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Plot Summary:
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
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Mundane History (2009)
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Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun continues to earnestly take care of him he starts to open up his heart through candid conversations. The physical contact with Pun makes him rethink physical desires that he wants to forget. The grudge he held against his father slowly abates. All of this slowly becomes the motivating factor to confirm that he is alive, albeit with physical problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min
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Foster Child (2007)
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Thelma (Cherry Pie Picache), together with her husband Dado (Dan Alvaro) and teenage sons Gerald (Alwyn Uytingco) and Yuri (Jiro Manio), are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption. The inevitable separation is heart-rending for the foster family. Thelma's current foster child John-John (Kier Segismundo) is to be turned over to his adoptive American parents. Every moment with the 3-year-old John-John becomes more precious as Thelma goes through the day fulfilling her motherly duties for the last time—bathing John-John, feeding him, and bringing him to school where the boy participates in a school presentation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min
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The Doll (1962)
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A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
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Villa paranoia (2004)
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Med stjerner som Frits Helmuth, Sonja Richter, Sidse Babett Knudsen og selvfølgelig Erik Clausen selv på plakaten, er der lagt i hønsegården til et af Clausens sædvanlige humoristiske og satiriske øjebliksbilleder af dagens Danmark. Anna har meget lidt succes med sit liv og skuespilkarriere, da hønsefarmeren Jørgen overtaler hende til at passe sin alderdomssvækkede og krakilske far, Hr. Walent.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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A Dance in the Rain (1961)
Plot Summary:
Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , who is considerably older, a fact that Peter is quick to point out. As an aging actress, struggling for parts in her local theatre, she oozes insecurity and breathes uncertainty. Together, they spend their time in the local restaurant, smoking, drinking and trading verbal blows. "I bet you'll just end up a drunk," she tells Peter each time. Peter just grins and tells her how old she looks. Compounded by a thankless director who soon shows her the door, Marusa finds her identity being squeezed harder and harder against the wall. To escape, Peter and Marusa dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Pad (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of the father and husband. Made for television with a screenplay by Marek Nowakowski. The film sat on a shelf for 9 years, and was shown only on the wave of solidarity in 1980. Awards: 1981 - 8 Polish Film Festival, Gdańsk, special jury prize.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min
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Chez Nous (1978)
Plot Summary:
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
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Rahm (2016)
Plot Summary:
A virtuous woman has to choose between her honour or saving her brother's life in a Sufi interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan, UK
Duration: 104 min
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Mark's Diary (2019)
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Mark and Andrew are two disabled men. When they meet, an incredible attraction between them emerges but it can only flourish as a "mental construct". What they have is a virtual kind of love, a fantasy, but also the awareness that nothing will ever be the same again.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, art film
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Details (2003)
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Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, UK
Duration: 114 min
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Crime Delicado (2005)
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Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min
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The Women on the Roof (1989)
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An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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I Am Maria (1979)
Plot Summary:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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Sympathy for Delicious (2010)
Plot Summary:
A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, rough, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, gloomy, independent film
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Blue Away to America (1999)
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The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a group calling themselves "the wreckers" and who make their own rules, ignoring those of the medical establishment.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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Cry (1995)
Plot Summary:
On November 30th (the date when King Karl XII died) there will usually be demonstrations by hyper-national and neo-Nazi groups, and also democratic counter demonstrations. The plot of "West Side Story" is transferred to the Stockholmian suburb Alby where many immigrants live. But the film is no plagiarism, in particular no so because many scenes have the intensive character of live transmission. The boy (Adam) belongs to a Nazi group whose racial attitude is foremost directed against immigrants with 'wrong' colour of hair or skin. The girl (Julia) belongs to a family of political fugitives from Peru. Adam and Julia immediately fall in great and reciprocal love, and there are highly emotional love scenes. Therefore Adam breaks with his group. But when his best friend is killed by Julia's brother, he kills the brother. In turn the couple is hunted by the police and Julia's relatives. Both Adam and Julia are finally murdered. The film takes no step toward reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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Stockholm East (2011)
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Stockholm East is the love story between two strangers, bound together by a tragedy that has taken its toll on both their lives and relationships. When Johan and Anna meet at the railway station connecting Stockholm with the idyllic suburbs where they both live, they embark on a dangerous journey of passion and lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, humorous, realistic
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Lulu (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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A Mother's Prayer (1995)
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Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Freak City (1999)
Plot Summary:
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
Plot Summary:
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sad
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Passion Fish (1992)
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Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Then she meets with Chantelle, whose stubbornness matches her own -- if only because Chantelle, herself a recovering cocaine addict, cannot afford to lose this job. Their mutual dislike gradually develops into an armed truce as the two women deal with their own problems and with each others'.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, independent film, clever, talky, cult classic, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, touching, realistic
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Little Girl Lost (1988)
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This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Charter (2020)
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After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Home Sweet Home (2001)
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The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. In a panic, the wife and son both believe the man is dead and dump him on a roadside. The man survives, however, and returns home weeks later confined to a wheelchair probably for the rest of his life. How will each member in the family cope with this new situation?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, psychological, realistic
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
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During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy, serious
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A Place for Annie (1994)
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Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she plans too adopt her -- but suddenly Annie's mother reappears and demands her back. And under the law, Susan, as foster-mother, has no claim to the child.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left. The shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Gracie's Choice (2004)
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For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
Plot Summary:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, thought provoking, sexy, sad, hood, cult classic