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Plot Summary:
"Inferno" is a story about classmates from school: Anka, Inga and Xena. During the prom, two girls murder a third - considered the most beautiful of them. The film is based on real events. The creators are trying to find answers to the questions: what was the cause of the evil that appeared in the girls? Was it stuck in their interiors, or did it appear from the outside world, from the chaos of everyday life? Who was at fault? It is a story about desires, plans for the future, fears and attempts to find a place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags:
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Everyone Loves Alice (2002)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in these people's everyday lives, it creates a pressure wave that changes the lives of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min
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Miss Nobody (1996)
Plot Summary:
A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
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A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Mysterious Transfer Student.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
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Marcowe migdaly (1990)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter Julie, a high school student, as a loving responsible mother. So, when she becomes aware that Julie's very popular history teacher, Mr Baker, spreads antisemitic ideas among his pupils, Leda Beth decides to ask Mr Baker for an explanation. But she comes up against a wall. Nobody in town - Julie less than all others - wants to support her and it looks as if she will have to bring the Board of Education to court. The trouble is that a school dropout and a tramp of her kind does not count for much compared to the holders of knowledge and of morality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, captivating
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A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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A School Trip (1983)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, compassionate, sincere, captivating, ironic, sad, tear jerker
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Park Hwa-young (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Rip-Off (1971)
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Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Walk Proud (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: hispanic, serious, realistic
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Dragon Sakura (2005)
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A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students, and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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A high school kid (Sumpter) develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, sexual, christian film, sexy, ridiculous
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Stolen Spring (1993)
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At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
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This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 197 min
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Laura Collins (Shannen Doherty), single mom to daughter Sarah (Matreya Scarrwener), has had a history of rocky relationships, so when Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob Tennison (Callan Potter), Laura is thrilled with what she sees. But when it becomes increasingly clear that Rob has a darker, possessive side, Laura lives in a state of denial about her daughter’s relationship until Sarah goes missing. Laura must find the will to fight for justice for Sarah when a case against Rob is brought to trial and presided over by a powerful judge (Mira Sorvino).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
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Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Betrayed at 17 (2011)
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A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Poison Friends (2006)
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A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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Run Sister Run! (2010)
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Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her to take a leap, shake the rules and leave princess dreams behind. These two will have fun together, but not only good times.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, touching, humorous, entertaining
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2:37 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the story unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each with its own explosive significance. An unwanted pregnancy unravels a terrible, dark secret; all is not as it appears for the seemingly confident school football hero; an outcast must deal with everyday taunts from his peers; a beautiful young girl battles an eating disorder; a stellar student constantly struggles to win his parents' approval; while another uses drugs to escape from his own demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, sincere, serious, depressing, sad, contemplative, teen, realistic, thought provoking
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The Explosive Generation (1961)
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Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: esoteric, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Plot Summary:
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
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Conrack (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: deep, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, feel good, serious, realistic