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Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Asphalt Jungle (0000)
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In this thriller of escalating violence, four young girls head out on a camping trip. But the trip becomes tense when they cross paths with a couple of leering backwoodsmen who want the campers out.
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Genere: Action
Country: USA
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Plot tags: sexy
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What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
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Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)
Plot Summary:
A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
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The Time of the Hunt (1972)
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Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Richard's wife forces him to bring along his young son, Michel. For these men, hunting represents total freedom and a chance to rid themselves of the frustrations of domestic life by proving their manhood. The group spends their first night at a motel bar and Michel silently observes as the adults get drunk, try to outdo each other with insults, and sexually harass the waitresses at the bar. It becomes apparent to him that Willy is not up to trip; he is overweight and clings to his glory days of the past. Michel must also watch as his father conducts an affair with a waitress. When the hunt finally begins, Michel contemplates the imposed belief that a man ought to be a womanizing drinker who's good with a gun. Eventually, the irresponsibility of the three men results in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
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A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
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The Sternstein Manor (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min
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The Stonebreaker (2020)
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After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
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Mario and the Magician (1994)
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The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min
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The Gamekeeper (1980)
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George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke's estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valentina (1982)
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In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
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The Family (1974)
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Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 211 min
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Just Like at Home (1978)
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A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
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Subwave (1995)
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College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Agnus Dei (1997)
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The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 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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Brothers Three: An American Gothic (2007)
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Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons that have haunted them their whole lives. The resulting truths they must face, end in an explosive tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, independent film
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A Piggy Tale (1991)
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Dolly, a lovely, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents, she was sent to her parents' friend, Mrs. Chu's care. When Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great change in the life of the Chu family and created a series of thrilling amusing incidents. One day, Papa Chu brought Guava to the office but negligently lost it. When Dolly heard that Guava got lost, she was very sad and decided to leave home to search for Guava. In order to help Dolly, Chu Pi, Papa Chu's son, called his buddies to join Dolly in the search of Guava. An interesting, worrying search journey by a group of children began.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
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Muddy River (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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The Path (2022)
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Fleeing from the Nazis, two children, a journalist father, and a dog must make their way through the hazardous Pyrenees mountain range.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 99 min
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Virgina (1991)
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"Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife of a farmer gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man, so that she can work and be the family heir. This heartbreaking story of Virgina's life is told with strong words, augmented with harsh environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min
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All the Winters That Have Been (1997)
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Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The World of Ludovic (1993)
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Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away to spend time with his grandparents. Sophie runs away from home to join him, and they hide along the seashore and in abandoned buildings. After they are found, their parents try to keep them separate, but they both fall into deep depressions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 91 min
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Amour d'enfance (2001)
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This feature length entry from shorts director Caumon deals with a turbulent mother and son relationship in a rural setting.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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My Good Enemy (2010)
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Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the well-oiled gears of the school social order. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Alf discovers that turning the tables on his tormentors has its own dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative
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Boys (1977)
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This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily engaged in the amorous pursuit of a trainee nurse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: no music
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Jessica (2004)
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The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
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An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
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The Golden Seal (1983)
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A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local natives, and an ambitious poacher in pursuit the seal. The golden seal and her cub are hunted for a huge bounty on her head and the mythological legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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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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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Plot Summary:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: emotional, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, compassionate, touching, serious, stylized, depressing, sad