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Plot Summary:
George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke's estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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Viper in the Fist (2004)
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1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 100 min
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Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)
Plot Summary:
A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
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Hard Knocks (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Life at the Top (1965)
Plot Summary:
'Life at the Top' is a sequel to 'Room at the Top', made in 1959. Ten years have passed and Joe Lampton now takes a wealthy lifestyle alongside his wife and two kids. But since he's married the boss' daughter, his rise in the company is seen with notoriety. Also, the marriage is shaken by adultery affairs. Doubting his abilities and disgruntled by the bad outlook, Joe will try to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Thank You All Very Much (1969)
Plot Summary:
Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. Through a friend, she is introduced to rising TV newsreader/announcer George Matthews (Ian McKellen) and after a further chance meeting and a tumble on the sofa, she finds herself pregnant from her first sexual encounter. A failed attempt at self-abortion just re-inforces Rosamund's resolve to have the child - leaving her on a solitary and at times dismal path through pregnancy and into motherhood, aided only by close friend Lydia (Eleanor Bron). Will she get through it? Will her child? And will she let Matthews know that he is actually the father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
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Tusk (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house
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Cloud Waltzing (1987)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Meredith travels to Europe to do a story on vineyard owner Francois De Paul and won't stop until she learns his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995)
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Two very different people become friends and partners in this nautical drama. Nikos (Stephen Rea) is a radio man working on a Greek freighter when he finds himself stranded in Hong Kong after the firm that owned his ship suddenly goes out of business. Nikos is already depressed over his recent breakup with his girlfriend, and this latest turn of events hardly makes him feel any better; he develops a dependence on opium as he works a variety of odd jobs trying to keep himself together while waiting for his ship to return to the sea. Li (Ling Chu) is a ten-year-old Chinese girl, cut off from her mother and father, who has a sampan and asks Nikos to help her get the boat ready for the water. Nikos doesn't much care for Li at first, but her youthful optimism and determination to succeed make an impression on him, and in time he leads her on a voyage to find the family she left behind years before.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Fifth Monkey (1990)
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When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Flamingo Rising (2001)
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When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and more outrageous, he continues to enrage Knight until one of the promotions backfires with grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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K (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min
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The Family (1974)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 211 min
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Venus Peter (1989)
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Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, semi autobiographical, cult film
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Hubertus Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Poor Cow (1967)
Plot Summary:
The first of several social realism films by Ken Loach, this had less impact than those made as TV plays. Poor Cow follows the tangled life of Joy, who turns to Dave after her lover is jailed for theft. When Dave in turn is jailed, she is left with a son to keep. When he goes missing, she sees what's important.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Conflict (1973)
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In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they must confront what is truly essential in their worship and what is not.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min
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The Divine Nymph (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Kontrakt (1980)
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Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
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Five No Budget Films (2010)
Plot Summary:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the five short films in the DVD are provided below. 1) The Sandbook --- A short fiction by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya. The film is an adoption of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. The story moves with the landing of an amazing book in the hand of a scholer, who tries to understand "the internal ties in events occuring" in and around the book in order to go through it. The film is a melodramatic interpretation of the story within a very limited budget.2) Jean-Luc Godard Had No Script -- A no-budget fiction by Anamitra Roy. The film approaches the larger history of politically conscious films in a mimetic way. The title of the film is a bit exploitative as it is neither a spoof and has been made with a very tight script.3) ...Or A Horror film -- A.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: experimental, anthology, independent film
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The Bengali Night (1988)
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Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: multicultural, baroque
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Traps (1994)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Plot Summary:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
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Negatives (1968)
Plot Summary:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Dead Run (2005)
Plot Summary:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
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Climbers High (2008)
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On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
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Looks and Smiles (1981)
Plot Summary:
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, black and white, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, biting, suspense
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80,000 Suspects (1963)
Plot Summary:
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Fox (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two women who live a quiet life on a farm in rural Canada are surprised by the visit of the former tenant’s grandson.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, queer cinema