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Plot Summary:
Juan has become the laughingstock of the small fishing village, due to his wife being unfaithful and getting pregnant by another man. He has left fishing and now obsessively cares for an ostentatious mansion of a wealthy family from the capital. One day, the young son of the owner shows up at the house, without his father's permission and loaded with alcohol, with a foreign friend and a village girl they just met. During the course of the weekend, Juan will be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil
Duration: 85 min
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Más que el Agua (2021)
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Nicolás and Carlitos live in the neighborhood near the old town of Santo Domingo. Nicolás is dedicated to the sale of cannabis, with what has survived since he and his brother were orphaned 15 years ago. Nicolás knows that it is time to take his brother out of the neighborhood if he wants him to progress in a society that is increasingly hostile to people like them.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 85 min
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Stress Is Three (1968)
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Set in one-day, three people embark together on a car trip from Madrid to Almeria. Antonio (Cebrián) is a successful industrialist, however he is dismayed that his personal life does not reflect his glittering career. He is insecure about his faltering marriage to Teresa (Chaplin), whom he believes is having an affair with his best friend, Antonio (Galiardo).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga
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Reinbou (2017)
Plot Summary:
Angel Maceta searches for the father he never knew, who fought in the 1965 Dominican civil war.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Indivisible (2016)
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Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole family. Kept isolated from the rest of the world by their own father who just exploits them in order to make money, their life turns upside-down when one of them falls in love for the first time and they discover that they can be separated.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
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Close Enough (2016)
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After moving away and being out of touch for two years since high school graduation, three girls who were once best friends, reunite over a weekend to discover what made them drift apart and just how much they've changed since they last saw each other.
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Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Thursday (1964)
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It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Kambyo (2008)
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Great story and a really touching one. It talks about a group of 4 friends going on a road trip, in search for goals and inner-self To "Macky" he's going because he's searching for his long lost best friend from college, whom he had grown to care and loved. To others this was just a vacation or so they thought. Along the travel they realize the emotional and deep attachment to each other, that they are there for each other from best friends to lovers. The story shows some contentment when you finally found the one that you have been searching for. The feeling of doing what you always wanted, its the relief of having said the words that you have been hiding, yet been wanting to shout for a very long time. Its a story of coming clean with your feelings.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
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Ride Above (2022)
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Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
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There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia (2017)
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Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia’s unborn daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Ivin A. (1990)
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Soldiers of internal troops Ivin A. standing on duty at night, could not shoot escapes bandit and murderer Prince Mishka. The explanatory he wrote that he refused to continue to dispose of another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
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Get Lost! (2018)
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Instead of making the planned trip to India, the 27 year old Fem becomes a backpacker in her hometown; Amsterdam. Fem does not dare to tell her boyfriend the truth and she gets tangled up in a crazy lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
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Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
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Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh, and in a snit, he accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, atmospheric, sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual
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The Empty Canvas (1963)
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An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
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Smoke and Flesh (1968)
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Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Claire's Camera (2017)
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On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Claire is like a person who can see Manhee’s possible future or past selves, through the mysterious power of the beach tunnel. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things, and to transform objects. Now, Claire goes with Manhee to the café where she was fired. We look forward to seeing Claire’s power at work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, art house
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Giraffes (2013)
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Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house. Tania, trying to regain her rights over the space that her uncle left her, intends to evict them. But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania decides to retrench on the top floor of the house. The war that starts ends up moving them closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, Panama
Duration: 96 min
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Uncle Kent (2011)
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A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, disturbing, independent film, sexual, freeze frame
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In Another Country (2012)
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A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: contemplative, semi serious, clever, humorous, realistic, anthology, eros, offbeat, student film
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Trash (1970)
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The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend (Woodlawn). During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, social, surreal, disturbing, controversial, avant garde, cult classic, mind blowing, humorous
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Contrainte par corps (1988)
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A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the women's prison. Vacation turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Rat Fever (2011)
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Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, queer cinema, weird
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The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)
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College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, suspense, intellectual, disturbing, independent film
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Drama/Mex (2006)
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Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in a beachfront hotel-until a precocious and equally dishonest teenage girl disrupts his plan. They will all converge in a stark and harrowing portrayal of moral ambiguity. Written by IFC Films.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, captivating, melancholic, offbeat, realistic, sexual
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Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong (2015)
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A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, period piece
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Hawaii (1966)
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Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, inspirational, retro, epic, religious drama, historical drama, atmospheric
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Summer Clouds (2004)
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Daniel (Roberto Enríquez), Ana (Natalia Millán), and their little boy, Manuel (Kevin Almodóvar), travel from Madrid to a resort on the Costa Brava for the summer. Ana runs into Marta (Irene Montalà of L'Auberge Espagnole), a local shopgirl whom she's met on previous visits. Marta introduces Ana to her cousin, Robert (David Selvas), who runs an antique shop. Robert is immediately attracted to Ana. Marta tells him that Ana is happily married, and confesses that she has a crush on Ana's husband, Daniel. Robert, intrigued, makes a pact with Marta. Robert will help Marta seduce Daniel if she will help Robert seduce Ana. One night, the cousins cunningly arrange to separate the couple, and some serious flirtation ensues. While Marta, casually dates a local surfer, Tomás (Roger Casamajor), begins to have second thoughts, Robert grows more obsessed with the couple. He befriends Daniel and peppers him with questions about the strength of his nine-year marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, realistic, semi serious, erotic, humorous, talky, sexual
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Looking for Her (2015)
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Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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The Fox (1967)
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Two women who live a quiet life on a farm in rural Canada are surprised by the visit of the former tenant’s grandson.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, queer cinema
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The Beautiful Occasion (2017)
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A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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Porn Theater (2002)
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In a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, semi serious, sexy, captivating, erotic, terrifying, contemplative, sexual, gay cinema