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Plot Summary:
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people of their fears. Pepperminta's wish is for everyone to see the world in her favorite colors. Werwen, a young plump and shy man yet whose sex appeal Pepperminta finds highly attractive, and the beautiful Edna, who talks to tulips, join her on her passionate mission. These three musketeers of a different kind set out to fight for a more humane world. Wherever the gang appears, everything is turned upside down and people's lives are transformed in the most miraculous and wondrous of ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, inspirational, mind bending, offbeat, semi serious, psychedelic, experimental, futuristic
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Home (2008)
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Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road and the highway becomes open to traffic. Their lives are forever changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious, social, thought provoking, clever, offbeat, surreal, grotesque
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The Sea Wall (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo; though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, semi autobiographical, stylized, sexual, sexy
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Little Girl (2009)
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Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. However, Walter is concerned that they may be accused of kidnapping the girl, and he plans to report Asia's presence to the police. . Patty receives a letter from the mother in which she announces that she will collect the girl two days later. They have a farewell party, but the mother does not show up.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sincere, serious
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170 Hz (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new hardships.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Plot Summary:
The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: talky, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, contemplative, semi serious, light, sexy
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Vanished Empire (2008)
Plot Summary:
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, period piece
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The Big Dream (2009)
Plot Summary:
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, touching, contemplative, hot
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Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
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When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Glasgow Girls (2014)
Plot Summary:
Glasgow Girls is a specially commissioned musical drama for BBC Three that tells the inspirational true story of a group of schoolgirls whose petition to save their friend from deportation inspired a movement which would eventually help change immigration practices in Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting
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Bad Spelling (2004)
Plot Summary:
At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do not want it to seem Daniel is receiving any special treatment. Daniel is now faced with the challenge of earning the trust and respect of the other students, who all come from troubled backgrounds.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, sexual, humorous, sexy
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What Is It? (2005)
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What Is It? is the name of a 2005 experimental film written, starring, funded and directed by Crispin Glover. As of 2008, the film has only been shown at independent theaters, typically accompanied by a question and answer session, slideshow and meet-and-greet/autograph signing with Glover.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, avant garde, controversial, psychotronic, intelligent, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Living on Love Alone (2010)
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Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, sincere, realistic, cynical, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Octavia (1982)
Plot Summary:
Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Electricity (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, inspirational, mind bending, psychedelic, social, independent film, touching
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Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
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A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each station in Shirley’s professional and private life from the 1930s to 1960s is precisely dated: It is always August 28/29 of the year in question, as the locations vary from Paris to New York to Cape Cod.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, experimental, postmodern, offbeat, stylized, weird, beautiful
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, art house, bleak, stylized, gloomy
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Iron Island (2005)
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Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, offbeat, gloomy
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The Hedgehog (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, contemplative, sentimental, realistic, inspirational, captivating, aesthetic, surprise ending, thought provoking, breathtaking
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Faith (2010)
Plot Summary:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted traditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, thinking, realistic
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, experimental, psychological, psychedelic, surreal, captivating, slow cinema, philosophical
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Firelight (2012)
Plot Summary:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric
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Profoundly Normal (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a court order, Donna and Ricardo venture into the real world on their own. Their friendship and dependency on each other blossoms into love. They marry and have a child together, who does not suffer from mental retardation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, realistic
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Another Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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I'm Gonna Explode (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy's gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the road bound for nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, road movie
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
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Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating, realistic
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Red Like the Sky (2006)
Plot Summary:
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, educational, fairy tale, factual
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Blessed (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic