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Plot Summary:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, suspense, gloomy, tension
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The Tree (2010)
Plot Summary:
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional, romantic, stylized, romantic drama, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Rashevski's Tango (2003)
Plot Summary:
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, humorous
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Wings of Glass (2000)
Plot Summary:
Vingar av glas är en svensk film från 2000 regisserad av Reza Bagher, det var hans debutfilm. I huvudrollerna ses Alexander Skarsgård som en "vanlig svensk kille" och Sara Sommerfeld som en invandrartjej. Det blir problem mellan dem.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, teen
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To Take a Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fill the Void (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, sincere, serious, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Rock the Casbah (2013)
Plot Summary:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, islamic, gloomy
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Villa Touma (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film
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Next to Her (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rachel, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabby, 24, all by herself. When the social worker finds out she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, she is forced to place her in a day-care center. For the first time in her life she shares the upbringing of her dear sister with someone else, her daily routine collapses and the huge void, left by her sister's absence, makes room for a man in Rachel's life. That man, Zohar, tears another crack in the symbiotic relationship of the two sisters. Rachel hangs on to his love as if it was a life belt. But her inability to lead a normal, intimate and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister, forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing and torturing – are broken.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, weird
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A Borrowed Identity (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Passover Fever (1995)
Plot Summary:
Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad, gloomy
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All the Way Home (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Yellow Asphalt (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, crying, intercultural, inter cultural
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Jaffa (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, gloomy
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Or (My Treasure) (2004)
Plot Summary:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, psychological, sincere, bleak, realistic, erotic, depressing, gloomy, crying
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Campfire (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, crying
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After Him (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle s'attache à Franck, le meilleur ami de celui-ci, qui est aussi le responsable du drame. Les proches de Camille ne comprennent pas son attitude. Le vide se fait autour d'elle. Qu'importe le scandale, Franck devient l'objet consentant de son affection. Mais il va prendre peu à peu conscience que l'obsession de Camille le met en danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, sexy, gloomy, sexual, queer cinema
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Quiet Chaos (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day. Written by Peter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, contemplative, erotic
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Inheritance (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
Plot Summary:
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, thought provoking, touching, social, art house, detective, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Sacred (1999)
Plot Summary:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: philosophical, thinking, sincere, clever, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, controversial, gloomy
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Family Tree (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Late Marriage (2001)
Plot Summary:
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, clever, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, crying
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Two Gates of Sleep (2010)
Plot Summary:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Broken Wings (2002)
Plot Summary:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, depressing, lyrical, stylized, sentimental, serious, sincere, realistic, talky
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The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Plot Summary:
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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Three Sisters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, captivating, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film, period drama
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Things Behind the Sun (2006)
Plot Summary:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, touching, sincere, serious
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My Father My Lord (2007)
Plot Summary:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional gap between the impish child and the stern father. When the father's all-consuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy, his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God. A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, captivating, sad, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative