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Plot Summary:
In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to Anna, and like Anna, slowly loses all sense of time and self.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
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Glass (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Glass" Is a film about a young man, Atlas, and his continuous struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's. Seen through his eyes, his life is a puzzle he desperately tries to piece together. His condition deteriorates, loved ones are forgotten, and Atlas's broken mind persuades him to love a girl from his past that may or may not exist. He forgets everything else but her. This is a struggle that many people all around the world face every single day. We want to raise awareness and open minds with this film. This beautiful story of family, love, and illness is an unflinching look at early-onset Alzheimer's like it has never been seen before.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
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I Know How to Knit (2016)
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The story of Tanya, who is suddenly hit by a feeling that her existence is hopelessly devoid of meaning, is set in St. Petersburg. The city landscape provides the backdrop for Tanya's ups and downs as she takes drastic action, gets into scrapes and grows up as a result of the trials - both deliberate and accidental - that she faces.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
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Summer Rain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Agathe and Paul, on holidays with their children. On a bridge, at the edge of a cliff, a forgotten wallet. A thought, and then dizziness.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
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Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 54 min
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Eiszeit (1975)
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Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Norway
Duration: 115 min
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Cassiopeia (2022)
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Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in to help Su-jin take care of Gina. The three live together for some time, until one day, Su-jin gets into a car accident and receives an unexpected diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
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The Death of John L. (1988)
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Zbigniew Gasior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with the ladys, he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. The shattered dreams of his friends are not really a help, to ease his existential pains.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
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The Ties (2020)
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Naples, early 1980’s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without love. Now, 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, realistic, complex
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Mindshadows (1988)
Plot Summary:
Feature based on the novel by J. Bernlef. A Dutch couple who have emigrated are confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada. The film is an account of the man's fight within himself and the story of his wife, who feels abandoned but keeps giving her love. –filmcommission.nl.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Monday's Child (1967)
Plot Summary:
A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression in this down-beat drama, the directorial debut of Argentine filmmaker Torre-Nilsson.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: political
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The Sting of Death (1990)
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Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
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South (2004)
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Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Radiance (1998)
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With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the house for the first time in years. With time to talk, drink and fight, past hurts are revealed and family secrets come out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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French Blood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, tense, bleak, disturbing
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Suzie (2009)
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Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This child and her own troubled past lead her down a surprising road. In French with English subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
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The Best Years of a Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film, revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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It's Only Talk (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35 year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
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Mark of an Angel (2008)
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Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, emotional, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, stylized
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Tomorrow and Thereafter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Forget Me Never (1999)
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Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Beautiful Memories (2001)
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Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, offbeat
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The Field Is White (2002)
Plot Summary:
When things are not going well for John Taylor, he reads his journal and reflects on his missionary life and his companion Elder Alma Johnson. They try to teach people about the gospel and want to give lessons, but the people are not interested. They do teach a lady named Melissa, but does not think she can be baptized. The other missionaries try to make life bearable by having fun and living together. Finally, Melissa learns the lessons of the gospel and knows the church is true and gets baptized.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bayo (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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What They Had (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic, sad, cult classic, crying
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The Fire Within (1963)
Plot Summary:
Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: philosophical, depressing, art house, independent film, existential, bleak, touching, sad, anthology, powerful
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Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Plot Summary:
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, emotional, captivating, independent film, serious
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Away from Her (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, melancholic, sentimental, depressing, realistic, suspense, sad, intense, independent film, philosophical
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Still Mine (2012)
Plot Summary:
An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sweet
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Poetry (2010)
Plot Summary:
Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer's disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson's shocking wrongdoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, lyrical, sentimental, captivating, sad, art house, existential
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, serious, realistic, avant garde, contemplative, tense, inspirational, art house
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Still Alice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, inspirational, depressing, tear jerker, psychological, compassionate, sentimental