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Plot Summary:
Follows a pioneering ceramic artist who roared to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, bizarre
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From Your WIndow to Mine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, visually appealing
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The Violators (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Shelly meets Rachel, two dysfunctional girls from radically opposed backgrounds set off on a collision course that will leave one of them shattered, the other re-born. Set in the forsaken wastelands of Cheshire's little-seen urban overspill, The Violators charts a teenage girl's path from battle-hardened cynicism to the hope of a better life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Chambermaid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, inspirational, art film, erotic
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The Children Act (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, rough, captivating, suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, entertaining, interesting
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The Shift (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Shift is the story of one 12 hour night shift in the ER and the life and death decisions that have to be made. With the issue of euthanasia in the headlines this is a timely and compelling story.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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I Don't Fire Myself (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren’t comfortable around her and she’s completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie’s help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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Trees of Peace (2021)
Plot Summary:
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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After Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, independent film, queer cinema
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Life and Death in the Warehouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Mothers of Chico Xavier (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, mystical
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Moonlighting (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, tense, bleak, realistic, dark comedy, allegory, independent film, sincere, thought provoking, serious
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Blood from a Stone (2011)
Plot Summary:
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, serious, cynical, captivating, bleak, suspenseful
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Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Plot Summary:
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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It's a Free World... (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie is able to build a successful business extremely quickly.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, epic, political, social, bleak
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Queen Marie of Romania (2019)
Plot Summary:
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, epic
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The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, art film, existential, road movie
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Plot Summary:
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, disturbing, realistic, biting, independent film, social, detective, sincere, thought provoking, serious
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Under the Pines (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Radium Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, social, disturbing, inspirational, costume drama
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Pinochet's Last Stand (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, sincere, bleak, serious, dark comedy
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Sub terra (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, in Lota, Chile, in the face of long days, low pay, debts to the company store, unsafe and deadly working conditions, and widespread child labor, men try to establish a miners' association at one of the largest coal mines in the world. They must face Davis, an iron-fisted and murderous supervisor; there's at least one turncoat, willing to inform on their fellow workers; and, there are passions on all sides, including one between Fernando, a leader of the miners, and Virginia, the godchild of the mine's owners. Can the miners win a victory, and at what cost? Baldomero Lillo, a grocery clerk, records it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, epic, contemplative
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Black and White (2002)
Plot Summary:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic
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April, May and June (2019)
Plot Summary:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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North to Home (2022)
Plot Summary:
Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique challenges that threaten to derail this special occasion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, poignant, multicultural, touching, captivating
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Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, serious, psychological, crying, sincere, touching
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Norma Rae (1979)
Plot Summary:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, political, touching, philosophical, feel good, sad, aesthetic, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking
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Harlan County War (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, disturbing, rough, realistic, independent film, captivating, political, sincere, bleak, serious