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Plot Summary:
A 15 year old mute village girl runs away from home due to problems, lands in Mumbai city. Initially she struggles to cope up with the big city, but fights her way forward to survive and achieve freedom overcoming obstacles.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min
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Rainbow (2022)
Plot Summary:
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: weird
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The Hunter (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
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Paul's Case (1980)
Plot Summary:
Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
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Madonnas (2007)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
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The Girl from Hunan (1987)
Plot Summary:
The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man... Though set in turn-of-the-century China, The Girl from Hunan deliberately parallel the state of affairs in the China of the late 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
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Harry Munter (1969)
Plot Summary:
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world is changing in ways that provoke profound sadness. Written by Eileen Berdon.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Brothers and Sisters (1992)
Plot Summary:
After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Aval Appadithan (1978)
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Aval Appadithan (English: "That's How She Is") is a Tamil film is directed by C. Rudhraiya. It starred Sripriya, Kamal Hassan and Rajnikanth, with Ilayaraja as music director. The film was noted for its very stylized film making and cutting-edge dialogues, a large portion of it in English.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Women Is Losers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Navarasa (2005)
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The film revolves around the story of a young girl Shweta (P. Shwetha) taking her first steps towards adulthood. Ready for the adventure, the thirteen-year-old is upbeat, however soon discovers that every night, her uncle Gautam (Kushboo) transforms himself into a woman to lead a completely different life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min
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Julio Begins in July (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min
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The Women's Room (1980)
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A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Listening to Rain (2012)
Plot Summary:
Listening to Rain is a coming of age story centered around two girls who are sexually assaulted during their senior year of high school. This unique films follows Haley and Emily as they attempt find themselves and recover from unimaginable trauma. Written by Stefanie Walesch and Joshua Good, this film is an insightful look into the adolescence experience of the late 2000's. Listening to Rain provides a window into the minds of scared young women as they try to mend the damage and live on. It is a film about coming of age, coping with trauma and tragedy seen through the lens of those whom are coming of age, overcoming tragedy, and dealing with trauma. Erica Gonzales, Samantha Rakell, and Katie Stewart star in this thought-provoking film directed by Joshua Good and photographed by William Davies Meldon.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rough Winds (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen
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Tagged! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl, raised on her schizophrenic mother's tales of galactic wars, believes she is an alien princess in hiding and forms a Lazer Tag team to train bodyguards. When her estranged father, disfigured and crippled in the Iraqi war, returns to ask forgiveness for staying away, she suffers a mental crisis. Can the love of a troubled young man bring her into the real world or will her fantasies finally win out and drive her into total insanity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Mar de fondo (2020)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man calls into question his life choices and his own morals after a flirtation with a teenage girl at the beach.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Arresting Gena (1997)
Plot Summary:
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Genesis Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic leader and a high-spirited student group are on holiday in Italy. The surreal adventures of these friends are a free-flowing, four-part "multi-sensual symphony," bereft of traditional story line. One national critic described the boys' anarchic revelry as a "dream-like descent from civilization into the chaos reminiscent of Lord of the Flies.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, art film, gay cinema
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The Silences of the Palace (1994)
Plot Summary:
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: islamic, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Nocturnal (2019)
Plot Summary:
Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Rip-Off (1971)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Miss Sweden (2004)
Plot Summary:
Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Welcome Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big brother” in Bert, a guide who is going to take him straight to the brink of catastrophe. But very quickly, boredom resurfaces and the freewheeling sense of being on an adventure evades them. Should they return to the fold, or keep moving on? Their drifting logic compels them to blindly forge ahead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
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West Coast (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the teasing and contempt of their fellow classmates. So when Fle-O, the leader of this merry gang, learns that he has to leave his town and his friends at the end of the year, his whole world falls apart leaving him vulnerable when the most popular kid in school decides to make fun of them in front of everyone. Humiliated, our protagonists decide to take their revenge through one last expedition together that will lead them further than they would have imagined. Through incongruous situations and successive meetings, they will grow and learn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Girlhood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, hood, realistic, crying, queer cinema
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Mustang (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sad, heartbreaking, realistic, art house, social, atmospheric, inspirational, uplifting, thought provoking, intellectual
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2 Friends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls' high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze frame of the girls at the peak of their closeness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, surreal, non-linear
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Existence (2000)
Plot Summary:
Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work keeps him away from his home for days and this makes the wife very lonely. In one such instance, she succumbs to loneliness and has a physical relationship with her music teacher and becomes pregnant. She tries confessing to her husband, but he is so excited about her pregnancy, that he does not listen to her story. Twenty Five years later, circumstances force the suspicious husband's mind to work overtime and confronts his wife with facts and figures that when she was pregnant, he had not had any physical relationship with her for more than 9 months before the child's birth. Then whose child is it? The wife accepts it and ask for forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, social, art film
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20th Century Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, stylized, independent film, cult classic, philosophical, sad, aesthetic, light, humorous, captivating
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, educational, thought provoking, independent film, deep