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Plot Summary:
The movie is set during the last days of foreign intervention agains Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, slang, slapstick comedy
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Tenor (2022)
Plot Summary:
While working part-time as a food deliveryman, Antoine, an aspiring young rapper from the suburbs of Paris, meets Mrs. Loiseau, an eminent teacher at the Paris Opéra. Stunned by the young man's raw talent, she introduces him to the world of opera. As Antoine becomes one of Mrs. Loiseau's students, he hides his new dream from his friends and family, fearing that they won’t understand – this double life burdens him... Somewhere in between the gilded and uptight Parisian upper-class, and the harsh yet free-spirited and familiar suburbs he grew up in, Antoine will have to find his own voice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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It Was Beyond the Narva Gate (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Sideburns (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state of affairs is upset by the arrival of two strangers dressed like Pushkin, the famous early 19th century Russian poet, who proceed to found their own organisation, dedicated ostensibly to the memory of the great writer and the "salvation of Russia". Gradually, they begin to assume control of the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Ey Iran (1990)
Plot Summary:
Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era, and while Angel speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, The Homeland of Electricity captures its haunting grotesquery.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Trust (1976)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on the facts of history about the declaration of independence of the Republic of Finland from Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, when the Russian revolution caused the fall of the Empire. On December 6, 1917 Finland declared it's independence. The people of Finland sent an omnipotent delegation to meet with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
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Voices (1979)
Plot Summary:
Oscar-nominee Amy Irving ("Crossing Delancy," "Carrie") stars as a deaf woman who falls in love with an aspiring rock singer, even though she is unable to hear him sing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Warning: Parental Advisory (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with "obscene" lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating
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A Slave of Love (1976)
Plot Summary:
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centred life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, talky, silent, vintage, pre war, silent film
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Bigger Than Tina (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of Dan Vardy-Cobb as he aspires to become a pop star.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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Aria (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, mind bending, comedy drama, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, captivating, experimental, stylized
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
Plot Summary:
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hear My Song (1991)
Plot Summary:
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale, sentimental, funny
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Daltry Calhoun (2005)
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In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, crying
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Bamboozled (2000)
Plot Summary:
TV producer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it incredibly becomes a smash hit. Michael Rapaport co-stars in this searing satire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, black comedy, humorous, witty, semi serious, contemplative, independent film, parody, hood, deep
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Bolivar Is Me (2002)
Plot Summary:
Santiago Miranda¸ an actor representing Bolivar in a television series¸ leaves furious recording because it disagrees with the scripts they oblige die Bolívar¸ against the wall. Between the lucidity and the madness¸ Miranda really acts as a Bolívar prepared to perform any act that allows to conclude the unifying of the Liberator task and as an actor which seeks to rewrite reality to make it look to the dreams of Simón Bolívar.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic, metafiction, soap opera, biting, parody, suspense
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Mother (1990)
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The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Plot Summary:
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: lyrical, humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, clever, talky, offbeat, realistic, road movie
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La chinoise (1967)
Plot Summary:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Lenin: The Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political, vintage
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Heart of a Dog (1988)
Plot Summary:
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?".
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: philosophical, satirical, intellectual, thought provoking, humorous, unusual plot structure, clever, witty, offbeat, cynical
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, realistic
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The Death of Stalin (2017)
Plot Summary:
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria – the sadistic secret police chief. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains – just who is running the government?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, satirical, political, period piece, parody, surreal, art house, psychological, sexy
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Kolya (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, uplifting, feel good, spiritual, poignant, art house
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Communists (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: experimental, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious, realistic, political
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Mandi (1983)
Plot Summary:
This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want for its prime locality. They rally up against the brothel and its inhabitants in the name of morality, and soon everyone in the area jumps on the bandwagon. The politicians offer to put up an alternative residence for the prostitutes, only this place is miles away, isolated from the city. The madam of the house has no choice but to comply, but by the end things take a (logical) turn for the better. After all, men will be men.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: satirical, art film, parallel cinema, black comedy
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Kinky Boots (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear. Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in Charles' dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, inspirational, motivational, feel good, sweet, satirical, cult classic, offbeat, realistic
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My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Plot Summary:
Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) are working class brothers who live in Italy in the 1960s. While his brother becomes drawn into left-wing politics, Accio, the hotheaded younger brother, is taken under the wing of a market trader and while under his influence, joins the Fascist party. Accio ("Bully") is a nickname he is proud of because it makes him seem tough. Manrico and their sister Violetta are alarmed to hear their brother listening to Benito Mussolini's speeches in his room. Manrico often physically torments his brother, including stuffing his head in the barrel under the drain pipe of their house.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, captivating, social, family saga, saga, semi serious, controversial, crying
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Made in Dagenham (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, factual, emotional, realistic, contemplative, uplifting, semi serious, political, period piece
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Weekend (1967)
Plot Summary:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental, art house, avant garde, political, absurd, controversial