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Plot Summary:
Humans massacred their race, wrote them out of history, and pushed them into myth... Now in the midst of a Vampire civil war, an exiled Vampire prince has escaped into the mountains of the new America, building a hidden army for revenge against his family. Years later, in the dead of winter, a group of grad students start their research on the disappearance of wildlife in those very mountains. When they come close to the truth, they begin the fight for their own survival. As the fight escalates, the Vampire prince descends upon the conflict. He is forced to visit his dark past as the fates of the student's are decided.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark
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Behind the Waterfall (1995)
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After the death of their father, brother and sister Tommy (Luke Baird) and Becky (Gena Gale Burghoff) are sent to live with their aunt for the summer. The siblings' grief lightens when they meet kindly old Irishman Mr. Connors (M*A*S*H's Radar, Gary Burghoff), who reignites their capacity for joy and wonder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Knight (1980)
Plot Summary:
A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Slayers (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows a group of superstar Internet influencers who are drawn to a reclusive billionaire’s mansion only to find themselves trapped in the lair of a horrifyingly evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer and an old school vampire hunter, who is set in his ways.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark, horror comedy
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Railroad Man (1999)
Plot Summary:
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house
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R#J (2021)
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Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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One Take (1998)
Plot Summary:
Life is a one take proposition. In ONE TAKE, Kevin never stopped loving Jessie even though she left him years ago and is reported to be dead. When Kevin, out-of-the-blue, receives a card in the mail - an old photo of the two of them with a mysterious message - he is spurred on to discover who sent it and the truth behind Jessie, both past and present.Kevin is suspicious that she might still be alive though this means everyone he meets including Jessie's brother, Jerry, is lying to him. As he tracks down old friends and family, Kevin carries on a running conversation with an imagined Jessie. Just as he is coming to terms with the fact that some questions will remain forever unanswered, he uncovers a shattering truth the will forever change his take on life, love, and sacrafice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Holed-Up (2017)
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A story of a famous actor named Grahme who witnessed a director assault an actress two years ago. Now Grahme is working with Richard (the very same director), on a new film and this time with Malorie, a new leading lady. Grahme's manager Steve can only try to help Grahme along with his crazy behavior, clueless of the assault but caring for his friend. HOLED-UP is centered around essentially, rape. All while during the making of a fictional film.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark, independent film, black and white
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Angel in the Family (2004)
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Sarah Bishop and her estranged sister Beth are reunited after their father Buddy suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine, wants only one thing-to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life gone by, Sarah makes an impossible wish that her mother could be there, too. By morning, it is as if a winter prayer has been answered. Bearing a message of hope, healing, and everlasting love, a miracle has arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional
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One Hamlet Less (1973)
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The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental
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King Lear (1982)
Plot Summary:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Macbeth (1983)
Plot Summary:
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: artsy
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Gawain and the Green Knight (1991)
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One Christmas, a knight garbed all in green appears in King Arthur's Court and challenges any knight to hew off his head on the proviso that he be allowed to return the axe stroke afterwards. All of King Arthur's other knights being frightened, Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and hacks off the green knight's head. The green knight then gives Gawain a year to find his home and live a little before the cut is returned.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: arthurian
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Westender (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in a fictional medieval world, this is the story of Asbrey of Westender. Once a great heroic knight, he has mysteriously fallen from grace. One night he drunkenly bets and loses his ring, his last possession of worth. He then embarks on a mission to regain his ring and, in due course, confront the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, exciting, captivating
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The Christmas Dragon (2014)
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Medieval Europe: Father Christmas is a fading memory, after Christmas hasn't come for several years. A young orphan girl, Ayden, receives a magic crystal from a dying elf, with a warning that the North has lost its magic, and that she alone can save Christmas. Ayden and her orphan friends begin a perilous journey and must escape dragons, goblins, bandits, ogres, and other fantasy creatures as they team up with Airk, the wayward son of Father Christmas, to return a stolen Christmas orb to the North. When Santa's magic cannot overpower the growing Snarl (an evil forest with tentacle branches), Ayden and Airk must deliver Christmas on a sleigh pulled by a young dragon, fulfilling Christmas wishes for children to restore Santa's magic and save Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)
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A heartwarming tale about young Izzy who is not happy about having to move from the big city to the country when her family takes over an old farm. Things change for Izzy when she finds a small white pony named Snowflake and becomes convinced that the horse is a real unicorn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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A Heavenly Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she’s assigned a hard luck case. As she’s forced to help solve his problems, she’ll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, sweet
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Finding John Christmas (2003)
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When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister (Valerie Bertinelli) becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank (William Russ). With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max (Peter Falk), a Christmas angel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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A Christmas Carol (1977)
Plot Summary:
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: spiritual, christmas horror, independent film
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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Plot Summary:
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional
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The Christmas Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Plot Summary:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas special, gothic horror, christmas horror, sentimental, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious
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Northpole: Open for Christmas (2015)
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A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of elves headed by the cheerful Clementine, who helps Mackenzie rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous
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Three Days (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can't change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating
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The Sound of Silence (2019)
Plot Summary:
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, emotional, dark, poignant, depressing, bleak, stylized, cerebral
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Petite Maman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has heard so much about. One day, her mother suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a fort.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, talky, psychedelic, art house, independent film, teen, feel good
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Nine Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, philosophical, unusual plot structure, melancholic, inspirational, spiritual, surreal, existential, disgusting
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 182000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning, contemplative, thought provoking, art house, visual, touching
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Queen of the Damned (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light, suspense, stylized, dark, bleak, psychotronic
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Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Plot Summary:
A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all something to believe in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, uplifting, humorous, semi serious, independent film, light
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