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Plot Summary:
An ensemble set in Malta that focuses on four characters: Bozo, a children's party clown who is a closet pedophile; Claudia, a stage actress who is paralyzed with feelings of insignificance and is driven to do the extreme; Kyle, a family man with a deaf son who finds it increasingly difficult to cope with challenges at home and at work; and DJ Trim, a talk radio show presenter suffering from an anxiety disorder who advocates for the rights of illegal immigrants and becomes the target of unwanted attention from a threatening caller.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Malta
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Womanlight (1979)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political
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The Weight (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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John, 316 (2020)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatric hospital is turned upside down when a mysterious drifter is admitted and assigned to room 316. Known only as John Doe, the other patients believe that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Brother and Sister (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
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How to Be Loved (1963)
Plot Summary:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, but suffers most from not having any audience for his vanity, ego and supposed bravery. After the war he leaves her but finds out that he has been accused of cowardice. He finally commits suicide and she clears herself of a collaboration charge and eventually becomes a popular actress.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Prude (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a discouraged democrat and a columnist, dismissed from a famous daily newspaper, emerges from his own grave and enters into his own life. Within 48 hours, he will try to achieve all those things he couldn't while he was alive. At the same time, post-mortem, he will try to save the dignity of his own community and his tribe, not taking too much care of himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Our Father... (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Veikko Aaltonen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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A normal world (2020)
Plot Summary:
2020, City of Madrid (Madrid, center to Spain and country's capital). "Un Mundo Normal" (A normal World) follows Ernesto Caral, a loudmouth and sarcastic at full time forty-something theater director trapped in the middle age crisis: after the split with his lifelong domestic partner Julia, he moves to a new floor with their comprehensive and smarter teenager daughter Cloe. Belonging to a clan of artists as his mother Carolina was actress, his brother Max is a concert pianist and Cloe is a talented painter despite she is studying laws, Ernesto divides his time between to find a new project to recover his fallen-on-disgrace carrier and caring his aged mother. Worried about as her friends die in a short time, Carolina forces Ernesto to make her a promise: take her corpse after her death to move her natal town in Altea, Alicante (Valencia, east to Spain) and throw her to the sea. Reluctant to film a TV series but accepting to solve his money troubles, in the filming Max calls Ernesto.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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Tate's Voyage (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tate, a young and crooked businessman, thinks he can get rich quick by buying a Russian freighter in the port of Rotterdam. This turns out to be a fiasco because the ship has been arrested, the freight has been sealed by the customs and the crew has been waiting for months for their wages. When his girlfriend falls in love with the ship's mate, Tate makes a decision. He takes pity on the suffering crew and tries to save them from their helpless predicament. Written by Dennis Jansen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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One Careful Owner (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sara is offered a chance to buy the perfect apartment, roomy, very luminous and inexpensive. She only has one little problem: she can't live in it before Lola, the actual and aged owner, dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional
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Mela (1980)
Plot Summary:
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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R.M.N. (2022)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Call Girl '88 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, depressing
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Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for the list of patients, sorts out the "Aryan" doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the Nazi soldiers appear.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Limestone Cowboy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Limestone Cowboy is a human story of a family grappling with the discomforting notion of a delusional parent, Karist, who believes he has what it takes to run for office.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Malta
Duration: 97 min
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A Cry for Help (1975)
Plot Summary:
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. He frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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The Voice (1982)
Plot Summary:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle -- it will kill her eventually. Overwhelmed, she has to reconsider her simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective. This film had an attendance of 2.3 million in the Soviet Union when it was released.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Dog's Night Song (1983)
Plot Summary:
A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, underground film
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Never Again a Tomorrow (2017)
Plot Summary:
The slightly self-indulgent artist Thorvald collapses during an interview made in celebration of his 80th birthday and dies shortly after. But in spite of his death Thorvald can still follow those left behind. From a distance, and for better or worse, he sees with his own eyes the imprint he has left on his family and especially his son Vincent, who had a strained relationship with his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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After Jimmy (1996)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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A Parting Shot (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Viola (2012)
Plot Summary:
Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, non-linear, clever, witty, talky, postmodern, independent film
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In the Name of the Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
The new movie of Vincent Lannoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cynical, semi serious, suspense, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, gloomy, biting
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In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Plot Summary:
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: art house
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Lotgenoten (2013)
Plot Summary:
When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 65 min
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Twice a Man (1963)
Plot Summary:
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, deviant, independent film
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Everything Went Fine (2021)
Plot Summary:
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Face in the Mirror (1982)
Plot Summary:
The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: christian film
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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