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Plot Summary:
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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The Pacifist (1970)
Plot Summary:
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political
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Red Psalm (1972)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: political, contemplative
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China Is Near (1967)
Plot Summary:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Lady Caliph (1970)
Plot Summary:
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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Partner (1968)
Plot Summary:
In PARTNER, Bernardo Bertolucci conflated his interests in psychoanalysis, nonlinear narrative, and Godard to create a uniquely avant-garde work unlike anything in his ouevre. The film is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel THE DOUBLE and concerns an alienated, puckish young man named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) who confronts his own double. Jacob allows his doppelganger to take over his life; the second Jacob commandeers his predecessor's theater class in the hopes of creating living theater--as a violent act of social revolution. The idea of students wreaking havoc was not an unfamiliar one in 1968, and Bertolucci refuses to take Jacob's dangerous intellectual posturing lightly. The second Jacob is a handsome killer, the first a handsome weakling who must find the courage to resist his baser self. Bertolucci matches inspired plot points with arresting images, including visual film references and the bright color schemes that would later become his trademark.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, avant garde, art house, weird
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Canary Season (1993)
Plot Summary:
It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Feuten: Het Feestje (2013)
Plot Summary:
Freshmen, seniors and alumni clash with each other, themselves, and the police during an Amsterdam fraternity's epic opening party.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Story of a Love Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Comrade Pedersen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political
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Hail, Hero! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war, but this doesn't stop him from endlessly spouting the sort of agit-prop rhetoric so beloved of filmmakers of the era. In addition to Michael Douglas, co-star Peter Strauss likewise makes his first film appearance in Hail, Hero! Dated in the extreme, the film is saved by the musical score by Gordon Lightfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Love and Anger (1969)
Plot Summary:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anthology, spiritual, art house
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Roma (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags:
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Cease Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of his time in Vietnam. The stresses and strains nearly destroy his marriage and his family. Only after joining a veterans' therapy group does Tim find relief from his nightmares. With the support of his fellow vets and the love of his wife, Tim recovers. Written by Pfyre Caidmon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Nest of Vipers (1978)
Plot Summary:
During the Fascist era in Venice, a young music student has affairs with two beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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'68 (1988)
Plot Summary:
'68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing times and each other. The year covered was one of particular cultural change in the US and this interplays with the cultural changes occurring around Zoltan, his wife and his two college-age sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, soap opera
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The Aspern Papers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, historical romance, period drama
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Joy of Learning (1969)
Plot Summary:
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: avant garde, eros, tense, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, talky
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' (2013)
Plot Summary:
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Spectator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion Flavia, and becomes enmeshed in both of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic, contemplative
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Just Great (1972)
Plot Summary:
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, surreal, sincere, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Plot Summary:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, political, philosophical, surreal, grindhouse, contemplative
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A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy
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The Lonely Lady (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Night (1961)
Plot Summary:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: cerebral, art house, erotic, black and white, neorealism, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, sexual
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Medium Cool (1969)
Plot Summary:
John Cassellis is the toughtest TV-news-reporter around. He becomes an expert in reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions. But he discovers that his network helps the FBI by letting them look at his tapes to find suspects. When he protests he is fired and goes to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, political, cult classic, disturbing, cynical, neo noir, aesthetic, tense, thought provoking, clever
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Martino's Summer (2010)
Plot Summary:
L’estate di Martino is a modern day fairy tale that softens the shades and darkness surrounding the mysteries tied to tragic events that happened in the summer of 1980: the Ustica tragedy on June 27th, and the bomb attack at the station of Bologna on August 2nd. These episodes form the backdrop for a love story between Martino and the beautiful Silvia and speak of a friendly relationship with Captain Clark - a soldier stationed in an American base in the Mediterranean. The relationship helps them face the ghosts of their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, light, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative, fairy tale
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying
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Between Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense, touching, independent film
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Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, enigmatic, stylized, intellectual, serious, witty, contemplative