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Plot Summary:
Leon, a young bootmaker tends not to have relation with others for some reason. But when he meets Sona, a drunken Korean lady at his favorite park, everything around him starts to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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Is Harry on the Boat? (2001)
Plot Summary:
On Ibiza, tour rep Brad is determined to win the informal competition among the male reps to sleep with as many female clients as possible, while his friend Mikey is looking for true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Save Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
Anna faces everyday problems in her Greek life. Her previous "man" left her debts, the new guy approved not to be the right one, in addition to these she loses her job and indeed needs somebody to rescue her!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Winter Land (1997)
Plot Summary:
Valdivia is a notorious drunk in a Patagonian dead-end town. His current job is to deliver a golden sheep for the mysterios Sr. Ramenfort.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Magic Box (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Dreamland (2015)
Plot Summary:
Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman, who will become his model. But Thomas has violent panic attacks and nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Up to Date (1989)
Plot Summary:
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Three Stories of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, anthology, crying
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Villon's Wife (2009)
Plot Summary:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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The Birdwatcher (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Plot Summary:
Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
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Naked Pursuit (1969)
Plot Summary:
Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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John A.: Birth of a Country (2011)
Plot Summary:
A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To Leslie (2022)
Plot Summary:
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: cerebral, crying, beautiful
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Intentions of Murder (1964)
Plot Summary:
Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, tense, bleak, disturbing, erotic, freeze frame, avant garde
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Love After Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Americana (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Yes&Yes (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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The Key (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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1/1 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lissa, a twenty-year-old girl trapped in rural Pennsylvania, grapples with sex, drugs, love and loss. When a possible pregnancy forces her to take a hard look at her life, both her and the structure of the film mature, illuminating a brighter path ahead.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Empty Rooms (2001)
Plot Summary:
"Empty Room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around the city parks. Highly stylised and with a film noir feel, Empty Room is a fine example of how Japanese Pink cinema has developed into a genre all of its own." "A highly beautiful and erotic piece of art…with ‘Empty Room’, Pink Cinema has finally come of age.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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4:30 (2005)
Plot Summary:
"4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience and appreciation of solitude. "4:30" starts with Xiao sneaking to the room of Jung in the early hours of the morning, and stealing from the Korean man. Just as getting intoxicated is a habit for Jung, who only staggers back to his rented room when drunk, soon stealing for Xiao Wu becomes equally as compulsive. We soon realize that Jung's true intention for staying in Singapore is suicide. It is only through Xiao's encounter with Jung failing in his bid to die that he begins to understand his true fascination with Jung.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Midnight Bus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, manga
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April Bride (2009)
Plot Summary:
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating
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The Story of Ong-nyeo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ong-nye had a world of men wrapped around her finger, until, one day, a horrific injury leaves her handicapped, and she retreats to the mountains. But one man may break her loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Perfect Education 6 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the escape, he meets a girl named Akiko. He hides in her house. Later on, Fumiya and Akiko fall in love and have sex. After that, he finds that the house owner Shin kidnapped Akiko whem she was a little girl and has kept her in the house for over a decade. Fumiya is determined to take her away from Shin's brutal confinement. A battle of wills between jailer, prisoner and accidental savior begins….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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One Million Yen Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
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Blindly in Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. However, the pair soon run into unexpected obstacles. Nahoko is vision impaired and can’t seem to break free of her doting parents. Meanwhile, Kentaro has no idea how to deal with the surge of new emotions he’s feeling.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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Life and Death on the Shore (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an elementary school teacher on Kakeromajima and she has feelings for Saku.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: captivating