coming of age, fear of commitment, introspection, teenage life, youth, redemption, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, one more chance, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, san diego california, phoenix arizona
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 6.3
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, smart ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, isolation, confined, human nature, doctors and patients, society, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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Cold Heart Canyon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In L.A.'s Laurel Canyon, Karen has a dream that her sister Heather is in danger, but Heather seems safe enough, having just moved to a remote spur of the canyon to distance herself from her ex-husband. She's a writer, and she's soon ...
Style: sexy, serious, erotic, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: love and romance, danger, infidelity, missing person, estrangement, dishonesty, couple relations, murder, sister sister relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, couples, sleeping pill ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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