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Plot Summary:
The screenplay for Khibula was inspired by the real events taking place in Georgia briefly after the country regained its independence in 1991. Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, elected by the majority of votes, was driven into exile by coup d'etat. Even though he returned to regain power soon after, political clashes once again forced him to flee into the mountains. Based on the final chapter of the first President's life, the film starts off by following his journey accompanied and pursued by both friend and foe.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Georgia, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
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The Last Execution (2021)
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The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (2004)
Plot Summary:
An elderly Nenet woman in teepee on northern Russia's Jamal Peninsula recounts her early life betrothed to a deity for the entertainment of a blind young girl. In the Nenet culture, a girl child can be married to holiest of holies, Num, before or after her birth. Lonely old Numbd Syarda (which means, literally, 'tied to Num') entertains the blind young Ilne ('giver of life') with stories of how she became one of these chosen few.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
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Broad Peak (2022)
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After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Italy
Duration: 101 min
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Maixabel (2021)
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In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Unheard Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case seriously. While Hanni searches for a doctor who will take Magdalena’s symptoms seriously, her husband and sons feel neglected. Ultimately, Hanni will have to take on the government, and confront her childhood memories of grim courtrooms and dark halls. A family drama of forceful intensity, a courtroom thriller based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)
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The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sensual, biting, suspense
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My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud (1993)
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May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak, bloody, entertaining, melancholic, surreal, meditative
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Trudeau (2002)
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This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 208 min
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150 Milligrams (2016)
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In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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300 Miles to Heaven (1989)
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Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Poland
Duration: 105 min
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Alex: The Life of a Child (1986)
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Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
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Loro (2018)
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Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, atmospheric, serious, absurd, visual, cult classic
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Loro (2018)
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"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, factual, tense, captivating, controversial
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Il Divo (2008)
Plot Summary:
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, cerebral, controversial, realistic, intense
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In Bloom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, social, art house, transgressive, sincere, queer cinema
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Nanga Parbat (2010)
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Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, factual
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I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
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Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott- the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: christian film, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, exciting, inspirational, touching, sad
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Jeanne du Barry (2023)
Plot Summary:
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Russia, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 113 min
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Pasolini (2014)
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We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film, contemplative
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Born Again (1978)
Plot Summary:
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Father Stu (2022)
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The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, spiritual, thought provoking, independent film
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The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
Plot Summary:
After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, only to quickly find himself in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, factual, art house, cult classic, lovecraft, interesting
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The Good Lie (2014)
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A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough, tear jerker, philosophical, spiritual, social, entertaining
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127 Hours (2010)
Plot Summary:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, inspirational, breathtaking, psychological, intense, touching, unusual plot structure, depressing, motivational, thought provoking
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Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015)
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Dashrath Manjhi was a poor man from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. Life for him was a daily struggle for survival. He loved his wife, Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day, while climbing the mountain to bring him food, his wife slipped, fell and died. Overwhelmed by grief, Dashrath decided to carve out a path through the mountain, so that no one else would suffer his fate. For 22 years, all by himself, with just a hammer and a chisel, he hammered away at the rocks, till the path was carved out from the mountain.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: inspirational, realistic, psychological, captivating, poignant, art film, avant garde
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Joe Bell (2020)
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The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, talky, inspirational, road movie, thought provoking, anamorphic, crying, independent film
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Quills (2000)
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A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy, serious, intellectual, dramatic, sensual, melancholic
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Jackie (2016)
Plot Summary:
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period piece, heartbreaking, emotional, suspense, disturbing, political, sad, cerebral, exciting, motivational
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The Iron Lady (2011)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, touching, inspirational, period piece, historical drama, intellectual, costume drama, edutainment, informative
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Warm Springs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, realistic, political, captivating, historical drama, historically accurate, touching, serious