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Plot Summary:
Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society in transition.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: art film
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Island City (2015)
Plot Summary:
Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
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Sati (1989)
Plot Summary:
Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
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Garm Hava (1974)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Majhli Didi (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his sister-in-law, Kadambini, and her husband, Navinchandra. Things are delicate even after both women give birth to two children each. Then Hemangini testifies against Navinchandra in Court, leading to the division of the property. Things got worse by the arrival of Kadambini's orphaned school-going step-brother, Kishan, who is beaten and abused by not only by Kadambini and Navinchandra, but also by their overweight son. When Hemangini objects to Kishan's ill-treatment, Bipin takes the side of the rest of the family, and may probably force her to abandon Kishan to his fate or divorce her.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Ramdhanu-The Rainbow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mitali was a worried mother. This time, once again, her 5 year old son Gogol had failed to pass the admission test in a reputed school. Mitali was determined to get her son admitted into a reputed school. Gogol loved the song of birds, the flight of the kites, the rustling of the leaves, the wide expanse of the blue sky. Laltu Dutta, her husband, owned a chemist's shop. Mitali's desperation worries Laltu & he decide to approach a tout and is willing to pay him a handsome amount for his son's admission. Mitali decides to enroll herself along with Laltu in a school that coaches parents to conduct themselves at interviews. Laltu is very reluctant at first, but finally gives in to his wife's persuasions.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
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Bedroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we shut our laptop, shut our Bedroom door, rest our head on our pillow and sink into the familiar discomfort of being our unattractive, unaccomplished, pitiful selves. This is the allegorical “Bedroom” – our most private space where we retire to, night after night. Where we let our guards down and dare to be at our ugliest worst.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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The Northern Kingdom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three disparate families are illuminated by a meteor shower on a winter night.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Thanmathra (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, touching, sad
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Woh Chokri (1994)
Plot Summary:
Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: art film
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Together (2009)
Plot Summary:
A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Company Limited (1971)
Plot Summary:
The chronicles of Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, extraordinary
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Mushrooms (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a forest, near a border, a young Bengali and a European soldier attempt to get the better of one another. In Calcutta, Rahul, an architect who had gone off to build a career in Dubai, begins a huge construction site. He is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming, living alone far from her family. Both set out to find Rahul's brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in the trees.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: France, India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, light, romantic, atmospheric, erotic, contemplative, offbeat
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Godfather (2012)
Plot Summary:
A 2012 Kannada film.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Nayak: The Hero (1966)
Plot Summary:
A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, extraordinary
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The Adversary (1970)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, independent film, surreal, suspense
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The Middleman (1975)
Plot Summary:
A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, clever, serious, realistic, witty, biting, suspense
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The Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, extraordinary
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The Lonely Wife (1964)
Plot Summary:
Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time Bhupati's own brother, Amal, a would-be writer comes home finishing his college education. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: intelligent, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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In My Father's Garden (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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The Eternal Feminine (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, hispanic, art film, period drama
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Pearl (2020)
Plot Summary:
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling
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Sundown (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, art house, existential, cult classic
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Mile Zero (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mile Zero is a story about a father with a remarkable capacity to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy
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Red Leaves (2014)
Plot Summary:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tense
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Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: epic, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic
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The Big City (1963)
Plot Summary:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, sincere, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Existence (2000)
Plot Summary:
Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work keeps him away from his home for days and this makes the wife very lonely. In one such instance, she succumbs to loneliness and has a physical relationship with her music teacher and becomes pregnant. She tries confessing to her husband, but he is so excited about her pregnancy, that he does not listen to her story. Twenty Five years later, circumstances force the suspicious husband's mind to work overtime and confronts his wife with facts and figures that when she was pregnant, he had not had any physical relationship with her for more than 9 months before the child's birth. Then whose child is it? The wife accepts it and ask for forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, social, art film
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Thursday Till Sunday (2012)
Plot Summary:
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, sentimental, touching, serious, bleak, emotional, realistic, road movie, atmospheric, gloomy