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Plot Summary:
Basque Country, Spain, 1985. Four teenage friends must face life and death, social upheaval and political violence as they try to enjoy their summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
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Ben & Gunnar (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Gunnar meet during a carpool from Stockholm to Göteborg in the summer of 1995 where they are attending a concert with Bruce Springsteen at Ullevi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min
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The Recce (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min
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Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
Plot Summary:
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
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Hebriana (1990)
Plot Summary:
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min
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Vanishing Point (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
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Sand and Blood (1988)
Plot Summary:
Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
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Radio Arrow (1998)
Plot Summary:
Five friends Freccia, Bruno, Tito, Jena and Boris are very keen on music but they live in a little town in northern Italy and spend most of their days at the local bar. They decide to set up an independent radio which soon becomes the voice of a generation. When Freccia dies from an overdose the radio takes his name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: intercultural, educational, nostalgic
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Moving On (2019)
Plot Summary:
A family gathers at grandfather’s place by chance and breaks up. Okju, who has been observing her family for a short time, gains the strength to rise above the loss through this experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, sincere, melancholic
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Segreti segreti (1985)
Plot Summary:
Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and Renata, her friend; and finally Giuliana, the magistrate before whom the terrorist will reveal her secret. And Laura will be the common thread that links each of the personal stories, determining their destiny, sometimes tragic, and discovering silence and complicity that does not seek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All My Friends Part 2 (Italian: Amici miei Atto II) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article All My Friends Part 2, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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The Moneytree (1992)
Plot Summary:
The trials and tribulations of a marijuana grower in Marin County, California.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: social, manga, captivating, realistic
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Lullaby (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return to her parents' house along the Basque coast for guidance while her partner is temporarily away.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: beautiful
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Eight Mountains (2022)
Plot Summary:
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: interesting
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A Brief Excursion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Innocents (1987)
Plot Summary:
The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crying, gay cinema
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That Special Summer (2007)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she discovers her dawning sexuality, and experience her first crush.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, vintage
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Raise Ravens (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, odd, masterpiece
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Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
Plot Summary:
In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Nest (1980)
Plot Summary:
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Here Are the Young Men (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)
Plot Summary:
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Pals (1982)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows the misadventures of two young friends who are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime when one impregnates the sister of the other and they need to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, independent film, gay cinema
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Seventeen (2019)
Plot Summary:
To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Summertime (2016)
Plot Summary:
A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, queer cinema
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Plot Summary:
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The 33 of San Jose (2010)
Plot Summary:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, suspense, realistic