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Plot Summary:
A child from the slums of Santiago tours the city.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neorealism
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The Girl in the Dovecote (1990)
Plot Summary:
Anita, a 15 year old teen fells in love with the new neighbor who happens to be twice her age, they romance is stopped by the parents of the girl, the man tells her to hid in a Dovecote until he comes back and they could escape together.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Plot Summary:
A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, experimental, independent film
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Antonia (2001)
Plot Summary:
Antonia, a young, beautiful, intelligent and successful executive, is in deep depression, she's dealing with an unwanted pregnancy from his previous relationship with his partner Sebastian, a young and dreamer, renowned photographer, who will lead her to a regression of her psychic illness and to rethinking her personal life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
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What Is to Be Done? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Dr. Allende in 1970.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Rainbow (2022)
Plot Summary:
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: weird
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The 40th Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his dream is to join a music band. The title of the film refers to an Azerbaijani fairy tale about saving a princess from a house with 40 doors; no one has succeeded in opening the last door, and thus its secret remains hidden. The villagers have named their village the 40th door as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Best of Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Raquel, a young radio broadcaster, is deeply in love with Tomas, an Olympic runner. On the day she finds a house for them to share, he collapses during training and is rushed to the hospital. His life is in danger; his liver crashed and he is in need of an urgent transplant. Without any warning, Tomas turns from a fine athlete to an exhausted, dysfunctional, sick person. Raquel devotes herself to helping him. How far will she go for love? And what will she find out about intimacy and about herself in the process? The Best of Me is an intriguing film about the tension between love and sacrifice and about the unbearable fine line between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
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Frost (1997)
Plot Summary:
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, road movie, crying
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The Longest Distance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial moment. Two fearless journeys, one that begins as a childlike adventure and ends up on the other side of the country and a one-way journey, free and determined. The same destiny will inevitably bond a woman with her grandson. Without knowing it they are part of an unbreakable family circle that deeply unites them. Second opportunities will arise while individual freedom of choice will become imposing. Everything comes together to tell us: there is only one destiny, the one you choose for yourself.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie
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A Tame Song for a Brave People (1976)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality undergoes a radical change.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min
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Ocean (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban countryside are exquisitely captured in director Kosyrev-Nesterov's elegiac feature debut.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min
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Yuniol (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Yuniol" Perez and Alberto "Junior" Rios come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose affection makes up for the absence of his father. Juan and his mother survive in a tough and impoverished Barrio on the outskirts of the capital city. Behind every happy moment lies an ominous sense of despair. Yet the joyful Dominican way of life for those surviving on the margins serves as a testament to people anywhere confronted with poverty and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min
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The Time of the Hunt (1972)
Plot Summary:
Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Richard's wife forces him to bring along his young son, Michel. For these men, hunting represents total freedom and a chance to rid themselves of the frustrations of domestic life by proving their manhood. The group spends their first night at a motel bar and Michel silently observes as the adults get drunk, try to outdo each other with insults, and sexually harass the waitresses at the bar. It becomes apparent to him that Willy is not up to trip; he is overweight and clings to his glory days of the past. Michel must also watch as his father conducts an affair with a waitress. When the hunt finally begins, Michel contemplates the imposed belief that a man ought to be a womanizing drinker who's good with a gun. Eventually, the irresponsibility of the three men results in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
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Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son of a powerful politician.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, USA, France
Duration: 94 min
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Julio Begins in July (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Painting Lesson (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Enough Praying (1972)
Plot Summary:
Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
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Valparaiso My Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slang, freeze frame
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Muddy River (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Havlandet (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Child Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A melodrama about children, the child murders that the film’s title refers to are the million and one ways that children’s souls are ravaged by neglect, unkindness and cruelty, even though several physical deaths take place in the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Plot Summary:
The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: neorealism, depressing, crying
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Barndommens gade (1986)
Plot Summary:
I en lille 2-værelses baggårdslejlighed, på Vesterbro i København, bor den 14 årige Ester (Sofie Gråbøl) sammen med faderen (Torben Jensen), moderen (Vigga Bro) og storebroderen Carl (Carl Quist Møller). Det er tidens typiske arbejderkvarter og lejligheden er uden nogen form for moderne bekvemmeligheder. Koks skal hentes i en mørk kælder, hvor hjemløse har søgt ly og logi for natten. Ester er en drømmer. Hendes ønske er at blive forfatter og hun skriver digte i det skjulte. Hun glemmer ofte tid og sted, når hendes tanker går på langfart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Forty Deuce (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema
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Mamma Roma (1962)
Plot Summary:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sad, emotional, social, gloomy, independent film, road movie
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The Scrounger (1961)
Plot Summary:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, rough, erotic
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Orphan (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere