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Plot Summary:
Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must journey into the Himalayas in search for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand, India
Duration: 102 min
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Bardo Blues (2017)
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Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Another Forever (2016)
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You know the moment when your sorrow is so profound that you can't help but imagine yourself somewhere far away... this is the story of someone who did more than just imagine.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, USA, Colombia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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RFDS (2021)
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Based in Australia’s red heart, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend. This series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Come Together (1971)
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An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gilded Youth (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story of two girls from a French suburb and their road trip adventures along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Courthouse on Horseback (2006)
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The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 101 min
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Katie: Portrait of A Centerfold (1978)
Plot Summary:
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Mi Socio (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Sati (1989)
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Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
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His Wife (2014)
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Gracie, a young Tamil woman living near Madras, has been having behavioural disorders since the day she was married. The memory of her French friend Catherine, who died in unresolved circumstances, seems to be haunting her. Catherine's grieving ex-husband, Joseph, decides to go to India to meet Gracie and possibly, during his journey, fix his mistakes - because Joseph has a lot to be forgiven for.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: France, India, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, emotional, realistic
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Praying with Anger (1992)
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An alienated, Americanized teenager of East Indian heritage is sent back to India where he discovers not only his roots but a lot about himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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Two Countries (2015)
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Ullaas is a cunning guy who can go to any extent for money. One fine day, he cheats a priest and redirects an NRI match which is supposed to go to a known person in his village. He manages everything and finally ties the knot with Laya. The twist in the tale arises when Ullaas comes to know that the NRI girl he married is a complete alcoholic. Rest of the story is as to how Sunil manages to get his problematic wife back on track.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
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Gundagardi (1997)
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The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by Kalicharan and decides to print their photos in the newspaper.But before he can do that he is killed along with his wife. Dipa is an eye-witness to this murder. But he soon plans and makes Dipa the key suspect in an attempt-to-murder case of the home minister. Karan Singh in the meanwhile trains Dipa to fight back the goons. She manages to get the files containing the proof of innocence. Kalicharan is arrested and taken to court. Narshima makes a number of attempts to free his brother. A severe struggle ensues and Narshima and Kalicharan get death sentences.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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Identifying Features (2020)
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Magdalena, a mother in search of her missing son, meets Miguel, recently deported from the US and looking for his mother. Together, they make their way through the desolate and unforgiving militia-ridden landscapes south of the border.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, social
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Arcadia Lost (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
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Dozakh in Search of Heaven (2015)
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In a small town near Varanasi, a clash happens between the offering of the routine morning prayers of the Muslim cleric and his neighboring Hindu priest. The Hindu priest tortures Muslim cleric, but the cleric is more bothered about his twelve year old son 'Janu' who is a good friend of his rival- the Hindu Priest and pays regular visit to the temple. He has scolded and punished Janu several times and elucidated him that he may be cursed to hell if he continues this. The cleric loses his temper when he comes to know that his son has participated in the annual Hindu mythological play Ramleela and played the role of the Hindu God- Hanuman. He gets upset, punishes his son and explains him the difference between the two religions. But Janu absconds from his home. His father seeks him everywhere. He realizes that he is first a father to his son before being a cleric. But will anxious father be able to find him ever?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating
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Havlandet (1985)
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This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
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The Last Bus (2021)
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Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Family Secrets (2014)
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Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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The Stranger (1991)
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A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, extraordinary
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The Good Road (2013)
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Pappu is a truck driver. Supporting his parents and extended family is beyond his means. Now, he has been presented a plan. An accident will be staged. Pappu will "die". Insurance payments are substantial.David and Kiran, a middle class urban couple, with their son Aditya, are on a holiday. Aditya will be accidentally separated from them during a brief halt at a Dhaba. And his loss will only be discovered several hours, and several hundred kilometers later. They must double back to find him. Poonam is an 11-year old-year-old child from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, road movie, gujarati
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places (2020)
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Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Terrorist (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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Siddharth (2013)
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A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, disturbing, spiritual, esoteric, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Art of Travel (2008)
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High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
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A bus is setting out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a strict orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai for her husband, with her young child, after the vacation with her parents. By chance, she gets a co-passenger who is also to Chennai, Rajah, a photographer, introduced by one of the friends of her father. During the journey they build a good relationship. But a Hindu-Muslim communal riot sets out in the meantime, in some areas they had to travel. Then she comes to face the fact that Rajah is not a Hindu but a Muslim whose real name is Jehangir. Even though she curses herself at that time while some Hindu fanatics evade their bus she saves him introducing as Mr. Iyer. But they have to reach their destination while the other passengers know Rajah as no one else but Mr. Iyer.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, offbeat, poignant, thinking, realistic, freeze frame, avant garde
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Chal Mera Putt 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A tale of everlasting love between illegal immigrants struggling for their PR in the UK as they challenge they multiple struggles.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Labour of Love (2014)
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Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, silent, art house, silent film
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Aadaminte makan abu (2011)
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Abu and Aisumma are an aging Muslim couple. Their aspiration is to go for Hajj and they make many sacrifices to achieve this aim. Now in their late 70s, they decide that they will go for Hajj that year. Abu, being a true Muslim, wants to go for Hajj only according to all diktats of Islam. Good-natured people try to help him by loaning the amount, but since this is against the accepted practices of the religion, he refuses to take them. Finally, they are not able to go. On the dawn of the Hajj, Abu tells his wife that they will go the next year. He goes to the mosque to pray on the Hajj morning.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sincere, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching, serious, realistic