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 8.1
 54K
Goliath (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, investigation, murder, power, legal, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, law firm, name calling, female lawyer, lawyer client relationship, politics ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s
Place: santa monica california
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Olive Kitteridge (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style: meditative, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town life, family problems, maturity, dysfunctional family, elderly, couple relations, couples, parents and children, family relations, psychology, complex characters, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2408 min.
TV show
Story: It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: female protagonist, jewish family, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, career, divorce, husband wife relationship, judaism, strong female lead, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, future, 2010s, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the ...
Style: clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: computer, programmer, inventions and discoveries, computers and web, existentialism, computer system, family relations, marriage, hacker, workplace situations, supportive spouse, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, dallas texas, texas, syria
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Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot: marriage, couples, relationships, divorce, family relations, bickering couple, love, marriage crisis, cheating wife, marital problem, male female relationship, affair ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 7.5
 54K
Reign (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Style: sexy, stylized, serious, costume drama, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: queen, royal family, female protagonist, intrigue, royal court, aristocracy, rivalry, state affairs, power struggle, love triangle, couples, royalty ...
Time: 16th century, ancient times
Place: france, scotland, europe, britain
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 7.9
 5K
Transplant (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere, medical drama ...
Plot: medical, hospital, emergency room, medicine, doctor, syrian refugee, surgery, cure, doctors and patients, prodigy, patient, medical profession ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: serious, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, smuggling, criminal heroes, corruption, politician, mobster, female nudity, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 2010s, 1900s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, usa, cuba, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city ...
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 8.1
 32K
The Deuce (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1583 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the ...
Style: sexy, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, prostitution, sleaze, porn industry, female nudity, bare butt, porn actor, bare breasts, society, sex scene, rivalry, gross out humor ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, year 1972, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, new york state, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 917
Trigger (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Fashionable uptown Moscow: psychologist Artem practices "provocative therapy", convinced that the fastest and most effective cure is to brutally confront his patients with their fears. Yet his own life is in chaos after he was sentenced to ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: psychotherapy, entrapment, psychological manipulation, investigation, shock treatment, psychologist, psychotherapist, self discovery, false accusation, father son relationship, uncover truth, life turned upside down ...
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family drama, parenthood, family relations, family business, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, parents and children, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, jealousy ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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 8.4
 269K
Scrubs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Style: sitcom, humorous, medical drama, witty, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, bromance, workplace situations, workplace romance, doctors and patients, friendship, couples, love and romance, friends, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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 8.3
 12K
Pachinko (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sad
Plot: immigrant, immigrant family, korean american, family history, fight, family relations, generation, life is a bitch, social problems, girl, resistance, faith ...
Place: busan
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 7.7
 23K
Big Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives ...
Style: melancholic, entertaining, light, social, grindhouse ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: polygamy, mormon, husband wife relationship, marriage, couples, double life, housewife, religion, eccentric family, society, family relations, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
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 8.7
 148K
Six Feet Under (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style: emotional, surreal, captivating, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: funeral home, gay, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, dark humor, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, depression, hopes, family drama, lgbt, self discovery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, syria
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 8.6
 245K
Doctor Who (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But he is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, humorous, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, alien, space travel, save the day, journey, danger, companion, sent to the future, space and aliens, outer space, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 2020s
Place: london, wales
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 8.7
 113K
1883 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 562 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in ...
Style: historical drama, disturbing, suspense, captivating, anime ...
Plot: journey, old west, wild west, cowboy, husband wife relationship, travel, wildlife, family relations, life is a bitch, road trip, cop, quarantine ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: america, texas, montana
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 8.2
 7K
The Virtues (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Joseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex Debbie. Sufffering the hangover from hell, he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront memories from his childhood.
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: family reunited, loneliness, brother sister relationship, family tragedy, troubled past, relationship problems, brother sister reunion, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, memories, family problems, tragic past ...
Place: ireland
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 7.5
 445K
Arrow (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, heroes, double life, fighting crime, martial arts, crime fighter, vigilante, archer, rivalry, archery, dual identity, millionaire ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, fictional island
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 8.5
 82K
Louie (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.
Style: humorous, sitcom, sincere, dark comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, performer's life, dark humor, midlife crisis, comedian, family relations, city life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, disorder, frustration, parenthood ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.9
 647K
True Detective (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style: neo noir, serious, atmospheric, anthology, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, investigation, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, drinking problem, partners against crime, female nudity, troubled ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: louisiana, usa, california
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 8.4
 92K
Narcos: Mexico (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, crime drama, intense ...
Plot: drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, business, corruption, drug lord, cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 8.5
 83K
Bosch (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: police, determination, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, police investigation, suspicion, murder, coworker, homicide detective, father daughter relationship, lapd ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.8
 11K
Flesh and Bone (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot: ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, incest, dancer, eating disorder, dancing, brother sister incest, ballerina, dance, trauma, incestuous relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, pittsburgh
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 8.4
 176K
Entourage (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: producer, wealth, filmmaking, actor, friendship, fame, actor's life, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, showbiz, young man ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
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The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.
Style: sexual, erotic, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sexual relations, escort, lesbian, sex scene, call girl, prostitute, casual sex, older man younger woman sex, cheating girlfriend, female nudity, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, illinois
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
TV show
Story: This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: entrepreneur, rags to riches, american dream, hair, black, women, black history, black lives matter, biopic, social climbing, strong female lead, ambitious man ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century
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The L Word: Generation Q (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In this sequel to The L Word, we continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane McCutcheon, along with a new generation of diverse, self-possessed LGBTQIA+ characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks ...
Style: sexy, romantic, erotic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, feminist, lifestyle, female friendship, lgbtq, gay, love and romance, lesbian sex ...
Place: los angeles
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 8.3
 347K
Sex Education (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1755 min.
TV show
Story: Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, teenage sexuality, sex education, youth, classmate, school, teenage life, sex therapy, teenage sex, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england
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 9.2
 45K
The Chosen (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The life of Christ through the eyes of those who encountered him called The Chosen.
Style: biblical, psychological, thrilling, inspirational, historical drama
Plot: christian, faith, bible story, apostle, life, christianity, bible, religion, messiah, forgiveness, jesus, remorse ...
Time: 1st century, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, palestine
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