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Plot Summary:
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in the country and there is not much else to do or places to go. The go-to employee is one Yoshiko. Kurumi wants to be successful and valued and is eager to learn from Yoshiko. All is not as it seems on the surface however.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies (2007)
Plot Summary:
The touching and dramatic tale of the relationship between a Japanese family, their dog and her three puppies, set against the backdrop of a devastating earthquake and the ensuing chaos, rescues and heroism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, sad
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No Side Game (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mr Kimijima's star at the conglomerate is on the rise until he objects to his manager's pet project. Consequently, he is transferred to a manufacturing factory out in the provinces. Moreover, he is given the reins of the company's rugby team. The team is in a slump and not doing well. He would like the team to begin winning again, but what does he know about a game of running and diving and groping?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Master of My Own (2022)
Plot Summary:
A story about one subduing the other follows the "T-Rex" boss and his "animal trainer." Ning Meng has always dreamed of moving up the corporate ladder to become a director, but her boss doesn't think that she has what it takes to succeed in the investing world.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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8 Slices (2019)
Plot Summary:
A new hire joins a small town pizza restaurant just as the business fails and its employees question the "American Dream.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Lowlife (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating
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I Don't Fire Myself (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren’t comfortable around her and she’s completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie’s help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Last Film Show (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a Summer watching movies from the projection booth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, gujarati, semi autobiographical, extraordinary, nostalgic
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Bollywood Diaries (2016)
Plot Summary:
The passionate journey of three Bollywood fanatics who wish to make it big in the industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, avant garde
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Ito (2021)
Plot Summary:
A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (2017)
Plot Summary:
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Arrangement (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Austin Found (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old daughter for a month.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Tall Order (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hinako is the executive assistant to the CEO of Relation Gate, a startup company growing at breakneck speed. Apt to listen to his gut feelings, her boss bombards her day in and day out with tall orders he concocts on a whim. Life is far from chill for Hinako, who hasn't had a boyfriend in six years. She barely even has time to sit and think carefully about her future. Each long workday ends with the same toxic thought, "I find no meaning doing this!" as she clutches a beer and lets out a huge sigh.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, art film, existential, road movie
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Closed Note (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano, a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Love, Lies and Records (2017)
Plot Summary:
Registrar Kate Dickinson tries to balance her personal life with the daily dramas of births, deaths and marriages and the impact they have upon her and her staff at the local Registry Office in Leeds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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Mio on the Shore (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dog × Police: The K-9 Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Legal V: Ex-lawyer Shoko Takanashi (2018)
Plot Summary:
Takanashi Shoko is a former lawyer. She was disbarred from the law profession due to an incident. Later, she persuades a university professor, who is accredited as a lawyer, to open a law firm. Takanashi Shoko hires a lawyer and assistants to work at the law firm. The team goes after legal victory. They go up against a large firm in a civil suit. While working on the suit, the team experiences difficult situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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This is Not a Business Expense! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Older Sister (2005)
Plot Summary:
Naoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called "anego" by her younger co-workers. What is "anego"? It means "older sister," but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to her coworkers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything. This drama, depicts realistically how Naoko lives her everyday life, including her love life, the problems she faces, and her uneasiness about the future. --NTV.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Miss Lee (2019)
Plot Summary:
The president has disappeared one day. His body hasn’t been found but he’s not returning. Cheongil Electronics is now buried in debt, and all the employees are desperate to survive. Sun Shim is a bookkeeper whom everyone belittles. She’s sick of her life and dreams to be a shareholder of Cheongil. With Mr. Oh’s disappearance, Sun Shim, who knows nothing, becomes the next president.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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The Girl's Speech (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and keeps the peace in school. One day, she gets pushed to become the president of the student council by the people around her. Tsubame's encounter with a man who is a genius speechwriter, leads to a revolution in school. She struggles to change a school full of irrationality and dissatisfaction with the power of words.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Mad Doctor (2022)
Plot Summary:
To run away from the dark past, Dr. Liu works at a countryside hospital. She assumes the job would be nice and easy there, but instead she witnesses and deals with various bizarre medical cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Umizaru (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The American Embassy (2002)
Plot Summary:
The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
Plot Summary:
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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Promises (2021)
Plot Summary:
Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by inequality, unemployment and slumlords. However, when Clémence is approached to become Minister, her ambition arises, questioning her devotion and commitment to her citizens. Will her political integrity and election promises survive her newly found ambition?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Ichikei's Crow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Michio Iruma is a former lawyer. He now works as a judge in the first criminal court (commonly known as "Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court. He is an unusual judge. To avoid issuing wrong judgements, Michio Iruma seeks out the truth in cases by performing on-site inspections by himself. Due to this, lawyers and prosecutors are afraid of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing