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Plot Summary:
A famous surgeon named Nino, who came to the village, is requested to perform the operation. She recognizes her ex-husband Akia is the wounded person and now her difficult past is there before her eyes: Almaskhan's son Akia raped orphaned Nino. She and her real love Giorgi cannot be together. Life becomes monotonous for her. Almaskhan makes his son marry Nino, but Akia - hater of the Soviet Union soon disappears in Turkey. Neither Almaskhan is able to endure the oppression from Bolshevists - he burns the house and tries to run but dies in a fire. Also Nino's little child dies during this conflagration. She leaves this village and goes to the city to begin new life and becomes a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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Man Follows Birds (1976)
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Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast apart because he’s poor and his father’s drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village. When his father dies, he decides to go in the mountains with his best friends. Looking for nature at its purest, the two teenage boys have to deal with the cruelty of violent barbarians. Their trip will also make them meet a lost orphan girl and a wise beggar.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Story of Poor (1961)
Plot Summary:
A writer returning from a hunt finds a dying beggar in a ramshackle hut. The beggar tells the story of his life. Based on story by Ilia Chavchavadze.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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The Useless Girl (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
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The Second Wife (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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Godaan (1963)
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1963 Indian Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
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The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2022)
Plot Summary:
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
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Spring (1968)
Plot Summary:
Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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Gregorio (1984)
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Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and survive in this whole prejudiced new world. A hostile world for poor immigrants.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min
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Raping! (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: crying
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Cantata (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: intellectual, freeze frame
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The New Interns (1964)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Spring for the Thirsty (1965)
Plot Summary:
A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, spiritual
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Last Bread (1963)
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After going through all the details of the old combine with his own hands, the pioneer virgin landowner granddad Yakushenko met his last great suffering - harvesting bread - in the most dignified manner. Aleksei, Irina and Dmitriy decide to help granddad — and went in the evening to look for spare parts for his combine in neighbouring farms.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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The Entreaty (1967)
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Based on the poems “Aluda Ketelauri” and “The Guest and the Host” by the classic of Georgian literature Vazha Pshavela This film opens Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy (“The Plea”, “The Wishing Tree”, “Repentance”), which discusses the subject of common human values using original national material. The death of heroes, the knights of truth and good, leads the Poet to the conclusion that the evil is invincible. Exhausted by struggle and privations, the Poet lays down his arms. He is visited then by all of his favorite heroes. They put out candles by dipping them into a beer cup – a ritual Khevsuri gesture meaning renunciation. And only after seeing what misfortune and harm the rejection of fighting the evil results in, the Poet takes up arms again.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: spiritual, crying, avant garde
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The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Plot Summary:
A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: art house, spiritual, surreal, contemplative, poetic, serious, stylized, gloomy, folk tale, weird
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The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Plot Summary:
A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: ironic, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, sad, cynical
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Farewell (1983)
Plot Summary:
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Don't Grieve (1968)
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Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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The Orphans (1977)
Plot Summary:
A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Ashik Kerib (1988)
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Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: spiritual, art house, surreal, fairy tale, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, allegory
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Vassa (1983)
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A screen adaptation of the second version of A. M. Gorky’s play “Vassa Zheleznova”. In this family children were taught from the early years to put accent on the word “my”: my ship, my house, my factory… Here they counted the money earned by other people’s labour and could lose a fortune overnight playing cards; here they indulged in utter debauchery and were sneaking on each other; they prayed and engaged in shady dealings in the name of God… Vassa had it all: money, power, clout, brains and grip. And only one thing she did not have – the future, for the year 1917 was drawing nearer and the age of the Zheleznovs and the Khrapovs was coming to an end.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
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Sole (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme learn how to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, crying
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Can Go Through Skin (2009)
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A brutal assault changes Marieke's life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a isolated house in the countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As spring's orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pull her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
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Egg and Stone (2012)
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Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline about a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl from the countryside. A grown-up feature film debut by a major talent. In the village where she was born in the province of Hunan, Huang Ji filmed this quietly disturbing, sober drama about 14-year-old Honggui, who is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. The girl is not wanted. Nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. In the meantime, seven years have passed. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, no music
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, spiritual, sad, crying, patriotic
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You and Me (1971)
Plot Summary:
A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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The Wishing Tree (1976)
Plot Summary:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze described his film: “’The Wishing Tree’ is a film about the people lit up by a dream. Every character has its own ideal. One is worshipping the skies, another the earth, some idolize the body, others elevate the spirit. Some destroy the body, others the soul…” Marita, the film’s heroine, arrived here to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man….
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
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Vanaja (2006)
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Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, sentimental, independent film, sincere, bleak, sexual, sexy, student film
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A Place in the World (1992)
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Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, crying
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Mother Earth (2010)
Plot Summary:
TIERRA MADRE is based on the true story of Aidee Gonzalez, a woman determined to raise her children with her female partner in the Mexican border town of Tecate. Aidee works hard as an exotic dancer providing for her family. One day her girlfriend shares her desire to have a child of her own, and convinces Aidee to go on the hunt for a male to conceive a child.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, touching, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, humorous, crying, hispanic