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Plot Summary:
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973)
Plot Summary:
Three disabled men--one blind, one with no legs and one with no hands--get together to pull off a museum robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Valerie Flake (1999)
Plot Summary:
Valerie Flake is an overqualified supermarket cashier in her early thirties with a graduate degree and a past as a talented painter. Since her husband’s death, she has successfully severed all bonds with the people who love her and replaced intimacy with a succession of one-night stands. After a fight with her sister, she drives to Palm Springs to attend a party for her late husband’s parents, whom she still holds dear. On her first night, she meets newly divorced Tim Darnell, who is a saint and the polar opposite of Valerie. They begin a fast and furious romance that fulfills a need each has but ultimately leaves Tim brokenhearted. Valerie reveals through a videotaped “confession” to her in-laws exactly why she has had trouble coping with her pain before she leaves it all behind in Palm Springs to start anew.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Plot Summary:
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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The River with No Bridge (1992)
Plot Summary:
THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE begins in 1908 and tells the story of a widow, Fude HATANAKA and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, who live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: saga
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Where The Miracle Happens (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an impoverished rural school in Chiang Rai, keeping her identity a secret. In the end, Pimdao, played by Princess Ubol Ratana herself, realizes that real happiness doesn't come from external events but lies in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Women's Room (1980)
Plot Summary:
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
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The Letter (1982)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: eighties
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The Catch (2020)
Plot Summary:
A troubled woman returns to her estranged family in coastal Maine. With her lobsterman father caught up in a turf war at sea, she and an ex-boyfriend make plans to hijack local drug runners. As their desperation mounts, each character makes increasingly compromised and morally dubious decisions that threaten their way of life and their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Breathing Lessons (1994)
Plot Summary:
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Proxy (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Clover (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's friends and relatives object to her being Clover's guardian.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Balcony (1963)
Plot Summary:
Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, grotesque, hot
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Americana (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Young Lovers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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El Encanto (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is thirty years old and has a girlfriend, Juliana, with whom he is about to celebrate a decade of love.He loves her, but feels that she no longer captivates him. She wants to be a mother. He doesn't know if he wants to take that step. He fears it could be a mistake, perhaps Juliana is not the woman of his life or perhaps it is too soon. To make matters worse, he is attracted to Lara, his new sexy and young employee. Further confused, Bruno only finds comfort in the company of his father and his old bass. This confusion pushes Bruno to reunite with an old love: music.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, light, romantic, sexy, touching
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The Key (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply erotic, uncompromising, visually adventurous story of a marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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A Woman's Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, period drama
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Black and White (1968)
Plot Summary:
Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Hard Feelings (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Chinese Chocolate (1995)
Plot Summary:
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which change the lives of everyone forever. Intimately and honestly exploring for the first time the sexuality of Chinese women living in a foreign culture, this award-winning study of love and relationship makes for a unforgettable treat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Laguna Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Lonely Lady (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Compulsion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani (Parminder Nagra) has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers (Ray Winstone) proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, multicultural
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La Belle (2000)
Plot Summary:
On one gloomy rainy night, a writer encounters an unexpected visit paid by a woman of his past. Seeking solitude from her ex-lover, she finds solace in this gentleman and from that day on, they cherish every inch of each other's body and indulge in ecstasy until her forbidden past is gradually revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, captivating, sexy
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Torn Apart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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High Resolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their courtship in an epic laptop-filmed “documentary”, the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing