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Plot Summary:
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min
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Der Besuch der alten Dame (2008)
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In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 88 min
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Doctor Faustus (1982)
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A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Murmuring Coast (2004)
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During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Der Blaue (1994)
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In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
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The Beheaded Rooster (2007)
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A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min
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After Midnight (1981)
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The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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I Am the Other Woman (2006)
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Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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Everything Else (2016)
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After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she has even suppressed the loss of her daughter who drowned years ago. As her retirement approaches the walls of bureaucracy that have sheltered her from her pain begin to crumble. Doña Flor’s sense of self begins to awaken in parallel with the country beginning to erupt from excessive violence and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
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The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
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Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
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Rokonok (2006)
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Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
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The Vow (2007)
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1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in his prime, visits the nun′s sickbed as a simple "writer of the wonders of God" to take down her visions and beliefs. He believes himself to be in charge of his life as a devout Catholic. The former rake′s encounter with the charismatic nun proves fateful, however. For both of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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The Guardian Angel (1990)
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It is the turn of the century in Russia, and the revolution (at this time not yet a communist one) has sentenced government minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) to be assassinated for his role in quelling a student rebellion. To that end, they have arranged for one of their number, Jacob (Philip Zanden), to do the deed. In order to get close enough to accomplish this, he takes a job as the minister's secretary, and joins him and his family at his summer home. As he grows acquainted with the man and his family, he discovers that this is not a case of black versus white, but rather of varying shades of gray. Nonetheless, by the end of the film it is clear that no matter how much Jacob likes the man and his family, he is going to do what he believes to be his duty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
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The Way South (1988)
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A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, UK, Argentina
Duration: 89 min
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The Days Between (2001)
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Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
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Madame Bovary (1969)
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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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Liten Ida (1981)
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Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 78 min
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Hungarians (1978)
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A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min
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The Snow Goose (1971)
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Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
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Knife in the Head (1978)
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One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
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The Divine Nymph (1975)
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In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Requiem (1982)
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When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that of her previous husband, who died in prison many years earlier. It turns out that the young man had been his cell mate for a year, and he tells her the story of how her husband died. She then remembers (in flashbacks) how she had helped her first husband rid himself of his sexual repression, and how she had promised him she would marry her current husband if she were widowed. It seems her doctor-husband was a man who could remain untouched through any political climate, and was much admired by her first husband. Now that her memories have been awakened by the young man's account, she ignores the repeated phone calls of her current husband and decides to rid this young man of his own sexual repressions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
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Beyond Honor (2004)
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A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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October November (2013)
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Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 114 min
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She Deserved It (2010)
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Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Golden Years (2017)
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The plot revolves around newlyweds Paul and Louise, as World War I breaks out. After two years on the frontline, Paul maims himself and deserts his post. But how can he hide when he is condemned to death in war-torn Paris? Louise dresses him up as a woman. He becomes Suzanne, drags his wife around the debauched Paris of the Golden Twenties and earns quite a reputation for himself. In 1925, once he is finally granted amnesty, Suzanne attempts to revert back to being Paul….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: France
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
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Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
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The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min
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The Invention of the Curried Sausage (2008)
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World War II is grinding to a close, and middle-aged Lena Bruecker (Barbara Sukowa) is caught in the fallout of Germany's crushing defeat. Her husband is missing in action on the Eastern Front, her children are all grown and out of touch with her, and each day she has to hand out meager rations to the hungry at an Food Distribution Agency office with her co-worker Holzinger (Wolfgang Boeck). Lena spends her evenings waiting out Allied air attacks and sometimes going to the movies, and one night she happens to meet Hermann Bremer (Alexander Khuon), a German sailor. Hermann is on a short leave and is wary about returning to a dangerous assignment that seems increasingly futile. Lena and Hermann fall in love, and she offers to let him hide in her flat, but Lena's landlord Lammers (Branko Samarovski) is rabidly loyal to the Third Reich and will certainly turn Hermann in to the authorities if he discovers the deserter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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A Year Ago in Winter (2008)
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A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, sad, esoteric