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Plot Summary:
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Nickel Mountain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
When convicted embezzler Witt Hampton (Gene Bicknell) escapes from prison, a lonely barn serves as the perfect hideout -- until a pair of tykes stumbles on him. Telling the tots he's a ghost, Witt strikes up a friendship with the pair. Soon, inspired by their innocence, he decides to take responsibility for his crimes. Too bad the local sheriff isn't quick to forgive in this family drama co-starring, Diane Ladd, Rachel Hunter and John Savage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Above All Things (2018)
Plot Summary:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Wuthering High (2015)
Plot Summary:
An updated 21st century version of the Emily Bronte novel set in modern day Malibu, California where the wealthy Earnshaw family adopts Heath, a troubled teenager. The Earnshaws teenage daughter, Cathy, falls madly in love with him, embittering her rich boyfriend, Eddie, and the rest of their exclusive, upscale community. Wrapped up in her exciting fling, Cathy is blind to the dangerous side of Heath until it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Fiela's Child (1988)
Plot Summary:
The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
Plot Summary:
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Cab to Canada (1998)
Plot Summary:
An elderly woman (Maureen O'Hara) and a young cabby (Jason Beghe) seek life's meaning as they drive from California to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Norway, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: depressing, political, independent film
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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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Secrets (1995)
Plot Summary:
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their daughter. Her granddaughter is the family's maid. When a visiting friend of Etta's arrives for a visit both she and the maid are attracted to him. When he seems to prefer the younger woman (the maid) the other woman is very jealous and when the maid becomes pregnant by him the older woman vows to make that child her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Travis McGee (1983)
Plot Summary:
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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All the Winters That Have Been (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Pact (2002)
Plot Summary:
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, sad, cult film
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Saving Sarah Cain (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, tense, captivating
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, experimental, independent film, silent, silent film
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Family Pictures (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sylvie and Maggie are strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon discover a shocking secret that threatens to tear both families apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
Plot Summary:
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, bleak, gloomy
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The Grief of Others (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, disturbing, realistic, gloomy
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, realistic, emotional, talky, surreal, art house, sincere, clever
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3 Backyards (2010)
Plot Summary:
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, tense, sincere, gloomy, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Last Debate (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four members of the media are chosen as moderator and panel for the single televised debate of presidential candidates one week before the election. These four use the debate forum as never before, resulting in what critics call a hijacking of the electoral process.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Decoration Day (1990)
Plot Summary:
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Plot Summary:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious, gothic, sad, sincere, realistic, gloomy
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Long Road Home (1991)
Plot Summary:
A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic