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Plot Summary:
A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching, suspenseful
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Dublin Oldschool (2018)
Plot Summary:
Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Herself (2020)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: depressing, anamorphic, interesting
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Dog Days (2016)
Plot Summary:
Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Care (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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I'm Not Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, rough, touching, melancholic
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The Humorist (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, humorous, captivating, suspenseful
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Easy Land (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Pig Hag (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jodie, a woman in her mid-thirties, struggles with the pressure to find a partner and have children. When she attends a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met a potential match — until he immediately ghosts on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, touching, captivating
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Glassland (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, social, bleak, ambiguous ending, no music
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Lemonade (2018)
Plot Summary:
While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of getting a green card veers unexpectedly off course, however, Mara is faced with abuses of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself – how far would you go to get what you want?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, sentimental, rough, social
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Sunday's Illness (2018)
Plot Summary:
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, beautiful
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All Together Now (2020)
Plot Summary:
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, touching, psychological, uplifting, inspirational, emotional, teen
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Time Out of Mind (2014)
Plot Summary:
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe and quiet to gather his thoughts. But the streets are relentless and soon, George finds himself teetering on the edge, alone and abandoned.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, atmospheric, independent film
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Between Us (2009)
Plot Summary:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana and Anthony Chisholm also star in this gritty independent drama jointly written and directed by Mendoza and her collaborator Gloria La Morte.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious
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Edi (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Choco (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
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Your Lover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, that their community has been requesting for so long, finally arrives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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For the Love of a Child (2006)
Plot Summary:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary centers for abused and/or neglected children in the States. Among them is bright Jacob Fletcher, whose stepfather, a lawyer, terrorized him into utter trauma and reclaims him shortly after 10 months in jail. Jacob's peers have distressing stories of their own, but competent, devoted staff helps most of them decisively on the former farm, using animal therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, tense, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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Offline (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing
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Daybreak (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Plot Summary:
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast, Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he can achieve.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The High Cost of Living (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, dark, independent film, gloomy, psychological thriller, tragic
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Matching Jack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
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White Water (2015)
Plot Summary:
White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: drink from it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Last Sin Eater (2007)
Plot Summary:
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: emotional, christian film, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, mysterious, realistic, independent film, period drama
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Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the details of a mission to save his neighbors from their troubles.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Belonging (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Plot Summary:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their universe, and looks like the ideal way to escape their daily lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, suspense, psychological, rough, sincere, gloomy