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Plot Summary:
Four girls sink a time capsule in a lake with a list of things they want to do before graduation, but they all go separate ways before graduating. When a tragedy strikes, they reunite to find the capsule and complete the bucket list.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, disturbing, deep, sex comedy, teen comedy
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, road movie, psychological, captivating, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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Eleven Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
AJIT SINGH 12, blends in happily in to his new home in the middle of Australia. However, his brother RAJVEER 20, finds it unbearable to be constantly labelled a terrorist due to his beard and turban that he keeps faithfully according to his Sikh heritage. Rajveer then decides to join the army and leaves home after an argument with their dad SARJIT, 50. Fearing for his brother's safety, Ajit goes on a quest to go after Rajveer in order to bring him home. Ajit not only has to survive the outback, he also must to locate Rajveer within ELEVEN DAYS or it will all be too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, sincere, captivating, independent film, contemplative
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Quixote's Island (2011)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic businessman provides well for his son San, but the emotional neglect since his mother died a few years ago grimly affects the shy knave. In San's heroic daydreams, a cool father leads him into modern Quichote exploits, yet even those tend to turn sour. Slipping, like his grades, into rebellion and school incidents, San, who just went on a fugue, becomes the prime suspect after a schoolgirl turned novice drug slut has been beaten into a coma. The clueless police and irresponsible school staff will probably blame San. Her friend, a regular drug harlot, is the worried-sick father's only lead to find San and the truth, and shamelessly exploits that.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Journey from Greece (2017)
Plot Summary:
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Greece, Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, inspirational, social
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Miss Impossible (2016)
Plot Summary:
They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for their first show. Everyone seems to know what she should do and how she should act. And it’s not like 13-year-old Aurore has any fundamental problem with changing herself either. Who would want to be like this: unhappy, ugly and emotionally withdrawn? But the others don’t seem all that much happier to her either. She definitely doesn’t ever want to be as old, rundown and lonely as her mother. And so she prefers to stay the way she is, to observe and make her biting comments on whatever comes her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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A Country Called Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to a small town in Texas. While dealing with the logistical arrangements of her father’s death Ellie has to confront what happens when the structures and safety nets we build for ourselves come undone.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Last Summer (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Don't Make Me Go (2022)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie, teen
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Left Behind: Vanished - Next Generation (2016)
Plot Summary:
When millions of people begin to disappear, Gabby, his sister, and their other companies will have to stick together for survival and to figure out what happened behind of an indescribable occurrence.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, christian film, biblical
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American Dresser (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a recent widower consumed with regret seeks absolution in riding his motorcycle cross-country to confront the mistakes of his past, he unexpectedly discovers that life is about moving forward, one mile at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, sentimental, road movie, thought provoking, depressing, captivating, disturbing, retro
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Dirty God (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing
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Beautiful Wave (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, contemplative, psychological, sincere, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
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Storm Rider (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle struggle to bond, she's given an orphaned horse to foster and train. Dani pours her affection into this young horse, calling her Stormy and giving her all the attention she's missing from her unsettled life. Dani soon realizes that truly caring about others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. And when her uncle and friends need her the most, Dani and Stormy work together to save the day and learn the true meaning of the word, family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, light, thought provoking, captivating, feel good, semi serious
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Mountain Miracle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, captivating, educational
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You (2009)
Plot Summary:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for both the father and his daughter, You is filled with the magic of life and love and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat, serious
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Crossroads (2006)
Plot Summary:
The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, sexual
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The Giants (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Under the Same Moon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, sweet, sincere, sad, controversial, serious, realistic, light
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation process, leaving Ava to face consequences both at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Smile (2005)
Plot Summary:
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ever showing her face, but her friendship with Katie helps her start to see life in a new way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, intercultural, inter cultural
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Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, road movie, independent film
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Amateur Teens (2015)
Plot Summary:
A modern tragedy about a group of 14-year-old schoolchildren whose daily life is shaped by the power of social media and ever increasing sexualisation through the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, disturbing
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Uyare (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cry Macho (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
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The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky
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Mud (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 187000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, atmospheric, touching, suspenseful, realistic, southern gothic, independent film, tense, enigmatic
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The Cure (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. Dexter and Erik start the journey to find "The Cure" they had read about in the local newspaper.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, sincere, realistic, depressing, spiritual, epic, crying
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Plot Summary:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must work to overcome racial and other tensions in their classmates, and in themselves, if they hope to keep their friendship alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional
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Speak (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film, sincere, sad, depressing, teen, thought provoking, intellectual
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Then Came You (2018)
Plot Summary:
An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sincere, inspirational, romantic, sad, family comedy, cute, teen, sweet