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Plot Summary:
When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in time to claim the young girl and prove that he will be a suitable Father. The consequences of his actions follow him, however, putting his life in danger, and potentially ruining his chance to save the child from foster care by raising doubts in the mind of his case worker, whom he has become romantically involved with.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Rickey L Colbert Jr's Where the Truth Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family searches for the truth ,when their lives get turned upside down after some unforeseen circumstances happen.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sad, happy, feel good
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Now (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose and unravel the mystery. During their journey JP unveils a secret which forces Jaap to face the truth about Rose.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie
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June R (2005)
Plot Summary:
June R is a 2006 Tamil drama film directed by Revathy Varmha. The film stars Jyothika in the title role with Kushboo, Saritha and Biju Menon in supporting roles. The film's soundtrack are composed by Malayalam composer Sharreth, while Madhu Ambat was the cinematographer. The film opened in February 2006 and received good reviews from critics and good at the box office.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 99 min
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Wherever You Are (2004)
Plot Summary:
A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Universal Signs (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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8:46 (2011)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
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Melissa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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She Lives! (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Those She Left Behind (1989)
Plot Summary:
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. Now in the aftermath, Scott not only has to deal with the loss of his wife, he also has the daunting task of raising his daughter all alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying
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Whose Daughter Is She? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Whose Daughter is She?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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An Unexpected Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "An Unexpected Family.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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A Child's Cry for Help (1994)
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A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Her Last Chance (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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All the Way Home (1981)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Grace & Glorie (1998)
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When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, sad, disturbing, contemplative
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Promised a Miracle (1988)
Plot Summary:
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many (1993)
Plot Summary:
Patty Nowakowski already has three children, but decides to be a surrogate mother. Fully confident of being able to give up her baby, she is nonetheless stunned when she discovers that she is expecting twins, and the couple for whom she is pregnant will only accept one child, provided it is female.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Good Baby (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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A Master Builder (2013)
Plot Summary:
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, philosophical, cerebral, touching, independent film, thought provoking
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background. With the support of each other and their family, they survived encounters with racism and sexism in their own different ways. Sadie quietly and sweetly broke barriers to become the first African-American home-ec teacher in New York City, while Bessie, with her own brand of outspokenness, became the second African-American dentist in New York City. At the ages of 103 and 101, they told their story to Amy Hill Hearth, a white New York Times reporter who published an article about them. The overwhelming response launched a bestselling book, a Broadway play, and this film.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Book of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, captivating, contemplative, teen, profound
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Quiet City (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric, sincere, serious, avant garde
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A Touch of Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for the sixth sense who struggles with the death of his father and overbearing love of his single mother. When the past and future suddenly bind these people together on a journey of need, forgiveness and discovery, they realize they've gained something when they least expected it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Just Like the Son (2006)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film, serious
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Between Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense, touching, independent film
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Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy