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Plot Summary:
A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, touching, sexy, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, period drama
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Devil's Island (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic
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Four Friends (1981)
Plot Summary:
Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends follows the titular quartet from high school to young adulthood. The film is set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. The central character is first-generation American Craig Wasson, who confounds his Yugoslavian father (Miklos Simon) by pursuing his own let-it-all-hang-out lifestyle. Wasson's best friends are athlete Jim Metzler and chubby Michael Huddleston; all pursue the affections of bewitching Jodi Thelan. Though they are obviously deeply in love with one another, Wasson and Thelan continue to foolishly avoid a long-term commitment as the sixties unfold around them. Four Friends calls for a fresher approach than the one offered by director Arthur Penn, whose handling of the material is much too pat and old-fashioned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: esoteric, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, non-linear, independent film, intellectual, eighties, cult film
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Bonsai (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Plot Summary:
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ends in a divorce, the play is success and although his life is different than it was, he is happier.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, touching, offbeat, serious, gloomy
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Old Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
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Godard's Passion (1982)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family (2014)
Plot Summary:
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, saga, gloomy
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007)
Plot Summary:
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but as time passes she becomes more and more unattainable.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Portugal, France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, metafiction, independent film, gloomy, minimal cast
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A Woman's Revenge (2012)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, stylized
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In the Heart (2014)
Plot Summary:
Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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Hedda (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had had more brains she would have thought her way out of it; if she had had more courage she would have bolted long ago with Lovborg, the only true creative force in the vicinity whose manuscript she burns in the stove as if she were aborting their unconceived child.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, witty, captivating, realistic, semi serious, erotic
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, erotic, art house, hispanic, sensual, psychological, tense, touching, serious, realistic
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Am I Beautiful? (1998)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Winter Passing (2005)
Plot Summary:
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking, cult classic, psychological, clever, contemplative, gloomy
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To Find a Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Nonna's Trip (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
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Same Same But Different (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben returns home to Germany he discovers that Sreyko is sick and he takes on the responsibility to save her. On the way he discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, realistic, sincere, offbeat, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Three Quarter Moon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, melancholic, tense, captivating
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Finding Joy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. Life at home begins to show signs of improvement when Kyle meets the spunky, vivacious girl across the street who recruits Kyle to help her make the world a better place, making him feel alive for the first time in ages and inspiring his writing. But its short-lived. Joys been told shes going to die soon and wants Kyle to write her obituary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, offbeat
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God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Plot Summary:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, talky, independent film, clever, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, minimal cast
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Particles of Truth (2003)
Plot Summary:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love story exposes Lilli's internal bouts and her nightmarish "bad luck". We weave in and out of eight defective lives and go for a turbulent mental ride where Lilli's reality spirals out of control and we're lead to an unforgettable climax where some fall apart and some piece themselves together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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The Golden Era (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, touching, realistic, stylized
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2nd Take (2011)
Plot Summary:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, gloomy
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Cet amour-l? (2001)
Plot Summary:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, sentimental, sincere, serious, captivating, clever, realistic, talky, gloomy
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Buddenbrooks (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: saga, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, political, family saga, sad, costume drama, sentimental
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Listen Up Philip (2014)
Plot Summary:
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, stylized, surreal, psychological, sincere, cerebral, cult classic, mumblecore, sexy
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When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Plot Summary:
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic, talky, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking, spiritual
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Adult World (2013)
Plot Summary:
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, melancholic, teen, sincere, funny, psychological, sentimental, realistic, social