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Plot Summary:
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Red Soil (2020)
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Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
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A Sudden Loss of Gravity (2000)
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Three generations of small town rebel-rebels crash into each other and burn in Todd Verow's new film, A Sudden Loss of Gravity. The small town of Bangor Maine is finally entering the 80's with a pile-up of new wave proportions. Based on true stories of the Northeastern town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night God (2018)
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Two workers are having a leisurely conversation. More and more often people see in the sky red tails of comets, wonder creatures appear from nowhere and a roar is said to be coming from the underground. What is the meaning of it all? – asks one of them. The other replies that he has never seen anything like that in his life. And even if all of the above mentioned exists, is it worthwhile paying attention to it? The important thing is to do one’s job because life goes its own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, France
Duration: 100 min
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Jeunesse perdue (1961)
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Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Beside this there is much dancing, much stripping and a lot of alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 77 min
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Saint Omer (2022)
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A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Family (2021)
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Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Moka (2016)
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Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Soleil battant (2017)
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Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the couple’s past begins to rear its head. Emma is overwhelmed by a secret that is simply too big for her to keep, and which she has no right to share with her twin sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min
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The Braid (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three women Smita, Giulia and Sarah from different parts of the world who have never met but they are bound by something intimate and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
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Kimen (1974)
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On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978)
Plot Summary:
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Stop Me Here (2015)
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Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Polina (2016)
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Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, touching, captivating, disturbing, contemplative
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The Verdict (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
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The Party Is Over (2017)
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Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find themselves left to themselves, to the test of the real world and its temptations. They will have to fight to finally live.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
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Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)
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Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to visit Gilles at the hospital and beg for his forgiveness, something that Gilles does not understand. Against the advice of his comrades in Beirut, Aram decides to go meet his victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, rough, disturbing
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
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A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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The Brigade (2017)
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Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Through The Fire (2018)
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Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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She's One of Us (2003)
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At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, gloomy
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Apaches (2013)
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While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Sensuous Doll (1973)
Plot Summary:
Witness of a murder, a young prostitute is tailed by a detective who is paid by the killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, road movie
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Three Worlds (2012)
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Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his two childhood friends present in the car. The next day, gnawed with guilt, Al decides to inquire about his victim. What he does not know is that Juliette, a young woman, has witnessed the entire accident from her balcony.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy
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Love Me Instead (2021)
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One day, Sedat, who works as a prison guard in Konya, is given the duty to take one of the prisoners, Musa, to his hometown. Musa does not intend to return until he finds out why his daughter was killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Girl on the Train (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Secret of the Grain (2007)
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At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, culinary, clever, contemplative, talky, beautiful
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House of Tolerance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, rough, sexy, disturbing, eros, sensual
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Rosetta (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, art house, realistic, contemplative, emotional, spiritual, suspense, social, sad
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Too Close to Our Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, no music
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Happening (2021)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, crying, cult film