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Plot Summary:
Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
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The Blood of Hussain (1980)
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A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 112 min
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The Penal Colony (1970)
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A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she"s fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island"s main export is news. The clearest anticipation of Ruiz"s later European work, The Penal Colony is a powerful document of the tensions and contradictions in Chile in the months before Allende"s electoral victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min
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Closer to the Sun (2016)
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A New York insurance company sends in a team of high levels investigators to assess a claim related to the accidental death of six workers on an oil platform off the coast of Nigeria. As the investigation unfolds it becomes clear that the dead men were in fact taken hostage by terrorists and slaughtered. In normal circumstances the huge claim would just be refused. But these aren't normal circumstances; the insurance company has walked into a political and economic minefield. Denial would place them at odds with Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Multi-national companies working in the region would be severely punished. There could only be one solution: pay up. Keep silent and pretend. The chief investigator is left hopelessly compromised.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Cirqo (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
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Days in the Country (2004)
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In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min
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For Love and Honor (1983)
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A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Baltic Love (1994)
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Lost love and politics: three episodes from three Baltic nations. In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But other Russian soldiers use coarse violence against them, even threatening to rape the girl. The couple realise that they cannot continue their relation. In Lithuania an old priest had spent 15 years in Siberia and may still be secretly watched by the police. His nephew is a priest student but he will accept if the nephew decides not to become a priest. And – the nephew and an Estonian stripper fall in deep love. The couple sleep together and agree to meet at the railway station the next morning. But when the student comes home his uncle has died. With great pain he abandons the girl and take care of his uncle's body. On the train the girl weeps because of her lost love. - Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 96 min
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The Frontier (1991)
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A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 120 min
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Ivin A. (1990)
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Soldiers of internal troops Ivin A. standing on duty at night, could not shoot escapes bandit and murderer Prince Mishka. The explanatory he wrote that he refused to continue to dispose of another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
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Imagen latente (1987)
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Directed by Pablo Perelman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 92 min
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The Dupes (1972)
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Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Syria
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie
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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
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In the Shadow of the Sun (1974)
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Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year after the chilean Coup de etat. The day after the opening, script girl Carmen Bueno and director of photography Jorge Müller were taken by police and now they are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
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Enthusiasm (1998)
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El Entusiasmo/Enthusiasm begins in 1984, when Guillermo (Alvaro Rudolphi) introduces two of his friends to each other -- Fernando (Alvaro Escobar) and Isabel (Maribel Verdu). A decade later, Fernando and Isabel have a son, and they join forces with Guillermo to start a business offering sightseeing expeditions for tourists visiting the newly-democratic nation. Fernando gets an idea for a special multi-media presentation that would educate viewers on Chile's history, culture and political legacy, and it proves to be a major success -- enough so that he's roped by a group of less-than-trustworthy developers who want his help with a project building luxury housing in the desert. However, this is the opposite of the utopian collective that Guillermo had dreamed of years ago; Fernando's new ideals and associates alienate both Guillermo and Isabel, who turn against Fernando and into each others arms.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min
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Man-eater (1991)
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Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 169 min
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Enough Praying (1972)
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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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For Love and Honor (1983)
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For Love and Honor is a short-lived American military drama series that aired on NBC from September 23, 1983 to December 27, 1983. The series is inspired by the hit film An Officer and a Gentleman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Sweet Revenge (1984)
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While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion goes wrong and the girl dies. To protect his career, Cheever implicates Captain Dennison whose life is thereby ruined. Years later, the Captain's now grown-up sister Katherine marries Army Major Alex Breen, and is stunned to learn his commanding officer is the now Colonel Cheever. She becomes obsessed with getting revenge for the sake of her dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
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The Brig (1964)
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A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: experimental, political, independent film
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Night Over Chile (1977)
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A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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The Year of the Tiger (2011)
Plot Summary:
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Sergeant (1968)
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THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: retro, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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Soldier Soldier (1991)
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Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name - "Soldier, soldier will you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum?" - an instrumental version of which was used as its theme music. Produced by Central Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of seven seasons and 82 episodes from 1991 to 1997. It featured the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers, a fictional British Army infantry regiment loosely based on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, it is regarded as an accurate depiction of army life in the early to mid-1990s, when the British Army was undergoing significant change. This is perhaps best demonstrated during the third series, around 1994, when a significant number of real regiments were forced into amalgamations with each other due to downsizing of the army. In the world of Soldier Soldier, the King's Fusiliers are also forced to amalgamate with the Cumbrian Regiment, another fictional regiment, becoming the King's Own Fusiliers. At the time Soldier Soldier was broadcast, the fatality rate was low with most casualties due to training accidents and suicides. The military as a whole was assigned to performing more peacekeeping missions than actually doing any fighting. As a consequence, the show served well to portray the army, despite the domestic problems that could occur, in a fairly good light.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
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Squad (2017)
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The film tells the poignant story of a soldier crossing the roads in a winter. Soldiers from different places should adapt to the military. Those men with dreams, goals, fears, and ambitions will learn to develop themselves in the toughest conditions of their military service, learn what it means to be a soldier, and have to fight with the demons in themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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One of Us (1989)
Plot Summary:
A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an investigator to the camp to see if there was cold blooded murder (people at the camp had claimed he was shot while trying to escape). It turns out that the investigator dispatched is a friend of the camp commander - the rest of the plot is basically about the position of both of these characters as regards being honest or faithful to ones friends. There is unbearable tension, increased by the fact that they are both very strongly attracted to one of the female soldiers on the camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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As If I Am Not There (2010)
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A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time-the Bosnian War of the 1990s-Juanita Wilson's drama is taken from true stories revealed during the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarajevo who takes a job in a small country village just as the war is beginning to ramp up. When Serbian soldiers overrun the village, shoot the men and keep the women as laborers (the older ones) and sex objects (the younger ones), Samira is subjected to the basest form of treatment imaginable.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, disturbing, serious, disgusting
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The Network of Freedom (2017)
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France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the reality that now faces far exceeds the harshness to which they are accustomed: Hélène discovers that near her locality, the Nazis have installed a concentration camp. Along with some people of the city, several of her Sisters Daughters of Charity plot a whole plan to free the captives from their tragic end.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fiesta Patria (2008)
Plot Summary:
As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Orange Honey (2012)
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Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of things he has to act. Soon he will be involved in risky actions that endanger their lives and those of their peers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Maruta 3 ... Destroy all Evidence (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, perverse, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, banned film, cult film