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Plot Summary:
On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar live a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and the grandfather. A condom sparks a series of embarrassment and dilemma, breaking the harmony of the family. What matters more in the circle of life and death, soul or reality?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 102 min
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Beyond the Dream (2019)
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Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: banned
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The Right of Jesus (2008)
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"El Derecho de Jesús" is a character driven drama in which Jesús, a Mexican-American college student tries to overcome contemporary family issues and unstable love relationships. His past and present eventually collide forcing him to take a stand.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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Jinpa (2018)
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Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, serious
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Nautilus (1990)
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This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, queues, war in Afghanistan Having invented nothing better, electrical engineer escapes from reality and becomes a street cleaner. He is a kind of going underground, locking himself in a stuffy cleaners box room and pretending that nothing arouses his interest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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Island City (2015)
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Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
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Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational story told from a Christian perspective about complex characters who resist embracing God's plans for them because they're too wrapped up in what society wants them to be.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Son (2019)
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Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: social
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Meditation Park (2017)
Plot Summary:
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
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Villon's Wife (2009)
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This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
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Dockers (1999)
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Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
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Loyalties (1986)
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Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Hidden Child (2021)
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Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
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Apple Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Generational Sins (2017)
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A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Roma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags:
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Oh, Moon! (1988)
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A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house
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3 Faces (2018)
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Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help—oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help solve the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest where they have amusing encounters with the charming folk of the girl’s mountain village. But the city visitors soon discover that the protection of age-old traditions is as generous as local hospitality….
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, independent film, cult film
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A Useful Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, uplifting, serious
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The Rite (1969)
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A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's widow. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, and growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: art house, clever, serious, surreal, contemplative, sexual, sexy
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After Love (2020)
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Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, independent film, queer cinema
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Ten Years (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, independent film, mockumentary, banned
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The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Plot Summary:
The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking down in the middle of Harrods. After psychiatric care and the prospect of a new house in the country, she gets better; then, she is pregnant again, and this time Jake objects. Jo consents to an abortion and sterilization in the belief it will make her marriage happy again, but afterwards she learns ugly truths about Jake.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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All God's Children Can Dance (2008)
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In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father and decides to follow him around Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, contemplative, independent film, art house
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Life and a Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, beautiful
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Shame (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, art house, political, cerebral, bleak, biting, existential, allegory, spiritual, contemplative
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Autumn (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house, political, sad, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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The Whales of August (1987)
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The Whales of August is a 1987 film based on a play by David Berry starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy. The film was shot on location on Maine's Cliff Island. The house still stands and is a popular subject of artists on the island. The film was directed by Lindsay Anderson, his final feature film, and the screenplay was adapted by David Berry from his own play.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, sentimental, independent film, eighties
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The Dust of Time (2008)
Plot Summary:
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, postmodern, slow cinema, aesthetic, epic, realistic
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Plot Summary:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: tense, depressing, talky, psychological, serious, realistic, grim, clever, retro, spiritual
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Pandora's Box (2008)
Plot Summary:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative