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Plot Summary:
A family reunites to discuss the selling of their beloved house, but their secrets threaten to overwhelm them as they come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
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Out (2017)
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OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into a accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to persuade his dream of catching a big sea fish.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, France, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Roof Jump (1978)
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Unable to stand up for himself, a talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin is forced to leave the institute. Ordinary accountant Kosichkin is trying to protect a person he doesn't know in general. Kosichkin is demoted, his wife considers him a squabbler and a loser, and colleagues are gloating over the results of the audit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
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Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov (1978)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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A Quiet Death (1986)
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Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
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Bag Full of Hearts (1964)
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Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the contemporaries create big story which in many recalls their favourite songs.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
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Family Circle (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
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Werther (1986)
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This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
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Spring (1968)
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Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
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One Careful Owner (2020)
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Sara is offered a chance to buy the perfect apartment, roomy, very luminous and inexpensive. She only has one little problem: she can't live in it before Lola, the actual and aged owner, dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional
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The Mistress (2012)
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A young woman is torn between the affections of her two lovers. One is a young bachelor who brings passion into her life. The other is a married man who has kept her as his mistress for years. Architect JD has a chip on his shoulder about his father Rico never really accepting him as his son. Seamstress Sari struggles to take care of her family. The two meet by chance, and JD aggressively pursues Saris affections. Though the two are clearly a good match, there is a problem standing in the way of their bliss: Sari is the mistress of JDs father. Against his better judgment, JD continues to court Sari even after finding out this difficult fact. He hides his true identity as Ricos son, and fights to win Saris heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tagalog, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Sky-Earth-Sky (1975)
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Country: Soviet Union
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The Humans (2021)
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Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, existential, adaptation directed by original author
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Broken Dolls (1999)
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A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps (2018)
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Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
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The Beach House (2018)
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Cara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after losing her job in Chicago. There, she reconnects with her mother Lovie, who has been caring for her young, pregnant friend Toy in her charming beach house.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing
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Mum's List (2016)
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A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking, tear jerker, visually appealing, tearjerker
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Duet for Four (1982)
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A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Tree of Blood (2018)
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Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, deep
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Martha... Martha (2001)
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Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Umbrella (2016)
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Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British musician who is frequently touring, has lost his goal in life. Having not spoken with his father in over 20 years, troubling news offers them the chance to reconcile & move forward in both their lives. Theodore Smith attempts to bury the sadness that threatens to engulf his childhood upon hearing the news that his parents will be separating. Elethea Conall, a newly qualified nurse, continues to look after her patients whilst attempting to escape from her past. What do they all have in common?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, captivating, independent film
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Diving (2017)
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A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
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After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, erotic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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April Bride (2009)
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On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating
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The Craving Heart (2006)
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Drama - An ill-considered affair with a stranger and the unexpected death of a friend upend the life of scientist Alexander Tom (Stan Harrington). As he struggles to undo the damage, he begins to question everything he's ever believed. In his attempts to make sense of his relationships with his father (John Saxon), his wife (Red) and the enigmatic Walela (Blythe Metz), Alexander begins to realize that science doesn't have all the answers. - Stan Harrington, John Saxon, Rick Peters.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
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A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, atmospheric, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic
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The Habit of Beauty (2016)
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Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one another other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, disturbing
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Modesty (2007)
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Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Juze (2017)
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Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Woman's Lake (2012)
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What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She's the slightly melancholy guardian of the lake, spending her days in a boat, trapping fish and watching for poachers. Or her lover, the polished and prosperous Kirsten, with her perfect cottage on the shore of Frauensee. How does their relationship work, and what effect will the two young lesbians in the canoe have on it all? Thoughtful, complex and beautiful.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, queer cinema