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Plot Summary:
The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: parallel cinema
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The Sole Witness (1990)
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When a tired factory worker Christo Panov (Oleg Borisov) going home from work gets embroiled with a dispute with a bus driver, leading to threats of assault by the driver, that's bad enough. Then an irate passenger files charges against the driver. After the driver appears on the factory worker's doorstep with his wife and three children, pleading with him not to testify, he easily agrees. However, soon he learns that the woman who brought charges against the driver is now being charged by with slander. No matter what he does, someone will suffer unneccessarily. Oleg Borisov won an acting award for his role as the factory worker from the 1988 Venice film festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 58 min
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Chakra (1981)
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Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by smugglers. Left alone to fend for herself and her little boy, she desperately tries to instill moral values in her son in spite of the immorality of life all around them. She is indirectly aided in this effort by a dubious hero-type, but there does not seem to be much hope for her future and that of her son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: art film, parallel cinema, ambiguous ending
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Garm Hava (1974)
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In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: retro, art film, insightful, parallel cinema, banned, cult film
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Two Unknown (1976)
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A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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The Survivors (1979)
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A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
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Gundagardi (1997)
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The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by Kalicharan and decides to print their photos in the newspaper.But before he can do that he is killed along with his wife. Dipa is an eye-witness to this murder. But he soon plans and makes Dipa the key suspect in an attempt-to-murder case of the home minister. Karan Singh in the meanwhile trains Dipa to fight back the goons. She manages to get the files containing the proof of innocence. Kalicharan is arrested and taken to court. Narshima makes a number of attempts to free his brother. A severe struggle ensues and Narshima and Kalicharan get death sentences.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992)
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Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: factual, psychological, touching, talky, stylized
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Behind the Sun (2001)
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Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, intense, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, lyrical, philosophical, sad, spectacular
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Light Drops (2002)
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Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, Mozambique
Duration: 103 min
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Body Scent (1983)
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Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
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Perfect Parents (2006)
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After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for Catholic families is de facto exclusivity, given the waiting list. So they pose as devout, and get his murky mate Eddie to find them a priest they can 'bribe' for a parish reference, while Lucy is genuinely converted. It works, but when Stuart overhears a dark secret things take a tragic turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crying
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Mesmerized (1985)
Plot Summary:
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense, eighties
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The Mourner (1993)
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In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner of a drama company, abandoning her. When Shanichari grew up she was married to a male named Ganju who lived with his ailing mother. Shanichari gave birth to a boy and named him Budhwa. The local Landlord,.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: offbeat, art film, crying, weeping
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Sign of Marriage (1979)
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Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. Durga is upset when she finds her son missing, but is devastated when Vikram abandons her. With a lot of difficulty, Durga brings up her son, Kishan, and has given up on finding her other son. Kishan has grown up and is now a dedicated police officer. On the other hand, Pascal has exploited Amit, kept him illiterate, doing petty crime, and alcoholic. This gets him in confrontation with Kishan, but ironically the two settle their differences and become fast friends. Vikram is still alive, and is not aware of his two sons and wife being alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
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Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)
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You don’t need politics to make a political film… Love, pleasure, beauty and food are serious enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Travellers (1992)
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A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, beautiful
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Domestic Life (2013)
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Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, contemplative, biting
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Mrs. Harris (2005)
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Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, realistic, witty, biting, crying, detective, suspense
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Father of My Children (2009)
Plot Summary:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, is precisely his reason for living. Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoires very presence commands admiration, and his exceptional charisma lead many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is in doubt; too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering, and Gregoires realisation that he may have made one gamble too many will trigger a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere, art house, serious, realistic, crying, entertaining
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The Indian Runner (1991)
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An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, rough, serious, independent film, cult classic, tense, captivating, controversial
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Dancing in the Dark (1986)
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Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion as to who she is. Edna has no identity without Harry, an ambitious, successful salesman who seems to love and care for Edna long after other men might become worried about her housewifely obsessions... Edna is reviewing her life - in neatly chronological flashbacks - from the room in the psychiatric hospital where she's been confined ever since Harry's sudden death.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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Three Brothers (1981)
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In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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The Ungrateful (1973)
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Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike.. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, contemplative, surprise ending
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Wound (1998)
Plot Summary:
Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, powerful, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Promised Land (1975)
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The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Guru (2007)
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Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film chronicles the obstacles he meets, his subsequent rise and the huge backlash he receives when it is revealed that he used unethical means to rise in the business circuit.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, captivating, serious, inspirational, motivational, epic, social, cult classic, historical drama
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Corporate (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking