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Plot Summary:
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
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L'arbre de les cireres (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place between December 1994 and February 1995 in a small village near Valencia, Spain, where the lives of four people - a child, a thief and two doctors - intersect. At the same time, the great love of one woman's life suddenly crumbles and a young girl pays a high price for learning how to love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
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Konopielka (1982)
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Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Warszawa (2003)
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On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Kung-Fu (1979)
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A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
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How to Be Loved (1963)
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An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, but suffers most from not having any audience for his vanity, ego and supposed bravery. After the war he leaves her but finds out that he has been accused of cowardice. He finally commits suicide and she clears herself of a collaboration charge and eventually becomes a popular actress.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Time to Die (2007)
Plot Summary:
An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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30 Door Key (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mindfuck
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Workers, Peasants (2001)
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A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: light
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The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Henryk Kluba.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: folk tale
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Matthew's Days (1968)
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A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min
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Spiral (1978)
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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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A Lonely Woman (1987)
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The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Doctor Glas (1968)
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Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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K (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min
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Build a House, Plant a Tree (1980)
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Juvaj Jakubiskoʼs first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
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Sicily! (1999)
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A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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Bitter Harvest (1963)
Plot Summary:
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film, humorous, serious, realistic, british noir
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
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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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The Uprising (1966)
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After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
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Vision (2018)
Plot Summary:
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: inspirational
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Fire Festival (1985)
Plot Summary:
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
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The Welts (2004)
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Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Report (1964)
Plot Summary:
1964 Finnish drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Burning Patience (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after being exiled from Chile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: period drama
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Birch Wood (1970)
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Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother's dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the brother's death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife's memory and making up with his little daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Out of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year history of Ewelina, who along with her husband decides to play a porn film. Orgasm, of which she experiences on the set during filming, the reaction of her husband, Piotr, and experiences of other women in the industry completely reevaluate her life. They are a few months after the wedding, they have a small child and like many young couples, continuing financial troubles. Piotr does not have a permanent job and no idea how to maintain a family. In a conversation with friends he discovers that participation in a porn film is an easy and enjoyable way to quickly earn large sums. Ewelina decided that along with Piotr she will play only once in the film. They go to Warsaw to meet their bold plan, enter shyly in the porn business thresholds, young people run a series of events that permanently change their relationship and shift the moral boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, erotic, entertaining
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Little Forest (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, sad, psychological, captivating, disturbing, feel good
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The Promised Land (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense