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Plot Summary:
Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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The Journey Is the Destination (2016)
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The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
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Man Follows Birds (1976)
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Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast apart because he’s poor and his father’s drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village. When his father dies, he decides to go in the mountains with his best friends. Looking for nature at its purest, the two teenage boys have to deal with the cruelty of violent barbarians. Their trip will also make them meet a lost orphan girl and a wise beggar.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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God's Creatures (2022)
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In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
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Lollipop Monster (2011)
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Ari and Oona go to the same school. Lolita-like Ari, is blonde, pouting and lives in a world of bright colours, frustrated by her mother still treating her as a child, while arty Oona dresses in black and is treated as an adult by her artist father. When Oona’s father commits suicide after his wife has an affair with his brother Lukas, Oona starts to self-harm, but finds and unlikely friendship with Ari. Ari’s enthusiasm for exerting her sexuality rebounds when she starts an affair with Oona’s uncle, who has recently moved in with Oona’s mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Visitor (2008)
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The scientist Agnes must take care of a foreign flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a foreign man lies beside her in the bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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10 Sekunden (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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On the Sly (2017)
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Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Crying for Love (2008)
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Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
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The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a discouraged democrat and a columnist, dismissed from a famous daily newspaper, emerges from his own grave and enters into his own life. Within 48 hours, he will try to achieve all those things he couldn't while he was alive. At the same time, post-mortem, he will try to save the dignity of his own community and his tribe, not taking too much care of himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
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A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, weird
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Her Private Hell (1968)
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A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Constant Factor (1980)
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The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been nursing both his sick mother and a deeply rooted desire to climb the Himalayas. His father had died climbing in those mountains, and they have an allure for Witold as well. But his dreams begin to crumble when his mother succumbs to her illness and trouble brews at work. The situation becomes bad enough to scramble Witold's life with no indication of future improvement.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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The Gentiles (2021)
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Ana throws her life on the Instagram and other social networks, where she posts pictures, videos and short animations, together with witty (and lucid) texts. Ana is going through a strange moment. In addition to going through the family conflicts and identity issues typical of her age, she experiences something new. She feels something she does not quite understand, for her close friend Corrales.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min
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The Legacy of the Siren (2012)
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Michel must go to dangerous lengths to save his wife and newborn child from the intrigues of the king’s mistress in this historical drama.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Women on the Roof (1989)
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An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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Gutter Trash (1969)
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An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Slave Widow (1967)
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After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Last Fine Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Hadi Be Oglum (2018)
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Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. As Ali tries to bond with his son, he runs into many barriers in communtion with him, and Ali's greatest wish is to know that his son understands him. The plot evolves around a father who loves his son dearly but going thru many struggles to create communication channels with his who carries the burden of the memories of his father, his mother and the woman he loves, will shape the life of both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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Together (2009)
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A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Looping (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three intertwining stories about women, who end up in a psychiatric clinic.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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A Good Boy (2008)
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After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly speaks to him. But Sven does well in school, and Achim hopes that time will bring them closer together. It is Achim's girlfriend Julia who first senses that something is wrong with Sven. Why, she wonders, does he always hang around with young boys? Why does not he have any friends his own age? She suspects that he is gay. The truth, however, is somewhat more nuanced - and chilling: Sven has pedophile tendencies. Proof is soon found on videos that shock and sicken Achim. Sven himself is shattered and regrets his actions. Julia suggests therapy, but Achim is convinced that he and Sven can handle this together. But he is wrong. Though Sven practically begs his father to lock him up in his room, Achim has confidence in his son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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The Unpolished (2007)
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Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Kodachrome (2017)
Plot Summary:
Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, depressing, sad, independent film
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Fidelity (2000)
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Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, erotic, sensual, sexual, experimental, avant garde, psycho sexual
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Combat Girls (2011)
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Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 14-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisa's convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee. Confronted to him, she will learn that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way. Will Marisa ever be able to get out of this group?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, disturbing, tense, rough, realistic, serious, political, sad, hood, steamy
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The Architect (2008)
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Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Louder Than Bombs (2015)
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Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, melancholic, touching, captivating, social, art house, independent film, anthropological, weird
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Behind the Red Door (2003)
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Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best friend Julia (Stockard Channing) arranges for her to accept a lucrative contract with a Boston ad agency, Natalie discovers that she will be working for her own gay brother Roy (Kiefer Sutherland), whom she hasn't seen in a decade. Although Roy is insufferably snobbish and manipulative, he manages to exert a curious control over Natalie, forcing her to confront several disturbing, long-suppressed memories of her past (shown in black-and-white flashbacks). Before the film is over, Natalie is made to realize why Roy's behavior is so overbearing -- and also, the viewer learns just how intimately Julia is involved in the lives of both siblings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Time to Leave (2005)
Plot Summary:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, talky, lgbt cinema, art house, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual