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Plot Summary:
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 154 min
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At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Croatia, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
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The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house
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One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship between prison convict J.J.Taylor (Arliss Howard) and a young, pregnant woman named Addie (Jeanne Trippleman). Pressed into service to rescue victims of the flood, Taylor finds Addie stuck in a tree, her husband nowhere in sight. Managing to get Addie down, Taylor finds himself cut off from the other rescuers, and thus is solely responsible for the future wellbeing of the stranded woman and her unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. Through a friend, she is introduced to rising TV newsreader/announcer George Matthews (Ian McKellen) and after a further chance meeting and a tumble on the sofa, she finds herself pregnant from her first sexual encounter. A failed attempt at self-abortion just re-inforces Rosamund's resolve to have the child - leaving her on a solitary and at times dismal path through pregnancy and into motherhood, aided only by close friend Lydia (Eleanor Bron). Will she get through it? Will her child? And will she let Matthews know that he is actually the father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 466
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Duration: 107 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 98 min
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
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Magnificat is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 198
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 248
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 798
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, History
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Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
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Duration: 99 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 684
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 615
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 175
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 212
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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IMDB Votes: 28000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 229
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 124
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 298
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
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