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Plot Summary:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
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The Brothers (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
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Return of a Citizen (1986)
Plot Summary:
Returning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Thursday (1964)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Open Letter To The Evening News (1970)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, gay cinema
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They've Got Knut (2003)
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Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet. While Ingo and Nadja have an open relationship, he thinks its time that they commit to one another exclusively, and is hoping this weekend will convince her this is a good idea. However, their privacy is interrupted when several guests arrive -- friends of Nadja's brother Knut (Ingo Haeb), a noted political activist, who, unbeknownst to her, has also planned a ski weekend. As the guests await Knut's arrival, they get the unpleasant news that he's been arrested during a demonstration; several propose that they should come to his aid, while the majority decide instead to go skiing as a way to pay tribute to his commitment to the cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rokonok (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
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Signorina Effe (2007)
Plot Summary:
Emma was born and raised in a working-class family, but she's long had bourgeois ambitions and has risen through the ranks to become a white-collar employee with the Fiat automobile company.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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The Long Silence (1993)
Plot Summary:
Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband is murdered and, unfortunately, their fears are realized. Then she decides to join a group of widows of judges to break the silence that has always protected the crimes of the Mafia, who always acts in collusion with influential public figures. With the help of the group and the notes and documents of her husband, Carla produces a television documentary that endangers the lives of many people.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min
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Canary Season (1993)
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It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
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Gate, Gate, Paragate (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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The Man Who Laughs (1966)
Plot Summary:
A 1966 French-Italian film version made in Italy, titled L'uomo che ride, directed by Sergio Corbucci. This version features elaborate colour photography but a very low production budget. The main action is shifted to Italy and moved yesterwards in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. In this version, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (which is attributed, in the movie credits, to the director, producer and others involved in making the film, but not to Victor Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias. At the end, Dea (actress Lina Sini) miraculously acquires her eyesight and Angelo undergoes surgery that completely reverses his disfigurement and renders him perfectly handsome.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
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Venom (1966)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns a hedonistic young chap who delights in stirring up trouble with his video camera, screening filmed private intimate moments to parents of their children who are prominently featured on the video.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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Caravan Serai (1986)
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Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter becomes a whore, and the son has to work.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min
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Family Portrait (1962)
Plot Summary:
Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother (Sylvie), Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves. Beautifully photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, this austere, deeply-felt masterwork has been acclaimed as one of Zurlini's greatest achievements.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Misunderstood (1966)
Plot Summary:
Andrew's brave front convinces his father that he is unaffected by his mother's death. Playmate and protector of his little brother Miles, he is often blamed when mischief goes wrong. Only when tragedy strikes does his father recognize Andrew's true qualities.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: modern day adaptation
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The Second Time (1995)
Plot Summary:
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The House of Pleasure (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lord Gregory Hutton takes his beautiful young wife Eleanore on a business trip to the Far East for their honeymoon. They stay at the house of Lin, a young local owner of a silk farm and fashion factory whose father only recently died. Lady Eleanor finds herself attracted to Lin and soon is tempted by his advances. But it is not all as it seems. Lord Gregory seems more and more indifferent, and Lady Eleanor starts to get confused. Money is in the game.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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My Mother's Smile (2002)
Plot Summary:
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, surreal, spiritual, entertaining
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological thriller, atmospheric, disturbing, neorealism, black and white, touching, bleak, serious, emotional
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The Big Dream (2009)
Plot Summary:
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, touching, contemplative, hot
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Dormant Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, anthology, emotional, contemplative
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Toilet (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Way We Laughed (1998)
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Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, juvenile
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The Nanny (1999)
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Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Wreckers (2011)
Plot Summary:
A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, sex comedy, gloomy
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying
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Hands Over the City (1963)
Plot Summary:
Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples’s civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, suspenseful, clever, serious, political, neo noir, political thriller, art film, poliziottesco