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Plot Summary:
Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah/United States behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi- legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders: In the port of Rotterdam/Netherlands unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 90 min
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By Accident (2015)
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One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Manila (2000)
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Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min
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Of Skies and Earth (2011)
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Welcome to the hometown of Yoyong, Poklat, Boying and Uding. Here, there are no big shopping malls, no tall buildings. There are only huge mountains and vast fields as far as the eye can see, and clouds that seem to be always embracing the mountains. Life is simple for the four boys. They are content and very happy if they could eat three meals a day and are able to play. All of them, except for Uding who is an orphan, have left their homes in the mountains because they couldn’t bear the harsh treatment of their parents.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 101 min
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A Speck in the Water (1976)
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Nunal sa Tubig is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
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Remembrance (1982)
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A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Short Circuits (2006)
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At night a city bus driver finds an abandoned baby near a stop. A divorced man comes to pick up his excited son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends a quadriplegic. Out of this unfolds a delicate story of human relationships, in which tough feelings of sympathy and guilt the protagonists are confronted with different ways of looking at events.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 105 min
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Karz Chukana Hai (1991)
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Alcoholic, arrogant, and a slacker, Atmaram, though coming from a poor family, has visions of grandeur, and believes that everyone else is subordinate to his wishes and instructions. This lands him in hot water with his employer, Seth Usman, and as a result he loses his job. Unable to support his family, namely his wife, Laxmi, and two grown sons, Ravi and Vijay, he starts living at home, dependent on his sons' incomes. Then fate delivers a cruel blow to Atmaram, leaving him alone and desolate. He decides to atone for his mistakes, but will he able to convince others of his good intentions, who are weary of him, and fear that this may be another ploy on his part to fool them again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: India
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Cassava (2009)
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A Filipino drama directed by Maryo J. De Los Reyes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
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10 Sekunden (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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The Pawnshop (2009)
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Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing almost everything for love. Kanor serves as the pawnshop security guard. He holds Olivia in high esteem for letting him and his wife stay in the apartment above the shop. Kanor opens his house to boarder David, a seaman in transit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
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Children Metal Divers (2009)
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The heart-tugging story of children who scavenge for metal scraps in the murky waters of Manila Bay, often risking their lives in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wherever You Are (2004)
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A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Universal Signs (2008)
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After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Long Shadows (2008)
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After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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The Good Man (2013)
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Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact on one another's lives is far greater, and more surprising, than either could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, Ireland
Duration: 75 min
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The Punishment (1976)
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In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min
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Kanarifuglen (1973)
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Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
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Her Last Chance (1996)
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Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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For Michelle (2017)
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When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in time to claim the young girl and prove that he will be a suitable Father. The consequences of his actions follow him, however, putting his life in danger, and potentially ruining his chance to save the child from foster care by raising doubts in the mind of his case worker, whom he has become romantically involved with.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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All the Way Home (1981)
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A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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So Long, My Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: sexy, social, independent film, non-linear
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Trap (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Things We Do for Love (2013)
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Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008)
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Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani (Niilo Syvaoja) has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula (Tommi Korpela) can truly be.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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A Report (1964)
Plot Summary:
1964 Finnish drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
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Radiant Sea (2015)
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Marek starts as a trainee on a container ship. It's 197 meters long, 30 meters wide, and bound for Martinique. Full of anticipation, he leaves his parents' farm in Western Pomerania and goes on board at Saint-Nazaire. Marek wants to find freedom and falls in love with the enigmatic sailor Jean. Will it just be a fling or will it last forever? Does Jean actually have a lover in every port? On his trip across the Atlantic, Marek may not actually become a sailor, but he does grow up. A romantic coming-of-age trip over the Atlantic and a maritime boy's dream about love under the conditions of modern cargo shipping.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, contemplative, meditative, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Cold Water (2017)
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After a female cadet goes over board during cadet training, an investigation is started.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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The Mine (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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The Plutonium Incident (1980)
Plot Summary:
A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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A Man's Job (2007)
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Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, psychological, serious, sexual, crying, sexy