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Plot Summary:
On November 30th (the date when King Karl XII died) there will usually be demonstrations by hyper-national and neo-Nazi groups, and also democratic counter demonstrations. The plot of "West Side Story" is transferred to the Stockholmian suburb Alby where many immigrants live. But the film is no plagiarism, in particular no so because many scenes have the intensive character of live transmission. The boy (Adam) belongs to a Nazi group whose racial attitude is foremost directed against immigrants with 'wrong' colour of hair or skin. The girl (Julia) belongs to a family of political fugitives from Peru. Adam and Julia immediately fall in great and reciprocal love, and there are highly emotional love scenes. Therefore Adam breaks with his group. But when his best friend is killed by Julia's brother, he kills the brother. In turn the couple is hunted by the police and Julia's relatives. Both Adam and Julia are finally murdered. The film takes no step toward reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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Colorado Avenue (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, family saga, serious, realistic, epic
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On the Line (1984)
Plot Summary:
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tic Tac (1997)
Plot Summary:
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: non-linear, offbeat, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, telenovela
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The Searchers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jocke has grown up in one of Stockholm's rough suburbs. Nowadays he spends the daytime getting into trouble at school and going into Stockholm in the evenings and getting into even more trouble. After being sentenced to prison he meets Tony. After their release they begin a series of robberies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Heart of a Lion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, suspense
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9 mm (1997)
Plot Summary:
The suburb that is a society in a society, a place where young guys do anything for respect. A place where criminality and violence is a part of life. The movie is about Malik, a guy without family and land of origin, and who has made crime and violence to a part of his life. Both to win respect, and to support himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic
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Last Resort (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
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Five Hours from Paris (2009)
Plot Summary:
Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. He is afraid of flying and she is about to fly away. What are the odds of them ending up together?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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Russia 88 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A gang of skinheads 'Russia 88' are filming propaganda videos in order to place it on the internet. At the same time the camera records the life of the gang, they become accustomed to this and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the gang 'Blade' discovers that his sister is dating a guy from the Caucausus. This family drama develops into a tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, serious, psychological, intense, rough
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Nordrand (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Lovers (1999)
Plot Summary:
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic
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My Australia (2011)
Plot Summary:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Here Below (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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My Dog Killer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret of his lost mother Marika.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic
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Speak Up! It's So Dark... (1993)
Plot Summary:
Psychological drama about the meeting between a neo-nazi and a Jewish doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Combat Girls (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 14-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisa's convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee. Confronted to him, she will learn that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way. Will Marisa ever be able to get out of this group?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, serious, political, sad, hood, steamy
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Hours of Light (2004)
Plot Summary:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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Nattbuss 807 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kalle, en kille i 18-års åldern har hamnat lite snett i livet. Han umgås mest med främlingsfientliga personer. Carlos är en kille i 16-års åldern, han har bott i Sverige större delen av sitt liv med sin mor och hennes äldre bror. Hans pappa är kvar i hemlandet Bolivia. Carlos och hans bror är med i ett mindre gäng bestående mest av invandrare. Filmen handlar om konflikten mellan Kalle och Carlos, samt deras respektive gäng, en konflikt med tragiska konsekvenser.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, cult film
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Brotherhood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, lgbt cinema, tense, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Eastern Plays (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Georgi, now being asked to participate in larger events, starts to question his implication in the movement and Hristo wonders if the beautiful Turkish girl he saved could be his ticket out of his sad life in Sofia. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, psychological, philosophical, melancholic, existential, tense, serious
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Red Leaves (2014)
Plot Summary:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tense
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Say That You Love Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fatou is a teenager yearning for attention and love in Sweden's suburbs. When she is gang raped by some class mates her whole world starts falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Daybreak (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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The End of Silence (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, intercultural, sexy, inter cultural
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Costas (1979)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Expecting Amish (2014)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off instantly. When she returns to Amish country, Hannah must make the painful choice of staying with Samuel or return to Josh and risk being shunned forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic
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The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exceptional singular styles and visions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, anthology, bleak
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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The Believer (2001)
Plot Summary:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, intense, philosophical
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Fuehrer Ex (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, realistic