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Plot Summary:
It is winter in Damascus. Sana, with her eight-year-old son, is living alone while her husband works in Saudi Arabia. When Sana runs out of gas to cook or warm the house, she takes a day off to find a gas cylinder. From there begins a trip into the surroundings of Damas, where Sana finds herself brutally confronted with the effects of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: Syria, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration: 94 min
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The Last Land (2016)
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In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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The Game of Juan's Life (2009)
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The Game of Juan’s Life explores two hours in the life of Juan Reyes, a live-sex performer at an underground gay bar, who has decided to leave Manila and go back to his home province. On the day of his departure, he will take us with him as he makes life decisions, big and small. The most important one of all is leaving the impoverished place he called home for the past year, capping it with emotional goodbyes to his lover, Noel. Then, he will lead us to the underground bar for his last performance, and an event that will cause him to question his resolve.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min
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Black Dogs Barking (2009)
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Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". Their neighborhood's view of the city's gigantic business towers accelerates their ambitions. The two buddies want to open their own parking-lot business near a gigantic mall, and they just might get lucky, since they're supported by the local mafia boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 88 min
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Europolis (2010)
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Living in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 98 min
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A Season in France (2017)
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An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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The Wait (2015)
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In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna’s son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Guiseppe is not yet there.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
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Women in the Mirror (2002)
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Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min
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Saint Omer (2022)
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A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: crying
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Clara Sola (2021)
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In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spiritual, existential
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A Paris Education (2018)
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Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: black and white, queer cinema, student film
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The Braid (2023)
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Three women Smita, Giulia and Sarah from different parts of the world who have never met but they are bound by something intimate and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
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The Dupes (1972)
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Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Syria
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Siembra (2015)
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A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not belong to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min
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The Son of Joseph (2016)
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A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: allegory, biblical
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Doctor Glas (1968)
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Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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Deception (2021)
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An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Sophia Antipolis (2018)
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Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hot
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Adam (2019)
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Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Our Struggles (2018)
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While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown, Olivier is going to have to come to terms with his new status as a single father raising his children alone. Because Laura’s not coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
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On the Wandering Paths (2023)
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Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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I'm Going to Change My Name (2012)
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Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Armenia, Germany, Russia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The August Virgin (2019)
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Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Care (2018)
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Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Escape From Raqqa (2019)
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Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Corpus Christi (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, art house, thought provoking, touching, ambiguous ending, christian film, psychological, philosophical, suspense, social
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The Green Room (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The Beast of the Jungle". It would be the last film Truffaut would act in.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, psychological, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
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The Measure of a Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, political, social
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Journey Through China (2015)
Plot Summary:
Liliane, a provincial nurse in her peaceful fifties, must cope with the accidental death of her son in China. She decides to fly there in order to repatriate the body. This mourning journey will soon turn out to be a trip of discovery of her son whom she didn't see for years and a trip to make a fresh start through the insight of a new culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 305000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional, touching, independent film, compassionate, realistic, cerebral