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Plot Summary:
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Return of a Citizen (1986)
Plot Summary:
Returning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min
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Hebriana (1990)
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During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min
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Dirty Story (1984)
Plot Summary:
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Thursday (1964)
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It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Paper Star (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
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Promises (2010)
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Self made millionaire Rolando Dominguez (Carlos Guerrero) could not resist the tempting pleasures that came with his success and now finds himself homeless, demented, and tormented by flashbacks of his regretful mistakes and broken promises to his missing son Rollie (Carlos Guerrero Jr.). Rolando struggles with his guilt as he faces the harsh reality that the fortune he worked for in his pursuit of happiness is the very thing that has destroyed his life... Meanwhile Detective Stevens (Steven Bauer - Scarface, Ray Donovan) has vowed to bring Rollie back home to his desperate mother Vanessa (Carmen Lopez) who’s six month agony has led her to question her faith while clinging on to the last bit of hope to see her son again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, independent film, contemplative
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Death of a Salesman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)
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When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, gay cinema
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Purple Haze (1982)
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It's dynamite stuff.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Canary Season (1993)
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It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
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Donkey (2009)
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It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Brothers Three: An American Gothic (2007)
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Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons that have haunted them their whole lives. The resulting truths they must face, end in an explosive tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, independent film
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Shooting the Moon (1998)
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Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo (Sergio Rubini), who left them years earlier. Silvia is involved with lawyer Roberto (Stefano Dionisi), and they have a child, four-year-old Domitilla (Francesca di Giovanni). She lives with her father but sometimes stays with Silvia and Siddhartha. One day Domitilla pricks her finger on a used needle belonging to her mother. Using the Internet to seek advice, Siddhartha is told to have Domitella tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Desperate, he sets forth but is soon stymied and frustrated by a medical bureaucracy. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
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Misunderstood (1966)
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Andrew's brave front convinces his father that he is unaffected by his mother's death. Playmate and protector of his little brother Miles, he is often blamed when mischief goes wrong. Only when tragedy strikes does his father recognize Andrew's true qualities.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: modern day adaptation
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Capricciosa (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Swedish drama by Reza Bagher.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful
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Burrowing (2009)
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An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, gloomy
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Brother (2019)
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Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (2015)
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A coming of age story set in the Vietnamese countryside during the late 1980s, as told through the eyes of a 12 year old boy named Thieu. Thieu and his younger brother Tuong share and do everything together. Their days unfold like a whimsical and comical journey filled with innocence, wonder, confusion and curious adventures. Tuong idolizes his older brother’s confidence and constantly strives for his approval. But in fact, Thieu’s “over-confidence” is to compensate for his overwhelming insecurities. Thieu is constantly jealous of his younger brother when it comes to grades, talent and affection from the girl next door, Moon. This leads to an act of violence which leaves Tuong paralyzed and bedridden. In coming to terms with his own conscience, Thieu attempts to redeem himself and discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min
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The Restaurant (2017)
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Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
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Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Hard Feelings (1981)
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It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
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Millions (1991)
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Billy Zane leads a pack of money-grabbing relatives who try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Blast Beat (2020)
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After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Heart of Greed (2007)
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An abalone that has been passed on for generations. A legacy of a hundred million dollars that everybody wants a share. "Heart of Greed" is a story of a renowned sea-products retailer and a big traditional family, in which there are those who manage to endure to the end, those who consider themselves superior to everyone else, those who love and respect their brothers, those who seek every opportunity to fulfill their ambition, those who stay loyal to their beloved, and those who remain grateful for whatever they get. But when hatred is stirred up among the family, the family will inevitably break down.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Amazing Women by the Sea (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbors, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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The Greek Tycoon (1978)
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A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, vintage
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Sons of Norway (2011)
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It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn. Sons of Norway is a film about rebellion, punk rock, suburban hell and the struggle between freaks and punks. But most of all, it’s the story of an unusual father-son relationship, and about the strength of the bonds we sometimes do our best to rip apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, offbeat, serious, realistic
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
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During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy, serious
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Buddenbrooks (2008)
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Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: saga, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, political, family saga, sad, costume drama, sentimental
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Beyond (2010)
Plot Summary:
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and she plays opposite her husband, actor Ola Rapace.Award winning actress Pernilla August makes her directorial debut with her take on the bestselling novel Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski.In other main roles we see rising star Tehilla Blad and the Finnish acclaimed actors, Ville Virtanen and Outi Mäenpää.A morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, depressing, bleak, emotional, tense, gloomy