Best movies like One Careful Owner
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Plot Summary:
Sara is offered a chance to buy the perfect apartment, roomy, very luminous and inexpensive. She only has one little problem: she can't live in it before Lola, the actual and aged owner, dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional
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Just Once (2021)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a social worker of an unnamed city specialized to treat cases of sexist violence. Her latest case revolves about Pablo and Eva, a long-time couple after an incident where, according to the police report, he thrown her to the ground breaking her arm during a discussion. While Laura starts the therapy with Pablo, a well-known writer and novelist, she is being stalked by the ex husband of a former patient, who is obsessed that Laura can help him to recover his wife. Talking with Pablo, he shows to be regretful and ashamed of his behavior, explaining how his work writing in home requires special conditions to make it and the fight was an one-time incident. Despite to know that the therapy is obligatory only for him, Eva decides talk with Laura excusing the happened, that Pablo is a good man despised by her parents-in-law and that their relation is at the best. Not convinced by the explanation, Laura starts to press them little by little, watching their reactions and their way to talk in the attempt to downplay the aggression. However, things go to worse when the stalker sends Laura a photo of her teen daughter Lucía threatening her life. At the same time that Laura tries to keep Lucía safe and sound, the therapy becomes more intense when is revealed that Eva was caught cheating Pablo with Diego, another writer of the same publishing company and the actual best seller of it, and how Pablo turned crazy by the jealousy. Was it really an one-time incident, or Pablo actually is a true sexist who abuses Eva using daily his violence against her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Furies (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family reunites to discuss the selling of their beloved house, but their secrets threaten to overwhelm them as they come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Tokyo Train Girls 4: Young Wife's Desires (2006)
Plot Summary:
Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life the turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: hot
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A normal world (2020)
Plot Summary:
2020, City of Madrid (Madrid, center to Spain and country's capital). "Un Mundo Normal" (A normal World) follows Ernesto Caral, a loudmouth and sarcastic at full time forty-something theater director trapped in the middle age crisis: after the split with his lifelong domestic partner Julia, he moves to a new floor with their comprehensive and smarter teenager daughter Cloe. Belonging to a clan of artists as his mother Carolina was actress, his brother Max is a concert pianist and Cloe is a talented painter despite she is studying laws, Ernesto divides his time between to find a new project to recover his fallen-on-disgrace carrier and caring his aged mother. Worried about as her friends die in a short time, Carolina forces Ernesto to make her a promise: take her corpse after her death to move her natal town in Altea, Alicante (Valencia, east to Spain) and throw her to the sea. Reluctant to film a TV series but accepting to solve his money troubles, in the filming Max calls Ernesto.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Invisible (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three women. One same age. Three ways to face it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Distances (2018)
Plot Summary:
Olivia, Eloy, Guille and Anna travel to Berlin to pay a surprise visit to their friend Comas. His welcome is not as they expected and during the weekend their friendship is put to the test. Together they discover that time and distance can change everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, talky, social
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Tara Road (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two grieving women - Ria, a Dublin mom whose husband discloses he's in love with a woman already pregnant, and Marilyn, a Connecticut Yankee who's son has died - swap houses for a couple months. Marilyn finds solace in Ria's garden and becomes friends with Colm, a local with a restaurant and his own demons. Ria gets a job cooking, has a date or two, and gradually comes out of her shell. Meanwhile,.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, feel good, spiritual, independent film, realistic
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Coming Apart (1969)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary, experimental, avant garde, fake documentary
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Breathless Time (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria, a nurse whose daughter was killed by three militiamen, travels from Colombia to Spain with her younger son in order to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, suspense, serious, gloomy
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I Feel Strange (1977)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Rocío Dúrcal) is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta (Bárbara Rey), a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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A Journey Home (2009)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Schoolgirls (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prodded by the rebellious Brisa, puberty is awakening in twelve-year-old Celia. Quickly, the two become allies against the rigid rules of authority in the Catholic girls’ school. However, questions about the right bra, cool bands and sexy clothing cannot hide the urgent search for their own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, social
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Camino (2008)
Plot Summary:
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, spiritual, odd, complex
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7 Years (2016)
Plot Summary:
The drama is centered on four friends and business partners who in one evening are forced to find a way to save their company and themselves. The impossible decision they face is agreeing on who will be the one to sacrifice their freedom to save the others from personal and financial demise. It is a race against time that will put their friendship and sanity to the test. Who will take the fall?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, hispanic, thinking, weird
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November Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, serious, disturbing, sad, realistic
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Noel (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film, gloomy, iconic
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Summer Clouds (2004)
Plot Summary:
Daniel (Roberto Enríquez), Ana (Natalia Millán), and their little boy, Manuel (Kevin Almodóvar), travel from Madrid to a resort on the Costa Brava for the summer. Ana runs into Marta (Irene Montalà of L'Auberge Espagnole), a local shopgirl whom she's met on previous visits. Marta introduces Ana to her cousin, Robert (David Selvas), who runs an antique shop. Robert is immediately attracted to Ana. Marta tells him that Ana is happily married, and confesses that she has a crush on Ana's husband, Daniel. Robert, intrigued, makes a pact with Marta. Robert will help Marta seduce Daniel if she will help Robert seduce Ana. One night, the cousins cunningly arrange to separate the couple, and some serious flirtation ensues. While Marta, casually dates a local surfer, Tomás (Roger Casamajor), begins to have second thoughts, Robert grows more obsessed with the couple. He befriends Daniel and peppers him with questions about the strength of his nine-year marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, realistic, semi serious, erotic, humorous, talky, sexual
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Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Plot Summary:
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological, realistic, visually appealing, serious, sad, anime
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Shoot the Moon (1982)
Plot Summary:
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, offbeat, serious, psychological, tense, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking, touching
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Stephanie Daley (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, rough, suspense, cult classic, tense, sincere, clever, bleak
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Alone (1999)
Plot Summary:
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the fact that her boyfriend has abandoned her does not help matters. When her father goes to the hospital for an operation, her mother comes to stay with her. Her neighbor, an old recluse whose only friend is his dog, begins to come out of his shell and these three lost souls try to give each other the strength to start over.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, erotic, uplifting, feel good, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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The Skin of the Wolf (2017)
Plot Summary:
Martinón is the last inhabitant of Auzal, a village in the mountains where he lives in communion with nature. He only goes down to the valleys twice a year to trade and to buy provisions. But one day he’s convinced to take a wife, a decision intended to soften his calloused soul—but in some ways his real struggle is only just beginning.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense
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Crashing (2007)
Plot Summary:
It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) out into the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious, sexual
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Nine Lives (2005)
Plot Summary:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, intense, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, depressing, anthology
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Ma Ma (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a tragedy a woman, Magda, reacts with a surge of newfound life that engulfs her circle of family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sad, ambiguous ending, compassionate
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Live Flesh (1997)
Plot Summary:
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, intense, atmospheric, emotional, erotic, serious, realistic, visual, neo noir
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The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they hire Juanito to seduce the politician. They fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, social, sensual, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, independent film
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Pellet (2000)
Plot Summary:
El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. "Pellet" is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates, and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate. Written by ElianaM.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, touching, social, sincere, depressing, controversial, hispanic