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Plot Summary:
Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is being accused of things he couldn't have been doing. He starts doubting himself - a self that might be fragmented or multiple.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 52 min
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Der Besuch der alten Dame (2008)
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In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 88 min
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The Penal Colony (1970)
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A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she"s fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island"s main export is news. The clearest anticipation of Ruiz"s later European work, The Penal Colony is a powerful document of the tensions and contradictions in Chile in the months before Allende"s electoral victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min
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Fado, Major and Minor (1994)
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Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 110 min
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Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Plot Summary:
A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, experimental, independent film
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Hebriana (1990)
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During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min
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Australia (1989)
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Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to remain in Australia, and is equally determined to keep his daughter (Danielle Lyttleton) from learning much about her mother, whom she never knew. Nonetheless, when his brother (Tcheky Karyo) calls urgently from Belgium, requesting his help in saving the family's business there, he returns to his hometown of Verviers. In addition to saving the family business, he comes to have second thoughts about returning to Australia after he has a brief affair with a Belgian woman (Fanny Ardant). Meanwhile, his daughter has made contact with her grandmother (Helene Surgere), and is beginning to learn about her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 140 min
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Days in the Country (2004)
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In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min
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Working Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
During a scorching summer, Axelle, Conso and Dominique cross every day the Franco-Belgian border to prostitute themselves in Belgium to continue living in Roubaix.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 91 min
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Mojo (1997)
Plot Summary:
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: period piece, independent film
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Weininger's Last Night (1990)
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This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Director Paulus Manker also plays the lead role.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min
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A View from the Bridge (1962)
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Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
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Beau fixe (1992)
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A group of 4 girls decide to revise for their exams together, in the summer vacation. They move from Paris to the countryside, where Valerie's grandmother has a vacant house. The film is all about their inter-personal relationships, and how living together effects each of them. Then Valerie's male cousin arrives one day, and we see how they deal with the young man, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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The Visit (1964)
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Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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A Place Among the Living (2003)
Plot Summary:
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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Miss Julie (2009)
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Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie that the only way out is to kill herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
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The Big Ceremonial (1969)
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Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Macbeth (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Waiting for Godot (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, minimal cast, dark comedy, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, existential, cult classic, absurd
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The Death of Empedocles (1987)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min
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With the Nose in the Stream (2012)
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A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor and Rousseau expert to try to explain how this boy could possibly know so much about a philosopher who died over a hundred years before he was even born. What unfolds is a story about friendship, nature, and the unequal distribution of wealth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating
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The Suspended Vocation (1978)
Plot Summary:
Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, allegory
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Chicas (2010)
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Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
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Henry IV Part II (1979)
Plot Summary:
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
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King Lear (1982)
Plot Summary:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: period drama
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A Performance of Macbeth (1979)
Plot Summary:
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
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Richard III (1983)
Plot Summary:
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 239 min
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The Commune (2016)
Plot Summary:
Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a well-known television newscaster, suggests that they invite their friends to come and live with them. In this way she hopes to evade the boredom that has begun to seep into their marriage. Before long, a dozen women, men and children move into the country house, make collective decisions, engage in discussions and go swimming together in the nearby Øresund strait. They also rub each other up the wrong way on account of their smaller and larger idiosyncrasies. Their fragile equilibrium threatens to come undone when Erik falls in love with his student Emma and the young woman moves into the house. Fourteen-year-old Freja, daughter of Erik and Anna, aloofly observes these goings-on and seeks her own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, social, crying
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Hedda (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had had more brains she would have thought her way out of it; if she had had more courage she would have bolted long ago with Lovborg, the only true creative force in the vicinity whose manuscript she burns in the stove as if she were aborting their unconceived child.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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A Place On Earth (2013)
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Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious