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Plot Summary:
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, grindhouse, social, independent film
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde
Similar in 81%
Sister Stella L. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political
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Death of a Salesman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Riot on 42nd St. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tough ex-con Glenn Barnes gets paroled from prison after serving a sentence for manslaughter. Glenn plans to reopen his old nightclub the Garage on 42nd Street. Vicious rival nightclub owner Farrell threatens to take drastic measures if Glenn goes through with his plan. After all the employees get massacred by Farrell's flunkies on opening night, Glenn reverts back to his brutish criminal ways to exact a harsh revenge on Farrell and his men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Reg (2016)
Plot Summary:
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, touching
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The Homecoming (1973)
Plot Summary:
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, clever, bleak, realistic, semi serious
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A Place Called Today (1972)
Plot Summary:
Racial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, grindhouse, independent film
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Pressure (1976)
Plot Summary:
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: black cinema, cult film
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Those Glory Glory Days (1983)
Plot Summary:
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Whisperers (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Whisperers tells the story of an impoverished old woman living alone in a seedy apartment who enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. When she discovers stolen money hidden by her son, she believes her fantasy has come true.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: depressing, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Second Coming (2014)
Plot Summary:
A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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The Good Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, art film
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Child's Play (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Kangaroo (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: political, serious, realistic, independent film
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In Celebration (1975)
Plot Summary:
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of Kenny Everett's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Pack of Lies (1987)
Plot Summary:
A couple learns that their friendly neighbours might be Russian spies.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Flame in the Streets (1961)
Plot Summary:
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, emotional, realistic
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Moonlighting (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, tense, bleak, realistic, dark comedy, allegory, independent film, sincere, thought provoking, serious
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The Dresser (2015)
Plot Summary:
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sad, touching
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Electricity (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, inspirational, mind bending, psychedelic, social, independent film, touching
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Shy People (1987)
Plot Summary:
A New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. The journalist's wild, drug-addicted daughter adds tensions between the two relatives' cultures.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: retro, southern gothic, grindhouse, independent film, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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Look Back in Anger (1989)
Plot Summary:
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Hedda (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had had more brains she would have thought her way out of it; if she had had more courage she would have bolted long ago with Lovborg, the only true creative force in the vicinity whose manuscript she burns in the stove as if she were aborting their unconceived child.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, mind blowing, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, tense
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All Saints (2017)
Plot Summary:
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: christian film, touching, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Dealers (1989)
Plot Summary:
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Coalition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, political, tense, sincere, thought provoking, clever, realistic
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Is Anybody There? (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, depressing, sincere, realistic, clever, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy
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Norma Rae (1979)
Plot Summary:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, political, touching, philosophical, feel good, sad, aesthetic, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking