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The Constant Gardener (2005)

7.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Style: tense

Plot: diplomat, aids, rwandan genocide, politician, morgue, pharmaceutical industry, cancer, political thriller, ...

Place: nairobi, kenya

Cast

Sean Astin

Rosario Dawson

Nathan Fillion

Christopher Gorham

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)

7.0 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 72 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean Master’s half-brother Arthur Curry, a half-human with aquatic powers with no knowledge of his Atlantean heritage, to restore balance. Living with powers he doesn’t understand and seeing the danger around him, Curry takes steps to embrace his destiny, joining the Justice League, and with his new teammates he battles to save Earth from total destruction.

Plot: cartoon, based on comic, super power, superhero team, inspirational, dramatic, excited, dc animated movie universe (dcamu)

Cast

Zoey Deutch

Kian Lawley

Halston Sage

Elena Kampouris

Before I Fall (2017)

7.0 3.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

Plot: based on novel or book, time loop, female protagonist, mumblecore, teen drama, based on young adult novel

Cast

Mario Adorf

Angela Winkler

David Bennent

Katharina Thalbach

The Tin Drum (1979)

7.0 535 votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 162 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Plot: puberty, adultery, lolita, suicide, based on novel or book, nazi, dwarf, gdansk, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: germany

Oreimo (2010) TV Show

6.9 152 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Oreimo follows the daily life of an ordinary high school boy named Kyousuke Kousaka. Kyousuke’s younger sister Kirino is a pretty fashion model, but also hides a dark secret of being an otaku of adult games. Kyousuke is the only person to whom Kirino reveals her hidden obsession and other issues.

Plot: sibling relationship, lolita, forbidden love, hobby, romcom, fan culture, slice of life, incest overtones, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Bill Pullman

Jeff Goldblum

Mary McDonnell

Independence Day (1996)

6.9 10.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

Plot: spacecraft, showdown, independence, patriotism, countdown, invasion, alien, ufo, ...

Cast

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Jacqueline Siegel

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David Siegel

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Virginia Nebab

Katie Stam

The Queen of Versailles (2012)

6.9 217 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America, Denmark

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor.

Style: absurd

Plot: affectation, wealth, bankruptcy, woman director, disturbed, desperate, dramatic, audacious, ...

Cast

Mattia Carrano

Lorenzo Zurzolo

Caterina Forza

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Chiara Bordi

Prisma (2022) TV Show

6.9 79 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Story: An exploration of the relationships and identities of Marco and Andrea, 2 twins who look identical but approach life in a very different way. The twins begin a journey of discovery and transition from what they should be to what they want to be, which will also involve their group of friends, all united by the search for their place in the world.

Plot: lgbt, teen drama, boys' love (bl), bold

Cast

Kamal Haasan

Manisha Koirala

Urmila Matondkar

Sukanya

Indian (1996)

6.9 81 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 185 min.

Story: Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.

Plot: patriotism, freedom fighter, vigilante, political corruption, father son conflict, inspirational, action thriller, dramatic

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Aras Aydu0131n

Christine Baranski

Murray Bartlett

Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) TV Show

6.9 611 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

Plot: based on novel or book, group therapy, lsd, magic mushroom, resort, drug trip, psychedelics, wellness center, ...

Cast

Josh Hamilton

Bruce Ramsay

Ethan Hawke

Vincent Spano

Alive (1993)

6.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

Plot: airplane wreck, based on true story, rugby, survival, stranded, airplane crash, freezing, disaster movie, ...

Cast

Kate Winslet

Saoirse Ronan

Gemma Jones

James McArdle

Ammonite (2020)

6.9 647 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

Style: melancholy, absurd

Plot: beach, paleontology, affectation, paleontologist, biography, grief, lesbian relationship, period drama, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Tom Hanks

Tom Everett Scott

Liv Tyler

Johnathon Schaech

That Thing You Do! (1996)

6.9 925 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.

Plot: pop star, pennsylvania, usa, record label, recording studio, battle of the bands, teen drama, one hit wonder

Time: 1960s

Cast

Denzel Washington

Don Cheadle

Kelly Reilly

John Goodman

Flight (2012)

6.9 6.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Plot: airplane, confession, investigation, pilot, emergency landing, flight, alcoholism, f word, ...

Dream High (2011) TV Show

6.9 88 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-14

Story: Six dedicated students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars in the Korean music industry.

Plot: love triangle, dreams, music teacher, friendship, high school, bullying, romance, singer, ...

Cast

Austin Butler

Regina King

Zou00eb Kravitz

Matt Smith

Caught Stealing (2025)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: new york city, based on novel or book, cat, baseball, dark comedy, baseball bat, criminal underworld, duringcreditsstinger, ...

Time: 1990s

10 Things I Hate About You (2009) TV Show

6.8 83 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Outspoken Kat Stratford couldn't be less like her sister, super sweet, yet kinda conformist Bianca. The only things they seem to have in common are being new at school and their overprotective dad.

Style: witty

Plot: sibling relationship, high school, based on movie, overprotective parent, teen drama

Place: california

Cast

Emma Stone

Penn Badgley

Amanda Bynes

Dan Byrd

Easy A (2010)

6.8 7.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

Plot: high school, small town, lie, loss of virginity, coming of age, teen movie, school, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Eric Bana

Genevieve O'Reilly

Keir O'Donnell

John Polson

The Dry (2021)

6.8 845 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

Style: nostalgic, intense

Plot: small town, drowning, based on novel or book, funeral, gambling debt, investigation, grave, flashback, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Ben Cross

Ian Charleson

Cheryl Campbell

Alice Krige

Chariots of Fire (1981)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Plot: underdog, sports, missionary, olympic games, jewry, patriotism, mayor, praline, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: scotland

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