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Plot Summary:
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Promised Land (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behind and realize big dreams, but their idealistic plans collide with life's harsh realities.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Her Desperate Choice (1996)
Plot Summary:
Despite allegations of sexual abuse against her ex-husband, Jody (Faith Ford) has lost a custody battle for Samantha (Hanna Hall) and faces a choice of turning her daughter over to him, or taking flight and risking kidnapping charges. Pursued by both the FBI and a private detective, Jody and Samantha become hunted animals, fleeing from town to town with the help of an Underground Railroad set up to help women and children escape from abuse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Best Friends Forever (2013)
Plot Summary:
Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and instead get a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)
Plot Summary:
Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic
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The Melon Route (2006)
Plot Summary:
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, serious
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Special Bulletin (1983)
Plot Summary:
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bad ending, psychological, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pu-239 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber, cult classic, tense, bleak
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My Wife's Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has inherited. Eve and Chollet become close, perhaps too close, and their intimacy soon begins to arouse the suspicions of the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, gloomy
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Shores of Hope (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense
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Sivas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, gloomy
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One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing
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Blackout (2007)
Plot Summary:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and vulnerability.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak
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Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Siberia, Monamour (2011)
Plot Summary:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. Sometimes their relative uncle Yuri brings food to them. Once on his way back from Ivan's village uncle Yuri is attacked by dogs & perishes. Ivan & Leshia stay without supply. Once Leshia witnesses Ivan shooting at 'his' dog & runs away. The old Man finds him in a dry well, but he fails to get him out on his own. Ivan sets out through taiga in search of help. Now the dogs are hunting him... And the boy is waiting for his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, gloomy, sentimental, serious, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Comet Impact (2007)
Plot Summary:
A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Hated (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are what a young underground punk band are striving for, but once they get a taste of it, they are forced to decide how far they're willing to go for fame and fortune and who they're willing to leave behind to get there.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film
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The Art of Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, poignant, multicultural, touching, captivating
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Plot Summary:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Dreaming of Space (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating, realistic
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Tsili (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
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Erebus: Into the Unknown (2014)
Plot Summary:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the victims, an investigation team tried to uncover the mystery of how a jet could fly into a mountain in broad daylight. Did the airline have a secret it wanted to bury? This film tells the story of four New Zealand police officers who went to Antarctica as part of the police operation to recover the victims of the crash. Set in the beautiful yet hostile environment of Antarctica, this is the emotional and compelling true story of an extraordinary police operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Challenger (1990)
Plot Summary:
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sad, sincere, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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Endless Night (2015)
Plot Summary:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings from experienced polar travellers about the onset of winter. At great sacrifice the expedition reaches Peary's base camp. Josephine refuses to go home and wants to spend winter in the hut. Only the young Inuit woman Allaka, who lives in an igloo and knows about the cold, stays with her. As the long nights draw nearer, Josephine realises she has more in common with this woman from a different world than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, psychological, tense, realistic, stylized
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Land of Oblivion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
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Fuehrer Ex (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, realistic
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Tangier (2006)
Plot Summary:
In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, bleak, realistic
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Courage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and daughter designed to rebuild their estranged relationship with his daughter, but when a powerful storm hits they are forced to make a crash landing on the ominously named Bear Island. With Robert seriously injured and no way to reach the mainland, the three castaways find that they must rely on their faith -- and each other -- to survive the ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspenseful