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Plot Summary:
Creation of the Slovak republic in 1993 and first years of its existence are marked with mafia connected to the highest places of the new government. True story about the hijacking of the son of the first president of the Slovak republic.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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False Eyelash (1982)
Plot Summary:
A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Accounts (1983)
Plot Summary:
The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: avant garde, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, experimental, crying
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My Little Assassin (1999)
Plot Summary:
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his secretary and to be part of the making of the new Cuba. She accepts, but soon learns he already has a capable secretary; Marita's duties lie elsewhere. She becomes pregnant. She's also come to the attention of the FBI and the CIA, so when she wakes up in a US hospital after what may have been a botched abortion against her will in Cuba, her government presses her into service as an assassin: her job, to go back to Cuba and kill her former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Rich Kids (2000)
Plot Summary:
"Chicos ricos" obviously tells the story of two successful advertisers Andy and Tomás who worked outside the country and have now joined an agency in Buenos Aires. The film takes place almost entirely in a large house where both intend to celebrate a major advertising prize they have obtained. Said celebration has prostitutes: Marisol and Zuky. The party would not be complete without the dealer, the Toucan and to complete the picture, and to complicate it, Galperín adds the presence of two thieves who want to take everything and change the course of the night, and two ineffective policemen.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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3 Steps to Heaven (1995)
Plot Summary:
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Black and Blue (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paratroopers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Not everyone is born to be a soldier. Not even in Israel, where universal conscription is the tradition. This movie is about a Sad Sack in the Israeli army, incompetent to complete training and yet incompetent to extricate himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Exchange (2011)
Plot Summary:
A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, realistic, weird
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Shipman (2002)
Plot Summary:
James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Elephant Heart (2002)
Plot Summary:
Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd Hermsbach, a local demimonde boss, offers him the opportunity to become a professional. Marko accepts, but has to pay a high price.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, gloomy
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One More Chance (1981)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, student film
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Ten Benny (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Lucky Star (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. A baby not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident is born. Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: manga, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Have You Seen My Son (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Baby Snatcher (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Snap Decision (2001)
Plot Summary:
One mother must fight back to prove her innocence or lose her children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, detective, tension, suspense
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Hours of Light (2004)
Plot Summary:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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Strip Search (2004)
Plot Summary:
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, disturbing
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Richness of Internal Space (2012)
Plot Summary:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, tense, realistic
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Blackout (2007)
Plot Summary:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and vulnerability.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak
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Cool Money (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic thief Bobby Comfort escapes from prison, clears himself of all charges, and returns to a home life he finds unsatisfying. Though he is devoted to his wife and daughter, his old life comes calling, both figuratively and literally, in the form of idea man Sammy Nalo. With the help of Comfort's old partner, they begin robbing posh New York City hotels, while second cousin and bumbling cop Phil Parris thinks he can turn Comfort to the straight and narrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Held Hostage (2009)
Plot Summary:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
Plot Summary:
Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans….
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, political, controversial
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The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Plot Summary:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political, eighties
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The Big Brass Ring (1999)
Plot Summary:
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic
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Baby Sellers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, psychological, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful
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Fuehrer Ex (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, realistic