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Plot Summary:
Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and who never left their countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house
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Touched in the Head (1974)
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Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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The Park (2016)
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Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love. But as the sun goes down, it is time to separate... And a dark night begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: art house
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Our Father... (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Veikko Aaltonen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 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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Woman of the Ganges (1974)
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A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Found Memories (2011)
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Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio's shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another; the only variations seem to be in the weather. But, one day Rita arrives looking for a place to stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, contemplative
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Marion (1997)
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Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Two of a Kind (1982)
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Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
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Away from Home (2001)
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After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
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On the Wandering Paths (2023)
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Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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The Mourning Forest (2007)
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A caregiver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, spiritual, independent film, slow cinema, aesthetic
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A Colony (2018)
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Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, stylized, art house
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Claire's Camera (2017)
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On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Claire is like a person who can see Manhee’s possible future or past selves, through the mysterious power of the beach tunnel. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things, and to transform objects. Now, Claire goes with Manhee to the café where she was fired. We look forward to seeing Claire’s power at work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, art house
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Aquarius (2016)
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Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa Viagem Avenue. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, talky, stylized, allegory, controversial, independent film, spectacular, tense, intellectual
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Paris Memories (2022)
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The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the event, she decides to search through her memory banks. Memories of the man she hid with and whose hand she held throughout the ordeal float back up to the surface. Is he still alive? Is she herself still alive? Mia searches the whole of Paris for this hand which saved her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Kodachrome (2017)
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Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, depressing, sad, independent film
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The Little Bedroom (2010)
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One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, too, opens up, sharing recollections of his beloved wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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A Few Hours of Spring (2012)
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Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, gloomy
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Everything Went Fine (2021)
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When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
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The Gin Game (1981)
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Set in an old folks home, senior citizen Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) has the disease of Old Age, meets an old woman named Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy) who's diabetic. They both discuss issues such as society, the hospitals, money, families, and the folks home where they live, over a game of Gin Rummy. Fonsia has never played before so Weller teachers her. Instantly she goes on a winning streak, making it very hard for Weller not to lose his temper. But he does. Both put out an excellent performance with a lot of swearing!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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Mendy (2003)
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Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern world are influenced by his growing friendship with Bianca, Yankel's free spirited Brazilian roommate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Honey (2013)
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Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, art house, gloomy
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Vagabond (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, disturbing, art house, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, social, retro
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Stray Dogs (2013)
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A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman - might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, art house, aesthetic, avant garde, masterpiece
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Aliyah (2012)
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Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can join him and change his life. Set on emigrating, Alex has to find money, leave his beloved Paris, end his complicated love life, drop his destructive brother and find his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, serious, contemplative
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Pretenders (2018)
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A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, art house
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Cold Showers (2005)
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Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, serious, emotional, melancholic, captivating, sexual, art house, eros, sensual
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Poetry (2010)
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Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer's disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson's shocking wrongdoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, lyrical, sentimental, captivating, sad, art house, existential
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Amour (2012)
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Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: philosophical, reflective, sad, sincere, art house, emotional, depressing, compassionate, breathtaking, disturbing
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, absurd, cerebral, talky