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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags:
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Contergan (2007)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the thalidomide drug scandal of the early 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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John and the Missus (1987)
Plot Summary:
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cold Summer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Wall - Berlin '61.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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On the Road to Katanga (1987)
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Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of the old and new love, the events in and around the mine, all put his obsession with Katanga on test.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
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The Journey (1992)
Plot Summary:
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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Der Turm (2012)
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Adapted from an award-winning best-selling book by Uwe Tellkamp, 'The Tower' depicts a higher class family’s struggles during crumbling communist rule in 1980’s East Germany. It illustrates the weaknesses and pending downfall of the German communist state through an intimate portrayal of one family's struggles, dreams and decisions. Run-ins with East Germany’s Secret Police reveal the cracks in both the police state and family loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
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Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Odyssey of Heroes (2012)
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When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Mine (2016)
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A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, suspense
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Factor 8 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the enzymatic apparatus for multiplying any viral nucleic acids.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The King Maker (2005)
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1547 Fernando De Gama, a young "Soldier of Fortune" from Portugal, set sail for the ient in an effort to find a man who murdered his father and, with luck, like many of their compatriots, to make his fortune. A vicious storm in the Indian Ocean almost ended his plans when he was on the ship sank. The sole survivor, he was washed up on a tropical beach only to be captured by Arab slavers and taken to Ayutthaya in the kingdom of Siam, where he was offered for sale as a slave.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, rough, serious, surprise ending
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Chac: The Rain God (1975)
Plot Summary:
Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, Panama
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual, mystic, esoteric, atmospheric, serious, stylized, suspense
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Storm tide (2006)
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Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Happy Valley (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Amazon (1990)
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Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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St. Helens (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, disaster movie
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Territory (2015)
Plot Summary:
It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspenseful, harsh
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One Mile Above (2011)
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Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging trip. Shuhao's inexperience almost sees him headed over a cliff one dark night. Food poisoning nearly costs him his life just after surviving an attack by a pack of menacing Tibetan Mastiffs. In the end, Shuhao arrives in Lhasa to see the Potola Palace. His lonely journey, filled with laughter and tears, brings him to the discovery of a new purpose in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
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Anything to Survive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious
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Iron Ridge (2008)
Plot Summary:
When two friends from the city take a vacation to the wilds of Montana, they find themselves lost in the depths of the big sky country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
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Antarctica (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
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Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
Plot Summary:
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Royal Deceit (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: costume drama, tense, serious, realistic, independent film
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The 33 of San Jose (2010)
Plot Summary:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, suspense, realistic
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Plot Summary:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, captivating, contemplative, bleak, serious, romantic drama
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To Brave Alaska (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Wolf Totem (2015)
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In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, dramatic, historical drama
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White Squall (1996)
Plot Summary:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, touching, serious, rough, inspirational, feel good, nautical, anamorphic, profound