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Plot Summary:
The Last Monk is the journey of a young newly-married woman from the world of the newly-rich, 30-something IT engineers and corporate managers in New Delhi, to the vast, stark beauty of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. It is a journey from the superficial materialism of the new young Indian middle class to the universal mysticism of Buddhism. The otherworldly landscape becomes inseparable from the cosmic power of the physical and mystical universe as she discovers her own spirituality and a sexuality beyond the physical, led and mentored by a young khempo, or lay Buddhist monk vital, verbose, funny, and a fountain of cosmic truths. The Last Monk is part of a growing movement in Indian cinema, approaching the societal and spiritual issues raised by todays rapidly-changing India.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
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Vidheyan (1994)
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Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar is killed Thommy exults in freedom.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slang, sexual, cult classic, sexy, cult film
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In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spiritual, existential
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White Trash (1983)
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The precise portrait of people in the Berlin neighborhood, their longings, despairs and paltry consolations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 62 min
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Avalude Ravukal (1978)
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Raji is forced into prostitution to support her brother's education after their parents' death. She falls in love with Babu, who faces social ridicule after their affair becomes public.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kiev. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is working. Both, however, are depending on Maria's rich patron Jora. The same night in Belgrade Vladan's son Zoran meets Jelena. But she intends to leave her homeland the next day, forever. Three cities. Three Love-Stories. One night in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Serbia
Duration: 93 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sensual
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
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The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Married for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
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Milarepa (1974)
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Leo, dopo un incidente stradale, è ricoverato in ambulatorio e racconta al professore Bennet, suo medico curante, la storia e le gesta del monaco tibetano Milarepa, con il quale si identifica. La leggenda è narrata in tre capitoli ben distinti: la magia nera, ovvero le pratiche delle fattucchiere ; la magia bianca, ovvero il raggiungimento della perfezione e della saggezza e la trasfigurazione, ovvero il distacco da ogni realtà materiale attraverso la resurrezione. Film difficile, ma di forte impatto mistico, per l'epoca.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: philosophical
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Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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La rabbia (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
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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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Sex for Sale (1974)
Plot Summary:
This lurid, ultra-stylish expose on the 1970's Hong Kong modeling circuit, is something to behold.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
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Somewhere in Indiana (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 165
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Country: Philippines
Duration: 101 min
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Between Friends (1983)
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Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
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Un Buda follows two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by the military during the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s in Argentina. Tomas is now a drifting and withdrawn young man who experiments with ascetic practices and has an instinctive compassion for others. His older brother Rafael is a university philosophy professor, detached and alone. Their struggles with each other and the world around them in Buenos Aires take a dramatic turn when they find themselves at a rural Zen center.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, dramatic, surreal, existential, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, spiritual, inspirational, existential, mystical
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Hungary, France, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: France, Switzerland, UK, Nepal
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Undulant Fever (2014)
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A female student falls for a senior, but the senior not really for her. He is willing to go to bed with her, but doesn’t feel love. The couple embark on a painful yet passionate experiment. Based on the legendary book by Kei Nakazawa.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, controversial
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EK Chotti Si Love Story (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
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Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Winston arrives from upstate for his freshman year at NYU. He has to figure out, with some help from Anne, a hometown friend, how to build a social life as a young gay man in the city. In "The Disco Years," Tom looks back on 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet after one joyful and several painful encounters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, feel good, sweet
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, tense, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Little Buddha is a movie about the life of Siddhartha starring Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, spiritual, fairy tale, retro, philosophical, existential, cult classic, independent film, sentimental, meditative
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: spiritual, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative, inspirational, independent film, thinking, esoteric
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Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
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Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment - Hyegok calls him Kibong!; and, an orphan lad Haejin, whom Hyegok has brought to the monastery to raise as a monk. The story is mostly Yong Nan's, told in flashbacks: how he came to the monastery, his brief return to the city, his vacillation between the turbulence of the world and his hope to overcome passions and escape the idea of self. We also see Hyegok as a teacher, a protector, and a father figure, and we watch Haejin make his way as a curious and nearly self-sufficient child.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, psychedelic, thinking, aesthetic, psychological, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, captivating