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Plot Summary:
The chronicles of Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, extraordinary
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Sati (1989)
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Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Fiela's Child (1988)
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The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house
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Railroad Man (1999)
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A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house
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Wanderer (1987)
Plot Summary:
Another story of a young and beautiful singer, whose beauty and ambition and a lack of happiness, an obstacle to reach the top but a shortcut to an untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Subarnarekha (1965)
Plot Summary:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been separated from his mother. To keep the two children from poverty, Ishwar abandons the colony to take an administrative job at an iron mill. Years pass. During one school vacation, the now-grown Sita and Abhiram acknowledge their love for each other. Ishwar, turned grimly bourgeois, opposes their match, and his interference leads to disaster for all three.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Kalyug (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: parallel cinema
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Kanchenjungha (1962)
Plot Summary:
Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society in transition.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: art film
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Cockpit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Cockpit is a story based on true incidents. The story follows a flight that is going from Mumbai to Calcutta and gets hit from bad turbulent weather.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Embryo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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Ramdhanu-The Rainbow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mitali was a worried mother. This time, once again, her 5 year old son Gogol had failed to pass the admission test in a reputed school. Mitali was determined to get her son admitted into a reputed school. Gogol loved the song of birds, the flight of the kites, the rustling of the leaves, the wide expanse of the blue sky. Laltu Dutta, her husband, owned a chemist's shop. Mitali's desperation worries Laltu & he decide to approach a tout and is willing to pay him a handsome amount for his son's admission. Mitali decides to enroll herself along with Laltu in a school that coaches parents to conduct themselves at interviews. Laltu is very reluctant at first, but finally gives in to his wife's persuasions.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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Bedroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we shut our laptop, shut our Bedroom door, rest our head on our pillow and sink into the familiar discomfort of being our unattractive, unaccomplished, pitiful selves. This is the allegorical “Bedroom” – our most private space where we retire to, night after night. Where we let our guards down and dare to be at our ugliest worst.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Tusk (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house
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Lady Caliph (1970)
Plot Summary:
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Woman Who Eats (2018)
Plot Summary:
Story follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds, including Atsuko Mochitsuki (Kyoko Koizumi), through what they eat and whom they date. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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La strana voglia (1991)
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A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and decides to seduce his new lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Coward (1965)
Plot Summary:
Amitabha Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a Calcutta based scriptwriter who is driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: intelligent
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Nayak: The Hero (1966)
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A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, extraordinary
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The Adversary (1970)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, independent film, surreal, suspense
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The Middleman (1975)
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A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, clever, serious, realistic, witty, biting, suspense
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Luck by Chance (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, meta, cult film
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Shamitabh (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, extraordinary
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The Lonely Wife (1964)
Plot Summary:
Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time Bhupati's own brother, Amal, a would-be writer comes home finishing his college education. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: intelligent, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Bengali Night (1988)
Plot Summary:
Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: multicultural, baroque
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Chorabali (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Cars of the Revolution (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is just after the military take over of the administration in 1960. The new head of state believes Turkey can only be independent if it is economically strong. After sounding out the weak private sector and most of the senior bureaucrats, it is clear that nobody has a similar view. So, he dares the government sector to see if anyone can design and produce a 100% original car within 4 months... Well, one engineer shares this vision and a small and dedicated team start working in a locomotive factory. Time is short and resources are limited. Many believe this can not be achieved. This is the story of a team of idealist engineers working on this vision.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, educational, art house
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Cosmic Sex (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cosmic Sex is a 2014 art-house Independent Bengali Film written and directed by Amitabh Chakraborty and produced by Putul Mahmood. The film deals with the connection between Sex and Spirituality.Cosmic Sex is the story of a young man Kripa who is on the run from sex and violence one night in Kolkata when he meets a woman Sadhavi who strangely resembles his dead mother. She gives him shelter and teaches him to travel inwards through sex. The film deals with Dehotatva (worshipping through one’s own body) and explores the connection between Sex and Spirituality. The film stars Rii Sen who won the best actress award at Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema for her bold act in the movie.[.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, sexy, art house
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Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: epic, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic
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Labour of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, silent, art house, silent film
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The Big City (1963)
Plot Summary:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, sincere, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious