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Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
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The Braves (2021)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and understudy in a high-profile play in Paris. Alma is keeping a secret that puts her role in jeopardy, but with the unwavering support of Margot, they will try their best to ensure that the show goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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The Birdwatcher (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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Penthouse Playgirls (1972)
Plot Summary:
A gang of white slavers lure beautiful young women into prostitution by staging beauty contests in which the "prize" is a Hollywood contract. The "winners" are then drugged and sold to international sex traffickers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The dark night of the soul (1989)
Plot Summary:
Life of San Juan de la Cruz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
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High (1968)
Plot Summary:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film
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Embryo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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George who? (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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Slipstream (1973)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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14 Days with Victor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star who wants to return to the ring. Anna is losing his father, after a physically devastating disease. Despite his youth, Victor lead the trio into a situation with unpredictable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sadistic
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Nadia, Butterfly (2020)
Plot Summary:
While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
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Ibiza Blue (2023)
Plot Summary:
August 2020. The lives of three young professionals intersect in the post-pandemic lock-down Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
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The Rite of Spring (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confidently enter a new phase. A story about that vital moment when anything is possible and how the most unexpected encounters can change our lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
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Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
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Victory March (1976)
Plot Summary:
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Proxy (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Youth (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jordi is going to make it big, cost what it may, juggling a stock exchange portfolio; Cristina combines booze, drugs and sex in the celebration of her birthday; and Pau, in search of strong emotions, turns to violence, xenophobic attitude. Three young protagonists flee towards the future in the pursuit of an illusory happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min
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Dumont's Case (2012)
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Michel Dumont is charged, judged and sentenced for a rape he denies ever having committed. While he serves his time in prison, Solange, who he fell in love with during his trial, embarks on the colossal task of proving his innocence and having the court rehabilitate him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min
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Silvester Countdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
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The Illusions (2009)
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A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Giraffes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house. Tania, trying to regain her rights over the space that her uncle left her, intends to evict them. But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania decides to retrench on the top floor of the house. The war that starts ends up moving them closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, Panama
Duration: 96 min
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
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Young Mother 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yeong-gil is in graduate class and is stressed about getting a job. To make things worse, he's not had any experience with women yet, so he's always searching for something in his dreams but wakes up to nothing. Then one day, there is a change in his life, he puts his hand in The Box of Pandora and gets a job although it wasn't a regular position. He sleeps with his female superior during the interview even though it's not how he imagined it. Then one day, he visits Joo-yeon's home and meets her beautiful mother. Can he keep himself from being seduced by this woman?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
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Jackie Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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Surrogate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jane Martin (25 years old), young graduate, is recruited by the Doctor Faye's clinical, "the clinical for healthy sex". Through her maturity, self-confidence and great sexual experience, she requires the obvious qualities to become a good therapist. But Jane does not respect all the rules with her patients and becomes more closer with them. Ignoring the warnings of Dr. Faye, Jane puts her patients and herself in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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My Rabbit is the Best (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Between Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
Elodie and Laetitia live in close love and dream of having a child. As Elodie discovers that she cannot get pregnant because of a health problem and encounters financial troubles, they decide to take a roommate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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