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I, Claudius (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tracing the lives of several Roman emperors, this is an epic of ruthless ambition, shocking debauchery and murderous intrigue set in one of history's most fascinating eras. Bearing witness to the saga is Claudius, whose stutter and limp have marked him a fool - yet whom prophecies have foretold will one day rule Rome
Duration: 669 min
IMDB Rating: 8.8/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Plot tags: ancient, roman empire, ancient rome, political intrigue, ancient history, intrigue, ancient world, antiquity, politics, emperor, royal family, medieval, roman soldier, power struggle, roman emperor, incest, shakespeare, historical event, ambition, dictatorship, head of state, historical character, female nudity, peplum, lawyer
Dark (2017)
Plot Summary:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town
Duration: 1455 min
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
IMDB Votes: 429000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, disappearance, alternate dimension, deja vu, small town, loss of father, mysterious disappearance, butterfly effect, corpse, time traveler, family crisis, family relations, conspiracy, nuclear waste, apocalypse, school
Haikyu!! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shōyō Hinata began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama. However, Kageyama is also on Kurasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Plot tags: volleyball, friendship, stubbornness, friends, youth, prodigy, rivalry, against the odds, follow your dream, sport team, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, high school, ambition, power relations, revenge, lgbtq, adaptation, competition, teamwork, tournament, training, slice of life, bromance
Westworld (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged
Duration: 62 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 525000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, human android relationship, wild west, cyberpunk, stalking, imaginary, love, female protagonist, role playing, using others, danger, workplace intrigue, workplace, androids and robots, immorality, hacker
Bosch (2014)
Plot Summary:
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 remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”
Duration: 51 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: police, determination, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, police investigation, murder, suspicion, coworker, homicide detective, father daughter relationship, lapd, danger, cop, police procedural, evidence, superior officer, riddles and clues, murder trial, legal, criminal, murder mystery, whodunit, stephen king, swat team
Generation War (2013)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well
Duration: 270 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Plot tags: world war two, holocaust, nazism, military, friendship, war, nazi germany, danger, against humanity, eastern front, atrocity, friends, wehrmacht, soldier, group of friends, guilt, anti semitism, enemy, nazi soldier, world war, wartime, nazi, resistance, nurse, military life
American Crime Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminals
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Plot tags: courtroom drama, true crime, murder, crime investigation, courtroom, legal investigation, police, racism, society, gay, legal action, lawyer, criminal, district attorney, investigation, trial, celebrity, witness, testimony, lgbtq, legal, serial killer, killer, death, designer
Green Wing (2004)
Plot Summary:
Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Although set in a hospital, it uses no medical storylines; the action is produced by a series of soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters. They proceed through a series of often absurd sketch-like scenes, or by sequences where the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasizing the body language of the characters. The show has eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames production company for Channel 4. The series ran between 3 September 2004 and 19 May 2006. A special episode was filmed with the second series, which was shown as a 90 minute long special on 4 January 2007 in the UK, but was shown in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006. Separate from the series, a special sketch was made for Comic Relief and screened on 11 March 2005. Another was performed live at The Secret Policeman's Ball on 14 October 2006
Duration: 65 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Plot tags: hospital, doctor, love triangle, love affair, workplace, comedy of errors, fall in love, workplace romance, nurse, prank, boyfriend, staff, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, surgery, sexual attraction, male female relationship, workplace humor, medicine, medical, humour, aspiration, satire, colleague, weirdo
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987. As in The Two Ronnies, elaborate wordplay and innuendo were staples of its material. It frequently broke the fourth wall; characters would revert into their real-life actors mid-sketch, or the camera would often pan off set into the studio. In addition, the show was punctuated with non-sequitur vox pops in a similar style to those of Monty Python's Flying Circus, often making irrelevant statements, heavily based on wordplay. Laurie was also seen playing piano and a wide variety of other instruments and singing comical numbers
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Plot tags: sketch show, sketch, humour, asexual, musician, comedian, satire, media, yuppie, silly humor, artists and showbiz, joke, british, surrealism, monologue, absurdism, social satire, comedy team, singing, cross dressing, duo, british humour, song, musical number, actor playing himself
Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, Kagami and Kuroko aim to take their team to the inter-high school championship - against Kuroko's former teammates
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Plot tags: basketball, youth, contests and competitions, friendship, teenager, rivalry, hopes, ambition, lifestyle, sport competition, champion, adaptation, bromance, dishonesty, flashback, show, teenagers, adventure
Travelers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Plot tags: time travel, time traveler, artificial intelligence, time machine, police detective, consciousness, time paradox, changing the future, sent to the past, post apocalypse, teamwork, alternate timeline, mind control, hopes, legend, undercover, supernatural, existence paradox, superhero, apocalypse, survival, time, psychopath, paradox, political conspiracy
In the Flesh (2013)
Plot Summary:
Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?
Duration: 56 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Plot tags: epidemic, gay lead character, zombie, suicide, small town, society, infected, undead, gay, family reunited, cemetery, teenager, zombie apocalypse, survival, brother sister relationship, fighting the system, discrimination, family relations, back from the dead, friendship, lgbtq, supernatural, rehabilitation, love, politics
Into the Badlands (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: martial arts, warrior, danger, post apocalypse, master warrior, murder, death, heroes, fantasy world, enlightenment, vengeance, blood, brutality, chase, escapades, lesbian, distopia, superhero, betrayal, orphan, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wasteland, supernatural power, power struggle
Berlin Station (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Plot tags: spy, secret service, cia, whistleblower, undercover, espionage, terrorism, partner, government official, partners against crime, twists and turns, strong female lead, gunfight, politician, law enforcement, terrorist plot, tough heroes, terrorist, agent, investigation, intelligence, 007, conflict, terrorist attack, syrian war
Dark Matter (2015)
Plot Summary:
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: outer space, space travel, time travel, memory loss, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, androids, distant planet, survival, friendship, danger, erased memory, spacecraft, betrayal, amnesia, martial arts, female fighter, escapades, spaceship, criminal, mercenary, warrior, space, dystopia
Lockwood & Co. (2023)
Plot Summary:
A girl with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London
Duration: 44 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Plot tags: supernatural, ghost, investigation, ghost hunter, psychic power, young adult, survival, alternate reality, supernatural power, danger, grief, ptsd, teenager, hindi, ghost hunting
Glitch (2015)
Plot Summary:
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Plot tags: supernatural, small town, death, husband wife relationship, resurrection, new life, nothing goes right, life & death, cemetery, heroes, friendship, murder, danger, police officer, psychopath, paranormal, judiciary, australian aboriginal, woman with a gun, fantasy life, witchery, police detective, rural setting, fantasy world, female nudity
Falling Skies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, military, apocalypse, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens, danger, worldwide chaos, vestiges of humanity, invasion, heroes, father son relationship, supernatural power, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, chaos, supernatural