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Plot Summary:
A working-class boy struggles to find himself through a series of jobs and romances.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: poetic
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
Plot Summary:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Jack (1977)
Plot Summary:
Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack finally has an idea for his first book.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative
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Jasper's Ghost (1992)
Plot Summary:
11-year-old Jasper may just be starting puberty, but so far he has experienced a lifetime of emotions. On the day his beloved grandfather dies, he is charged with taking care of the elder's pet cat. The local town bully, Mourids however, has his own ideas on how to take care of the frisky feline and wastes no time with showing Jasper just what he thinks of cats. Enter Far, a significantly more mature girl who Jasper is attracted to. It's love at first sight for Jasper, but will Far return the puppy love or will Jasper find out the hard way that she is actually Mourid's girlfriend?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Story of Sin (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, beautiful
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The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon her arrival in Moscow. Thus, she is a bit at loose ends, and going back home is clearly not an option.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Floodhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Bath (2020)
Plot Summary:
A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min
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Children's Island (1980)
Plot Summary:
Reine is supposed to go to a summercamp called 'Childrens island' but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hotel. She thinks he is at the camp and he tells her he his. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounter on the path of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Charly (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Genesis Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic leader and a high-spirited student group are on holiday in Italy. The surreal adventures of these friends are a free-flowing, four-part "multi-sensual symphony," bereft of traditional story line. One national critic described the boys' anarchic revelry as a "dream-like descent from civilization into the chaos reminiscent of Lord of the Flies.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, art film, gay cinema
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There Should Be Rules (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mia and Mirjam are two 14-year-olds who live in a very dreary little town. Though not especially grown-up, they're both trying. Mirjam gets a head start by forming a relationship with an older man who says he loves her. Mia has a dad who drinks a little too much. Lucky for them that they have each other. Not forgetting Karl, their super-smart buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching
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The New Land (1972)
Plot Summary:
Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they arrive there, each family searches a place to build a home. Kristina and Karl-Oskar live a better life than in Sweden, even though Kristina is very homesick in the begin. Karl-Oskar's brother and his friend Arvid go to California to follow the gold rush. However, Robert returns sick without Arvid who died on the way to California. Robert gets no better and dies. Later, Kristina dies while being pregnant. Karl-Oska r gets much older than her but feels very lonely during his last years.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden
Duration: 202 min
Plot tags: epic, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, intercultural, period drama, inter cultural
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Sparrows (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
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Barndommens gade (1986)
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I en lille 2-værelses baggårdslejlighed, på Vesterbro i København, bor den 14 årige Ester (Sofie Gråbøl) sammen med faderen (Torben Jensen), moderen (Vigga Bro) og storebroderen Carl (Carl Quist Møller). Det er tidens typiske arbejderkvarter og lejligheden er uden nogen form for moderne bekvemmeligheder. Koks skal hentes i en mørk kælder, hvor hjemløse har søgt ly og logi for natten. Ester er en drømmer. Hendes ønske er at blive forfatter og hun skriver digte i det skjulte. Hun glemmer ofte tid og sted, når hendes tanker går på langfart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: period piece
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An Accidental Soldier (2013)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The German Lesson (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: crying
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Plot Summary:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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In Your Absence (2008)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and life in general. On a quiet country road just outside of the village, Pablo meets Paco, an oddly calm, well dressed stranger whose car just broke down. Nevertheless, he seems more interested in the boy than fixing his problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, surprise ending, captivating, disturbing, art house, tense, atmospheric, rough, realistic
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The Emigrants (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough. One of their children even starve to death. Thus, they decide to emigrate to the U.S. They meet a group of farmers with their families planing the emigration under the leadership of a banned priest. They sell everything and embark for the U.S. The journey on the sailing ship is long and tedious. Some of the emigrants will never reach the New World.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: epic, inspirational, romantic, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, rough, uplifting, touching, serious
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Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, weird
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Enclave (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Serbia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Plot Summary:
Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic
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Games of Desire (1991)
Plot Summary:
Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Summer I Turned 15 (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
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1st Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Plot Summary:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: emotional, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, compassionate, touching, serious, stylized, depressing, sad
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Cider with Rosie (2015)
Plot Summary:
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, semi autobiographical
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Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his catering company by burglarizing houses. John believes that bacon makes him happy. The future looms at the horizon but not all of them won't be there to see it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, captivating, contemplative, bleak, serious, romantic drama