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Plot Summary:
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)
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Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Glass Labyrinth (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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Friend (1988)
Plot Summary:
Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, sincere, touching
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The Song of the Old Days (1982)
Plot Summary:
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Railroad Man (1999)
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A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house
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Throatful of Strawberries (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Plot Summary:
Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
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Come the Morning (1993)
Plot Summary:
In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things start to turn around for them when the mother meets a Christian missionary.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pastorale (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... Far from the idyllic image of rural life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Byelorussia Station (1971)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, smart
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Promised Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
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A Long Goodbye (1971)
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A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to visit his real father in Novosibirsk, on the other side of the country. When he returns, his mother notices that Sasha has changed. She secretly reads a letter sent to Sasha from his father and finds out that Sasha doesn’t want to live with her any longer. She doesn’t have enough wisdom to understand this desire on someone else’s part. Sasha is shown to have a more delicate and understanding nature than his mother, for when he realizes that she is suffering because of his wish to leave, even though he is tired of her nagging, he decides to stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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The Burglar (1987)
Plot Summary:
With a brother dedicated to punk rock stardom at any cost and a drunken father who chases skirt between robotic dancing lessons from the TV, young Senka stands as much chance of nurture as the hero of Truffaut's 400 Blows. The amazing thing about Ogorodnikov's film is that it was made in Russia. Clearly, plenty of Soviet teenies share the nihilistic feelings of their Western counterparts, and the extensive footage of safety-pin chic at concerts perhaps points to a sound export instinct on the director's part. Senka's brother Kostya is under pressure from Howmuch, a very heavy rocker, to steal a synthesiser from the Community Centre, so to protect him Senka steals it himself. The story occupies little more space than the music, but the performances are splendid enough to lodge Senka's predicament in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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The Passport (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
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Three Days (1991)
Plot Summary:
In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact. Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm,.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Lithuania
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, artsy, aesthetic, avant garde
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100 Days Before the Command (1991)
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Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring. '100 Days Before the Command' is Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
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When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
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The Pointsman (1986)
Plot Summary:
A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, sexual, sexy
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The Guard (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
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Mother (1990)
Plot Summary:
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min
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The Yellow Scarf (2000)
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The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Beautiful Women (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Schöne Frauen“ handelt genau davon: von schönen Frauen. Fünf Schauspielerinnen finden sich nacheinander zum Casting für einen Fernsehfilm ein. Sie schweigen, taxieren sich, begutachten sich und ihre Gegenüber. Und kommen sich mitnichten näher. Das Casting allerdings, das findet einfach nicht statt. Irgendwo hinter einer unheilvoll dräuenden Tür müßte sich zwar das Filmteam befinden, aber aus unerfindlichen Gründen wird keine der fünf hineingerufen. Die fünf beginnen, sich zu unterhalten. Erst zögernd, dann offener. Tauschen sich über das betreffende Drehbuch aus, über ihre berufliche Situation, über ihr Privatleben. Jede von ihnen hat einleuchtende Gründe, die Rolle bekommen zu müssen. Aber irgendwann stellt sich auch heraus: Keine von ihnen hat Lust, in diesem Film zu spielen. Also folgen sie einem spontanen Impetus - und gehen. Alle bis auf eine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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War and Peace: Part II (1965)
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In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Plot Summary:
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic
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The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 as a graduation film, but was banned by the Soviet state and didn't premiere until 1987.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
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The Second Circle (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde
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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Plot Summary:
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Plot Summary:
Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min
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