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Plot Summary:
Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open around Isabelle's life style. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother, Paula, is unhappy - with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, even though he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
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1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, suspenseful
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Out (2017)
Plot Summary:
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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Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)
Plot Summary:
A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, funny, light, sexy, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet
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Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)
Plot Summary:
West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, art house
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Midnight Dancer (1988)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Little Sister (2020)
Plot Summary:
Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant consequences for her relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Stop Me Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Plot Summary:
An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sincere, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, realistic, art house, existential, poetic, semi autobiographical
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Children of Iron (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, so they hatch a plan to make their parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Marion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Daughter of Mine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating
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Everyone Dies Alone (1976)
Plot Summary:
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Crash Point: Berlin (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, captivating, disaster movie
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Angel Express (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chicas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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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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Split Second (1999)
Plot Summary:
A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Pororoca (2017)
Plot Summary:
Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria disappears. Their lives abruptly change forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
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No Mercy No Future (1981)
Plot Summary:
Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting her life as the subject for a movie. We see her raped than take up with a series of men she believes are Jesus, each willing or insistent on sex. A young man with his own crisis of faith invites her to join a cult. We see her involuntarily committed to an asylum from time to time where medication and constraints await. Her wealthy parents are helpless. Will a medical professional ever talk to her? If one did, would it help?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, disturbing, controversial
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Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise that their lives are about to be shattered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak, suspense
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Plot Summary:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice’s grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, black and white, surreal, stylized, art house, cult classic, psychological, poetic, inspirational, spiritual
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The Inheritance (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, meditative, sincere, serious, stylized, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, biting, crying
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a relationship that is interrupted when Hermann returns alive. During a scuffle between the men, Maria accidentally kills Bill. Hermann takes the blame and goes to jail, while Maria begins a hard new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, touching, serious, realistic, surreal, art house, thought provoking, retro, neo noir
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Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, serious, rough, realistic, poetic, slow cinema, contemplative, sad, art house
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Looking for Her (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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Father of My Children (2009)
Plot Summary:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, is precisely his reason for living. Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoires very presence commands admiration, and his exceptional charisma lead many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is in doubt; too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering, and Gregoires realisation that he may have made one gamble too many will trigger a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere, art house, serious, realistic, crying, entertaining
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A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy
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The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, clever, serious, contemplative, exciting, captivating, offbeat, biting, suspense, weird
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The Last Butterfly (1991)
Plot Summary:
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying
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Seaside (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, gloomy