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Plot Summary:
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing
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The Justice of Bunny King (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Oscuro animal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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True Things (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, crying
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Care (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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I still hide to smoke (2016)
Plot Summary:
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Angel Face (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Skate Kitchen (2018)
Plot Summary:
Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, social, art house, art film, teen, aesthetic, interesting
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Nordrand (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Ama (2021)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are evicted from their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Deep Water (2019)
Plot Summary:
A modern day look at family through the eyes of three women as they work to balance work and life pressures.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, dramatic
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The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The lady and the girls settle down in a country mansion, to form a relationship that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Accident (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Welsh community devastated by tragedy is forced to confront difficult truths amid the search for justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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About Sunny (2011)
Plot Summary:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological, independent film, sincere, touching, bleak, gloomy
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Just Charlie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, emotional, disturbing, crying, queer cinema
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Invisible Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, erotic, political, stylized, art house, existential, visual
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Feed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, teen
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The Saver (2015)
Plot Summary:
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, contemplative
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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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Lena (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, ambiguous ending
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Underdog (2014)
Plot Summary:
23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life is caught in deadlock - Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive loop of temporary jobs, financial trouble and hard partying. A broken arm incidentally leads to a position as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home. Dino is thrown into a reality very far from her own. During a few sultry summer weeks she ends up the centre of an odd love triangle, an unpredictable struggle for affection as well as dominance. "Underdog" is a tender and raw story of privilege and longing, yet at the same time a humorous and unmerciful observation of the shifted power balance between Sweden and Norway - an actuality where Swedes have become the Norwegians' servants.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious
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Belgica (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, sexy, captivating
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Amanda (2018)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old David lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off – just for a while longer – the time to make more serious decisions. This solitary daydreamer succumbs to the charm of Lena, a newly arrived neighbour. But the relaxed pace of his life shifts up a gear when his elder sister is brutally killed in an attack. He must then take charge of his seven-year-old niece, Amanda.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, social
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation process, leaving Ava to face consequences both at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Juanita (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sincere
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Future Weather (2012)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy, sentimental, serious, independent film
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Snow in August (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Plot Summary:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must work to overcome racial and other tensions in their classmates, and in themselves, if they hope to keep their friendship alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional
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