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Plot Summary:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: saga
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Komitas (1988)
Plot Summary:
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, UK, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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Apple Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Under the Stars of Paris (2020)
Plot Summary:
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Merry Bus (2001)
Plot Summary:
Focuses on a woman and child after the 1988 earthquake that rocked the Soviet state of Armenia. They find themselves listening to telephone wires and call it music. They became close and the little boy decides that he has found the basis for the making of his new family. The woman then adopts him, however, he believes that they family needs a father as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Armenia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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1915 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, sad, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nahapet (1977)
Plot Summary:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Invisible World (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, contemplative
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Armenia (2006)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to visit Gilles at the hospital and beg for his forgiveness, something that Gilles does not understand. Against the advice of his comrades in Beirut, Aram decides to go meet his victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, rough, disturbing
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010)
Plot Summary:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Assignment Berlin (1982)
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no overview.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Armenia, My Love... (2016)
Plot Summary:
The destiny of a happy Armenian family, whose life will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint the story of his shattered childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Morgen (2010)
Plot Summary:
NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, social
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Poetical Refugee (2000)
Plot Summary:
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
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A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Heat Wave (2011)
Plot Summary:
One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s girlfriend; and Amélie’s mother Anne. Little do they know how their lives, scarred by fear, humiliation and weariness, will become intertwined and propel them to a terrible outcome.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying
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The Lark Farm (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, realistic, suspense, contemplative, gloomy
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Mother (1992)
Plot Summary:
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from Armenia and is adapting to his new country to the best of his ability. This tends to put him in conflict with his traditional Armenian family. Nonetheless, they are all hardworking and loving. Now, forty years later, the lead character has changed his name to Pierre Zakar, because it is easier for the French to pronounce and relate to. He has also become a very successful playwright.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Illegal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, political, serious, realistic
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
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An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Cities of the Plain (2000)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Robert Kramer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: experimental, touching, serious, captivating
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Two (2002)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, non-linear, serious, controversial, offbeat, contemplative
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The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Plot Summary:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, touching, bleak, captivating, realistic, disturbing, neo noir, anthology, psychological
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
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Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Plot Summary:
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes..
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, tense, realistic
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Here and There (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the US, he hopes to now finally make a better life with his family, and even to pursue his dreams on the side by starting a band: Copa Kings. He cherishes the everyday moments with his family. The villagers think this year's crop will be bountiful. There is also good work in a growing city an hour away. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. That place somehow always feels very present, practically knocking at the door. "Aquí y Allá" is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological
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The Cut (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, factual, sexy, sad
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Plot Summary:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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The Promise (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, slow cinema, inspirational, thought provoking, art house, aesthetic, mesmerizing, tense, touching, serious