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Plot Summary:
Lucía is a six-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she has a penis. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
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The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2022)
Plot Summary:
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
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Souvenirs intimes (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min
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The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
Plot Summary:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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North Star (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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The Lowlife (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
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Marion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Daughter of Rage (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to the outskirts of the city and leave María to work at a recycling factory. The days go by with no sign of her mother's return. María feels abandoned, confused and angry. One night she meets Tadeo, a kind and romantic boy determined to help her find her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Hive (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, political, social
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I Want to Be a Woman (1977)
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José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve. However one of the acts is a pre-operative transsexual, and there is a full frontal exposure at the end. Father has arranged that after the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, social, entertaining, crying, queer cinema
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The Bird of Happiness (1993)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, a woman dedicated to the restoration of works of art, suffers a sexual assault shortly after being reunited with his only son. But she suffers from psychological disorder does not affect the man she lives. Deeply disappointed, he decides to embark on his own journey to the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Tree of Blood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, deep
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Top Girl or la déformation professionnelle (2014)
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Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she’s also increasingly annoyed with her job. Meeting David offers her an opportunity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Dazzled (2019)
Plot Summary:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Raise Ravens (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, odd, masterpiece
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Joyland (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Martin (1997)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) brings the troubled teen live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Elisa K (2010)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change comes over Elisa -- her mother (Lydia Zimmermann) notices she seems distant and withdrawn, and her teacher (Pep Sais) watches as she grows disinterested in her studies and her grades drop dramatically. Fourteen years later, Elisa (now played by Aina Clotet) is a grown woman who suddenly and unexpectedly recalls the traumatic event changed her life when she was a girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sunday's Illness (2018)
Plot Summary:
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, beautiful
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Youtopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Solitary Fragments (2007)
Plot Summary:
Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative, no music
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52 Tuesdays (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, rough, lgbt cinema, social, emotional, realistic, queer cinema
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Melting Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His father, with the silent consent of his mother, locked the door. At present, 4 years later, Gallia turns to an investigation agency to help her find her son Assaf and bring him to Shlomo, his father who is dying of cancer. One night, at a night club in Tel Aviv, Assaf is seen performing as a beautiful transgender lady singer who goes by the name of Anna. After a few days a private nurse turns up at Shlomo's room at the hospital, sent as she claims by the insurance agency to assist Shlomo. The nurse is Anna (his son Assaf) and she manages to conquer Shlomo's heart by her charming personality and her special attitude toward life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, sincere, serious
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The Sex of the Stars (1993)
Plot Summary:
Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ever see them again, and many of these things are bitter indeed. In this story, Camille (Marianne-Coquelicot Mercier is such a child. Her father (Denis Mercier) left years before, and now she is thirteen. Stargazing appeals to her as a hobby because "stars have no sex." Surprisingly, her father does reappear, but now he is a "she." This casts a pall over their reunion, and Camille is forced to come to terms with her new father, and cannot renew a relationship with the man who (in his view at least) never was. Her mother (Sylvie Drapeau), however, is not about to be easily reconciled to this transformation. This story is based on a novel by Monique Proulx, a relative to the better known Annie Proulx.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Never Die (2012)
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Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, fairy tale
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April, May and June (2019)
Plot Summary:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tammy's Always Dying (2019)
Plot Summary:
A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Steaming (1985)
Plot Summary:
Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Parallel Mothers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: dramatic, sincere, psychological, suspenseful, tear jerker, hispanic, postmodern, queer cinema, weird
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Normal (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, sexy, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, contemplative