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Plot Summary:
Teenager Ernie lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of Coober Pedy in outback South Australia. When his cache of precious opals is stolen, Ernie and his best friend are determined to find the thief.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bush Christmas (1983)
Plot Summary:
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988)
Plot Summary:
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a camp in outback Australia. They swear, brawl, gamble, and drink heavily. Central to the story is the conflict between Tarzan, the authoritarian group leader and cocky loud-mouth wisecracking Pansy. This results in a bare-knuckle punch-up for the movie's denouement.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fast paced, independent film
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Runaway (1989)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing the accidental death of a friend who was attempting to rescue him from bullies, an African-American boy blames himself and, stricken with guilt, hides out among underground street people in New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags:
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Thirst (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Strikebound (1984)
Plot Summary:
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Necessary Parties (1988)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Chris Mills goes to court to prevent his parents from ending their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Captain Johnno (1988)
Plot Summary:
"Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: children's story
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Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly's life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Greatest Store In The World (1999)
Plot Summary:
Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternitive place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine reacts quickly and the family decides to take up residence in Scottley's, the best department store in London. They must keep it a secret from doorman Brian (whom the girls call Mr. Whiskers), and a couple of bumbling thieves who want to rob the store safe of its jewels.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Silver Bells (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Child's Christmas in Wales (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and starts telling colorful, amusing stories about his childhood Christmases that are shown in flashback. Thomas keeps asking his grandfather more questions because he likes the stories and because he doesn't want to go to bed. His parents finally insist that he go to bed, and his grandfather tells him one last story about going to bed on Christmas night while listening to his family singing carols downstairs. After Thomas falls asleep at last, his grandfather opens the bedroom window and sees falling snowflakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: mysterious
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Nargess (1992)
Plot Summary:
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Plot Summary:
TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son. Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life, and now, as a local cop in the outback town of Five Rivers, he wants to change things for the men in his community. Cutting between three generations, Mad Bastards is a raw look at the journey to becoming a man and the personal transformation one must make. Developed with local Aboriginal communities and fueled by a local cast, Mad Bastards draws from the rich tradition of storytelling inherent in Indigenous life. Using music from legendary Broome musicians the Pigram Brothers, writer/director Brendan Fletcher poetically fuses the harsh realities of violence, healing, and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, road movie, crying
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The Child Wanderers (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the 1890s, 10-year-old Yohan is sent away from home to survive on his own as a child laborer. He experiences hardships and overcomes his fears by relying on bravery and hope to make the best of his circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative, cult film
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Alternate Weeks (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her father who is flat broke after leaving his bank job to give people free hugs on street corners. Her brother channels his sense of injustice into the battle to save the planet. As the school year progresses and her parents struggle to mend their lives and as the girl approaches her 13th birthday, she learns to see the world in a new way.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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XTC Just Don't Do It (2006)
Plot Summary:
Melissa is een meisje van 15 dat niets liever doet dan dansen. Haar ouders denken dat ze lessen in klassiek ballet volgt maar eenmaal op de dansschool stort ze zich vol overgave op de hiphop danslessen. Melissa is goed bevriend met Jordi en hij is dan ook heel blij voor Melissa wanneer zij wordt gevraagd om te dansen in de videoclip van de bekende rapper Brainpower.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Jessica (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
Plot tags:
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Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman (1999)
Plot Summary:
Little Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms and decices he is the right guy for his mother, an amateur rock singer in love with her band's bass player.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Blue Fin (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Storm Boy (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Christmas in Canaan (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating
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Home by Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
Julia Bedford is a homemaker who's left with next to nothing after a divorce. When Julia finds herself homeless, she begins her comeback and discovers what is really valuable in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Christmas Star (1986)
Plot Summary:
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, vintage
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Storm Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a highly successful retired businessman, Michael Kingley, starts to see things he at first can't explain, his life takes a dramatic turn. And when his grand-daughter rebels against her father, he is forced to re-evaluate his life and to act to prevent her going down a similar path to one he took years before. He tells her his story, when as a boy he lived a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on an isolated coastline and how a bond with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival, changed his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, motivational, extraordinary
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Storm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Drengen Freddie elsker hunde og hader hundemishandlere. Så da han ser en mand på gaden være rigtig modbydelig mod sin hund, tager han affære og kidnapper hunden, som han giver navnet Storm. Freddie gemmer Storm på sit værelse, for hans far vil sikkert ikke synes om få en ekstra beboer i huset. Men så begynder Storm at vise ualmindeligt stort talent på væddeløbsbanen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, serious, humorous, realistic, crying
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Christmas for a Dollar (2013)
Plot Summary:
America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now little Ruthie, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other, the Kamps come to find that money isn't what fills Christmas with joy, love, and miracles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, feel good, disturbing, christian film
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Opal Dream (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby & Dingan, Kellyanne's imaginary friends, and the impact this has on her family and the whole town. The story is told through the eyes of Kellyanne's 11 years old brother Ashmol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sad
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Bee Season (2005)
Plot Summary:
11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a revolution in her family dynamic when she wins a spelling bee. Finding an emotional outlet in the power of words and in the spiritual mysticism that he sees at work in her unparalleled gift, Eliza's father pours all of his energy into helping his daughter become spelling bee champion. A religious studies professor, he sees the opportunity as not only a distraction from his life but as an answer to his own crisis of faith. His vicarious path to God, real or imagined, leads to an obsession with Eliza's success and he begins teaching her secrets of the Kabbalah. Now preparing for the National Spelling Bee, Eliza looks on as a new secret of her family's hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, depressing, realistic, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, spiritual, anamorphic