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Plot Summary:
Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic young man. Forced to leave his job because he kept provoking conflicts, he now finds some satisfaction as a member of a gang led by the failed actor Ancek (Ludek Munzar). He gets no support at home either; his father has vanished without a trace and his mother has been unable to cope. Oldrich learns all this in the small hours of the following day, after waking up next to Yellow T-shirt Boy sobering-up station. The new father is so moved by the young man's life that he starts taking care of the boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
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Landing Up (2018)
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When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Northern Light (2006)
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A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
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Poids léger (2004)
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A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, sensitive
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Yuniol (2007)
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"Yuniol" Perez and Alberto "Junior" Rios come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose affection makes up for the absence of his father. Juan and his mother survive in a tough and impoverished Barrio on the outskirts of the capital city. Behind every happy moment lies an ominous sense of despair. Yet the joyful Dominican way of life for those surviving on the margins serves as a testament to people anywhere confronted with poverty and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min
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Ride Above (2022)
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Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
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House for Two (1988)
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House for Two is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Miloš Zábranský. This film stars two of the most recognized Czech actors, Ondřej Vetchý who plays Dan, and Jiří Schmitzer as Bóza. (From Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min
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The Axiliad (1986)
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A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
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The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
Plot Summary:
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Mullum Malarum (1978)
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Mullum malarum (1978) wriiten for screen and directed by Mahandran, based on the novel of the same by Umachandran which was published in Kalki in the year of 1966. The movie deals with the brother sister relationship between Kaali and valli, Kaali's ego with the divisional engineer Kumaran.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: cult film
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In Search Of America (1971)
Plot Summary:
The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy's suggestion, Betz and Miles pack their family--including grandma Ruth McDevitt--into a 1928 Greyhound bus and hit the road, in search of you-know-where. The picaresque plotline brings the family in contact with a variety of colorful characters. Written by Lewis John Carlino, a name that would mean a lot more to filmgoers after The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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The Joke (1969)
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In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, experimental, controversial, avant garde, sincere, rough, emotional, realistic, semi serious, non-linear
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Thank You All Very Much (1969)
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Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. Through a friend, she is introduced to rising TV newsreader/announcer George Matthews (Ian McKellen) and after a further chance meeting and a tumble on the sofa, she finds herself pregnant from her first sexual encounter. A failed attempt at self-abortion just re-inforces Rosamund's resolve to have the child - leaving her on a solitary and at times dismal path through pregnancy and into motherhood, aided only by close friend Lydia (Eleanor Bron). Will she get through it? Will her child? And will she let Matthews know that he is actually the father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
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Doctor Glas (1968)
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Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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Kites Over Helsinki (2001)
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Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Bitter Harvest (1963)
Plot Summary:
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film, humorous, serious, realistic, british noir
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A Brand New Life (1973)
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After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Subwave (1995)
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College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Spring Night (1976)
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A story of two siblings who for the first time spend a night without their parents, and are visited by strangers who ask for room for the night. Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
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Breathing Lessons (1994)
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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The Interns (1962)
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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
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The Party's Over (1965)
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An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
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It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, to marry him in doing what he believes to be the right thing after she tells him that she is ten weeks pregnant from their one and only sexual encounter, the secret wedding which happens the following day. These are only the first steps in both Bo Jo and Julie doing and saying what they believe are the right things under the circumstance regardless of what they may actually feel. Their life inexperience is shown in the process, which includes each finding out what little he/she really knows of the other. They both to some extent realize that being married means the loss of their innocence and the loss of their individual planned futures - which for both was college and Bo Jo working toward a football scholarship on the hopes of becoming All.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Garden of Children (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two people deal with their problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Crazy Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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Nothing in Return (2015)
Plot Summary:
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, social, queer cinema
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Plot Summary:
A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire "smash up" from various angles and in slow motion, depicting much carnage and indifference to the victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Hard Feelings (1981)
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It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
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Climbers High (2008)
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On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
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Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (1994)
Plot Summary:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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My Lover, My Son (1970)
Plot Summary:
A woman deals with an unhappy marriage, the death of her lover, and her son's involvement in a crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, offbeat