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Plot Summary:
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: biting
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Echo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: art house
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The Immensity (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Maya (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a 30-year-old man named Gabriel, a French war reporter who was taken to hostage in Syria and then heads to India after months in captivity.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Up the Junction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Gone with the River (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dauna dared to be different. She faced the ancestral practices of her culture and she paid the price. She made decisions which made herself suffer and others as well. Without giving up before defeats and loses, these led her to reconcile and become part of a legend herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a traffic accident in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Singapore, Spain
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags:
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Susan Slade (1961)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: soap opera, cult film
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Secret Name (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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The Woman Who Left (2016)
Plot Summary:
After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As kidnappings targeting the wealthy begin to proliferate, Horacia sees the opportunity to plot her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, black and white
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Soleil battant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the couple’s past begins to rear its head. Emma is overwhelmed by a secret that is simply too big for her to keep, and which she has no right to share with her twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Plot Summary:
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Sophia Antipolis (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hot
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Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social
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Godland (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Murina (2021)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Wall of Words (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mother struggles to hold her family together after her son succumbs to a disease that leaves him disabled.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Lola and the Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, queer cinema
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I Am a Soldier (2015)
Plot Summary:
A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Raising Colors (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, sincere, semi serious
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Virgins (2018)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
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Henri (2013)
Plot Summary:
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The German Lesson (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: crying
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Angel Face (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Everything Went Fine (2021)
Plot Summary:
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Judgment (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Plot Summary:
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, art house, psychological, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, political, lgbt cinema, social, gay cinema
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Santa & Andres (2016)
Plot Summary:
Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, homoerotic
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Some of My Best Friends Are (1971)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious, crying, queer cinema