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Plot Summary:
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, period drama
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Adoring (2019)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells 6 stories of how people interact with their pets to find love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Garden of Evening Mists (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period drama
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A Christmas Stray (2021)
Plot Summary:
A man finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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MY NEIGHBOUR MARTiKA (2021)
Plot Summary:
The gap between the rich and the poor has widened beyond repair. While the rich minority enjoy the delights of life, poor folk exist in a perennial state of squalor. They are distracted, confused, with nothing to do but quarrel over their plight and think about the never-ending pursuit of a better life obtained through the collection of money. For Alyona and her neighbour Martika, the end of their friendship begins here. With polar opposite personalities, they slowly disintegrate from realism to idealism, forgetting the trust they once shared, allowing desperate circumstances to inflict constant loneliness and inducing a never ending cycle of torment.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, epic, dark
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses. Revolving around The Midnight Bell, a public house off the Euston Road, this mini-series follows the painful pursuit of love from three different perspectives. Barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who yearns for penniless street-walker Jenny (Zoe Tapper). Bob's colleague Ella (Sally Hawkins), who is torn between the attentions of an older, wealthier man and her secret desire for her barman workmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, period drama
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Pelican Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nikko is a twenty-something man with good friends, a passion for birdwatching, and self-destructive tendencies. When he falls back into a relationship with Stevie—his seductive, aggressive environmental activist ex-girlfriend he first encountered on a suicide website—his stable existence takes a turn towards chaos once again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pink (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Seven Days of Himawari and Her Puppies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, suspense
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Mr. Pig (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. After smuggling in the hog, his estranged daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and embark on an adventurous road trip together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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One Night in Oslo (2014)
Plot Summary:
On the Eve of The Norwegian Day of Liberation - a whole nation is gearing up to get drunk and disorderly. Sam and Amir, two 15 year-old boys, have decided their night is going to be an epic. The boys have known each other almost all their lives, and are closer than brothers. But the next 24 hours will test the bonds of brotherhood. Sam has fallen for Thea, Amir's ex-girlfriend. He knows he has to tell Amir, but doesn't know how. When Sam finally summons up the courage to confess, Amir's reaction is far worse than he could ever have imagined. The long night turns into chaos as Amir embarks on a revenge-fuelled journey of violence and destruction. Can Sam and Amir forgive each other or is this the end of their friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Escape from Polygamy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently-widowed Leann and her 17-year-old daughter Julina move into an isolated polygamous compound, where the freethinking Julina meets like-minded Ryder, son of the religious compound’s charismatic Prophet, Ervil.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Young Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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California (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses when he returns thin, weak and ill. Between crises and discoveries, Estela will face a reality that will forever change her way of seeing the world..
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, vintage
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Messages from the Sea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, islamic, sincere, serious
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Honokaa Boy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Nuvve... Nuvve... (2002)
Plot Summary:
Vishwanath (Prakash Raj) is a millionaire whose daughter is Anjali (Shriya Saran). Vishwanath loves his daughter very much. So much that he even buys her an Icecream Parlor when his daughter asks him for an ice cream. What Vishwanath expects is a son-in-law who will never oppose him in any matter. Rishi (Tarun) hails from a middle class family. His father played by Chandramohan owns a departmental store. He is a good hearted but happy-go-lucky guy. Anjali happens to join the college in which Rishi is her senior. Soon, they fall in love with each other. On one such occasion, Rishi takes her to Mumbai for dinner. Anjali fakes off the issue with her father that she was with her friend. But unfortunately, Vishwanath calls that friend up when Anjali was missing. He tells him that Anjali went to Mumbai with someone called Rishi. forget her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Soulmate (2016)
Plot Summary:
30 year-old working woman Li Ansheng’s life in Shanghai is suddenly disrupted by the publication of a novel, entitled “Qiyue and Ansheng”, a chronicle of her friendship with Qi Yue during her youth. Coupled with an accidental encounter with Su Jia Ming, a past love, her long repressed memories are unleashed with the force of a tsunami. The two girls seemed destined to become friends from the moment they entered high school. Though they were inseparable and believed that their bond would last for the rest of their lives, the cruelty of youth eventually led them to separate paths. Even more shocking is the discovery of a long buried secret shared by the women – a secret that serves as an emblem of their youth and the proof of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad
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A Tale of Three Cities (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Everything Before Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Department of Emotional Integrity (DEI) documents all relationship activity. A 'relationship score' is given to keep people accountable for their choices. The score is public for all to see, and affects various aspects of daily life. Two couples, teenagers and early 30s, face different but intersecting challenges in their relationships within the rules of the DEI.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Life and Death in the Warehouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Battlecreek (2017)
Plot Summary:
Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Winter Solstice (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, art film, existential, road movie
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Drakkar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and a boy live apart men, with just dogs ans internet for company. In their isolation, they try to live their love as freely as possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, erotic, hot
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Young Adult Matters (2020)
Plot Summary:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and cruelty of the world. Nevertheless, their naivety and pureness to endure through the hardships of life will stir complex emotions that will question your judgment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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August Never Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
A story revolving around two friends with very different personalities - the no-nonsense and rebellious Weiyang and the idealist 'Princess' Qiao. When Xiao Qiao met Weiyang, the two easily became close friends. However, Xiao Qiao's fiancee Chao Yan can't help himself as he falls deeply in love with Weiyang, which crushes Xiao Qiao's fairytale love story. Just as the three are entangled in a world of complications, Weiyang makes a surprising decision.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Little Dorrit (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 357 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, epic, independent film, period drama, masterpiece
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Porcupine Lake (2017)
Plot Summary:
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Kids in Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, psychological, teen
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by Tang Xiaomi. Rumors have become a sharp weapon to destroy people. Yi Yao's life falls into darkness, and she suffers all kinds of cruel bullying at school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure