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Plot Summary:
Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 89 min
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The Blood of Hussain (1980)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 112 min
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The Right Hand Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Di Drew.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Second Wife (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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Noura's Dream (2019)
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With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
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Angels Wear White (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, Mia and Wen will have to find their own way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political
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Glory (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: social, art house
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Raping! (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: crying
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Letter from the Mountain (2002)
Plot Summary:
As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
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Children of Iron (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, so they hatch a plan to make their parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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Riders (1993)
Plot Summary:
Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has a high social position, woman at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the Pin Up of Penscombe has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now come to a showdown at the Lod Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 199 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Valparaiso My Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slang, freeze frame
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Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wolf and Sheep (2016)
Plot Summary:
In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Nargess (1992)
Plot Summary:
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
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The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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7 Women (1965)
Plot Summary:
In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British mission, Charles Pather, a teacher at the mission and his pregnant wife Florrie. When Dr. D.R. Cartwright arrives, she agrees to sacrifice herself to the Tunga Khan in exchange for his letting the ladies go free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, captivating, retro, neurotic, historical drama
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The Horse Thief (1986)
Plot Summary:
Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter. Images of harsh landscapes, vultures, and prayer wheels carry a virtually wordless narrative.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spiritual, poetic
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Comme des rois (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Dazzled (2019)
Plot Summary:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Pororoca (2017)
Plot Summary:
Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria disappears. Their lives abruptly change forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
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The Market: A Tale of Trade (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, UK, Kazakhstan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, clever, realistic, witty
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Naked Childhood (1968)
Plot Summary:
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, pretentious, cinema verite
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Listen (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their children. The film portrays the tireless battle of these immigrant parents against the law to keep their family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
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Stolen from the Heart (2000)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens to be beset with heart problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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In This World (2002)
Plot Summary:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, political, realistic, tense, thought provoking
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A Bigger World (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to forget the death of Paul, the man of her life, Korine leaves Paris for a few weeks, to direct a report in Mongolia. Her meeting with the shaman Oyun will change her life: Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. Korine will agree to start a journey of discovery, which will lead her to discover a new culture, ancestral and forgotten ways, but most importantly herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, powerful
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Belgica (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, sexy, captivating
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The Road (1982)
Plot Summary:
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, political, art house, black and white, psychological, sincere, uplifting, bleak, serious, emotional
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Our Father (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, crying, entertaining