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Plot Summary:
The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: social
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Indivisible (2016)
Plot Summary:
Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole family. Kept isolated from the rest of the world by their own father who just exploits them in order to make money, their life turns upside-down when one of them falls in love for the first time and they discover that they can be separated.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Braid (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three women Smita, Giulia and Sarah from different parts of the world who have never met but they are bound by something intimate and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Sins of the mind (1997)
Plot Summary:
A typical American family - photographer father, two talented daughters, Michelle an accomplished commercial artist with a clear upward career path. Then she has an auto accident, and the head trauma leaves behavioral changes. The part of the brain involved in impulse control is damaged (but the lesion is not visible on the usual CAT scan, and psychological tests are not done). Michelle has no control of her sexual impulses, and changes to 'a thief, a liar, and a whore' as her eventual therapist puts it. The family is broken apart, her sister and mother leave, but the father remains convinced that the daughter he loves is in there somewhere. It is a long and harrowing road to understanding of her sex addiction, and the end is not certain, but hopeful.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
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Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social
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A Wedding (2016)
Plot Summary:
Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Pakistan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, anthropological
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Night Comes On (2018)
Plot Summary:
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, rough, independent film, queer cinema
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House Of Himiko (2005)
Plot Summary:
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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M (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, captivating
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A Colony (2018)
Plot Summary:
Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, stylized, art house
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Normal (2023)
Plot Summary:
14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Dazzled (2019)
Plot Summary:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Miss Impossible (2016)
Plot Summary:
They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for their first show. Everyone seems to know what she should do and how she should act. And it’s not like 13-year-old Aurore has any fundamental problem with changing herself either. Who would want to be like this: unhappy, ugly and emotionally withdrawn? But the others don’t seem all that much happier to her either. She definitely doesn’t ever want to be as old, rundown and lonely as her mother. And so she prefers to stay the way she is, to observe and make her biting comments on whatever comes her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Ciambra (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio sets out to prove to his brother that he is as good or better than him but, when things go wrong, a series of events will forever change the way he sees the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neorealism, psychological, tense, suspense, contemplative, sad, art house, crying
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Pearl (2020)
Plot Summary:
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling
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Not My Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social
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My Happy Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house, existential, cerebral, crying
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18 Presents (2020)
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Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, touching, sad, compassionate, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional, deep
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Four Good Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, touching
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Mediterranea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating, melancholic, political, independent film, crying
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Real Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. 14-year-old Frida blames her father for their mother's leaving and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. 17-year-old Niki will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can't help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic
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In Bloom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, social, art house, transgressive, sincere, queer cinema
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Misunderstood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, stylized, cult classic
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As They Made Us (2022)
Plot Summary:
Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, touching
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Do it Right (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, semi autobiographical
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My Mother (2015)
Plot Summary:
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, existential, crying
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Sisters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining