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Plot Summary:
Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Beside this there is much dancing, much stripping and a lot of alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 77 min
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Echo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: art house
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By Accident (2015)
Plot Summary:
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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White Powder (2016)
Plot Summary:
White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London gangstas, and each other, in an attempt to keep control of a stash of cocaine that they found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Guests of Hotel Astoria (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian couple (Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mohsen Marzban) declare themselves political refugees after police detain them on their way to Cuba.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Family (2021)
Plot Summary:
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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The Bright Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: art film
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Granny's Dancing on the Table (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there are evil, and that all that has to do with sexuality and adulthood is dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Christmas Oratorio (1996)
Plot Summary:
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: weird
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Mistletoe Time Machine (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three friends become estranged following a disastrous holiday talent show performance and, a decade later, are sent back in time to relive their senior year of high school thanks to Santa’s magic spell.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Designing Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Stella, who has worked for the past six years with Pablo as co-hosts of a house renovation show, but as they work together more closely than ever before, she gets complicated and unexplored feelings that may jeopardize everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
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Christmas on Holly Lane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three childhood friends, Sarah, Riley and Cat, with fond memories of Christmas at Sarah's house, come together as adults to save Sarah's home in the hopes of having many more beautiful Christmases together.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Our Christmas Journey (2021)
Plot Summary:
As a single mom and her teenaged son with autism come to a crossroad during Christmas, she must learn to let go so he can flourish as she finds her own heart healing in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Christmas in Harmony (2021)
Plot Summary:
Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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A Christmas Winter Song (2019)
Plot Summary:
Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck. They form a special bond over music, and Clio, having just lost her own father, helps Fred reconnect with his own daughter, just in time for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Last Christmas (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
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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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Second Coming (2014)
Plot Summary:
A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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M for Mother (2006)
Plot Summary:
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, sad, islamic, entertaining
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Salted Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Faith Filled Christmas" (formerly Salted Christmas), produced by Manifest Pictures, is a faith-based, comedy film centering around one family and their desire to replicate the example of Jesus as they celebrate the Christmas season. The entire film takes place on one Saturday in December prior to Christmas. The tagline of the film is "One family. One day. One purpose." The two main characters, Simon and Emily Fairway (both Caucasians), reside on the independent living side of a retirement community. On this particular Saturday, the retirement community administrator must be out for the entire day at business meetings. She delegates responsibility to her newly hired assistant. A friend of Simon's named Byron, a stir crazy resident, decides that this is his chance to stage an Olympic-style games for the residents of the community. Simon, who is supposed to accompany his wife to visit their children for the day, begs off of going with his wife and stays behind to stage the games in the.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film
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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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Christmas 9 to 5 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meaning of Christmas. When she goes undercover in a department store as a 9 to 5 sales clerk from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, she finds her true calling and meets the man of her dreams. It's a Christmas she will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tick Tock Lullaby (2007)
Plot Summary:
A wry interweave film about baby making and how as time marches on the decision gets more intense and less romantic.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, talky, independent film
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The Christmas Wife (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Christmas Wife is a made-for-cable television drama based on a story by Helen Norris. An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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A Minor Leap Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Everywhere and Nowhere (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ash is a man torn between two worlds, that of his family and friends and the other, of his dreams. This is his story set across London with it's fast paced nightlife and run ins with the law all caught on camera from the Director of Kidulthood.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, erotic, multicultural, sincere, humorous, semi serious
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The Circle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative, thought provoking, spiritual, avant garde, art house
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The Deserted Station (2002)
Plot Summary:
On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, islamic, sincere, thought provoking, realistic, contemplative
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Me Without You (2001)
Plot Summary:
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, sincere, touching, teen, realistic, romantic, offbeat, contemplative, semi serious