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Plot Summary:
Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous
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Interview (2003)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft. Pierre, the journalist is annoyed at being given such a fluffy assignment, as he is normally a political correspondent. Initially he has no questions for Katja, but soon they are coaxing their darkest secrets out of each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, black comedy, minimal cast, cult classic, crying
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Smoking Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed mainly of men, decides to begin collecting signatures against what he considers unfair. What Ramirez intends is to be use an unoccupied office as smoking room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, cynical, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic, political, novela, epic
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The Galíndez File (2003)
Plot Summary:
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, a graduate student, Muriel Colber, wants to make Galíndez the subject of her dissertation. She's in Spain doing research; finding little, she goes to Santo Domingo. At every turn, the CIA, in the person of agent Robards, tries to thwart her; and, at each turn, as she considers abandoning the project, someone offers new information, often contradictory. She wants the truth behind the Galíndez mystery; will she find it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Three Dollars (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, psychological thriller, psycho film
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President (2006)
Plot Summary:
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Me and Mrs. Jones (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tabloid journalist Liam Marple, sets about to dig up dirt on Laura Bowden, the new British Prime Minister. Posing as a political fundraiser, Liam gains entrance into Number 10 Downing, where he promptly wins the confidence of the idealistic PM.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, sexual
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Plot Summary:
Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to Go-woon. Once she finds out about her mom’s dying condition, this mature 9-year-old learns to overcome her difficulty in sharing food with others and asks her classmates to be her friends to make sure her mom feels at ease.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, humorous, realistic
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The Californians (2005)
Plot Summary:
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Almost Heaven (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair his life and his friendship with his ex-wife with whom he had a child who died.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, humorous
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Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Love Chronicles, a romantic “dramedy”, is set at Los Angeles radio station KLUV, where callers air their dirty laundry over the airwaves for all to hear. Over the course of one crazy day, show host and "relationship expert" Darren (Rockmond Dunbar) and Janet (Vivica Fox) have had another one of their epic fights that threatens to end their marriage and make a joke of Darren's career. At the radio station, street author Thomas Black (Mike Epps) advises cougar Monique (Elise Neal) how to stay married while DJ Mike V (Ving Rhames) helps out the good girl who falls for bad boy from the other side of the tracks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: semi serious, talky, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, humorous, realistic, independent film
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Dancing in September (2000)
Plot Summary:
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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Strike (2006)
Plot Summary:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during the rise of Polands Solidarity movement. An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history and becomes a national hero. Volker Schlöndorff adapted this "ballad based on historical events" from the biography of Anna Walentynowicz, the free trade activist who mobilized a million Poles for Solidarity and helped hasten the fall of Communism. Filmed entirely on location at Polands Lenin Shipyard, where history was made.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, captivating
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The Final Curtain (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, witty, clever, realistic, black comedy, cynical, biting, dark comedy, suspense
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The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
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The Domino Effect (2012)
Plot Summary:
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we sometimes like to think.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, emotional, gloomy
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Guns & Talks (2001)
Plot Summary:
Guns & Talks is a South Korean film released in 2001. Directed by Jang Jin, it is a comedy about two brothers and their two friends. These four form a group of assassins, who have attracted the attention of a couple of pesky detectives, Sergeant Kim and Inspector Cho.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical, black comedy, crime drama, realistic, semi serious
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The Rider Named Death (2004)
Plot Summary:
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, clever, captivating, realistic, contemplative, epic, talky, entertaining
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Majesty (2010)
Plot Summary:
One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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The Man Inside (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don't just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper's leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: action thriller, independent film, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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AFR (2007)
Plot Summary:
Danmarks statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen er blevet myrdet. Den hovedmistænkte er statsministerens homoseksuelle elsker Emil. I tiden efter mordet møder vi en lang række af verdens politikere og magtfulde mennesker, fra Kofi Annan til Pia Kjærsgaard. De forholder sig til mordet og ikke mindst til mennesket Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, cynical, thought provoking, mockumentary, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, biting, suspense
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The Big Brass Ring (1999)
Plot Summary:
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic
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Purpose (2002)
Plot Summary:
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, independent film
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Knife Fight (2012)
Plot Summary:
A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, talky, independent film, biting, suspense
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Coalition (2015)
Plot Summary:
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, political, tense, sincere, thought provoking, clever, realistic
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The Best Man (1964)
Plot Summary:
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cynical, political, rough, clever, witty, contemplative, biting, suspense
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Spinning Boris (2003)
Plot Summary:
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, political, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious
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Running Mates (2000)
Plot Summary:
A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, political, biting, suspense
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Corporate (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
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Power (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, clever, cynical, political, retro, talky