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Plot Summary:
Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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A Matter of Faith (1995)
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Cuestión de fe es un largometraje producido en Bolivia en 1995, dirigida por Marcos Loayza. En esta película participa Jorge Ortiz y Elías Serrano. La película trata de una imagen sagrada que debe ser trasladada por encargo desde una región altiplánica hacia el oriente del país. Pero durante el viaje, la virgen es robada en uno de los pueblos de las regiones andinas y llevado a la región de los Yungas, los protagonistas tratan de recuperar la imagen sagrada, pero al final, llegan a un acuerdo con los pobladores en los Yungas y la imagen se queda en un pueblo de dicha región.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Almost Paradise (2016)
Plot Summary:
Catherine (Catherine Enoe) is native to Grenada and works as a nurse caring for outpatients. She travels from patient to patient healing them and taking the pulse of contemporary Grenada.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
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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 Pool (2007)
Plot Summary:
A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, realistic, relaxing, contemplative
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Village in the Jungle (1980)
Plot Summary:
Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sinhala
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Lace II (1985)
Plot Summary:
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags:
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Icaros: A Vision (2016)
Plot Summary:
In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman undergoing a crisis of his own, and a motley crew of psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the meaning of life and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Fortitude (2020)
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To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, France, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Susan Slade (1961)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: soap opera, cult film
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The Fifth Monkey (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Jungleland (2019)
Plot Summary:
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Orinoco, New World (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Orinoko: main character in the film. The first part is set during the pre-conquest and is represented as an earthly paradise. A shaman has precognitive visions: go to Columbus and the Catholic missionary in 1498.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: experimental, allegory, silent, silent film
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Guy (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young, female filmmaker looks through her camera for an object to film. She wants to film the private live of an ordinary person and starts following Guy. He is very irritated about this girl following him, always looking through her camera, never showing herself. She does not even say her name but follows him even home to his bedroom. He tries to get rid of her but she does not stop. After a while he gets used to the camera and the girl behind it and tries to get involved with her. First she protects herself with her camera but cannot keep the barrier up. When their feelings and Guy's actions become too confusing for them Guy disappears mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, documentary filmmaking
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Countryman (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Amazon Queen (2021)
Plot Summary:
A dream vacation of a lifetime quickly turns into a hijacking, endangering passengers and crew, on a boat journey down the Amazon River and into the Brazilian rainforest. Desperate criminals storm aboard, pursuing a lost fortune in the jungle. Now under threat, and with food and fuel running low, the once idealistic tourists - now hostages - must use all their ingenuity as their Amazon cruise becomes a descent into a desperate struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Terrorist (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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The Assistant (2019)
Plot Summary:
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: bleak, depressing, suspense, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller, complex
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Katherine (1975)
Plot Summary:
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. Written by Miguel Cane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, political, mockumentary
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Birdwatchers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, thought provoking, realistic
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Your Lover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, that their community has been requesting for so long, finally arrives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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José (2018)
Plot Summary:
José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. Jose spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, Jose is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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Heart of Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, suspenseful
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100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Plot Summary:
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Paraiso Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. Marlon's journey, which takes him through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, ultimately takes him to a place he could have not predicted.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, gloomy
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Zabriskie Point (1970)
Plot Summary:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, surreal, atmospheric, realistic, political, contemplative, stylized, erotic, psychedelic
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Mae Bia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Chanachol, recently returned to Thailand after living overseas, signs up for a tour to get back in touch with Thai culture, and finds himself attracted to the tour guide, Mekhala. There are several problems with the relationship: Chanachol is married, with family, and Mekhala has a mysterious, symbiotic relationship with a deadly cobra, and many of her previous suitors have ended up dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, period drama
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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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The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
Plot Summary:
Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver discovers he's just a pawn in a failing game of corporate greed--one that made the rich richer...while the rest lost everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, political, edutainment, talky, biting, suspense
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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