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Ingrid Bergman

Liv Ullmann

Lena Nyman

Halvar Bju00f6rk

Autumn Sonata (1978)

8.0 714 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Germany, Sweden

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Style: intimate, intense

Plot: loss of loved one, marriage, pianist, invalid, mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, introspective, dramatic, ...

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Walter Huston

Tim Holt

Bruce Bennett

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

8.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

Plot: gold, based on novel or book, greed, gold rush, gold mine, friends, money, american, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: mexico

Cast

Bruce Willis

Haley Joel Osment

Toni Collette

Olivia Williams

The Sixth Sense (1999)

8.0 13.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: dying and death, child abuse, philadelphia, pennsylvania, sense of guilt, afterlife, marriage crisis, loss of loved one, ...

Cast

Park Seo-jun

Han So-hee

Gyeongseong Creature (2023) TV Show

7.9 320 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 17

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed.

Style: philosophical, satirical

Plot: monster, survival, hospital, japanese occupation of korea, dramatic, audacious, cliché

Time: 1940s

Cast

Mel Gibson

Catherine McCormack

Sophie Marceau

Patrick McGoohan

Braveheart (1995)

7.9 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 178 min.

Audience: R

Story: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Plot: loss of loved one, idealism, based on true story, catholic, war, dramatic, powerful

Time: medieval

Place: england, scotland

Cast

Sakura Ando

Soya Kurokawa

Hinata Hiiragi

Eita Nagayama

Monster (2023)

7.9 910 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, bullying, elementary school, coming of age, school, teacher student relationship, childhood, lgbt, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Don Lee

Kim Moo-yul

Kim Sung-kyu

Heo Dong-won

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: 15

Story: After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

Plot: police, gangster, based on true story, serial killer, gang, dramatic, defiant

Cast

Sharon Rooney

Nico Mirallegro

Jodie Comer

Dan Cohen

My Mad Fat Diary (2013) TV Show

7.9 150 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 16

Story: Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

Plot: overweight, northern england, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, group of friends, unlikely lovers, body image, teen drama, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Jackie Chan

Zhang Zifeng

Tony Leung Ka-fai

Ci Sha

The Shadow's Edge (2025)

7.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: race against time, ex-cop, betrayal, macau, hand to hand combat, manhunt, hidden agenda, dramatic, ...

Cast

Charlton Heston

Stephen Boyd

Hugh Griffith

Jack Hawkins

Ben-Hur (1959)

7.9 3.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 212 min.

Audience: G

Story: In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.

Plot: governor, based on novel or book, roman empire, politics, christianity, jew persecution, jewish life, roman, ...

Time: 1st century, antiquity

Place: middle east, jerusalem

Cast

Matthew Goode

Chloe Pirrie

Jamie Sives

Alexej Manvelov

Dept. Q (2025) TV Show

7.9 440 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Style: provocative, suspenseful

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, edinburgh, scotland, cop, questioning, grim, cold case, ...

Cast

Keri Russell

Matthew Rhys

Holly Taylor

Keidrich Sellati

The Americans (2013) TV Show

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 75

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

Plot: spy, washington dc, usa, undercover, fbi, kgb, period drama, russian spy, ...

Time: cold war, 1980s

Cast

Kohji Moritsugu

Shoji Nakayama

Sandayuu Dokumamushi

Yuriko Hishimi

Ultraseven (1967) TV Show

7.9 125 votes

Genre: Action, Family, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 49

Story: In the not-too-distant future, the Earth finds itself constantly under attack from extraterrestrial threats. The Terrestrial Defense Force establishes the Ultra Garrison, a team of six elite members who utilize high-tech vehicles and weaponry. Joining their fight is the mysterious Dan Moroboshi, secretly an alien from the Land of Light in Nebula M-78, who transforms into his true form in times of crisis, Ultraseven.

Plot: monster, secret identity, hero, villain, superhero, alien, giant monster, dinosaur, ...

Cast

Zach Braff

Donald Faison

Sarah Chalke

Scrubs (2026) TV Show

7.9 88 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-14

Story: J.D. & Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time–medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.

Plot: sequel, hospital, bromance, doctor, dramedy, medical drama, workplace comedy, dramatic, ...

Cast

Kevin Costner

Mary McDonnell

Graham Greene

Rodney A. Grant

Dances with Wolves (1990)

7.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 181 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Style: provocative, intense

Plot: friendship, mutiny, countryside, based on novel or book, unsociability, wolf, culture clash, self-discovery, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Scarlett Johansson

Lynn Adrianna

Lisa Renee Pitts

Her (2013)

7.8 15.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

Style: intimate, provocative

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), computer, satire, love, loneliness, transhumanism, los angeles, california, ...

Time: future, near future

Cast

Ama Qamata

Khosi Ngema

Gail Mabalane

Dillon Windvogel

Blood & Water (2020) TV Show

7.8 325 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Africa

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.

Plot: friendship, high school, teen drama

Place: south africa

Cast

James Lafferty

Bethany Joy Lenz

Sophia Bush

Austin Nichols

One Tree Hill (2003) TV Show

7.8 602 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 186

Audience: TV-14

Story: In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

Plot: sibling relationship, high school, basketball, teenage romance, teen drama

Cast

George Clooney

Meryl Streep

Jason Schwartzman

Eric Chase Anderson

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

7.8 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

Style: intense

Plot: based on novel or book, tree, peasant, fox, villain, cider, tale, farm life, ...

Cast

Taron Egerton

Anya Taylor-Joy

Nathalie Emmanuel

Donna Kimball

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) TV Show

7.8 441 votes

Genre: Action, Family, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.

Style: surreal

Plot: resistance, emperor, castle, mythical creature, prequel, rebellion, puppetry, fantasy world, ...

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