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Plot Summary:
Ali Hatami's film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. Intelligence Ministry to finish the project. The new director wants to carry out research on the life of the champion, and it would seem that he will have to solve numerous problems before he can finish the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min
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Cold Side of the Pillow (2017)
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The true life events of four friends come to screen with a story of self-discovery, pain of friendship, love of loss.
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Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France, Hungary
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The Government Inspector (2005)
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The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
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The Mystery of Rampo (1994)
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Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: inspirational, expressionism, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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When We Are All Sleep (2009)
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Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: beautiful
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Sara (1993)
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Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min
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The Peddler (1987)
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The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second episode, a mentally impaired and isolated young man tries to take care of his senile mother who is almost dead. In the third episode, a cowardly and desperate peddler tries to escape from his boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Brick and the Mirror (1965)
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Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to cope with this unwanted child. Hashem insists on getting rid of the child, Taji on keeping him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min
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The River's End (2003)
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A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these dreams father persuades him to go to the Gav Khuni Swamp.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min
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Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Plot Summary:
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 135 min
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
Plot Summary:
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
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Angelus novus (1987)
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The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know. This is hardly surprising, given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of "the sociology of conscience." Pasolini, who at one point was convicted of the crime of "offending the religion of the (Italian) state" (Catholicism), later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).
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Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993)
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When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Happiest Place on Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, bleak, realistic, witty, disturbing, semi serious, biting, suspense
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The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Plot Summary:
The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Stunts (1977)
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After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, independent film, realistic, mind bending
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The Girl in the Bathtub (2018)
Plot Summary:
Julia Law, a young paralegal, is found dead in a bathtub. Her boss, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, is questioned by the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional
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Memories of a Teenager (2019)
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After the suicide of his best friend and the fire of a local dance called Cromañón, including recitals, illegal parties in an abandoned warehouse and high school, a year passes by in the life of Zabo who writes everything he feels and lives in his blog, "Memories of a teenager".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, queer cinema
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The Hidden Half (2001)
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An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, islamic, realistic, contemplative, intellectual
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The Girl (2012)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic, metafiction, period drama
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Manhunt (2008)
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Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Their pursuit of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," takes them to South America, where he has found refuge. After 12 years of investigations, undercover work and battles with authorities, they succeed in having him captured and brought to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Family (2016)
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Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, art house, independent film
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The Mirror (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a young Iranian's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to negotiate the streets of Tehran by herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, serious, experimental, neorealism
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The Duo (1997)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: political
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Death in Granada (1996)
Plot Summary:
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner,and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, serious, depressing
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The Mattei Affair (1972)
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Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, detective, historical drama, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, contemplative
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RKO 281 (1999)
Plot Summary:
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: talky, historical drama, sentimental, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, stylized, tense, light
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Submission (2017)
Plot Summary:
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, talky, tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, clever, witty, neo noir