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Plot Summary:
A female doctor returns from the city to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia in the 1930s, intending to bring modern medical care to the area's impoverished and ill-educated residents. However, she finds herself going against the local "medicine woman," who believes that her simple, backwoods remedies and methods are sufficient and distrusts the new doctor's "big-city" ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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Before I Disappear (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: depressing, emotional, melancholic, surreal, independent film, sentimental, dark, indie film, touching, enigmatic
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The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
Plot Summary:
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
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Imprisoned (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Postales (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of Cusco, Peru, the lives of an American businessman and his family become irreversibly intertwined with those of a rural Peruvian family struggling day to day to survive. As the construction of a new hotel is finalized, both families are faced with the realities of our shifting world and the unexpected encounters that will change them forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: intercultural, sincere, touching, captivating, inter cultural
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Our House (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: powerful
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Cruel Instruction (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of 16-year-old Kayla Adams, whose mother, Karen is advised by the school’s counselor to send Kayla to get treatment at a youth residential treatment center after she gets expelled from school. Kayla arrives at the Utah facility on the same day as her roommate Amanda, a treatment program veteran who knows exactly what the girls were in for. Led by headmistress Miss Connie, the staff uses draconian methods including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line. After being pushed to their limits and stripped of their lifelines, including any ability to freely communicate with the outside world, the two young women must band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Loyalties (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Last Letter (2002)
Plot Summary:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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Iska's Journey (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is taken to an orphanage, which she hopes to flee.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Madame O (1967)
Plot Summary:
After being brutally gang-raped, a young girl grows into a woman with a double life: She's a well-to-do doctor by day and, by night, a revenge-driven streetwalker who uses sex as a weapon. That all changes when she finally falls in love and begins a new life with her husband -- only to discover that he has a troubling secret of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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The Village Had No Walls (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new world wears off he learns to appreciate life in the village and stops longing for home.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996)
Plot Summary:
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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The Bears and I (1974)
Plot Summary:
When a man adopts three bears, he faces one of the hardest decisions of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Kicks (2016)
Plot Summary:
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, hood, action adventure, suspense, social, mind blowing, aesthetic
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Men with Guns (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: existential, cult classic, tense, thought provoking, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Little Girl Lost (1988)
Plot Summary:
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Last Flight Out (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruthless drug lord, Ann won't abandon the people she has come to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, suspenseful, cliffhanger, exciting, realistic, independent film, christian film
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Passion in the Desert (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, erotic, fairy tale, romantic
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The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
As Colorado Springs' Commisioner, Sully opposes a deal to mine for copper to make electricity. In order to sway Sully's decision, Mr. Garrick threatens Sully. Sully and Michaela's daugther, Katie, is then kidnapped while the town celebrates Michaela's birthday. The search for Katie takes Sully, Micheala, and their friends on an adventure through Mexico that is filled with danger at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Hidden in America (1996)
Plot Summary:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crying, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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The Spiral Road (1962)
Plot Summary:
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: exotic
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America America (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: road movie, social, art house, existential, aesthetic, semi autobiographical, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic, erotic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, satirical
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Everybody's Fine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, sad, road movie, depressing, talky, heartbreaking, realistic
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, retro, action adventure
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White Squall (1996)
Plot Summary:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, touching, serious, rough, inspirational, feel good, nautical, anamorphic, profound