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Plot Summary:
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
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Two Irenes (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric
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Divine Access (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question whether he has a deeper calling.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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Here Is Your Life (1966)
Plot Summary:
A working-class boy struggles to find himself through a series of jobs and romances.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: poetic
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Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
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Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery (2023)
Plot Summary:
A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, historical drama
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Das wahre Leben (2006)
Plot Summary:
Inner chaos breaks free in two families.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
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A Handful of Time (1989)
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Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
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A golpes (2005)
Plot Summary:
The first half of this movie may be tasteless: there is this bunch of girls and boys living in the working class suburbs of Madrid around the boxing club, some action, some sex, not going nowhere, but soon the characters begin to sharpen, the story takes shape around persons and groups. One can expect things to get bad in any moment but psychology takes over easy violence on the screen and the second half is a much more captivating linear part, where the characters have more convincing roles. Nathalia Verbeke is amazing, once again!, in a new and physically demanding role. Can't keep from comparing her with Hilary Swank performance in Million Dollar Baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
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Proxy (2015)
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On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Anjos da Noite (1987)
Plot Summary:
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
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Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006)
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A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting is not good. But perhaps there's a good reason not to go after the adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema
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A Brief Excursion (2017)
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Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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The Illusions (2009)
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A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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She Deserved It (2010)
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Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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On the Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min
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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
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Personal Search (1973)
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Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min
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In Your Arms (2015)
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When Maria (Lisa Carlehed) meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish - to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
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Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
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The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. The film takes place in the mind of a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Regaining consciousness, 20 year-old Joe Bonham slowly discovers that while his brain is healthy and able to reason, the rest of his body is irreparably shattered, leaving him forever trapped within the confines of his own imagination. He struggles valiantly to find some way to communicate with the outside world. Tapping his head in Morse code he breaks through and pleads with his caretakers to be put on display as a living example of the cost of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Golden Years (2017)
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The plot revolves around newlyweds Paul and Louise, as World War I breaks out. After two years on the frontline, Paul maims himself and deserts his post. But how can he hide when he is condemned to death in war-torn Paris? Louise dresses him up as a woman. He becomes Suzanne, drags his wife around the debauched Paris of the Golden Twenties and earns quite a reputation for himself. In 1925, once he is finally granted amnesty, Suzanne attempts to revert back to being Paul….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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An Independent Life (1992)
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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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Jackie Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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1915 (1982)
Plot Summary:
1915 is a 1982 Australian mini series about two friends who wind up serving in World War One.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: period drama
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Plot Summary:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Chunuk Bair (1992)
Plot Summary:
The tragedy of Gallipoli is exposed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 102 min
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My Rabbit is the Best (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent schoolboy on the verge of manhood. While the world was at war, they found comfort in each others arms and shared an impossible love that couldn't possibly continue... and an uncontrollable passion that they could not resist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film