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Plot Summary:
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. Working hard, he wins further confidence from the owner, bitter widow Lydia Blessing, unlike her in-living bitch nurse Jennifer. When a baby is left at the state, Skip takes it in and secretly cares for it. Lydia eventually finds out but sides with him, feeling robbed of grandchildren by her careerist only daughter Meredith. Then Skip's past comes knocking, and the baby's birth parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Way (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young Latino boy grows up in a poor barrios of Los Angeles. "Ramon Sanchez" lives with his single mother, a sister, a grandfather and his mother's abusive and violent boyfriend. When Ramon sees that his mother can't pay the rent, he decides to take matters into his own hands and joins a local gang. At first Ramon makes much needed money for his mother. But things go from bad to worse and Ramon ends up in prison. After his release he finds it hard to get back into society and is ready to go back to the gang. Will Ramon choose the gang life again or will he find another way?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: crying, hispanic
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The Three Madeleines (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado (France Arbour), her biological mother, who put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Marie-Madeleine is to take a long road trip for a magazine assignment, and she invites Mado along. Joining the two women is Marie-Madeleine's daughter (Isadora Galwey), who has yet to meet her German father. The three women share their thoughts and ideas as they travel through an idyllic setting to photograph birds. Les Fantomes des Trois Madeleine was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
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The Last Best Year (1990)
Plot Summary:
Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Our House (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: powerful
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Return to Seoul (2022)
Plot Summary:
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Romania, Cambodia, Qatar
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Vinegar Hill (2005)
Plot Summary:
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, realistic
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The Book of Ruth (2004)
Plot Summary:
The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: biblical
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Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
Plot Summary:
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Uprising (1966)
Plot Summary:
After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
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The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
Plot Summary:
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Interns (1962)
Plot Summary:
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Birch Interval (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Gin Game (2003)
Plot Summary:
This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia (Mary Tyler Moore) and Weller (Dick Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Somewhere in Tonga (2017)
Plot Summary:
There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. So a visit to the main island ends in disaster. Wolski only narrowly manages to keep the boy from being send to prison. The deal: From now on, Marcel is not allowed to leave the remote island at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, tense, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Adopt a Highway (2019)
Plot Summary:
Having spent the last 21 years in a Californian prison for possession of marijuana, a middle-aged man must find his way in a world that has changed completely since he was incarcerated in the 1990's. Finding an abandoned baby in a dumpster sets off a chain of events, sending him on a journey back to his childhood home and far beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, melancholic, scenic, colorful, depressing, ambiguous ending, colourful
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Promised a Miracle (1988)
Plot Summary:
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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A Good Baby (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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Six Weeks (1982)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sightsees most of the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Plot Summary:
A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film bravely exposes the humanity in each character reminding us that we each have the potential to be the best and worst versions of ourselves at any time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, sexy, therapeutic, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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Second Best (1994)
Plot Summary:
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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America (2009)
Plot Summary:
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began when he was taken by authorities from his crack-addicted mother, and placed into foster care as an infant. The short time of stability in his life occurred when America lived with Mrs. Harper, the elderly nanny to one of his foster families. Later reunited with his mother, she soon abandons America and he is again placed into foster care. Lagging behind in school and full of anger, America retreats further away from society after years of sexual abuse. After attempting suicide, America is placed in a treatment center where Dr. Brennan helps him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, uplifting, serious, realistic
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The Foster Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
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Keeping the Promise (1997)
Plot Summary:
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to safeguard their claim, the boy relies on his new friendship with the Penobscot Indians for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, historical drama
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Confetti Harvest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious
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Annie's Point (2005)
Plot Summary:
Annie (Bette White) wants to disperse her husband's ashes at a locale in California that they had named Annie's Point. Annie needs a bypass immediately and she wants to send out the ashes on her 50th wedding anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Gracie's Choice (2004)
Plot Summary:
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Just Between Friends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, talky, gloomy
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
Plot Summary:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, thought provoking, sexy, sad, hood, cult classic
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Ordinary People (1980)
Plot Summary:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, depressing, realistic, sentimental, compassionate, crying, serious, existential, inspirational