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Plot Summary:
A virtuous woman has to choose between her honour or saving her brother's life in a Sufi interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan, UK
Duration: 104 min
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Suspended (1987)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. Despite the hardships and gossip she holds much better than he. In 1956 when the political climate changes, he resurfaces and is arrested, but then acquitted by the court.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Hedda Gabler (1981)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman (Denis Lill), the ambitious Hedda Gabler (Diana Rigg) hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former flame, the successful Eilert (Philip Bond), enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind. Diana Rigg is the manipulative Hedda, who will not or cannot conform to what society considers "normal" for a woman. The arrival of her ex-lover gives her the opportunity to determine someone else's fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
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The Blood of Hussain (1980)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 112 min
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed research doctor is convinced by a colleague to join him in an inner-city clinic. Susan Hayward's final film.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Guttersnipes (1974)
Plot Summary:
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
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The Water Engine (1992)
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In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don't want the competition. Now he has to try and keep them from getting his idea, and somehow get it published.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts (2019)
Plot Summary:
A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of the Mueller Report. Robert Schenkkan is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, and the live cast includes Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben Mckenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn, with additional participation by Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mark Hamill and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 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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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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Ophelia (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: modern day adaptation
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
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An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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 night of the brother (2005)
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The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
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Better Off Dead. (1993)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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A Number (2008)
Plot Summary:
A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, cerebral, clever, serious, talky
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Reality (2023)
Plot Summary:
On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner returns from running errands to find two FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia. An Air Force veteran and yoga instructor, Winner spends the next two hours being questioned about her work as an intelligence contractor — specifically, whether she leaked a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film, adaptation directed by original author
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Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
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Storm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspense, political thriller
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On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)
Plot Summary:
After their pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight, passenger Doug White must safely land a plane and save his entire family from insurmountable danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
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The Dance of Death (1969)
Plot Summary:
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizoid who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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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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Henry IV Part I (1979)
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Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 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
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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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Walk in the Shadow (1962)
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A young girl, Ruth (Lynn Taylor), is injured in a boating accident and taken to hospital for what is regarded as a routine emergency. Her parents are informed that only a blood transfusion will save her life, but her religious fundamentalist father, John Harris (Michael Craig), ignores the doctors advice and forbids the procedure, believing that God will inexplicably heal his daughter. His embittered wife, Pat (Janet Munro), who has tolerated her husband's religious convictions throughout their marriage finally relents and signs the required papers, but sadly too late and their daughter dies. The angry Dr. Brown Brown, (Patrick McGoohan), decides to press ahead with manslaughter charges against Harris and the case quickly comes to the law courts. After a lengthy and emotional trial, Harris is eventually acquitted. Though a free man, he must come to terms with his own conflicting feelings over his faith and his daughter’s death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, controversial, vintage
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Black and White (2002)
Plot Summary:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic
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The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished when, one day, Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being not a Jewish businessman but a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt--but their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, talky