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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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Breath (2004)
Plot Summary:
This story is about how an old man tried to show his grandson the preciousness and beauty of life in a no win situation such as cancer. It is about keeping a positive attitude towards life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Drowsiness (2008)
Plot Summary:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Special Education (1977)
Plot Summary:
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: educational
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I'm Looking at You, Mary (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: dread
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The Balloon Vendor (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Weather Forecast (1983)
Plot Summary:
The setting is an old age home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening many of the residents huddle in a living room, penetrated by the October cold, to listen to the news. The announcement is giving the number of expected deaths due too the coming harsh winter. In the middle of the night a truckload of coffins arrives to be stored. Dicovering the coffins the elderly assume they are marked for liquidation and they flee en masse. The next day their exodus is dicovered and the director calls the authorities. It turned out that the coffins were the overproduction from a coffin factory and were brought only for temporary storage. The panic search for the pensioners begins, including helicopters. In the meantime the group gets transported to another part of the country by a truck. They take over by a near-empty restaurant, where after mistreatment by a waiter, they tie him up and move on. A lone fisherman invites them into his house where, after initial.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tricky, clever, intellectual, existential
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Call Girl '88 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, depressing
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Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for the list of patients, sorts out the "Aryan" doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the Nazi soldiers appear.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Spiral (1978)
Plot Summary:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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The New Interns (1964)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
Plot Summary:
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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A Parting Shot (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Without Secrets (2011)
Plot Summary:
About a psychotherapist and his relationships with his patients and his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sofia (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Our Struggles (2018)
Plot Summary:
While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown, Olivier is going to have to come to terms with his new status as a single father raising his children alone. Because Laura’s not coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Sunday Pranks (1983)
Plot Summary:
Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Diane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, captivating, melancholic, existential, cult classic
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Arrhythmia (2017)
Plot Summary:
Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Finland, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: art house, depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sad, crying
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The Yellow Scarf (2000)
Plot Summary:
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Man of Marble (1977)
Plot Summary:
Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: emotional, meditative, compassionate, disturbing, talky, realistic, serious, political, sincere, thought provoking
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Sweet Rush (2009)
Plot Summary:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional, offbeat, gloomy
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Top Hearts! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Man of Iron (1981)
Plot Summary:
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Barbara (2012)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to wait patiently. Until Andre, her supervisor in the hospital, takes her off course. Are his motives of love or duty to the authorities? The day-to-day pretense, and content supervision slowly take their toll as the tension builds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological, sincere, realistic, philosophical, political, existential
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, emotional, disturbing, bleak, talky, serious, captivating, gloomy, cynical