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Plot Summary:
"Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now lonely, has lost control of his life and nothing on Earth is able to help him. Is a holy soul from Paradise, her timeless love and endless care that gives Dante's life a twist. Beatrice, bending the rules of the Underworld, offers her old friend the opportunity to understand the value of life. Dante, guided by the knowledgeable soul Virgilio, will have cross Hell and Purgatory and face several challenges to have the chance of being enlightened by the vision of the Empyrean. His journey is physical and emotional. By meeting many wondering souls Dante will have cope with inner resistances and overcome them evolving and growing to move on with his life.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: educational
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Praying the Hours (2021)
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The Traveling Man is hit by a car. Over the 24 hours that it takes to cross over from this life into the next, he visits with each of eight friends. By seeing ordinary life from this view, he realizes that eternity is not something that happens to you after you die, but is a river that flows under the surface of ordinary life.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Der Film deines Lebens (2011)
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During a coma has blank visions from a desert. When he awakens in the hospital from the coma, he has to realize that his memory has lost him. Without knowing who he is, he makes himself looking for themselves. Station sister Maria, who has raised his son Gaspar alone for years without a man, becomes involuntary escape helpless from the hospital and complain with an adventurous search for the seven basic Game rules of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: educational
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Automatic at Sea (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a whim, Eve, a young Swedish traveler, accepts an invitation from Peter to vacation on his family's private island off the coast of New England. As a series of unexpected delays prevent other guests from arriving, Eve discovers that she has little in common with the increasingly erratic Peter. Gradually the idyllic natural beauty of the island gives way and Eve finds herself trapped in a state of surreality punctuated by bizarre visions, dimensional shifting and secret pizza.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA, Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, tension, minimal cast, suspense
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Euphoria (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, melancholic, bad ending, bleak, suspense, stylized, art house
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Bardo Blues (2017)
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Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Inferno by Dante (2024)
Plot Summary:
"Inferno by Dante" film is the story of Dante's journey through the first part of the afterlife, Hell. The Infernal journey begins in a dark forest where Dante is threatened by three wild beasts. He's rescued by his hero Virgil at Beatrice's request. Virgil guides and protects Dante on his dark journey descending circle-by-circle and their subdivisions to the center of the Earth where Lucifer resides, and out into Purgatory. The story is presented in an unprecedented and unique way that no other film has done until now. "Inferno by Dante" is a visual and narrative journey to and through Hell, which will make any audience to reflect on their own lives.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot tags: psychotronic
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Dustclouds (2007)
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"Dustclouds" is an epic fever-dream, chronicling a long night's journey into day. As his wedding carriage rides beneath a starlit night, Getz vows to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Having worked his whole life, he has finally married. Yet as he lies in his bride's embrace, Getz already starts to question his happiness. Deep within, he yearns for "the perfect," which puts strain on his marriage. As the night progresses, inner turmoil unravels the fabric of Getz's being. Years begin to pass like seconds. Time, identity and purpose become unstuck. And a great sadness is borne into his life. Getz longs for answers, but is terrified by what he could lose in his search for truth? What follows is a quest deep into his heart of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: demonic, independent film, avant garde
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Come Together (1971)
Plot Summary:
An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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In and Out of Planet Earth (2008)
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A documentary from Nick Peterson.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
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Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of Tommaso, a simple shepherd.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, semi documentary, experimental
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Zoo (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond the Known World (2017)
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Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must journey into the Himalayas in search for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand, India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Expedition (1975)
Plot Summary:
An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union, Russia
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Marco Polo (1962)
Plot Summary:
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Audience (1972)
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Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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Purgatory by Dante (2023)
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Dante and Virgil exit Hell into Purgatory, a place set up on a mountain of seven terraces, one for each type of sinners.
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Genere: Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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The Journey (1992)
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A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Cavern (1964)
Plot Summary:
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, melancholic
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Keep Going (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across Kyrgyzstan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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Enter the Wild (2018)
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On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of letting go of the past.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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The American Dreamless (2020)
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A young addict is convinced by his best friend to train-hop across the country in hopes of finding the buried treasure that they talked about when they were kids. One is self-destructive and the other is blind, neither of them expected a small-town drifter to lead the way, especially when the only way to go, is within. The American Dreamless is Tanner Matthews' directorial debut and the first film to be shot in all fifty US states.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, captivating, realistic
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Marco Polo (2007)
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Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country where he is accepted as an envoy into Khan's court. Marooned on the far side of the world, Polo, accompanied by his servant, Pedro, advances as a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, epic, captivating, serious, realistic, stylized
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Sandra (1965)
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Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew meets for the first time Gianni, Sandra's brother. He soon realizes that Sandra and Gianni have a secret since their childhood. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
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Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa (his mistress), the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: metafiction, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, talky, stylized, non-linear
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Plot Summary:
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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Wonderstruck (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, exciting, surprise ending, social, sad, black and white, silent
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Cry Macho (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
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Gerry (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, minimal cast, art house, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, captivating, visual, mindfuck, independent film
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Plot Summary:
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, poignant, sad, inspirational, thought provoking, heartbreaking, intense, uplifting, emotional