Best movies like The Winter of Our Discontent
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Plot Summary:
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like The Winter of Our Discontent (1983):
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No Big Deal (1983)
Plot Summary:
A school takes on a troublesome boy from juvenile hall, in order to try to help him settle back in to normal life. But everything seems to be mounted against him, including a drunken mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
Plot Summary:
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Act of the Heart (1970)
Plot Summary:
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Breathing Lessons (1994)
Plot Summary:
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Secrets (1995)
Plot Summary:
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their daughter. Her granddaughter is the family's maid. When a visiting friend of Etta's arrives for a visit both she and the maid are attracted to him. When he seems to prefer the younger woman (the maid) the other woman is very jealous and when the maid becomes pregnant by him the older woman vows to make that child her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Travis McGee (1983)
Plot Summary:
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Madame Bovary (1969)
Plot Summary:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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All the Winters That Have Been (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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I Walk the Line (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tawes is the sheriff in a godforsaken little hole somewhere in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings he starts having an affair with her. But in small town nothing is secret for long.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Pact (2002)
Plot Summary:
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, sad, cult film
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Dear Zoe (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tess enlists her biological father - a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks - and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Play It As It Lays (1972)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Ordinary Magic (1993)
Plot Summary:
When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cockfighter (1974)
Plot Summary:
Warren Oates plays a world-weary gambler trying to make big money cockfighting. Always on the road, he works inside and outside the rules to try to work up to the biggest fight of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cynical, psychotronic, independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, cult film
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, experimental, independent film, silent, silent film
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Family Pictures (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sylvie and Maggie are strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon discover a shocking secret that threatens to tear both families apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Native Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, disturbing
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Timepiece (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, Kilner's family life is in disarray with various crises including his daughter catching meningitis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic
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The World Made Straight (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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A Rumor of Angels (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, esoteric, independent film, realistic, talky
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The Runaway (2000)
Plot Summary:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the town's new sheriff, Frank Richards (Dean Cain), to reopen the investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. While the town would prefer that the truth remain hidden, the sheriff pursues the case, determined to see justice prevail. The Runaway is a stirring story of how friendship, determination and conviction can generate racial change in one heart or an entire town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Going Home (1993)
Plot Summary:
Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, non-linear
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The Face on the Milk Carton (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book by Caroline B. Cooney, a girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and she sees herself on the back! Could her parents really have kidnapped her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Keeping the Promise (1997)
Plot Summary:
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to safeguard their claim, the boy relies on his new friendship with the Penobscot Indians for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, historical drama
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence on Amy, spoiling their relationship. Their bond gets tied again when Isabelle discloses her inner secrets from the past to Amy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Of Mice and Men (1981)
Plot Summary:
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Ordinary People (1980)
Plot Summary:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, depressing, realistic, sentimental, compassionate, crying, serious, existential, inspirational