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Plot Summary:
The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with his brother but life is difficult and his flock dies. Returning to the town he discovers his family in abject poverty. He procures a gun and, forced by his social predicament, resorts to banditry.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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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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The Family (2021)
Plot Summary:
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Mela (1980)
Plot Summary:
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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R.M.N. (2022)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: interesting
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The Scavengers (1969)
Plot Summary:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Good Ground (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with cancer travels to a remote wilderness zone in Northern Italy in search of an alternative cure. What she and her friend, Martino, find is a secluded paradise, but their arrival threatens its fragile existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Dog's Night Song (1983)
Plot Summary:
A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, underground film
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Madambi (2008)
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In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get his money back on the date agreed upon. The story takes a turn when a bank, named Grand Bank opens up in the village, offering to give out loans at very low interest. The manager of the bank is a young lady named Jayalakshmi. She has made her entry into the village with a very definite purpose. All this, plus the very different kind of bonding between Gopalakrishna Pillai and his mother, form the plot, which develops towards a very interesting climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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Splendor (1989)
Plot Summary:
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady). However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio (Piperno), which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time (the very first scene), he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional
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On the Wandering Paths (2023)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Striker's Mountain (1985)
Plot Summary:
A construction conglomerate, headed by a ruthless millionaire, wants to buy a ski resort that has been a family business for years, but the family does not want to sell. The businessman resolves to get the property, whether they want to sell it or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Jasper's Ghost (1992)
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11-year-old Jasper may just be starting puberty, but so far he has experienced a lifetime of emotions. On the day his beloved grandfather dies, he is charged with taking care of the elder's pet cat. The local town bully, Mourids however, has his own ideas on how to take care of the frisky feline and wastes no time with showing Jasper just what he thinks of cats. Enter Far, a significantly more mature girl who Jasper is attracted to. It's love at first sight for Jasper, but will Far return the puppy love or will Jasper find out the hard way that she is actually Mourid's girlfriend?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 75 min
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Terraferma (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, sincere, touching
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You Laugh (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Corpo celeste (2011)
Plot Summary:
After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative, gloomy
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Come to My Voice (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale
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Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Plot Summary:
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden his father has to bear as postman for the villagers, and the old postman is also deeply moved as his son relates his mother's anxiety as she waits for him to return home from every trip.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)
Plot Summary:
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, crying, entertaining
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The Mass Is Ended (1985)
Plot Summary:
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've all gleefully succumbed to the Deadly Sins, Moretti cannot even count on solace from his own family, a screwed-up aggregation which gives the word "dysfunctional" several new meanings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, cult classic, sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hell (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, erotic, islamic, bleak, non-linear
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Homeland (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Jiro Sawada was a sophomore in high school he was framed for something he did not do. Afterwards, he left his hometown in a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Jiro Sawada goes back to his hometown, when nobody is able to live there, and begins to live there again. His separated family begin to reunite.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Serpent's Way (1986)
Plot Summary:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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The Quispe Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Argentina
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, bleak
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The Four Times (2010)
Plot Summary:
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, surreal, emotional, realistic, contemplative, existential, philosophical, spiritual, art house
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Three Brothers (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Respiro (2002)
Plot Summary:
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, talky, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, art house, erotic
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The Man Who Will Come (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, twist ending
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When the Night (2011)
Plot Summary:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy