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Plot Summary:
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: detective
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Hangtime (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Expectations (1997)
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A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
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Keys to the City (2019)
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A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, the man who has raised Russell and his brother as his own since they were kids. But when the beautiful Avery Long joins the campaign, Russell finds himself fighting to sustain everything he's worked for including his campaign for Mayor, and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Donbass (2018)
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In the Donbas, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbas unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, Poland
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, ironic, satirical, suspenseful, social, independent film
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Gorgeous (2022)
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A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 151 min
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Bruiser (2022)
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During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Frost (1997)
Plot Summary:
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, road movie, crying
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The Night I Swam (2017)
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Snow covered mountains in Japan. Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His 6 year old son is awoken by his departure and finds it impossible to fall back to sleep. In the sleeping household, the young boy draws a picture he then slips into his satchel. On his way to school, still drowsy, he strays off the path and wanders into the snow.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 78 min
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Fools (1970)
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A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Drive My Car (2021)
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Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: inspirational, art house, independent film, slow cinema, poetic, relaxing, road movie, beautiful, bilingual
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1971)
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Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)
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A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, funny, light, sexy, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet
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Broken Memories (2017)
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“Broken Memories” is a romantic drama that depicts the often-untold story of a family caregiver tending to an elderly parent. Once estranged from his family, Levi (Ivan Sergei), puts his life on hold to care for his father, Jasper (Rance Howard), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. After Jasper wanders off one too many times, Levi eventually is resigned to hiring a beautiful and somewhat mysterious caregiver named Maggie (Kelly Greyson). Her patience and warmth begin to rebuild a bridge between father and son as the old family house begins to resemble a home once again. Unfortunately, Maggie has her own turbulent past that eventually catches up with her and changes everything in a burst of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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I'll Love You Forever... Tonight (1992)
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Set in the late 1980s, this critically acclaimed indie classic from 1992 portrays a gritty side of gay life in Los Angeles. Ethan (Paul Marius), a 27-year-old photographer, believes he has no need for love or commitments, and is living his life amidst one-night stands. Ethan is coaxed by his "best buddy" Dennis (Jason Adams) into attending a reunion of college friends and lovers at a Palm Springs hideaway. What is supposed to be a restful vacation turns into a round of hard drinking and cruel sexual games. By the end of the "vacation," Ethan feels a need for new friends and returns to Los Angeles. Confronting his troubled family life, he calls his father - who doesn't want anything to do with him. In the end, Ethan realizes that he can make his own "family" with friends who will accept each other without judgments.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Pinches Actores (2015)
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The daily struggles and hopes of an entire group of Mexican actors: Freddy, Sandra, Jonathan, Karina and Jorge, show us what "being an actor" really means on a daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Actor Martinez (2016)
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Dreaming of fame and fortune, a local Denver performer hires two indie filmmakers to come to town and make a film with him as the star.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: meta
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One Take (1998)
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Life is a one take proposition. In ONE TAKE, Kevin never stopped loving Jessie even though she left him years ago and is reported to be dead. When Kevin, out-of-the-blue, receives a card in the mail - an old photo of the two of them with a mysterious message - he is spurred on to discover who sent it and the truth behind Jessie, both past and present.Kevin is suspicious that she might still be alive though this means everyone he meets including Jessie's brother, Jerry, is lying to him. As he tracks down old friends and family, Kevin carries on a running conversation with an imagined Jessie. Just as he is coming to terms with the fact that some questions will remain forever unanswered, he uncovers a shattering truth the will forever change his take on life, love, and sacrafice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
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Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder (2023)
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In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they encounter some interesting characters and obstacles while sorting out their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nightbeats (2009)
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A contemporary noir set entirely at night Nightbeats is an homage to the classic noirs of the 1940's, though told as a contemporary drama, not a gumshoe satire, Nightbeats follow the lives of five people over four nights. Over these nights there are a series of deaths, suicides at first glance. Or are they?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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The Perfect Cheerleader (2019)
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When college freshman Cassie earns a spot on the cheerleading squad, she is overjoyed about the new friendships, status, and access to social events that come along with being on the team. When she meets Terry, the charismatic President of the Alumni Association, at an event, Cassie finds herself falling for this older man despite their age difference. Terry even helps her out by paying part of her tuition when she falls on hard times. But all is not as it seems when Cassie finds out that members of the team moonlight as escorts with rich alumni, and that the man she’s falling in love with is part of that group. When a friend from the team becomes pregnant and ends up dead under mysterious circumstances, Cassie vows that nothing will stop her from exposing the dark world that surrounds her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, intellectual
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Kodachrome (2017)
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Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, depressing, sad, independent film
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Hotel by the River (2018)
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An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it's not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, poetic
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Touched by Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Stand Against Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A popular high school cheerleader finds herself under attack from school officials and friends when she accuses two star football players of sexually molesting her and another cheerleader.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Digging to China (1997)
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Harriet, a ten-year old girl, lives together with her big sister and her alcoholic mother out in the countryside. The family runs a motel. Harriet is different from the others, as she owns a great creativity and has nobody to play with. Her infinite world exists only in her mind. One day, Ricky comes along. He is a grown-up, but retarded son of an elderly lady. Soon, Harriet and Ricky share their experiences of life from a different point of view and become close friends. But his mother still plans to give Ricky away into professional care in a home, because she won't live forever to be there for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, intellectual, crying, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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New Hope (2012)
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High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's unforeseen suicide of a year ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, uplifting, independent film, christian film, crying
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Boy (1969)
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A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, cult film
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
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Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation process, leaving Ava to face consequences both at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Wildlife (2018)
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14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of purpose—he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother's struggle as she tries to keep her head above water.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: melancholic, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, indie film, captivating, inspirational, social, art house