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Plot Summary:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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At Ellen's Age (2010)
Plot Summary:
A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Foreverland (2011)
Plot Summary:
A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, humorous, serious, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
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Born and Bred (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious
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Cafe (2011)
Plot Summary:
When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined their lives truly are.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, spiritual, independent film
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Absent Father (2008)
Plot Summary:
Drama starring Jessica Kadish, JP Quicquaro, Debbie Friedlander.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, offbeat, entertaining
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You Can't Write a Letter (2013)
Plot Summary:
Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, offbeat
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Mourning for Anna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat
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I Don't Give a Damn (1987)
Plot Summary:
Like many, another young Israeli, Rafi never gave much thought to the fact that when he reached a certain age, he would be expected to serve in the Israeli Army and that he would experience active duty in combat. It certainly never occurred to him that he might be injured, and if it did, it never occurred to him that he would be crippled, as he was. Now he must try to learn to cope with a life which is vastly different from anything he ever imagined, and at first he has nothing but bitterness. An older veteran tries to help him learn to cope, and his relatives work hard to adjust as well. However, only his sister-in-law Maya seems to understand his state of mind and doesn't freak out at his easily provoked displays of temper.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, stylized
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Breaking Horizons (2012)
Plot Summary:
“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what to do with her life – she does a lot, but nothing properly. She now finds herself pregnant after a night of passion with a charming barman she met at a party. Nora is thrilled by the news though, proclaiming: “we’re having a baby!” After some initial doubts, Lara too begins to see her pregnancy as a chance. Together with Nora, she sets about painting the nursery and goes in search of the baby’s father. Then the gynaecologist gives Lara some bad news….
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, sexy, realistic
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Fair Sex (2012)
Plot Summary:
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, explicit, realistic, hot
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Hope (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Flowers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these gallantries increase, always on a Thursday and always with an anonymous sender, Ane’s life takes on a new direction. The life of Lourdes is also sent into turmoil by beautiful bouquets of flowers: Since the death of her husband in a traffic accident, flowers have been deposited regularly at the scene. Lourdes’ mother-in-law, Tere, is determined to get to the bottom of the anonymous flowers. Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga’s feature film debut pays charming homage to three headstrong women and the power of flowers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Blue Lips (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six people's lives come together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Mad Ship (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, period piece
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Melody (2014)
Plot Summary:
Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman 48 years old who can no longer have children. To make sure everything goes well and keep an eye on her future child, Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home and stay by her side throughout the pregnancy. Although they first appear to come from completely different worlds, the two women end up adopting each other: Melody finds in Emily the mother she never had, and Emily sees in Melody the daughter she always wanted to have. Evidently, the bonds that emerge during this double maternity create all sorts of doubts and questions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, non-linear
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Baby Blues (2012)
Plot Summary:
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when Natalia’s mother decides to move out, giving Natalia a chance to lead a “normal life.”.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, gloomy
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Becoming Redwood (2012)
Plot Summary:
A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
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The Auction (2013)
Plot Summary:
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn't end up losing her house.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating
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The High Cost of Living (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, dark, independent film, gloomy, psychological thriller, tragic
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To Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, uplifting, captivating, contemplative
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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You (2007)
Plot Summary:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her husband, her son and her profession to live this frenzy through to its conclusion. A quest for freedom and change that sends Michèle on a turbulent drift, but remains, nevertheless, intimate and personal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Plot Summary:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Frailer (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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The Miracle of the Cards (2001)
Plot Summary:
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the get-well cards he was receiving had the power to keep him alive, so she launched a worldwide campaign to break the Guinness record for receiving the most get-well cards. At the time, the world record seemed an impossible 1,000,265, but Craig received over 350 million cards from all over the world. Against the advice of her doctors, Marion followed one of those cards to America for Craig's miraculous cure.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
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The C Word (2015)
Plot Summary:
The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, witty
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical, touching, serious, intercultural, inter cultural
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, touching, spiritual, stylized, sexual