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Plot Summary:
In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband, accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Uruguay
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black and white, period drama
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Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
Plot Summary:
Carmen canta in un bar e nelle case private e di lei si innamora Antonio, un poliziotto. Ma quando Antonio per gelosia attacca briga ed è coinvolto in una rissa, perde il posto e fa quindici giorni di prigione. A sua insaputa Carmen fa parte di una banda di malavitosi ed è sposata con Vincenzo, attualmente in galera. Quando questi esce si instaura un ambiguo rapporto a tre ed Antonio, volente o nolente, entra nella banda. Quando Vincenzo decide di fare un colpo grosso iniziano i guai per tutti.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: twisted
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Before the Frost (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place somewhere in the Danish countryside in the middle of the 19th century. Here within a small Danish peasant family, harsh circumstances reign. With the prospect of yet another tough winter, the farmer Jens faces an unbearable choice. If the family is to survive the winter, he must settle an agreement with the rich farmer nearby and forsake his own moral as well as his most precious possession, in an effort to secure them all a better life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
When convicted embezzler Witt Hampton (Gene Bicknell) escapes from prison, a lonely barn serves as the perfect hideout -- until a pair of tykes stumbles on him. Telling the tots he's a ghost, Witt strikes up a friendship with the pair. Soon, inspired by their innocence, he decides to take responsibility for his crimes. Too bad the local sheriff isn't quick to forgive in this family drama co-starring, Diane Ladd, Rachel Hunter and John Savage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (1967)
Plot Summary:
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: crying
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Red Island (2023)
Plot Summary:
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: biting
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Subarnarekha (1965)
Plot Summary:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been separated from his mother. To keep the two children from poverty, Ishwar abandons the colony to take an administrative job at an iron mill. Years pass. During one school vacation, the now-grown Sita and Abhiram acknowledge their love for each other. Ishwar, turned grimly bourgeois, opposes their match, and his interference leads to disaster for all three.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Eden (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Too Far to Go (1979)
Plot Summary:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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I Dream of My Friends (1993)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas, looks a lot like a “road movie” and features an all-male cast, as if there’s no room for women in it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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North Star (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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A Rage to Live (1965)
Plot Summary:
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, ambiguous ending, sexy
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July Rain (1967)
Plot Summary:
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: existential, semi documentary, intellectual
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Poor Cow (1967)
Plot Summary:
The first of several social realism films by Ken Loach, this had less impact than those made as TV plays. Poor Cow follows the tangled life of Joy, who turns to Dave after her lover is jailed for theft. When Dave in turn is jailed, she is left with a son to keep. When he goes missing, she sees what's important.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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All the Way Home (1981)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Eternity (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
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Though None Go with Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Skin, Skin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Fran (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kuessipan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Tabu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Young Lovers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Twisting Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Lessons in Chemistry (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: period drama
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Angel Face (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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King Lear (1982)
Plot Summary:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Jealousy (2013)
Plot Summary:
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, intellectual, art house, black and white, gloomy
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Campfire (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, crying
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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a short story by the acclaimed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, comes a holiday story of family and forgiveness. Recently widowed Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenly, Mary’s wealthy and estranged mother Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset) comes to visit upon receiving a devious letter from the eldest daughter. Mary resents her mother’s attempts to help them out of their financial difficulties. In the end, more than money will be needed to heal deep wounds and rampant scarlet fever of this period drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama
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A Bigger World (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to forget the death of Paul, the man of her life, Korine leaves Paris for a few weeks, to direct a report in Mongolia. Her meeting with the shaman Oyun will change her life: Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. Korine will agree to start a journey of discovery, which will lead her to discover a new culture, ancestral and forgotten ways, but most importantly herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, powerful