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Plot Summary:
Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Dirty Story (1984)
Plot Summary:
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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Our Father... (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Veikko Aaltonen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Touch of the Master's Hand (1980)
Plot Summary:
Drama - The sale of an old violin sets off a chain of events that tests and strengthens an English family's faith. - James McIlroy, Joe McPartland, Julian Chambers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Apple Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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La reine blanche (1991)
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In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. The Ripoche’s ordered lives are thrown into turmoil when Jean’s former friend, Yvon Legualoudec, returns to the town – with his black wife Annabelle and their three children. Before he disappeared twenty years ago, without saying a word, Yvon was Jean’s rival for Liliane’s affections. As bitter memories resurface, the relationship between Jean, Yvon and Liliane become strained.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
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The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Two of a Kind (1982)
Plot Summary:
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Family Portrait (1962)
Plot Summary:
Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother (Sylvie), Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves. Beautifully photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno, this austere, deeply-felt masterwork has been acclaimed as one of Zurlini's greatest achievements.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Azzurro (2000)
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75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Italy, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Relative Stranger (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious
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House Of Himiko (2005)
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Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Earth Is a Sinful Song (1973)
Plot Summary:
An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying
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Heritage (1979)
Plot Summary:
Shipowner Kai Skaug is dead. The parson in his funeral speech speaks of a man who passed away in his prime, only 54 years old. The flower-decorated crematorium is filled with mourners. In the first row sits his old mother, his brother and sister, his brother- and sister-in-law, his nephews and cousings - his next of kin.... Up till now they have had only occasional contact with one another - superficial and unbinding. Now the inheritance binds them together with unloosable bonds. The will assums that the company shall be run by the united family. Should this prove impossible, everything is to be donated to cancer research. The inheritance changes the lives of all of them and brings hidden conflicts into the open. And when they all have been stripped naked, one fundamental question remains: Who has in fact created the values? Who deserves the inheritance?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 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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The Little Bedroom (2010)
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One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, too, opens up, sharing recollections of his beloved wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Gone Fishing (2012)
Plot Summary:
A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, serious, gloomy, road movie
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The Grandfather (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, feel good, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Plot Summary:
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, intellectual, touching, serious, light, romantic, sexy, enigmatic, bleak
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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been looking for each other...but they may have been brought together for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Amador (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, sincere, serious
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DNA (2020)
Plot Summary:
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, semi autobiographical
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Twisted Roots (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug dealers. Very much in love, Annette is confident that he’ll get a hold of himself as soon as they return to Paris. But back in France, Victor relapses into his bad habits. After a violent dispute, Victor moves into the room of a junkie he has fallen in love with. Annette leaves Victor and disappears with Pamela. 11 years later: Pamela is 17. She lives in Paris with her mother. One day, she learns that her father lives in the same city. She decides to see him again. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The White Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, gencinden yaşlısına sevginin her türlü motifi hem duygusal hem de esprili bir dille anlatılır.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious
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Another House (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle aged photo-journalist (Roy Dupuis) and a younger pilot-in-training (Emile Proulx-Cloutier) disagree on a course of action, leaving the father and the younger son inhabiting a rustic cottage in the woods. As the older man's health deteriorates, options become more limited; when an IED accident in Afghanistan kills the photo-journalist's translator, the family must come together like never before. Shot in Quebec, Iceland, Africa and Asia, Another House blends elements of memory, perception and lyricism into a remarkable cinematic mix that moves the story well beyond direct domestic issues into a visual realm that balances nature and humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, psychological, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Lou (2010)
Plot Summary:
Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 months ago and hasn't been seen since. Mother-daughter relations hit bottom when Rhia takes in Doyle, her father in-law, who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Doyle turns Lou's initial hostility around with exciting tales of his South Seas adventures. But coursing deepest in his mind are fractured memories of Annie, his late wife. Before long, Doyle "sees" Annie in Lou and imagines he is courting her all over again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious, gloomy
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Around the Bend (2004)
Plot Summary:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, road movie, emotional, semi serious, humorous, family saga, realistic, crying, funny
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Letters to Father Jacob (2009)
Plot Summary:
With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, social, gloomy
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On Golden Pond (1981)
Plot Summary:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. Norman must find his way through his anger and fear of growing old, while Chelsea struggles to rebuild their relationship. Ethel's consistent support of her "Knight in shining armor" is inspirational in its simplicity. This is a movie to ponder and always keep in your heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, witty, feel good, colorful, captivating, contemplative