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Plot Summary:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
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Ride Above (2022)
Plot Summary:
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Daughter of Mine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating
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The Beach House (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after losing her job in Chicago. There, she reconnects with her mother Lovie, who has been caring for her young, pregnant friend Toy in her charming beach house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing
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Godland (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Kuessipan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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I'm Not Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, rough, touching, melancholic
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A Woman's Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, period drama
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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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South Mountain (2019)
Plot Summary:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, romantic, disturbing
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Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, sad, art house, realistic, surprise ending, extraordinary
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Heal the Living (2016)
Plot Summary:
It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, social, existential
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The Ideal Palace (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), is a simple postman who travels every day along the Drôme, from village to village. Alone, he is upset when he meets the woman of his life, Philomena (Laetitia Casta). From their union Alice was born. For this child he loves more than anything, Cheval then throws himself into a crazy gamble: to build her with his own hands, an incredible palace. Never spared by the ordeals of life, this ordinary man will not give up and will devote 33 years to build an extraordinary work: "The Ideal Palace".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, captivating, contemplative
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Since Otar Left (2003)
Plot Summary:
The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family's adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, harsh, sentimental, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, light, enigmatic, depressing
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug dealers. Very much in love, Annette is confident that he’ll get a hold of himself as soon as they return to Paris. But back in France, Victor relapses into his bad habits. After a violent dispute, Victor moves into the room of a junkie he has fallen in love with. Annette leaves Victor and disappears with Pamela. 11 years later: Pamela is 17. She lives in Paris with her mother. One day, she learns that her father lives in the same city. She decides to see him again. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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On the Black Hill (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, realistic, family saga
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My Zoe (2019)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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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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Dream and Silence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, serious, gloomy
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The Adopted (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a customer at her bookshop. Lisa is left feeling excluded, and tension develop. But soon an unexpected accident forces all of those involved to reassess the situation and adopt a different position in each other’s lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere, crying, indie film, humorous, semi serious
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After the Wedding (2006)
Plot Summary:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic, light, serious, contemplative, thought provoking, existential
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sincere, psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, talky, emotional, uplifting, artsy
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Never Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, fairy tale
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A Simple Heart (2008)
Plot Summary:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephew Victor. But fate seems to always deny her from any love in return. Still she tries to find someone who'll accept her unconditional love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
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Hidden Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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In America (2002)
Plot Summary:
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, serious, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, independent film, realistic
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Plot Summary:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
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Household Saints (1993)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: period piece, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, cult classic, sad, romantic
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Hunting and Gathering (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, light, sincere, thought provoking, touching, sweet, clever
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, melancholic, contemplative, heartbreaking, sad