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Plot Summary:
A devout Rabbi-detective tasked with unchaining women whose husbands deny them of a Jewish divorce and a new life, finds out that in his own home, and his own wife, lurks a secret that threatens his world and marriage. Through the story of Yossef Mourad and his wife Hannah, Unchained takes the viewer into the closed-off world of the ultra-orthodox Haredi society, and touches on the most painful place in which Jewish-law clashes with modern life – the status of women in society.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
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State Rules (2017)
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After a former journalist, David Graziano, discovers confidential information transferred to him from Moran, the senior advisor to the Minister of Public Security, that his brother's death was actually the murder of Shavim as an accident, he decides to infiltrate the Knesset under a false identity. Who is responsible for the murder of his brother? Soon, my uncle's involvement in the Knesset offices leads to the revelation of a dark affair in which all the other parliamentary advisors are entangled and whose future will affect the future of the state.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Women Walk The Line (2022)
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A pair of post-90s besties have chosen very different paths in life. Upon graduation, one stayed in Shanghai to focus on her career while the other returned to their hometown to get married. In recent years, they encounter unprecedented difficulties. For many years, Yuan Ge has been married to her job and hasn't bothered investing in relationships.
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Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Emeralds (2015)
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La Victoria is a town that could well be defined as a green hell where the law of the strongest prevails, fueled by the greed that emeralds arouse. The Guerrero family will arrive at this place. Alejandro Guerrero, father of Ricardo, Eduardo and Olga Guerrero, is forced to take his family to this distant place, where the emerald boom produces episodes of blood and fire that are repeated from generation to generation. In the midst of this war, Alejandro will have to face Patricio Ortega, great Patron of the region, since his arrival, not only for having opposite principles, but also for having the misfortune that the woman most desired by the Patron, fixes his eyes and your heart on it.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration:
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Professional Secrecy (2021)
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40-year-old Julia Zurawska, after graduating from law studies in Warsaw, returned to her hometown, where she became associated with a local doctor, surgeon and gynecologist - Andrzej Zurawski. As a wife and mother of two daughters, she lives in her husband's shadow, devoting herself to her family and setting aside her own ambitions. Everything is about to change when she discovers a secret that will destroy her current world. The main axis of the plot will be Julia Zurawska's fight to clear her husband of criminal charges. Medical cases inspired by real events will allow you to delve into human stories and learn about the medical profession from different perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
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If Time Flows Back (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Lucky Days (2010)
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When laidback Ren, who is about to divorce his money-crazy wife, finds a time-traveling computer, he decides to use it to reboot his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 44 min
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Come Home (2018)
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Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children – the last taboo of parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Very Important Person (2014)
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Yehuda Levy, a famous actor and revered fear mature 35-year-old, suffers from panic attacks, binge eating and mood swings after a difficult separation. It meets the latest candidate to be a girl his wife and the two formed a special bond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, clever, realistic, witty
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A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower (2020)
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A beautiful coffee shop owner Zhong Meibao suddenly dies in a condominium at the Horizon Tower. When she died, her face still wore a doll-like makeup, hence the case was referred to as the "Doll Murder Case". This case shocks the whole tower, and after investigation the clues point to three suspects - security guard Xie Baoluo, architect Lin Dasen and property manager Lin Mengyu. All three suspects were enthralled by Zhong Meibao's beauty, and all had an intimate relationship with her. All the clue seem to point to the possibility of a love crime. However in the midst of investigation, new clues begin to emerge, and turns the focus to Zhong Meibao's complicated and painful youth. Her family, consisting of her step-father, mother, younger brother and foster mother, were implicated into the case. Just who could be the real murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Autonomies (2018)
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In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min
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Breaking Point (2011)
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BREAKING POINT follows a group of friends dealing with dreams, triumphs, and heartaches as day-to-day transitions and setbacks threaten their relationships and livelihoods.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Holy Family (2022)
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A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min
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My! Physical Education Teacher (2017)
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Young girl Wang Xiaomi falls in love with and marries a middle-aged P.E. teacher Ma Ke who has divorced and lives with a teenage daughter and a little son.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, dorama, lyrical
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Srugim (2008)
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Srugim is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 2008 and 2012. It was directed by Eliezer "Laizy" Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon. The series depicted the lives of five national religious single men and women who reside in Jerusalem; the title is a reference to the crocheted skullcaps worn by men of that denomination. Srugim, which dealt with controversial issues in the Religious Zionist society in Israel, caused a public uproar within that sector. It enjoyed high ratings and won five Israeli Academy of Film and Television Awards.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, talky
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Charlie Golf One (2016)
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A series taking place in an army medical center located in a remote military base and following the bizarre characters and occurrences in the center.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, medical drama
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Divorce Lawyers (2014)
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On top of waging wars on behalf of their clients, divorce lawyers Luo Li and Chi Hai Dong have major beef when it comes to their personal opinions on love and marriage: despite her profession, Li remains a hopeless romantic, while Hai Dong is the very definition of cynicism. But things get tricky when both colleagues discover they're new neighbors — will they object to their new relationship or will they find a way to settle their differences? So much for unwinding after work!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Valley of Tears (2020)
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On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
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Ten years of Marianne and Johan's relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married - unlike their friends Katarina and Peter who openly fight, especially when under the influence of alcohol - but there is a certain detached aloofness in the way they treat each other. In the next ten years, as they contemplate or embark upon divorce and/or known extramarital affairs, they come to differing understandings at each phase of their relationship of what they truly mean to each other. Regardless of if it's love or hate - between which there is a fine line - they also come to certain understandings of how they can best relate to each other, whether that be as husband and wife, friends, lovers or none of the above.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 283 min
Plot tags: psychological, dramatic, cerebral, tense, thought provoking, realistic, talky, erotic, philosophical, depressing
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Hide and Seek (2018)
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A secret exits surrounding two women. One woman is the successor to a cosmetics company and the other woman lives her life for the female succors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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StartUp (2014)
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Fifteen young ambitious people are all working together in an empty building, some also live there. They try to achieve the same goal: having a selfmade business. Despite having the same goal, they're different people with different opinions about how to reach their goal. One of them is Sterre de Vries, who initiated the whole thing. Her father (Bert de Vries) is the owner of the building. It's all there: ambitions, arguments, secrets, intrigues, friendship, family ties, romance, lust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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Civil Wars (1991)
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Civil Wars is an American legal drama that aired on ABC from November 1991 to March 1993. The series was produced by Steven Bochco, known for his work on NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues. After a brief syndicated run on the FX Network in the mid 90s, the series has not aired since.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021)
Plot Summary:
The loves, heartbreak, jealousy and pain of the three Armoza sisters – Luna, Rachelika, and Becky - their parents, grandparents and children, set during the early-mid 20th century in Jerusalem.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Shtisel (2013)
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The story of a haredi family in Jerusalem. Shulem Schtisel the father of a large family is dealing with his younger son who he wants to see married soon. His daughter, Giti is dealing in secret with marital problems while his other son Zvi Arie tries to patch everything up.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, talky, gothic, mysterious, sincere
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
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The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, thought provoking, touching, social, art house, detective, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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HaMidrasha (2015)
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Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Jerusalem Brew (2003)
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The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, identifying with his grandfather, Eliahu, who lives with the family and has close bonds and a strong influence. The middle child, Itzik, rejects both going into his father's business to be a musician; and Orthodoxy. Strong-willed, feisty Ariella is finishing high school and considering her options. Many scenes take place in the small Tunisian synagogue headed by Eliahu, and involve the power struggles among the regulars there. The gut-punching drama is largely the work of Oscar-winning director Yankul Goldwasser, who previously directed the popular series Reaching for Heaven; and young director Nir Bergman, who won the Israeli Academy Award for his first film, Broken Wings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Winter Sun (2016)
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The winter sun; In the garden of his house on the day 7.dog twin brother, Mete and friends will witness an event that will change the whole life playing hide and seek with Efe April. The father, without telling anyone, to tell his father to see what is stored in the car. All household Efe while looking in a hurry to leave his father's home with a phone Harun al.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018)
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Hong Se Yeon works as a personal shopper. She is outgoing and a positive person, but she is betrayed by people whom she loved. She begins to take revenge on those who betrayed her. Meanwhile, Eun Kyung Hye is the only child of a CEO. Her life looks perfect, but she has a fear that she will get abandoned. Because of her fear, she has an impulse control disorder and gets compulsive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Adi: Zehra (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets and a terrible crime. The story is full of emotions of two mother praying for the same person. And Zehra then start living in Istanbul but there are secrets waiting in Istanbul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Saki (2013)
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From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to the flame... but where is the line drawn between the saint and the devil?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing