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Plot Summary:
Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Manuel (2017)
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An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Margarita Happy Hour (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five young women, each with children, meet once a week for $2 margaritas and discuss life, love and change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wedding Doll (2015)
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Fixated on romantic fantasies, a kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability embarks on a relationship — much to the concern of her protective mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min
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Beans (2020)
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Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
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Cart (2014)
Plot Summary:
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, twisted, freeze frame
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A Child's Cry for Help (1994)
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A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
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The Intestine (2016)
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The Intestine is the story of Maya, an unhappy young womn, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother. One night she comes across Philip, a man of wealth, and the next morning wakes up alone in his large suburban home. With Philip nowhere in sight, Maya attempts to gain possession of the house.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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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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Adam (2019)
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Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Ultras (2020)
Plot Summary:
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: aesthetic
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Arresting Gena (1997)
Plot Summary:
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crows (1994)
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A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees a chubby, cherubic child hugged by both parents as the father leaves for work. When the toddler is left alone, Crow lifts her through the fence and kidnaps her. That day, Crow tries to mother the child, alternately playing with and scolding her, taking her to the beach, leaving shore in a boat, pushing her into the sea in a pique, and eventually carrying the sleeping child back home. Crow returns to her own mother and asks for affection.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: surreal
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The World of Ludovic (1993)
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Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away to spend time with his grandparents. Sophie runs away from home to join him, and they hide along the seashore and in abandoned buildings. After they are found, their parents try to keep them separate, but they both fall into deep depressions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 91 min
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Maramao (1987)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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The Dazzled (2019)
Plot Summary:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Tender Age (2000)
Plot Summary:
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story (2014)
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Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking accusations about being raped by policemen. Some believed her, many didn't. CONSENT tells the story of the senior policeman who went to great lengths to help her fight her case, the journalist who exposed the truth, and the family at the center of the storm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
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Law of Courage (1994)
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The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story (2003)
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After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
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A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing paramilitary groups and leftist guerrillas, the idea of a rescue attempt is too tempting to resist.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Panama
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, bleak, realistic, tense, touching, serious, independent film, crying
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Lilet Never Happened (2012)
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Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world with her wits. But she has to face up to reality when she runs out of innocent dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, emotional
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Misunderstood (2014)
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Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, stylized, cult classic
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Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
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Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lea (2015)
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Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for her daughter, free of violence, fear and falsehood. She decides to cooperate with justice, to benefit of the witness protection scheme and attempts to run away... Inspired by the true story of Lea Garofalo, the struggle of a woman to escape the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Piranhas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds use the city’s rooftops for assault rifle practice. They deal drugs and do not hesitate to use their weapons to take control of the neighbourhood. Their smart leader, Nicola, knows the rules: in order to get his gang into the game and quickly to the top, he challenges one of the old bosses. But whoever is in charge today may well be dead tomorrow. When his girlfriend causes Nicola to be caught between all fronts, he is forced to make a decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hood, poliziottesco, controversial
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The Florida Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, social, aesthetic, inspirational, anamorphic, visually stunning, funny, political
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Tomboy (2011)
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A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, crying, emotional, lgbt cinema, educational, sad, stylized
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Sisters (2009)
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Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining
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Along the Ridge (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic