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Plot Summary:
To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided the up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients their viewing rights are retracted. Kriss is deeply frustrated by this, until he realises that Linda, the young girl in the film, actually exists in the shape of the film's star, the actress Ulla Vilstrup. Setting fire to the hospital, Kriss and Willy escape into the night, determined to find her, because life is what you make of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
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Plot Summary:
Ellie and Joe Farrelly are a busy couple bringing up a teenage son while running a large building company. When they suddenly have twins, a stranger comes into their life at just the time when they need help the most.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense
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His Mother's House (2016)
Plot Summary:
Anam Wagner, a bisexual Belgium-based writer, comes back to his hometown where he has a hard time coping with his family's checkered past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intercultural, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, inter cultural
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 815
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A German couple, Niels and Maria, and their teenage son Markus move to the Norwegian coastal town of Hammerfest, hoping for a new beginning in the land of endless twilight. Instead they find themselves drifting further apart. Niels submerges himself in his work as an engineer and an affair with a co-worker, Maria works overtime and Markus struggles at school. One night, after a double shift, Maria’s car collides with something – or someone – on the road. But from tragedy comes mercy: the accident catalysing all three family members towards reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway, France
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Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, touching, suspenseful, exciting, melancholic, sexy, contemplative
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Moon and Thunder (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot Summary:
At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold of the adult world. The film is all about boyish pranks, hopes, disappointments, and of course about pretty girls, hopeless infatuations, drunkenness and parties. The world is changing, and so is the friendship between the boys. But the conclusion is, true friendship endures all - and no band in the world is better than The Beatles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 764
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Country: Norway
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
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Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 49
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 512
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 145
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 518
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
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IMDB Votes: 697
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 298
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 602
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 853
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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A Matter of Courage (2015)
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IMDB Votes: 85
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 104
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IMDB Votes: 77
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 287
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 198
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