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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Brotherhood of Chaos (2013)
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In the late Qing Dynasty, Tang Ziyi, Gu Renyi, and Suo Zhiyi are sworn brothers. They are bandits at first and then become righteous men who eliminate the rich bullies in the eastern Liaoning Province. At the beginning of the Republic of China, they join the Northeast Army, and begin to fight against Japanese who invade China's territory and oppress Chinese people. Although China is feeble at that time, Chinese soldiers are brave and powerful. They successfully defeat Japanese many times. After the "September 18th Incident", thousands of Northeast Army soldiers enter Shanhaiguan. The three men lead their forces to the mountains and begin guerrilla warfare with Japanese force. This story is all about ups and downs. The relationships between those characters are complicated and intertwined. Besides, the patriotic spirit demonstrated in this drama is very touching. How will the three brothers choose between brotherhood and love affairs? How will they choose between personal interests and.
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Genere: War
Country: China
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Love with a Case (2022)
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Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the Administration Bureau, Sesuna Tsumiki from the Community Safety Bureau, and Ruka Kotori from Accounting. All from different departments and carrying their own baggage, the four join forces. They’re not exactly what you would call champions of justice. They’re not even ambitious enough to go for success. All they want is the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Dakota (2007)
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Brian and Jack were inseparable; now they barely speak. Their formerly close-knit group has all but disbanded in the wake of encroaching adulthood. But when Jack tries to hang himself from a plant hook while house-sitting, he inadvertently triggers an impromptu reunion that brings the old gang back together and could change everything. Forever. Welcome to DAKOTA: friendship, fistfights, concussions, quarter-life crises, blow-ups, breakdowns, toy guns, telemarketing, love, lies, and breakfast - all in someone else's home. In this dark, offbeat comedy everyone comes together to examine what went wrong. Along the way, they may just remind each other what went right.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
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I Order You (2015)
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Yeo Gook Dae is a talented chef who is sassy and considerate but heartbroken in the past since his divorce. His heart later on gets healed when he falls in love again. 28-year-old Park Song Ah is idling at home after quitting her job. She goes to a homemade dosirak (lunchbox) shop as her brother’s request and meets three attractive men there. The pretty and delicious food that they make touch her, and she gets her heart stolen by one of them. A cute funny story about a couple who bicker constantly but their relationship gradually blossoms into pure innocent love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Born in a family of delinquents, Nanba Tsuyoshi is expected to succeed as the strongest delinquent in school. Unbeknownst to his family however, he decides to enroll in the top high school in town to live as a normal high schooler. Can he maintain his double life as the strongest delinquent in town and as a normal high schooler?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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If There Is No Tomorrow (2020)
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I Am Yu Huanshui is a story for the underdogs about a man who tolerates as much as he can, yet things change when he discovers that he is terminal ill.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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New Life Begins (2022)
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Because of a marriage election, girls from all over the world gather in Xinchuan. Yin Zheng, the sixth young master of Xinchuan, and Li Wei, who only wants to lose the election and live comfortably in her hometown, accidentally meet. There, a new interesting and fun chapter of their lives start. As Yin Zheng opens his house and goes to court, the two of them gradually grow closer, and spend everyday through all four seasons together. They grow together with other siblings of different personalities and fates, writing the warm daily life of the Xinchuan family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: costume drama
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Television reporter Sun Yihe, corporate manager Ren Ran, the optimistic Dingding and single mother Xue Kairui are all on the cusp of turning thirty and have reached career bottlenecks. Their love lives don’t go too smoothly either, as all sorts of conflicts and problems start to surface when they begin dating.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Modern Men (2006)
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Three single men and lifelong friends hire a life coach to help them with their love lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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The Underclass (2020)
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After getting dropped from an elite program, a student gets tangled in the affairs of a high school gang while trying to find her own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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dele (2018)
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Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late father. At the request of clients, Sakagami works together with a freelance jack-of-all-trades Mashiba to delete all unfavorable digital records of their clients left in their computers and smartphones after they die. They are not supposed to see inside the files but when they feel something strange in the client’s death, they cannot help getting involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister. This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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In the bustling center of Hong Kong, five women reckon with betrayal, unrequited love and other matters of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8
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Country: Hong Kong
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Voice (2009)
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A group of five medical students take on the task of conveying the "voices of the dead." Kaji Daiki fails to get into a popular heart surgery seminar but is somehow accepted into a seminar on forensic pathology. When he approaches professor Sagawa and asks him why he ended up in the seminar, Sagawa challenges him by asking why he wants to study heart surgery. Daiki replies that medicine is meaningless after the heart stops, but Sagawa counters that medicine also applies to the dead. And so, together with fellow students Ryosuke, Kanako, Teppei and Akira, Daiki begins to explore the mysteries of death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Situ Jing, a mischievous free-thinking lady, and her companion, A Ling, go on a series of adventures. She does not know that she is a princess of the former royal family. To protect her family's reputation outside the home, Situ Jing dresses as a man and calls herself Xiao Long Xia. Concerned about the plight of the refugees which the officials have been ignoring, she comes up with various schemes to help them. Emperor Zhu Yun has been steadily working on consolidating the empire that his father had left him. A monk once gave him a puzzle, telling him that whoever solves it will help him with the problems of the empire. He escapes from his palace to wander around the city with his companion. He befriends Xiao Long Xia after he realizes that the money she has conned and stolen from others is being spent on the refugees. When Xiao Long Xia solves the puzzle, he decides to maintain closer ties with her. The Lord of Yunnan's sister was the previous queen who drank poison and died when the last dynasty was attacked. His son, Bai Yun Fei is betrothed to Princess An Ning, sister of Emperor Zhu Yun. An unlikely friendship develops between the Emperor, Xiao Longxia and Bai Yu Fei, each pretending to the others to be someone else. Palace and court intrigues, rebellion and assasination plots abound. (Source: DramaWiki).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Be With You (2020)
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A young cartoonist intentionally gets near Ji Yan Xin, a cold and arrogant professor. Qi Nian, a girl with a straightforward personality hopes that interacting with Ji Yan Xin would give her inspiration and creative materials for her comic plot. Coincidentally Ji Yan Xin’s younger brother Ji Si Qi becomes Qi Nian’s assistant and a catalyst for their relationship to progress and blossom.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tsundere
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Shanghai, 1927. A deduction genius pairs up with a detective and a newspaper reporter to solve mysterious cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Live (2018)
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The police officers at South Korea's busiest patrol division toil day and night as keepers of law and peace -- but the reality is far from orderly.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, dorama, sincere, tense, captivating, realistic
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Boon (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, semi serious
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Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum! (2020)
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The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, suspense, humorous, surprise ending
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Following on from This Is England ’86 and ‘88, this much-anticipated final chapter finds the gang embracing the rave scene of a new decade. But the utter hilarity and unadulterated joy of the second ‘summer of love’ soon gives way to a war torn winter. As the stark reality of life takes hold and, ultimately, takes life.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, retro, rough, bleak, gloomy, period drama
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Mad Dogs (2015)
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When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, dark comedy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bad Kids (2020)
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A story that follows three children from a coastal town who unintentionally film a murder scene. As the kids become involved with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far more complicated than it looks and entraps several families into an unpredictable outcome.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Unusuals (2009)
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The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated: The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, detective, anime, psychological thriller, realistic, psycho film