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Plot Summary:
Wah Sang was a boxing champion seven years ago. He now works at a garage and cares for his seven-year-old son Henry. They live a small apartment and Wah spends much of his time gambling and drinking. Henry wants Wah, whom he addresses by that name him to return to boxing, but Wah is hesitant because he suffered a brain injury.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
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Familiye (2017)
Plot Summary:
Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Dariya Dil (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chided by his family for being the absolute miser, wealthy industrialist Dhaniram (Kader Khan) loves his money as a mother loves a child. This does not auger well with his two sons, Ajay and Vijay (Shashi Kiran and Raj Kiran respectively). The two sons despise their father and find various ways to entrap him, but in vain. Dhaniram gets in the bad books of Income Tax Officer, D.O. Gogi (Shakti Kapoor), and as a result Gogi is arrested and imprisoned. His sister, Dolly (Roshini) and brother, Gulu (Gulshan Grover) both scheme a devious plot that will ensure the death of Dhaniram, and the control of his wealth will rest with them and Gogi.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
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Northern Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
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Men's Group (2008)
Plot Summary:
What lies in the hearts of men.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
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Hierarchy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of Californians experience loss, despair and desperation over the course of seven days before Christmas. A boxing underdog must face the truth about his uncertain future, a blocked novelist struggles to create a new work admist a suspicious movie proposal, and an engineer with a secret must sell his business plans before it puts his marriage and career in serious jeopardy. With a self-imposed, mounting pressure, their actions and decisions push them deeper into a void of self-doubt and misery leading to one last hope to start fresh again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Thursday (1964)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Jockey (2021)
Plot Summary:
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Bosch & Rockit (2022)
Plot Summary:
As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
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Between Summers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against her husband. Since none of them know what to do with their feelings, they start to drift apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min
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Top Coat Cash (2017)
Plot Summary:
After losing a major fight, a professional MMA fighter returns home from Vegas, where he reunites with various individuals from his past - including a father/son duo who recruit him to engage in their daring bank heists.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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The Stonebreaker (2020)
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After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
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R#J (2021)
Plot Summary:
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Build a House, Plant a Tree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Juvaj Jakubiskoʼs first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
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One Second Champion (2020)
Plot Summary:
How much difference does one second make? Can it be the difference between life and death? A loser single father learns that lesson the hard way when he becomes gifted with the power of seeing one second into the future. When his ability is exposed, a boxing buff persuades him to use his power in the boxing ring. After reviving Hong Kong’s vampire genre as the co-director of Vampire Cleanup Department, Chiu Sin-hang (also the lead vocalist of local band ToNick) combines the boxing genre with a refreshing dash of fantasia in his thrilling solo directorial effort.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
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Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher (1989)
Plot Summary:
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of attempts on Jo-Ann's life follow, most of which don't succeed. Finally one does, and the arrogant Thatcher believes he is above the law and immune to prosecution. But his arrogance proves to be his undoing, as Crown Counsel Serge Kujawa builds a case against this psychopathic monster for 1st-degree murder - charging that Thatcher hired someone to kill his wife. The true story of one of the most disturbing stories of murder-for-hire in Canada. - IMDb.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 156 min
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Whose Daughter Is She? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Whose Daughter is She?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Red Thread (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Revoloution (2006)
Plot Summary:
A violent, street-fighter becomes a communicator.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974)
Plot Summary:
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Our Son (2023)
Plot Summary:
When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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The Hammer (2017)
Plot Summary:
When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
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Walker Payne (2006)
Plot Summary:
A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, gloomy
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Turn the River (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, realistic, serious, gloomy, crying, detective, neo noir
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Children of Love (2002)
Plot Summary:
Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, cinema verite, fake documentary
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The Greek Tycoon (1978)
Plot Summary:
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, vintage
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After This Our Exile (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Shiba (1993)
Plot Summary:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Summer Snow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hallie Benson is a small girl with a big heart. Unfortunately, her creative ways of helping often create a mess. Dan Benson doesn't cook, do hair or know how to help his three children without his beautiful wife and her unshakable faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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The Good Father (1985)
Plot Summary:
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, suspense, independent film
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The Champ (1979)
Plot Summary:
The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be The Champ.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sad, emotional, heartbreaking, neo noir, tear jerker, heartfelt, weeping, sincere, uplifting