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Plot Summary:
Parkour is Marc Rensing's debut drama about a young man and his group of friends in an unnamed industrial town in Germany. The film is a captivating story of friendship, love, and jealousy and deals with Parkour, the physical discipline of training in which the traceur has to overcome obstacles within his or her path.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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School of Fear (1969)
Plot Summary:
A teenager mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Also known by the title "School of Fear".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Menorca (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hedonistic soccer mom embarks on a strange journey of self-discovery, seeking to reconnect with her estranged son by returning his pet rock back to the island of Menorca, Spain.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 81 min
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Other People's Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Black Bomber (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
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Herbert (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
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Alone (2004)
Plot Summary:
Maria is a student at the university of Essen, Germany, living and working in a gray, unpleasant, and anonymous environment. While she has little problem finding someone for a one night stand, she rebuffs her lovers in such a rude way that they actually don't know what's going on. But what seems to be a negative attitude at first glance is in fact much worse: Maria is suffering from borderline syndrome, a serious psychotic disease that makes her fail to develop a continuous, reliable personality, from her own perspective as well as from the perspective of those she meets. Then one day, she bumps into Jan, a student who falls in love with her without delay. He's awaiting a hard time when he has to learn how hard it is to stay loyal and faithful to a person who, in her own words, "has a different world inside of her head" and who feels that "there is something inside of me that eats me up.".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sad, crying
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Details (2003)
Plot Summary:
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, UK
Duration: 114 min
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Mercenary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Odyssey Saône, a young Wallisian of Caledonian origin, leaves everything behind to try his luck in France as a rugby player. Soane is thirsty for freedom, fighting for recognition that it lacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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Offside (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Cru (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Good and Bad at Games (1983)
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The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
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Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Missing Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes silently plays a professional killer, who does not look at the cards. Never laying an excuse, is the Dortmund crime scene commissar Jörg Hartmann in the role of a shameless swindler. Because all three want to cash in on the life insurance, begins a game of fraud and extortion, in which also the red light milieu interferes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Virus of Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A swim instructor dealing with a child terrified of the water is accused of inappropriate behavior -- but the stories offered don't line up, leaving parents suspicious and doubtful.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
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Kamouraska (1973)
Plot Summary:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blushing Charlie (1970)
Plot Summary:
Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: homoerotic
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Accounts (1983)
Plot Summary:
The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
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Blind Spot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but rarely uses it. Instead he has kept it a shameful secret, hidden even from Viveka, his fiancée. But when his ability to control his gift gets out of hand, his life, friendships and relationships will be forever turned inside out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)
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Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father, while establishing unexpected connections along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Wild (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young man sometimes acts like a dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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She Deserved It (2010)
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Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Let The Old Folks Die (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Personal Search (1973)
Plot Summary:
Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min
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Pretty Far from Okay (2017)
Plot Summary:
Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be grown-up and successful. With her diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, she is stuck between the careless days of college and real life. When her best friend Lotte gets a respectable job and becomes pregnant, Isi realizes that she needs to find a way to start living a life on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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True Blue (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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This Sporting Life (1963)
Plot Summary:
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, existential, mind blowing, twisted, sincere
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When Saturday Comes (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Running Brave (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: inspirational, period piece, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Breaking the Surface (2006)
Plot Summary:
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sensual, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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