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Plot Summary:
Zbigniew Gasior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with the ladys, he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. The shattered dreams of his friends are not really a help, to ease his existential pains.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
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Revenge (1983)
Plot Summary:
Polish Psychological Drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Womanlight (1979)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political
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Heads on Fire (1989)
Plot Summary:
Film by Erwin Michelberger.
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Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Blues (2012)
Plot Summary:
A modern adaptation of Cocteau's classic play "The Human Voice": A woman is waiting for her ex-boyfriend's last call.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Glass Labyrinth (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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I Knew Her Well (1965)
Plot Summary:
Adriana, a young woman from the provinces, moves to Rome in order to become a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: depressing
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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
Plot tags:
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I'm Looking at You, Mary (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: dread
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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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Green Hat (2004)
Plot Summary:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Gromozeka (2011)
Plot Summary:
In present day Moscow three childhood friends in their forties - former school band players - live their everyday lives of a police officer, a taxi driver and a surgeon. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal, love and ageing are told in parallel. In fact, unknown to our heroes, their paths cross and their lives become connected. But they are not aware of it even when they reunite for a breaking performance at their graduation anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Matthew's Days (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min
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Love Me Do (2003)
Plot Summary:
A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Moth (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan (Roman Wilhelmi) is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people who call in with their problems. He is dedicated to helping these lonely souls but becomes increasingly disturbed when his co-workers and supervisors at the radio station do not appreciate his program; they seem unable to grasp the importance of what he is doing. Aside from that, Jan's private life is frayed around the edges. His wife is a heavy drinker and his mistress has no comprehension about who he is or what he is doing. Jan's frustration over this lack of recognition builds to an explosive level, threatening to upset the balance of his daily life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Spiral (1978)
Plot Summary:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Machete Language (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ray and Ramona is a young couple in their 30s. They hate the injustice of the social context they are part of. Each from their own niche Ramona as a musician, Ray as an activist tries to fight for a more just world. Devoted to self-sabotage, Ray fails in his rebellion and drags Ramona into a downward spiral that culminates in an act of poetic terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Booking (2009)
Plot Summary:
Feature film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Austrian Method (2006)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to convince the high school girl to quit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
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Part 2, Sounder (1976)
Plot Summary:
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hurt (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues including depression, alcoholic parents, peer pressure, academic pressures and thoughts of suicide. All the while the school counselor Professor Shepard is doing his best to meet their needs and see that their futures are well prepared for. However, despite all the direction, the right questions are not asked and one of the students slips through the cracks. Mandy, Dan, Jason, Eli or Asia commits to a school shooting...and despite their hardships, no one sees it coming.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Entwinement (2013)
Plot Summary:
Michaela loses her job and her life starts to fall apart. Her flatmate Stephanie as always is there to support her. After they meet two men, Michaela start to rebuild her life as Stephanie 's starts to unwind into a destructive climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, light, captivating, sexy
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Suzie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This child and her own troubled past lead her down a surprising road. In French with English subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Cheech (2006)
Plot Summary:
Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy
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Secrets of a Married Man (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man (Shatner) going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one (Shepherd) and he thinks he has it all. That is until her pimp starts hounding him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Report (1964)
Plot Summary:
1964 Finnish drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Maya Dardel (2017)
Plot Summary:
An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hope Bridge (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen
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The Girl from the Wardrobe (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, silent, cute, offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious
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Strawberry Shortcakes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the eponymous josei manga by cartoonist Kiriko Nananan, the pic follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. The main characters, impeccably played by four powerful actresses, are modern, self-sufficient women and their stories are told with mild irony and a dash of melancholy. The result is a movie that is lighthearted at times, a little sad at others, crazy and sometimes serious, but always special, that investigates the psychology of its characters and offers an accurate depiction of urban Japan, thanks to its director’s know-how. While many overly ambitious directors struggle to tell even one fairly comprehensible story, Yazaki skillfully weaves a powerful depiction of not one, but four women, creating an indissoluble and moving whole that doesn’t succumb to sentimentalism.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, anthology, poignant, feel good, semi serious