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Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (2026) TV Show

7.6 93 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Australia

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Winter. Hawkins. 1985. Welcome back to a town crawling with secrets, where beloved heroes are facing fresh mysteries... and an all-new breed of strange.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: monster, small town, indiana, usa, experiment, supernatural, coming of age, parallel world, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Taylor Schilling

Laura Prepon

Kate Mulgrew

Natasha Lyonne

Orange Is the New Black (2013) TV Show

7.6 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

Plot: prison, women's prison, based on true story, lesbian relationship, dark comedy, based on memoir or autobiography, inmate, semi autobiographical, ...

Cast

Shailene Woodley

Ansel Elgort

Nat Wolff

Laura Dern

The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

7.6 11.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Plot: based on novel or book, support group, amsterdam, netherlands, cancer, valentine's day, star crossed lovers, teen drama, ...

Cast

Daniel Craig

Eva Green

Mads Mikkelsen

Judi Dench

Casino Royale (2006)

7.6 11.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: banker, casino, based on novel or book, poker, spy, money, torture, terrorism, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Meryl Streep

Jane Alexander

Justin Henry

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

7.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Plot: husband wife relationship, marriage, custody battle, divorce, family, couple, selfishness, manhattan, ...

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Alicia Vikander

Matthias Schoenaerts

Ben Whishaw

The Danish Girl (2015)

7.5 6.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, United Kingdom

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Plot: paris, france, based on novel or book, copenhagen, denmark, artist, painter, historical fiction, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: denmark

Cast

Hugh Jackman

James McAvoy

Michael Fassbender

Patrick Stewart

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

7.5 16.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

Plot: superhero, mutant, time travel, based on comic, superhuman, storm, political intrigue , extinction, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Emily Rose

Lucas Bryant

Eric Balfour

Haven (2010) TV Show

7.5 515 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 78

Audience: TV-14

Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, fbi, police, supernatural, paranormal, maine, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Tom Sharp

Rose Reid

The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin (2026) TV Show

7.5 47 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Family

Country: Hungary, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: Merlin, the immortal son of the bard Taliesin and Atlantean Princess Charis, is followed through his tragic upbringing, descent into madness, and shocking disappearance, leading to the legend that surrounds him. Set before King Arthur's birth, Merlin, assumed dead or a myth, reemerges in sub-Roman Britain to unite the fractured kingdoms under threat from Saxon invaders.

Style: gritty

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, camelot, kingdom, sword fight, king arthur, excalibur, wizard, ...

Cast

David Tennant

Aidan Turner

Danny Dyer

Alex Hassell

Rivals (2024) TV Show

7.5 84 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-MA

Story: It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?

Style: lighthearted, romantic

Plot: based on novel or book, rivalry, television producer, polo, member of parliament, thatcherism, television, dramatic, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jacob Anderson

Sam Reid

Assad Zaman

Delainey Hayles

Interview with the Vampire (2022) TV Show

7.5 400 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

Style: shocking, philosophical, suspenseful, romantic

Plot: sibling relationship, based on novel or book, new orleans, louisiana, vampire, interview, immortality, supernatural, ...

Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1910s, ...

Cast

Jessica Harper

Stefania Casini

Flavio Bucci

Miguel Bosu00e9

Suspiria (1977)

7.5 3.2K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Italy

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Plot: witch, dancing, dance, boarding school, ballet, whodunit, young woman, gothic, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Ingrid Thulin

Gunnel Lindblom

Birger Malmsten

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The Silence (1963)

7.5 404 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Sweden

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: hotel, sibling relationship, travel, rage, desire, complex, sister sister relationship, anxious, ...

Cast

Katsuji Mori

Teiji u014cmiya

Ryoko Kinomiya

Kei Tomiyama

Speed Racer (1967) TV Show

7.5 138 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Speed Racer is a teenage driver who races around the world in his super-technological car, the Mach 5, created by his father, a former racer. The car has several special features that help Speed tackle difficult terrain and get rid of dishonest opponents—which happens frequently. He experiences these adventures alongside his girlfriend Trixie, his younger brother Spridle, and his pet monkey, Chim-Chim. Together, they face thrilling challenges and show that courage and fair play make all the difference.

Plot: car race, racing, based on manga, monkey, shounen, anime, dramatic, amused, ...

Cast

Ju00fcrgen Vogel

Frederick Lau

Max Riemelt

Jennifer Ulrich

The Wave (2008)

7.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Style: shocking, philosophical

Plot: high school, experiment, dictator, gymnasium, trainer, classroom, fascism, national socialism, ...

Cast

Teri Polo

Sherri Saum

Hayden Byerly

Noah Centineo

The Fosters (2013) TV Show

7.5 333 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 104

Audience: TV-14

Story: Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.

Plot: family relationships, foster family, gay parent, foster child, teen drama, blended family

Cast

George C. Scott

Karl Malden

Stephen Young

Michael Strong

Patton (1970)

7.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 172 min.

Audience: PG

Story: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Plot: general, steel helmet, allies, normandy, france, dead soldier, tank, biography, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Azul Guaita

Franco Masini

Sergio Mayer Mori

Andrea Chaparro

Rebelde (2022) TV Show

7.4 457 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Argentina

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Head back to Elite Way School as a new generation of students hope to win the Battle of the Bands.

Plot: dancing, secret society, school, female protagonist, singing, lgbt, reboot, teen drama, ...

Cast

Tim Curry

Susan Sarandon

Barry Bostwick

Richard O'Brien

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

7.4 3.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

Style: psychotronic, shocking, provocative

Plot: sexual identity, rock 'n' roll, transvestism, time warp, transylvania, transvestite, group sex, halloween, ...

Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu

Christian Berkel

Justus von Dohnu00e1nyi

Maren Eggert

The Experiment (2001)

7.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany

Duration: 120 min.

Story: 20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, journalist, rape, prisoner, experiment, based on novel or book, authority, prison cell, ...

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