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Plot Summary:
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
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The Girl in the Dovecote (1990)
Plot Summary:
Anita, a 15 year old teen fells in love with the new neighbor who happens to be twice her age, they romance is stopped by the parents of the girl, the man tells her to hid in a Dovecote until he comes back and they could escape together.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min
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Beauty (2012)
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Set in the north of Argentina. Yolanda, a young girl of Wichi origin, tells in her native language (Wichi Lhämtes), the story of how, as a family maid in a "criollo" home, she has her hair unjustly cut: this is her most particular trait, her beauty. This event jeopardizes her cultural ties with the "criollo" world and defines her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 83 min
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Circle of Two (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a 60-year old painter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
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Palunku (2006)
Plot Summary:
Monichan shifts to the city from his village to provide better education to his children. But will things go as planned?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: sad
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Never Again a Tomorrow (2017)
Plot Summary:
The slightly self-indulgent artist Thorvald collapses during an interview made in celebration of his 80th birthday and dies shortly after. But in spite of his death Thorvald can still follow those left behind. From a distance, and for better or worse, he sees with his own eyes the imprint he has left on his family and especially his son Vincent, who had a strained relationship with his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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Worst Case, We Get Married (2017)
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Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real kind, the one that hurts. Baz wants to help this lost little girl, but she wants much more from him, and is ready to do anything to get it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min
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Just Like at Home (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
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The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
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In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Secrets (1995)
Plot Summary:
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their daughter. Her granddaughter is the family's maid. When a visiting friend of Etta's arrives for a visit both she and the maid are attracted to him. When he seems to prefer the younger woman (the maid) the other woman is very jealous and when the maid becomes pregnant by him the older woman vows to make that child her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Adolescent (1979)
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The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor. She's despondent when he treats her as if she were a child. After Marie's father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to assist with a relative's harvest, Marie's mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When dad returns, what will the family and the doctor do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Starlight Hotel (1987)
Plot Summary:
During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Land Legs (2015)
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Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his teenaged children decided to live with him since the divorce of the parents. But when his daughter Mailys gets pregnant, Dom understands that he will have to choose between the sea and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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The Evening Dress (2009)
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Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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In the City of Sylvia (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, poignant, art house, slow cinema, aesthetic, serious
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The Weakness of the Bolshevik (2003)
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After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and instead files an injury report, Pablo snaps and begins stalking her. He soon discovers that Sonsoles has a beautiful teenage sister, Maria, with whom Pablo is immediately infatuated -- a lust that soon turns dark. Can Pablo control his obsession, or will it consume him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, disturbing, psychological, tense, touching, serious, historical drama, bleak, captivating, realistic
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Jasper's Ghost (1992)
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11-year-old Jasper may just be starting puberty, but so far he has experienced a lifetime of emotions. On the day his beloved grandfather dies, he is charged with taking care of the elder's pet cat. The local town bully, Mourids however, has his own ideas on how to take care of the frisky feline and wastes no time with showing Jasper just what he thinks of cats. Enter Far, a significantly more mature girl who Jasper is attracted to. It's love at first sight for Jasper, but will Far return the puppy love or will Jasper find out the hard way that she is actually Mourid's girlfriend?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Maramao (1987)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Half-Price (2003)
Plot Summary:
Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo, Launa, and the youngest - Leo, left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once in a while to see how they are doing or tell them she loves them. The three kids do as they please, roaming the streets, running out of restaurants without paying for food, and shoplifting from the local grocery store. They eat whatever and whenever they want, gorging themselves on sweets. They beg for change on the Metro and show up late for school in tattered, dirty clothes. All the while, they try to keep the fact that they are alone a secret from the world of adults.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags:
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Roula (1995)
Plot Summary:
Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter Tanja to keep him company. As romance blooms between Leon and Roula, his daughter approves. Unfortunately, Roula is carrying heavy emotional baggage stemming from the incest she suffered at the hands of her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual
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The Nest (1980)
Plot Summary:
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
Plot Summary:
A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sensual, suspense, grindhouse, naughty, perverse, twisted, queer horror, rough, serious, realistic
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Elisa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Love Like Poison (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating, anthology, sincere, touching, serious
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Love, Math and Sex (1997)
Plot Summary:
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Confetti Harvest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious
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Mouchette (1967)
Plot Summary:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, depressing, bleak, emotional, disturbing, contemplative, stylized, spiritual, inspirational
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White Wedding (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going over her homework, and teaching her the art of the study. Eventually, Mathilde starts placing little hints that she finds the 47 year old François attractive. He tries to resist her, but he finds himself falling for her as well. They soon blossom into a passionate love, but they must keep their affair a secret from his wife (Mikaël) and the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, sexual, sentimental, emotional, realistic, retro, neo noir, art house, deep, poetic
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Little Lips (1978)
Plot Summary:
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic, sexy, sexual, erotic, art house