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Plot Summary:
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
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Have Figure, Will Travel (1963)
Plot Summary:
Carol and Susan are avid nudists, so when Carol's rich father takes a trip to South America, she and Susan decide to take his yacht on a cruise with an unsuspecting friend down the Atlantic coast to visit various cities and nudist camps.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
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Menorca (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hedonistic soccer mom embarks on a strange journey of self-discovery, seeking to reconnect with her estranged son by returning his pet rock back to the island of Menorca, Spain.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 81 min
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Eliza's Horoscope (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes looking even among her odd rag tag group roommates.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: mystic, fairy tale, psychedelic, gothic, experimental, allegory, independent film
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Berkeley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Sweet Skin (1963)
Plot Summary:
Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
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The dark night of the soul (1989)
Plot Summary:
Life of San Juan de la Cruz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
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Locked Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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High (1968)
Plot Summary:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film
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Heaven in the Dark (2016)
Plot Summary:
Michelle and Marco Tol, a former pastor, meet at a party. They discuss what happened five years ago, when a scandal involving the pair erupted and disgraced Tol.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
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Nympha (2003)
Plot Summary:
A re-imagination of the Celso Ad Castillo classic, "Nympha" tells the story of an orphan woman named Nympha living in a backward province with a narrow minded aunt who is a religious fanatic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
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Slipstream (1973)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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White Hot (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Rite of Spring (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confidently enter a new phase. A story about that vital moment when anything is possible and how the most unexpected encounters can change our lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Twice a Woman (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son and start a new life under a fresh identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
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Le sphinx (1995)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
Plot Summary:
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Ave María (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Little Darling (2000)
Plot Summary:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Conflict (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they must confront what is truly essential in their worship and what is not.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Délivrez-Moi (2006)
Plot Summary:
After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Floodhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
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Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Place by the Sea (1988)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min
Plot tags:
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Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua (2002)
Plot Summary:
Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Runner Stumbles (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film