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Plot Summary:
Two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme learn how to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, crying
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Not of This World (1999)
Plot Summary:
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spiritual, psychological, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Boardwalk (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Parental Guidance (1996)
Plot Summary:
A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, cult classic, experimental, independent film
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Family Prayers (1993)
Plot Summary:
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Sofia (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sad, crying
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Partisan (2015)
Plot Summary:
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and the commune’s way of life disintegrating, the residents fear a violent resolution is at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, sincere, gloomy, independent film, crying
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Gloria Mundi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, talky
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Holy Lola (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
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Arrhythmia (2017)
Plot Summary:
Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Finland, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: art house, depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sad, crying
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The Way Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap," which is racism, the society's prejudices, exclusion from opportunities to obtain legal work, the lack of necessary qualifications, difficult communication with officials, debts and the miserable life conditions connected with the environment, lifestyle and traditional values of their ethnicity. David wants to protect his family, even at the expense of committing a crime. But Zaneta finds inner strength to defy the unfavorable situation in a different way. Will they overcome the existential problems that start to take apart their relationship? Is it worthwhile for them to continue to Honor their own values and family traditions? And will their "way out" be only another "escape" for them, or a promise to change their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, touching, bleak, gloomy, crying
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Consequences (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, social, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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So B. It (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sad
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The Benefactor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, contemplative, tricky
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In Safe Hands (2018)
Plot Summary:
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, feel good
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Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, deep, existential, weird, beautiful
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Earth Mama (2023)
Plot Summary:
With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
Plot Summary:
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: non-linear, period piece, touching, offbeat, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Well, Come On, Smile (1985)
Plot Summary:
Well, Come On, Smile focuses on a girl who runs from an orphanage. The film presents a sobering depiction of newly built urban environs and addresses formerly taboo problems such as alcoholism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Ostia (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet sheep. When a girl is raped by her father, she is brought by young "rescuers" to the home of the two brothers who then watch their friends take advantage of her sexually. The brothers take her in, and the three live happy and celibate if not uneventful lives until the brother's are sent to jail for stealing.The ending has a real life resemblance and makes you wonder, what P.P. had foreseen.. Screenplay, Davoli, Franco and Sergio Citti, aesthetics etc.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, black comedy
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Term of Trial (1962)
Plot Summary:
Weir, an alcoholic schoolteacher, whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career, is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. The one person who appreciates his shyness and warmth is one of his pupils, Shirley Taylor. After Weir offers to give her free private tuition, the pupil slowly falls in love with her teacher leading to accusations of molestation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: crying, detective
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System Crasher (2019)
Plot Summary:
The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, emotional, social, sad, intense, crying
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Psychobitch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, crying
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The Cleaner (2015)
Plot Summary:
Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending, crying
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Head Burst (2019)
Plot Summary:
Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, he decides to isolate himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, psychological, tense, suspense, crying, lgbt cinema
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Filthy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret night- time adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not simply about coming of age, but a struggle with herself. Others misunderstand her, and will never quite get her. It is Lena who must grow up and realize that she is not the one who deserves punishment and should feel guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, crying, non-linear
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The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, meditative, atmospheric, emotional, surreal, disturbing, compassionate, touching, psychological
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The Midwife (2017)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
Plot Summary:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, thought provoking, sexy, sad, hood, cult classic
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James White (2015)
Plot Summary:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, mumblecore, weird