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Plot Summary:
Hoping to leave behind the trauma of her mother's death, a young woman moves to New York City, where she becomes close to her similarly haunted roommate -- until a disturbing revelation changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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IDOL: The Coup (2021)
Plot Summary:
Portrays the last story of “doomed idols” who need a single “success” in order to “disband.” The story of young people who confidently let go of their dreams as they grow through their failures and take courageous steps towards their new goals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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The Last Best Year (1990)
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Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Crying for Love (2008)
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Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Madhouse Mecca (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an underwhelmed housewife meets a mischievous exotic dancer with a taste for trouble, an unlikely friendship is formed that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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The Lover’s Lies (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who has had a tough life tries to find happiness with the man she loves. Are the ill-fated lovers destined to be apart?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Margarita Happy Hour (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five young women, each with children, meet once a week for $2 margaritas and discuss life, love and change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Petal Dance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives... Jinko (Aoi Miyazaki) and Motoko (Sakura Ando) have been friends since their university days. One day, they hear a rumor about their former classmate and friend Miki (Kazue Fukiishi). The rumor is that Miki ran into the sea, but got out safely. Jinko and Motoko decide to visit Miki to see if she is OK. In addition, Haraki (Shiori Kutsuna), who Jinko met at the library where she works, joins their trip as a driver. Their one night and two days road trip begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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The Swaying Waterlily (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Swaying Waterlily.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Waiting for the Light to Change (2022)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a week-long beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Women's Room (1980)
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A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
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Farha (2021)
Plot Summary:
Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama
Country: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece
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Perfect Pie (2002)
Plot Summary:
On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesca Prine - whose real name is Marie Beck - returns to Marmora, Ontario to sing in a benefit concert. Patsy and Marie were best friends from the time Marie and her family arrived in Marmora when she was ten years old to the time she left Marmora at age fifteen, which was thirty years prior. With the exception of Don Rayford on who Marie had a crush, Patsy was shy Marie's only friend in Marmora. However, Marie and Patsy have not been in touch since due to issues that drove Marie out of town at the time. Those issues include Marie being physically abused by her alcoholic mother, but most specifically what happened the evening of the Sadie Hawkins dance - where Don accompanied Marie - and post dance down by the railroad tracks. Marie and Patsy's reunion may not be able to endure the thirty years of silence and the events of that night.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sun, Heart, Love (2016)
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Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
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Better Off Dead. (1993)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Arresting Gena (1997)
Plot Summary:
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Claire's Camera (2017)
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On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Claire is like a person who can see Manhee’s possible future or past selves, through the mysterious power of the beach tunnel. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things, and to transform objects. Now, Claire goes with Manhee to the café where she was fired. We look forward to seeing Claire’s power at work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, art house
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Tiny Times 4.0 (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the film series finale, Lily finds herself near financial ruin because of the debts left behind by her father, all while battling a newly diagnosed cancer. Too proud to seek solace from anyone around her, Lily sets off a chain of self-destructive events that lead to her estrangement from best friends Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, and Ruby.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Tiny Times 3 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lin Xiao, Gu Li, Nan Xiang, Tang Wanru - these four best friends, after waving goodbye to their school campus and entering the workforce, they are faced with various challenges in their life: friendship, love, and career. Together, they become lost in life, having long forgotten their past courage.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 125 min
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Come Home Raquel (2011)
Plot Summary:
Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, contemplative
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Women Talking (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, period drama
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Butterfly Caught (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three beautiful aspiring actresses embark on a mission to break into the competitive Los Angeles acting scene only to discover the road leading to stardom comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, touching
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Between Friends (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
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Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that overweight people, like her mom and brother, seem to make excuses about how the world perceives them. So Aly decides to attend a rival high school as a heavily overweight person for the documentary, but not change her personality. Aly intends and hopes to prove that personality will outshine physical appearance. But when she's met with ridicule, harassment, and name-calling she begins to see things differently.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, documentary filmmaking, ridiculous
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In a Sentimental Mood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a twenty-something painter freshly dropped out of college, paves her way making chalk drawings at a cafe and trying to get her art displayed around town. Her work is unique, but her time is split between partying with her dysfunctional friend Carrie and pursuing a higher art, love. Can she create anything out of the chaos? Has life really prepared her for any of this?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, mumblecore, dark comedy
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LUMA (2015)
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The young, pregnant housewife Jennifer- nickname LUMA- meets the self confident, bisexual Christiane. Their friendship develops up to an vehement love affair, which is driving Luma into an turmoil of emotions. Raised up under catholic influence, she is torn between the life her husband Georg and the new fascinating experience, she is going through with Christiane. Luma is under raising pressure, to come to an final decision about her future.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Steam (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, talky, erotic, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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2 Friends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls' high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze frame of the girls at the peak of their closeness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, surreal, non-linear
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This Is My Life (1992)
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Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent Arnold Moss makes her famous, but while she travels all over USA, her children stay home lonely.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Group (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel. It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, sexual, sexy