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Plot Summary:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Redemption (2003)
Plot Summary:
Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- landing acting jobs and dating beautiful women. Christian thinks he is at his prime, until he has a falling out with Tony over drugs. He soon learns that the same connections that enabled him to get his start and realize his dream can just as easily destroy it. Hiding the truth of his washed-up career from family and friends, Christian escapes his reality through intense drug use - beginning his fatal turn of fate. Will Christian ever turn his life around? Will he find redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Ferox (2013)
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Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: crying
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Mitte 30 (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Locked Up (2006)
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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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Herbert (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
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Young and Healthy as a Rose (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Fabian (1980)
Plot Summary:
Fabian is a 1980 West German film directed by Wolf Gremm. It is based on the novel Fabian, the Story of a Moralist (1931) by German author Erich Kästner. The film was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film receive a nomination.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
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Emancipation (2011)
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The story revolves around Dominik Liebmann: a man who has lost everything: His wife, son, job, house - even his pride. Financially and emotionally bankrupt he enters Berlins first and only "Männerhaus": a shelter for battered men. He meets Holger the director of the house and its members. After a psychiatric examination by the youth welfare office he has to participate in the Group Therapy Session of the "Männerhaus" in order to get custody for his son Dylan. After an initial resistance Dominik decides to participate and so the other members of the "Männerhaus" learn about Dominiks past... Director Philipp Müller-Dorn takes a daring and provocative look inside the world that very few men, out of embarrassment or retaliation, speak of: domestic abuse by their partner. In the dramatic film eMANcipation,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
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King of Sorrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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Intimidades en un cuarto de baño (1991)
Plot Summary:
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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A Handful of Time (1989)
Plot Summary:
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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Vital Signs (2009)
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Triggered by the death of a family member a young woman embarks on a singular journey of helping people who are about to die. The dying have nothing to lose and need lasting moments of intimacy that Simone finds herself willing to give at no cost. But Boris won't let her get away with it quite that easily. He realizes how well she hides behind those intense but short lived relationships. He won't hesitate to provoke her in a violent burst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Smoke and Flesh (1968)
Plot Summary:
Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valerie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kurz vor Weihnachten ist das einst erfolgreiche Fotomodell Valerie, 29, in ihrer Heimatstadt Berlin gestrandet. Zwar hat sie ein Zimmer im exklusiven Hyatt, aber eigentlich ist sie völlig pleite und ohne Perspektive. Valerie ist unfähig, sich auf die neue Situation einzustellen. Ihrer befreundeten Kollegin Isa lügt sie eitel Sonnenschein vor, und weder der Chefin ihrer Agentur noch ihrem reichen Gönner Isenberg offenbart sie iher existenzbedrohende Lage. Als Valerie ihr Hotelzimmer verlassen muss, hat sie nicht einmal mehr das Geld, um die Gebühren der Tiefgarage zu bezahlen. Valerie landet Heiligabend in einer einfachen Bar, in der sie die etwas heruntergekommene 40-jährige Charlotte kennenlernt. Völlig betrunken findet sie ihren Wagen in der Tiefgarage nicht mehr. Der junge Tiefgaragenwärter André hilft ihr.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min
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Silvester Countdown (1997)
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A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 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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Windows on Monday (2006)
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A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
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Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon her arrival in Moscow. Thus, she is a bit at loose ends, and going back home is clearly not an option.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
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Smooth Operator (1995)
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Megan Hughes plays Grace Nichols, a businesswoman constantly competing with men to get ahead. Unfortunately, her love life is also suffering. One day, while chomping on a donut, she realizes she's put on a few pounds. She decides to get back in shape, and asks her secretary Angie Li (Candace Kita) if she could recommend a good personal trainer. Angie recommends Brian Lerner (Doug Jeffery), a guy Angie's also been sleeping with for the last few months. Of course, Grace doesn't know that. Grace meets up with Brian, and it's innocent at first. She tosses on the workout clothes, he comes over to help her out with exercising, and goes home. Simple enough, right? However, this is a softcore flick, so you know the sex is coming. Eventually, Grace asks Brian to accompany her to a formal dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Above Us Only Sky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, sincere
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Live! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Anna is a vital woman who is married and has two daughters. She picks up her old passion of writing again after frequent requests by a colleague and a friend, but she had not foreseen the consequences of family and friends reading her stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, serious, stylized
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Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
Plot Summary:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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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
Plot tags:
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Bliss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, affectionate
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Spider's Web (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 196 min
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Class Reunion (1972)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
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Bedways (2010)
Plot Summary:
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, experimental, touching, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, hot
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The Invention of the Curried Sausage (2008)
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World War II is grinding to a close, and middle-aged Lena Bruecker (Barbara Sukowa) is caught in the fallout of Germany's crushing defeat. Her husband is missing in action on the Eastern Front, her children are all grown and out of touch with her, and each day she has to hand out meager rations to the hungry at an Food Distribution Agency office with her co-worker Holzinger (Wolfgang Boeck). Lena spends her evenings waiting out Allied air attacks and sometimes going to the movies, and one night she happens to meet Hermann Bremer (Alexander Khuon), a German sailor. Hermann is on a short leave and is wary about returning to a dangerous assignment that seems increasingly futile. Lena and Hermann fall in love, and she offers to let him hide in her flat, but Lena's landlord Lammers (Branko Samarovski) is rabidly loyal to the Third Reich and will certainly turn Hermann in to the authorities if he discovers the deserter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Architect (2008)
Plot Summary:
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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