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Plot Summary:
"A" is a 1998 Indian Kannada language blockbuster psychological love story film written and directed by Upendra. It starred Upendra and Chandni as the lead couple. It was about an unusual love story between a film director and an actress which was narrated through multiple flashbacks within flashbacks and reverse screenplay. The film dealt with various dark truths of film world like the casting couch. Due to the reverse screenplay, the audience were forced to watch it multiple times to understand the story. The movie generated a lot of attention, which began with its rather unusual name. Then there was the subject matter, which dealt with the love affair between a director and his heroine and the dreaded casting couch. The movie discovered human emotions through a different dimension and showed how emotions change with circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: kannada, psychological thriller, cult classic, cult film
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The Last Land (2016)
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In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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Dharma Durai (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dharma Dorai.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
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Karz Chukana Hai (1991)
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Alcoholic, arrogant, and a slacker, Atmaram, though coming from a poor family, has visions of grandeur, and believes that everyone else is subordinate to his wishes and instructions. This lands him in hot water with his employer, Seth Usman, and as a result he loses his job. Unable to support his family, namely his wife, Laxmi, and two grown sons, Ravi and Vijay, he starts living at home, dependent on his sons' incomes. Then fate delivers a cruel blow to Atmaram, leaving him alone and desolate. He decides to atone for his mistakes, but will he able to convince others of his good intentions, who are weary of him, and fear that this may be another ploy on his part to fool them again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: India
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Pinjra (1972)
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A respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Daddy (1989)
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Daddy was 1989, debut film of actress Pooja Bhatt, made under the direction of Mahesh Bhatt. The films boasts spectacular performances by its lead actors, Anupam Kher and Manohar Singh.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
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On the Nickel (1980)
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feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his old friends living on Los Angeles' skid row (Fifth Street - hence the film's title). Eventually finding his best friend, "C.G." (Waite), still living on the nickel, the two men reminisce, and Sam gets a fresh look at the lifestyle he had once vigorously abandoned. The film is a multi-level odyssey through the slums of L.A., as well Sam's personal ruminations as he re-evaluates the nostalgia he had felt for the free and bohemian lifestyle of a street person.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Upendra (1999)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: kannada, psychological thriller, cult classic, avant garde, cult film
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Paper Star (1989)
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Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
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The Woman Who Left (2016)
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After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As kidnappings targeting the wealthy begin to proliferate, Horacia sees the opportunity to plot her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, black and white
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Chakra (1981)
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Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by smugglers. Left alone to fend for herself and her little boy, she desperately tries to instill moral values in her son in spite of the immorality of life all around them. She is indirectly aided in this effort by a dubious hero-type, but there does not seem to be much hope for her future and that of her son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: art film, parallel cinema, ambiguous ending
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Garm Hava (1974)
Plot Summary:
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: retro, art film, insightful, parallel cinema, banned, cult film
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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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Round Trip (1978)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecutions, and a constant struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
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Avalude Ravukal (1978)
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Raji is forced into prostitution to support her brother's education after their parents' death. She falls in love with Babu, who faces social ridicule after their affair becomes public.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
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Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
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The Punishment (1976)
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In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min
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Come the Morning (1993)
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In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things start to turn around for them when the mother meets a Christian missionary.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Plot Summary:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic, campy
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Scent of Gardenias (1992)
Plot Summary:
Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
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Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: art film
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Fathers (1989)
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The film takes place in the first half of the 1960s. The protagonist of the picture is a young worker of the apparatus, Vladimir Novikov, a charming, educated, energetic person - a thriving functionary. Novikov has a young sweetheart - student Tanya, whom he never marries (he has a family, two children). At the shock Komsomol construction in Siberia, Novikov must eliminate the conflict that has arisen between the Komsomol organization and the leadership. He does this with his inherent cold meanness, as an experienced provocateur. And here comes the main character - the father of his beloved Tanya, Ivan Dronov, a working man, the embodiment of a pure, moral principle. That is why he was given the right of retribution. Novikov is the defiler of values, holy for Dronov and his generation - the generation of people who defended their homeland from fascism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min
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Desert Blue (1998)
Plot Summary:
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next few days with the various residents of the town which include a teenage girl who loves to blow things up and a boy trying to keep alive his fathers dream of building a beachside resort in the middle of the desert.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, romantic, road movie, sexy, clever, feel good
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Om (1995)
Plot Summary:
A 1995 Kannada film.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: kannada, cult classic, cult film
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Spadikam (1995)
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Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low grade, he leaves home. After 14 years, Thomas returns to his village,now the owner of a stone quarry and a rowdy who has a number of unresolved cases on his head. How the father and son realize their mistakes and bonds together forms the rest of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Godfather (2012)
Plot Summary:
A 2012 Kannada film.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003)
Plot Summary:
A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers,.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, India
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, dark, social, art house, sexual, mind blowing, bleak, realistic
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The Yellow Scarf (2000)
Plot Summary:
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Slaves (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Ungrateful (1973)
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Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike.. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, contemplative, surprise ending
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Hamlet (1964)
Plot Summary:
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, breathtaking, melancholic, dramatic, affectionate, witty