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Plot Summary:
Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: multicultural, baroque
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Ramdhanu-The Rainbow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mitali was a worried mother. This time, once again, her 5 year old son Gogol had failed to pass the admission test in a reputed school. Mitali was determined to get her son admitted into a reputed school. Gogol loved the song of birds, the flight of the kites, the rustling of the leaves, the wide expanse of the blue sky. Laltu Dutta, her husband, owned a chemist's shop. Mitali's desperation worries Laltu & he decide to approach a tout and is willing to pay him a handsome amount for his son's admission. Mitali decides to enroll herself along with Laltu in a school that coaches parents to conduct themselves at interviews. Laltu is very reluctant at first, but finally gives in to his wife's persuasions.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
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Bedroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we shut our laptop, shut our Bedroom door, rest our head on our pillow and sink into the familiar discomfort of being our unattractive, unaccomplished, pitiful selves. This is the allegorical “Bedroom” – our most private space where we retire to, night after night. Where we let our guards down and dare to be at our ugliest worst.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
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It's Gonna Get Worse (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Sex, drugs and rock and roll", not in the West but in a Communist police state - Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia of the 1970s . Anti-hero Olin, 21, has just left a mental hospital, after having slashed his wrists to dodge military service. His prominence in the underground scene of youthful revolt makes him an increasing target for the forces of order. Eventually he is on the run, determined to cross the frontier to the "West" he dreams of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Christmas Oratorio (1996)
Plot Summary:
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: weird
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Mario and the Magician (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min
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Strikebound (1984)
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Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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Fontamara (1980)
Plot Summary:
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min
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The Geisha (1983)
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
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Lesson in Love (2022)
Plot Summary:
New female teacher became a target of a trouble making gifted student's bullying. But their confrontations soon developed a romantic undertone and they began to have a secret affair that played fast and loose with their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
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Mull (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Australian film about a teenage girl who takes responsibility for keeping her "family" together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Story of a Love Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
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A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Red Rose White Rose (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Tabu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
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A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Missing Star (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France, Singapore
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, multicultural, road movie
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Moon and Thunder (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Yasuko (Eriko Hatsune) was a child, her mother left their home. She grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's (Kengo Kora) mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One day, Satoshi appears in front of Yasuko. Since that moment, Yasuko's monotonous life begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, melancholic
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Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Plot Summary:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious, weird
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The Pianist (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Climbers High (2008)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Summer Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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Second Generation (2003)
Plot Summary:
An explosive two-part drama about love, family and identity - set around the tangled relationships of two Indian families with a deep-rooted, shared history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, thought provoking
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is the filmed version of Pál Závada's novel of the same title, which was first published in 1997 and soon became a bestseller. The story takes place during World War I and afterwards in a small town in south-eastern Hungary. It tells about the unhappy marriage between a young man, Ondris, who is a member of the Slovak minority of the town, and his wife Jadviga. She can't return his devotion towards her and starts a love affair with Franci, a lawyer. The film tells the history of this unhappy relationship between a passionate country man and his equally passionate, but much more erudite wife who wants something more from life but can't get it. There is also some historic background: the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, the independence movement of the Hungarian Slovaks, led in the story by a ridiculous priest, etc. But this only remains the backdrop for the story of an unhappy "ménage à trois".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Compulsion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani (Parminder Nagra) has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers (Ray Winstone) proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, multicultural
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Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Plot Summary:
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, explicit, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, erotic