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Plot Summary:
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Tempting Fate (1998)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Spring (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man and his son stumble onto a modern-day fountain of youth while camping in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Drowsiness (2008)
Plot Summary:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Implanted (2013)
Plot Summary:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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Doctor Glas (1968)
Plot Summary:
Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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The History of Time Travel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic
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I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: existential, disturbing, anthology, avant garde, weird, cult film
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The Interns (1962)
Plot Summary:
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Those She Left Behind (1989)
Plot Summary:
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. Now in the aftermath, Scott not only has to deal with the loss of his wife, he also has the daunting task of raising his daughter all alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying
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Change of Mind (1969)
Plot Summary:
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Lazarus Syndrome (1978)
Plot Summary:
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a black doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: crying, tv series pilot, cult film
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All the Way Home (1981)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Generational Sins (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Callie & Son (1981)
Plot Summary:
Callie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Threshold (1981)
Plot Summary:
The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: philosophical, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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Swimming Upstream (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem of all... he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The only support he receives is from a sister who also lives a fractured life, his immature best friend, and his girlfriend. "Swimming Upstream" is a moving and honest look at life's painful realities and how this teen deals with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Heal the Living (2016)
Plot Summary:
It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, social, existential
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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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After Yang (2021)
Plot Summary:
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: melancholic, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, philosophical, underground film, cerebral, cult classic, visually stunning, futuristic, independent film
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The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Max Rose (2013)
Plot Summary:
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
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Days of Eclipse (1988)
Plot Summary:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: spiritual, poetic, avant garde
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Two Kinds Of Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two kinds of love are experienced by young Ricky Schroder in this made-for-TV drama. One kind is the tenuous affection he extends to his estranged father when Schroder's mother unexpectedly dies. The other kind consists of the teasing sensations felt by Schroder whenever he approaches a girl his own age.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Plot Summary:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, spiritual, mind blowing, poetic, twisted, eighties
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Monday Mornings (2013)
Plot Summary:
Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for the series. On May 10, 2013, Monday Mornings was canceled by TNT.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, medical drama
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Testament (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, disturbing, emotional, tense, apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
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The Doctor (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, uplifting, scary, depressing, sincere, serious, realistic