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Plot Summary:
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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By Accident (2015)
Plot Summary:
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Valley of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Strange Affair (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1971)
Plot Summary:
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Les Cowboys (2015)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: social, weird
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Beware of My Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Shadow (2008)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
Plot Summary:
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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Travis McGee (1983)
Plot Summary:
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Death in the Family (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Her Last Chance (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Eternity (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
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Though None Go with Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Sophia Antipolis (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hot
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Kuessipan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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The Forgiven (2021)
Plot Summary:
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric
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Angel Express (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the edge of adulthood, Alma leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands and travels to her native Bosnia to visit the father she’s never met. But from the start nothing goes as planned. Her cousin Emir gives her a frosty reception and mocks her easy life in the West. At the same time, undeniable sexual chemistry leads Alma into a passionate relationship with Emir’s best friend, the troublemaker Denis. As the obstacles mount, Alma stays fearlessly determined to follow her plan and find her father. She just has to figure herself out first.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, aesthetic, crying
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Creatura (2023)
Plot Summary:
After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Diving (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Paris Memories (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the event, she decides to search through her memory banks. Memories of the man she hid with and whose hand she held throughout the ordeal float back up to the surface. Is he still alive? Is she herself still alive? Mia searches the whole of Paris for this hand which saved her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Twisting Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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The Green Room (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The Beast of the Jungle". It would be the last film Truffaut would act in.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, psychological, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
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Angel Face (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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To Mathieu (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, rough
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Bolivia (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: depressing, tense, sincere, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Domestic Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, contemplative, biting
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The Mouth Agape (1974)
Plot Summary:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Those Who Remain (2007)
Plot Summary:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They bump into each other during one of their visits and begin to meet for coffee. Coffee turns into Lorraine offering to drive Bertrand to the train station and the two turn to each other in their time of grief and confusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy