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Plot Summary:
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Echo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: art house
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Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
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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Northern Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
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Red Island (2023)
Plot Summary:
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: biting
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Bonjour Amour (1977)
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Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ditto-daughter Martine Pérez. As his overbearing father Robert feared, stripling hormones run wild at the expense of academic future-building, but paternal authority is overruled by 'young love', which even yields peer-acceptance. Cool big brother Christian, a photographer, tries a more understanding approach, but even that runs into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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R.M.N. (2022)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: interesting
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The Nature of Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 110 min
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A Kid (2016)
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Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…Filled with secrets, this story about one man’s coming to term with the foreign family he never knew he had is complex with interconnected themes such as masculinity, family, paternity and filial devotion coiling in the layers underneath.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Christmas Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman (Ty Wood), a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann (Teri Polo) and Mike (Paul Essiembre) anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother (Tess Harper) is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, sweet, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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The Christmas Tree (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Color of Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, realistic
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Hunting Season (2017)
Plot Summary:
A father and son tale.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, social
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Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)
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Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to visit Gilles at the hospital and beg for his forgiveness, something that Gilles does not understand. Against the advice of his comrades in Beirut, Aram decides to go meet his victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, rough, disturbing
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Going Away (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Unforgivable (2011)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged writer is looking for a quiet retreat; a slightly younger female estate agent gives him details of a house a close to Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
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Comme des rois (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Full Time (2021)
Plot Summary:
Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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All Hands on Deck (2020)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Brother (2019)
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Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Standing Tall (2015)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, touching, serious, suspense, suspenseful, crying
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Bodybuilder (2014)
Plot Summary:
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense
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The Christmas Wife (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Christmas Wife is a made-for-cable television drama based on a story by Helen Norris. An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Consenting Adult (1985)
Plot Summary:
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die - which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sad, crying, hentai, yuri
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Ombline (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Plot Summary:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, tense, emotional, realistic
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Too Close to Our Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, no music
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Three Brothers (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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A Year in My Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, sincere, captivating, feel good, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Reinventing Marvin (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young gay man determined to reinvent his life leaves everything behind on his quest for self-realization.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: non-linear, psychological, tense, captivating, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, contemplative, art house, gay cinema, queer cinema