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Plot Summary:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Handcuffs (1970)
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Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Last Day (2012)
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One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse. As village folk react differently to the situation, a tragedy strikes when one of the residents is raped and her brother brutally murdered as he tries to avenge her. Steep in superstition, the villagers attribute these to the Devil himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
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Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
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The Girl from Hunan (1987)
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The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man... Though set in turn-of-the-century China, The Girl from Hunan deliberately parallel the state of affairs in the China of the late 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
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The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Where The Miracle Happens (2008)
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Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an impoverished rural school in Chiang Rai, keeping her identity a secret. In the end, Pimdao, played by Princess Ubol Ratana herself, realizes that real happiness doesn't come from external events but lies in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: underground film, cult film
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Little Moth (2007)
Plot Summary:
A couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min
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The Father (1971)
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"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
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The Chosen Ones (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
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Subwave (1995)
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College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Brothers in Arms (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Evergreen Tree (1961)
Plot Summary:
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, the pair immediately gets to work, Dong-hyeok builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the inititive and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
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The Migrants (1974)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Havlandet (1985)
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This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
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And So It Is (1966)
Plot Summary:
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 75 min
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Sold (2014)
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, disturbing, social
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Mudhoney (1965)
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In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surreal, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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The Last Monk (2006)
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The Last Monk is the journey of a young newly-married woman from the world of the newly-rich, 30-something IT engineers and corporate managers in New Delhi, to the vast, stark beauty of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. It is a journey from the superficial materialism of the new young Indian middle class to the universal mysticism of Buddhism. The otherworldly landscape becomes inseparable from the cosmic power of the physical and mystical universe as she discovers her own spirituality and a sexuality beyond the physical, led and mentored by a young khempo, or lay Buddhist monk vital, verbose, funny, and a fountain of cosmic truths. The Last Monk is part of a growing movement in Indian cinema, approaching the societal and spiritual issues raised by todays rapidly-changing India.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
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Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story (2014)
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Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking accusations about being raped by policemen. Some believed her, many didn't. CONSENT tells the story of the senior policeman who went to great lengths to help her fight her case, the journalist who exposed the truth, and the family at the center of the storm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
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Climbers High (2008)
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On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
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Between Friends (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Execution (1985)
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The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Shy People (1987)
Plot Summary:
A New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. The journalist's wild, drug-addicted daughter adds tensions between the two relatives' cultures.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: retro, southern gothic, grindhouse, independent film, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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Native Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, disturbing
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Katie Tippel (1975)
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In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Desideria (1980)
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An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and men for the first time, she turns into a world-class tease, manipulating a smitten boy her age, her mother's middle-age jerk of boyfriend, an older would-be revolutionary, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
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Last Summer (1969)
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During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky, independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic
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Mentor (2006)
Plot Summary:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Imaginary Crimes (1994)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sad, sentimental, sincere, realistic, depressing, contemplative, semi serious, sexy
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Plot Summary:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance. The film won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special" and was nominated for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special", "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special", and "Outstanding Made for Television Movie". It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, realistic, touching, suspense, thought provoking, serious, heartbreaking, depressing, gothic