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Plot Summary:
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min
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Island City (2015)
Plot Summary:
Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational story told from a Christian perspective about complex characters who resist embracing God's plans for them because they're too wrapped up in what society wants them to be.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Anna (1970)
Plot Summary:
A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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Death of a Salesman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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Details (2003)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Kites Over Helsinki (2001)
Plot Summary:
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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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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Orphans (1987)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Treat (Matthew Modine) and Philip (Kevin Anderson) have lived alone since they were kids, when a small time criminal enters their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic
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The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, vintage
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They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags:
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Song of the Exile (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative
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Foxfire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, emotional, realistic
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Fool for Love (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, independent film
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Fiesta Patria (2008)
Plot Summary:
As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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A Delicate Balance (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate balance in their lives, held together by habit, shared memories, and considerable consumption of dry martinis.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, clever, serious, realistic, talky, crying
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Tiger Warsaw (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Raven's End (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders who wishes to become an author. His father who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Artist's Wife (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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After the Rehearsal (1984)
Plot Summary:
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, art house, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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A Week's Holiday (1980)
Plot Summary:
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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The Serpent's Way (1986)
Plot Summary:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Blondie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is born.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Steaming (1985)
Plot Summary:
Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Silent Heart (2014)
Plot Summary:
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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On Golden Pond (1981)
Plot Summary:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. Norman must find his way through his anger and fear of growing old, while Chelsea struggles to rebuild their relationship. Ethel's consistent support of her "Knight in shining armor" is inspirational in its simplicity. This is a movie to ponder and always keep in your heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, witty, feel good, colorful, captivating, contemplative
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September (1987)
Plot Summary:
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: talky, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, philosophical, independent film, psychological, clever, light
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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