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Plot Summary:
Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a well-known television newscaster, suggests that they invite their friends to come and live with them. In this way she hopes to evade the boredom that has begun to seep into their marriage. Before long, a dozen women, men and children move into the country house, make collective decisions, engage in discussions and go swimming together in the nearby Øresund strait. They also rub each other up the wrong way on account of their smaller and larger idiosyncrasies. Their fragile equilibrium threatens to come undone when Erik falls in love with his student Emma and the young woman moves into the house. Fourteen-year-old Freja, daughter of Erik and Anna, aloofly observes these goings-on and seeks her own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, social, crying
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Star Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending
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You Disappear (2017)
Plot Summary:
Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult classic, existential, psychological thriller, suspense, brutal
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Buried Cain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Buried Cain is a steamy southern gothic drama about two brothers, Christian and Cain, who have only two things in common - their love for their small town southern home and their love for the same woman - the girl they call 'Georgia'. Their country love gets more complicated as childhood friend Faith and newcomer Grace, all the way from Hollywood, are also thrown into the love triangle. They each must ask themselves-how far you would go and what you would do for love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, touching, suspense
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Forbidden to Forbid (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, social, psychological, rough, bleak
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Someone You Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged daughter Julie suddenly turns up with his 11-year-old grandson, Noa. Soon, Thomas is forced to take care of the boy. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. But disaster strikes, forcing Thomas to realize he has to make a choice that will change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic
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Lemonade (2018)
Plot Summary:
While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of getting a green card veers unexpectedly off course, however, Mara is faced with abuses of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself – how far would you go to get what you want?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, sentimental, rough, social
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Sunday's Illness (2018)
Plot Summary:
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, beautiful
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A Master Builder (2013)
Plot Summary:
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, philosophical, cerebral, touching, independent film, thought provoking
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Day and Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
DAY AND NIGHT is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his young mistress, his lonely sister, his forgetful mother, a fanatic football coach, a pregnant whore and an angel disguised as an old man. They are all looking for the answer to the same question: "If love is the answer - what is the question?".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, gloomy
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The Inheritance (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, meditative, sincere, serious, stylized, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, biting, crying
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Prague (2006)
Plot Summary:
Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Mother Earth (2010)
Plot Summary:
TIERRA MADRE is based on the true story of Aidee Gonzalez, a woman determined to raise her children with her female partner in the Mexican border town of Tecate. Aidee works hard as an exotic dancer providing for her family. One day her girlfriend shares her desire to have a child of her own, and convinces Aidee to go on the hunt for a male to conceive a child.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, touching, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, humorous, crying, hispanic
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The Browning Version (1994)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, talky, grim, anamorphic, colorful, psychological, tense, sentimental, clever, serious
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Little Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, tense, realistic
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After the Wedding (2006)
Plot Summary:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic, light, serious, contemplative, thought provoking, existential
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Another Round (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological, thought provoking, social, unusual plot structure, funny, ironic, art house, semi serious, humorous
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You (2009)
Plot Summary:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for both the father and his daughter, You is filled with the magic of life and love and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat, serious
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Daybreak (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, bleak, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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The Maiden Danced to Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
There were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, Canada, Slovenia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, family saga, independent film
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In a Better World (2010)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, emotional, bleak, harsh, gloomy, disturbing, depressing, sincere, realistic
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The Affair (2004)
Plot Summary:
A lonely housewife finds new life in a liaison with a free-spirited man in this romantic drama. Isolated in a remote home, Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) feels suffocated in her marriage to uptight architect Paul (Horatio Ledon). An affair with her husband's exact opposite -- an unrestrained bohemian named Viggo (Andy Mackenzie) -- leads to a newfound feeling of liberation, but ultimately, Jean must forge her own path to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating, minimal cast, clever, serious
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Swingers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas (Sébastien Boivin) lives a rather harmonious relationship with Valérie (Natasha M. Leroux), punctuated visits to a swinger club of the city. During a supper with two couples of friends, the audacious Valerie reveals her desire to introduce them to this sexual practice. The idea pleases Charles (Erwin Weche) and Luc (Sylvain Latendresse), but much less to their respective spouses, Veronique (Kina Beauchemin and Lisa (Diana Lewis). Nevertheless, the six friends agree to go to the club, where Veronique, who was already secretly unfaithful to Charles, takes a liking to experience. But Charles could not bear to see her in the arms of another man. On the other hand, the shy and submissive Lisa takes no pleasure in sharing, contrary to the scornful Luc, who finds there a way to satisfy his voyeur fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Playroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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Dreamchild (2020)
Plot Summary:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Hunt (2012)
Plot Summary:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 355000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad, disturbing, controversial, emotional, intense, captivating
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Of Boys and Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, independent film
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The Celebration (1998)
Plot Summary:
A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech dislodges all the masks, which finally fall completely as the father-son conflict intensifies and the bewildered guests look on.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, bleak, surreal, independent film, gloomy, psychological, dark
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The Natural Sweetness of Skin (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, contemplative, erotic
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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Plot Summary:
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, sad, retro, depressing, spiritual