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Plot Summary:
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, captivating, realistic, saga, fairy tale
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Tears for Sale (2008)
Plot Summary:
Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, enigmatic, humorous, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fast forgery without mistakes. Shoplifting under pressure. Effective body disposal. The ability to multitask various felonies. These are just a few of the "talents" that mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes possess. Based on shocking true events, this flick takes you into the dark, sordid world of this deadly duo, from their bizarre relationship to their heinous crimes. It's no surprise that two-time Emmy winner Judy Davis earned a nomination for this performance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
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Going South (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, tense, queer cinema
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Steve + Sky (2004)
Plot Summary:
Steve + Sky is a story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sincere, touching, melancholic, suspenseful, romantic comedy, stylized
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The Happy Housewife (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychological, realistic
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The Tempest (2010)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, mindfuck, novela, offbeat, independent film, weird
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The Profession of Arms (2001)
Plot Summary:
In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de'Medici, try to chase them in the midst of a harsh winter. Nevertheless, the Imperial armies manage to cross the rivers along their march and get cannons thanks to the maneuvers of its Lords. In a skirmish, Giovanni de'Medici is wounded in the leg by a falconet shot. The attempts to cure him fail and he dies. The Imperial armies assault Rome. The film is beautifully but unassumingly set, and shows the hard conditions in which war is waged and its lack of glory. It ends straightforwardly with the declaration made after the death of Giovanni de'Medici by the commanders of the armies in Europe of not using again fire weapons because of their cruelty.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, epic
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12 Paces without a Head (2009)
Plot Summary:
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by the friesian princess Okka. In the very moment that the crew have mutinied and co-captain Michels is literally at the end of his tether, they discover on board their ramshackle old tub a most unique wonder weapon. Glory days are quickly revived - until the mighty Hanse consolidate their power and weaponry and go to war against the pirates. Störtebeker and Michels are forced to decide: To live as a farmer or to die as a pirate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, semi serious, serious, realistic
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The Royal Siren (2010)
Plot Summary:
Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the compromise fills with pride the girl's father, anxious to ennoble, Marie is not just convinced about her fiancé, who she has only seen twice. Her suspicions are confirmed tragically on the eve of the wedding when, after signing the marriage contract, a stranger breaks into the house ensuring that Marie has slept with other men in exchange for gifts, like a vile harlot. From that moment, the life of the girl will give a terrible unexpected turnaround. Alone, with his reputation ruined, she will have no choice to survive than partnering with a prostitute and lying on the roads.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, suspense, captivating, disturbing, sexy, period piece, realistic, period drama
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, action adventure, period drama
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Man on Horseback (1969)
Plot Summary:
It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice. (TCM.com).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Three Suns (2004)
Plot Summary:
The plague hits medieval Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating
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The Restless (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his beloved fiancée is killed by demons, Yi Gwak (Woo-sung Jung) joins the royal demon-hunting squad and distinguishes himself as a great hero. And though Yi eventually falls in battle, his adventures are just beginning. His spirit is whisked away to Joong-cheon, a place between heaven and earth where souls await reincarnation -- and where the final, epic clash between the forces of good and evil will be played out.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, stylized, epic, bleak, serious
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Lost and Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Westender (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in a fictional medieval world, this is the story of Asbrey of Westender. Once a great heroic knight, he has mysteriously fallen from grace. One night he drunkenly bets and loses his ring, his last possession of worth. He then embarks on a mission to regain his ring and, in due course, confront the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, exciting, captivating
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A Thousand Kisses (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, contemplative
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Soldier of God (2005)
Plot Summary:
“Soldier of God” A film by W. D. Hogan From The New York Times Director W. D. Hogan‘s sweeping period epic “Soldier of God” unfurls in the Middle East of the late Twelfth Century. As the story opens, the Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions bloodthirstily vie with one another for power and control.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, epic, realistic
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El Dorado (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Tom Thumb (2001)
Plot Summary:
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
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In the Heart (2014)
Plot Summary:
Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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1572: The Battle of Harlem (2014)
Plot Summary:
While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama
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Born in 68 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up house in an abandoned farm in the Lot region. A desire for freedom and the search for individual fulfillment lead them to make choices that cause more harm than good.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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You're My Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, melancholic
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Only Decent People (2012)
Plot Summary:
David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old South, where he is often mistaken as Moroccan because of his dark hair. David is a remarkable man on a mission: to find a ghetto fabulous queen with great tits and thick buttocks. His parents and friends declare him mad, but David continues unabated. His search leads him to the Bijlmer, where, after some wild adventures he is left disappointed. Will David ever find his ideal woman - a large, dark sex goddess with booty and brains?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, light, captivating, controversial, sex comedy
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Don Quixote (2000)
Plot Summary:
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, captivating, tragicomedy, fairy tale, period piece, costume drama, serious, baroque, masterpiece
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Lovespell (1981)
Plot Summary:
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: arthurian, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, fairy tale, independent film
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Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
Plot Summary:
Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: arthurian, spiritual, fairy tale, surreal, anthology, serious, realistic, gloomy, gothic, disturbing
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Kingdom of War: Part 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead. While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan. Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out of the Burmese capital and declare that Siam will no longer bow to Burma. The war for the kingdom's independence begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, epic, serious, realistic, period drama
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George and the Dragon (2004)
Plot Summary:
A knight returning from the Crusades takes on a dragon and becomes a legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, light, captivating, melancholic, costume drama, family comedy, awful
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Ivanhoe (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is a remake of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He find England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England. Will justice prevail and will all fair ladies in distress be rescued?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, fairy tale, serious, period drama, eighties