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At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 60 min
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Nautilus (1990)
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This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, queues, war in Afghanistan Having invented nothing better, electrical engineer escapes from reality and becomes a street cleaner. He is a kind of going underground, locking himself in a stuffy cleaners box room and pretending that nothing arouses his interest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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Island City (2015)
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Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
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Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational story told from a Christian perspective about complex characters who resist embracing God's plans for them because they're too wrapped up in what society wants them to be.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Troubled Child (2012)
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Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Bag Full of Hearts (1964)
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Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the contemporaries create big story which in many recalls their favourite songs.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
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Family Circle (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
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Time to Die (2007)
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An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Spring (1968)
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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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Las Meninas (2008)
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This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, non-linear, independent film, psychedelic, art house
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Flight of a Bird (1988)
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Polyot Ptitsy has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
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Apple Garden (1985)
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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
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
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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
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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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A Long Goodbye (1971)
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A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to visit his real father in Novosibirsk, on the other side of the country. When he returns, his mother notices that Sasha has changed. She secretly reads a letter sent to Sasha from his father and finds out that Sasha doesn’t want to live with her any longer. She doesn’t have enough wisdom to understand this desire on someone else’s part. Sasha is shown to have a more delicate and understanding nature than his mother, for when he realizes that she is suffering because of his wish to leave, even though he is tired of her nagging, he decides to stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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Private Life (1982)
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Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his life. In so doing, he discovers that there's plenty left in the world to make life worth living. Private Life was nominated for the "best foreign picture" Academy Award in 1983.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min
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The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
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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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Monologue (1973)
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Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min
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Thanmathra (2005)
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A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, touching, sad
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Oskar's Dress (2022)
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Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
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Nahapet (1977)
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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
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Without You I'm Nothing (2008)
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A weekend in the Bavarian Alps. 25-year-old Hannes meets his father after 8 years of separation in a little mountain hut. By the influence of their very different girlfriends Ann and Lavinia, the stage-director-father and his actor-son cautiously try to make a new start. A bold venture, leading all of them to an abyss of unforeseen cruelty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Five Nights in Maine (2015)
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A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Journey Home (2009)
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Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: estranged from his family for twenty years, he losses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. F or how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
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Godfather (2012)
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A 2012 Kannada film.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Grandfather (1998)
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After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, feel good, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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Little Girl Lost (1988)
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This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Something's Cooking (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
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After Him (2007)
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A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle s'attache à Franck, le meilleur ami de celui-ci, qui est aussi le responsable du drame. Les proches de Camille ne comprennent pas son attitude. Le vide se fait autour d'elle. Qu'importe le scandale, Franck devient l'objet consentant de son affection. Mais il va prendre peu à peu conscience que l'obsession de Camille le met en danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, sexy, gloomy, sexual, queer cinema
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All God's Children Can Dance (2008)
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In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father and decides to follow him around Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, contemplative, independent film, art house