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Plot Summary:
Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is still felt that some individuals can be reformed. At Won Wron, Case Worker Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men through giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors - beautiful, fearsome proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic wedge tailed eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, spiritual
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Measure for Measure (2019)
Plot Summary:
An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Right Hand Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Di Drew.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Angela's Decision (2006)
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Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of her boyfriend Will, Angela looks around at her bleak surroundings, her friends with their unplanned pregnancies, desperate marriages, and dead-end jobs and realizes that she cannot spend the rest of her life in a small town with no future. As Will prepares to return to the army and her mother prepares to move in with yet another man, Angela makes a decision that will change her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: social
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A Family On Edge (2013)
Plot Summary:
"A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship is forever changed. Shocking secrets from past and present create intensifying tension between the brothers who find themselves faced with a perilous choice, resulting in A Family On Edge. This highly realistic urban drama is layered with unpredictable twists and turns that appeal to an intergenerational audience. This is a must see for those love suspense, drama and action.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
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The Chimp (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn as he sees his friends pair off into couples, and his job working on the railtracks is uninspiring.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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White Night (1995)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Arnon Zadok.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Look Ahead with Anger (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 81 min
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Rolling Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Stuck! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Plot Summary:
TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son. Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life, and now, as a local cop in the outback town of Five Rivers, he wants to change things for the men in his community. Cutting between three generations, Mad Bastards is a raw look at the journey to becoming a man and the personal transformation one must make. Developed with local Aboriginal communities and fueled by a local cast, Mad Bastards draws from the rich tradition of storytelling inherent in Indigenous life. Using music from legendary Broome musicians the Pigram Brothers, writer/director Brendan Fletcher poetically fuses the harsh realities of violence, healing, and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, road movie, crying
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The Mustang (2019)
Plot Summary:
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, social, heartbreaking, sentimental, sad
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Moving Out (1983)
Plot Summary:
Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Pressure Point (1962)
Plot Summary:
An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, independent film, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Middle of Nowhere (2012)
Plot Summary:
When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, serious, emotional, inspirational, social, realistic, gloomy, independent film, black cinema
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Butterfly in Grey (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dao returns home and finds her fiance in bed with another woman. She shoots them dead on the spot. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison. She gets out eventually and stays with a friend who runs an escort service and learns that women are even caged in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Spring Forward (1999)
Plot Summary:
As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son. Paul is just out of prison for armed robbery, assigned to work with Murph, a middle-aged vet whose grown son Bobby is dying. Paul is trying to control his temper and build a spiritual side based on reading. Murph is a down-to-earth Sancho Panza to Paul's more ethereal ideas. And Murphy seems to need forgiveness for mistakes as a dad. As Murphy's retirement approaches and winter sets in, the men talk and love blossoms.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, talky, independent film, existential, sincere, semi serious, road movie, thought provoking, feel good
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This Is Martin Bonner (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two men, at opposite ends of the social spectrum, find themselves starting new lives in the same, small town and form an unlikely friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Love Belongs to Everyone (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl trouble, but his victim's sister Barbara starts a hate campaign. After another girl reports abuse, Dennis is jailed and beaten black and blue daily. Barbara's boyfriend, lawyer Thomas Verelst, accepts to help 'pro deo' (no cost) and pleads that Dennis belongs in a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Plot Summary:
After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, suspense
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Ombline (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Clemency (2019)
Plot Summary:
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, dark, social, black cinema
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The Long Shot (2004)
Plot Summary:
Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, and Taylor and Annie's prized racehorse, Tolo, to look after, Annie lands a job at a ranch hand and stable person at a stud farm owned by the stern Mary Lou O'Brien who is hiding some person demons of her own. Despite Annie's own setbacks in life, she decides to find an outing by entering her horse in a high-stakes riding competition. But when her horse goes blind from a race illness, Annie must struggle with her hardships to put the impossible to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Plot Summary:
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who also wrote the original story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, feel good, spiritual
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The Father and the Foreigner (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Matching Jack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Everyday (2012)
Plot Summary:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching
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The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film