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Plot Summary:
A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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Once In The Desert (2022)
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The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra that has been severely damaged by the terrorists only if the ancient city and the roads leading to it are defused. The EOD team clears the way one kilometer at a time. But the closer they get to the center of Palmyra, the more destructive the explosives. Tension grows between the young team Captain and the most experienced of the EOD experts. And yet, despite their differences, when the team falls into an ambush and the Captain goes missing, it’s the experienced sapper that sets out to search for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min
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Mamoun & Associates (2016)
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In a social and cynical context, the series revolves around Maemon, a very stingy man who has a wife and four kids whom he deprives of everything. After they all leave him, they discover that he's a billionaire. They then start a journey of finding his hidden wealth and how to get hold of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Zebras in Wyoming (2017)
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A prisoner soon has his guard questioning his own world-view.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Killer from the Womb (2013)
Plot Summary:
A cartel member gets revenge on his enemies.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
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Plot tags: mexploitation
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The Second Wife (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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A Step Into Darkness (2009)
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The film tells the tragic story of an Iraqi-Turkish girl, Cennet, who loses her entire family during a US-led operation against insurgents in her village in US-occupied Iraq. She makes a distressing journey through the border between Turkey and Iraq to find her brother who had been sent to Turkey for treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
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Fools (1970)
Plot Summary:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Plot Summary:
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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10 Sekunden (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Extremely Easy Job (2022)
Plot Summary:
Remake from Korean movie "Extreme Job".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 113 min
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Spring (1968)
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Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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Wife of an Important Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of an Egyptian police officer, during the regime of President Anwar El Sadat.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
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White Trash (1983)
Plot Summary:
The precise portrait of people in the Berlin neighborhood, their longings, despairs and paltry consolations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 62 min
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Gundagardi (1997)
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The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by Kalicharan and decides to print their photos in the newspaper.But before he can do that he is killed along with his wife. Dipa is an eye-witness to this murder. But he soon plans and makes Dipa the key suspect in an attempt-to-murder case of the home minister. Karan Singh in the meanwhile trains Dipa to fight back the goons. She manages to get the files containing the proof of innocence. Kalicharan is arrested and taken to court. Narshima makes a number of attempts to free his brother. A severe struggle ensues and Narshima and Kalicharan get death sentences.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min
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Orange Roughies (2006)
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The show centres around four main characters who are members of an elite New Zealand taskforce based in Auckland NZ, intended to be a combination of police and customs officers. Despite being an elite force, they are, as their commander Ron Maddock reminds them, under-funded, under-resourced and under the hammer. Because of this, the Roughies (as they are called) have to make sure that they perform exceptionally well to avoid being canned, as they are, after all, an experiment. Their members are: Detective Sergeant Danny Wilder, Senior Customs Officer Jane Durant, Detective Constable Zach Wiki and Noel Bullerton.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
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Long Live the Bride (2015)
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In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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The Moneytree (1992)
Plot Summary:
The trials and tribulations of a marijuana grower in Marin County, California.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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Feuten: Het Feestje (2013)
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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
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Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Child's Cry for Help (1994)
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A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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Liten Ida (1981)
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Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 78 min
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Macu, la mujer del policía (1987)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min
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Life and Death (1980)
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When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
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The Removalists (1975)
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An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking accusations about being raped by policemen. Some believed her, many didn't. CONSENT tells the story of the senior policeman who went to great lengths to help her fight her case, the journalist who exposed the truth, and the family at the center of the storm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
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Roma (2018)
Plot Summary:
A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: black and white, touching, art film, inspirational, political, sad, art house, thought provoking, intellectual, social
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The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
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Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min
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Richness of Internal Space (2012)
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Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, tense, realistic