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Plot Summary:
A female firefighter joins the all male crew of Blue Watch, Blackwall Fire Station East London in the Jack Rosenthal penned film that launched the long running TV series.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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The Last Land (2016)
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In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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The Stone Wedding (1973)
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Drawing more on the heightened realism of indigenous folk ritual and storytelling traditions than on the Socialist Realist intentions of the state, this almost wordless cine-poem, operating with the most slender of plots but the oldest of narratives, is an often compelling experience. A listless girl is to be married, lovelessly, into the conventional hierarchy of a Romanian town, squatting in a bare, out-of-time landscape. Her mother makes a hard living gathering and breaking rocks, and is soon forced to sell the essential mule for a wedding dress. Come the day, and the attentions of a nomadic musician capture the birch girl's eyes and heart. Cinematic kin to Paradjanov, Peleshyan and, perhaps most closely, the wonderful Georgian film Pirosmani, Stone Wedding is imbued with the stillness of deep time and deploys the keenest of gazes in tableaux that soon lift from mere attention into Morandi-esque focus.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Land and Shade (2015)
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Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Ferox (2013)
Plot Summary:
Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Love Machine (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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A (1998)
Plot Summary:
"A" is a 1998 Indian Kannada language blockbuster psychological love story film written and directed by Upendra. It starred Upendra and Chandni as the lead couple. It was about an unusual love story between a film director and an actress which was narrated through multiple flashbacks within flashbacks and reverse screenplay. The film dealt with various dark truths of film world like the casting couch. Due to the reverse screenplay, the audience were forced to watch it multiple times to understand the story. The movie generated a lot of attention, which began with its rather unusual name. Then there was the subject matter, which dealt with the love affair between a director and his heroine and the dreaded casting couch. The movie discovered human emotions through a different dimension and showed how emotions change with circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: kannada, psychological thriller, cult classic, cult film
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Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)
Plot Summary:
A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, funny, light, sexy, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
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A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Transit (2005)
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After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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Secret Passage (2004)
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Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, disturbing, stylized, intense
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Firehouse (1973)
Plot Summary:
Tensions arise when a previously all-white firehouse gets its first black fireman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Radiance (1998)
Plot Summary:
With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the house for the first time in years. With time to talk, drink and fight, past hurts are revealed and family secrets come out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Namibia
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags:
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Flowers for Fannie (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fannie Fairchild locked up her heart when her beloved George was killed in the Great War. But now she faces her own mortality and realizes that she has no one to maintain her grave with flowers.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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The Wake (2017)
Plot Summary:
Over there, in his village at the foot of the mountains, he’s dead. His face radiant and his body at peace, he lies on the bed. Then they can gather around him. Three days long they talk, drink, weep, fight and remember… And they smile, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags:
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White Shadow (2013)
Plot Summary:
Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch-doctor inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes: “Albinos do not die, they just disappear.” This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the run. After his father’s murder, his mother sends him to the city. His uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in the city, selling sunglasses, DVDs and cellphones, it will not take long before the boy experiences at first hand the difficulties of life and of being different.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama
Country: Tanzania, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, suspense, existential horror, offbeat
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The Trump Prophecy (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story about fireman and public servant Mark Taylor who heard a special message from God about change in our nation. When Mary Colbert, a networker and connector of Christian ministries, heard Mark's message she felt called to start a national prayer movement which grew to thousands of people across our nation praying together for the leadership of America and a return to the Godly principles we were founded upon. The Trump Prophecy tells the story of Mark Taylor and Mary Colbert through the election of 2016 followed by a reflective time hearing from leaders in various sectors of faith, business, finance, military, and world affairs who respond with their perspective on what it takes to make America great again.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: biblical, christian film, independent film
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Steel River Blues (2004)
Plot Summary:
Steel River Blues is a British television drama serial first broadcast in September 2004 on ITV. based on the working and private lives of a group of firefighters in Middlesbrough. Critics were quick to dub the new drama "Middlesbrough's Burning" or "Teesside's Burning", after the popular fire-fighting drama that preceded it, London's Burning, yet there were very few similarities between the two, apart from them being about the business of firefighting. Like its predecessor, Steel River Blues was an ensemble drama without any single starring part, though perhaps the best-known actor was Daniel Casey, who was previously a co-star in ITV's ratings banker, Midsomer Murders. The show's title song was performed by Middlesbrough-born Chris Rea. It was announced in January 2005 that the series would not be recommissioned.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Brigade (2017)
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Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Through The Fire (2018)
Plot Summary:
Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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The Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must deliver.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, talky, uplifting
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The Right Mom (2021)
Plot Summary:
While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Under Fire (2021)
Plot Summary:
A tight-knit and headstrong group of firefighters gets shook up by an abrupt change of leadership. After a fatal error during an intervention they come under scrutiny and have to fight for the survival of their beloved fire station "Post Oosteroever".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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City on Fire (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, disaster movie
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Wildfire 7: The Inferno (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luz Cuevas baby daughter Delimar disappeared in 1997 after their house caught fire during a party, The police reported that she was killed in the fire. However, Cuevas suspects that she was kidnapped and that the fire was staged by an outsider. Six years after the fire, Cuevas meets Valerie Valleja former wife of one of Pedro's cousins, who was also at the party. She has a six-year-old girl with her, named Aaliyah. The girl bears a resemblance to Cuevas and she suspects it is Delimar. Cuevas begins an investigation….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hispanic
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Mademoiselle (1966)
Plot Summary:
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, crying, independent film, sexy, cult film