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Plot Summary:
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
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Dear Doctor (2009)
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Charming little story about a local town's doctor - but he is hiding a secret. He will have to come face to face with this truth, despite being great at his job... he will be forced to explain his actions and take responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
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L'arbre de les cireres (1998)
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The story takes place between December 1994 and February 1995 in a small village near Valencia, Spain, where the lives of four people - a child, a thief and two doctors - intersect. At the same time, the great love of one woman's life suddenly crumbles and a young girl pays a high price for learning how to love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
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Hope Eternal (2008)
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After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Murmuring Coast (2004)
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During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Deceitful Storm (2008)
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When businessman David Morgan (Stefan Sims) embarks on an adulterous affair, his wife, Rena (Karyn Lewis), must decide whether his infidelity is the last straw in a relationship marred by years of neglect and emotional abuse. If she tries to mend the marriage, can her husband take responsibility for his actions and change his ways? Eric Harvey and Felicia Kerney also star in this potent urban drama directed by Shanda Davis.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hollow City (2004)
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A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: Angola, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: social
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Lucky (2011)
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A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
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Children of the Mountain (2016)
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Against the picturesque Ghanaian backdrop, Children of the Mountain is an honest exploration of a mother’s will in the face of much adversity. When her baby is born with a cleft lip, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome, Essuman is led to believe that she has a ‘dirty womb.’ Her promising future as a wife and mother is shattered as her lover disowns her and the community eyes her with suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 90 min
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Door To Door (2009)
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Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful
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Martha and I (1990)
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Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 106 min
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Like Night and Day (1969)
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Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
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Loyalties (1986)
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Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Letter from the Mountain (2002)
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As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
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Zita (1968)
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Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Madame O (1967)
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After being brutally gang-raped, a young girl grows into a woman with a double life: She's a well-to-do doctor by day and, by night, a revenge-driven streetwalker who uses sex as a weapon. That all changes when she finally falls in love and begins a new life with her husband -- only to discover that he has a troubling secret of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
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In this meditative film, the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, and the drama arises out of the timeless but still contemporary issues of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Ethiopia
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Last Bread (1963)
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After going through all the details of the old combine with his own hands, the pioneer virgin landowner granddad Yakushenko met his last great suffering - harvesting bread - in the most dignified manner. Aleksei, Irina and Dmitriy decide to help granddad — and went in the evening to look for spare parts for his combine in neighbouring farms.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
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Nurse Sisters (2003)
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NURSE SISTERS is a drama about relationships and commitment that stars the oh-so-hot Sasaki Sisters (yes! They are real-life sisters!).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexy, entertaining
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Adu (2020)
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In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Thursday's Child (1983)
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Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Code Blue: The Movie (2018)
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A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, meditative, disturbing, medical drama
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The Warrior and the Savior (2013)
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Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating
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Sleeping Sickness (2011)
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Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Requiem (1982)
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When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that of her previous husband, who died in prison many years earlier. It turns out that the young man had been his cell mate for a year, and he tells her the story of how her husband died. She then remembers (in flashbacks) how she had helped her first husband rid himself of his sexual repression, and how she had promised him she would marry her current husband if she were widowed. It seems her doctor-husband was a man who could remain untouched through any political climate, and was much admired by her first husband. Now that her memories have been awakened by the young man's account, she ignores the repeated phone calls of her current husband and decides to rid this young man of his own sexual repressions.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
Plot Summary:
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro
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Behind the White Tower (2007)
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Based on renowned Japanese novelist Yamazaki Toyoko's representative work Shiroi Kyotō, the drama brings viewers deep into the political inner workings of the medical field by taking a satirical look at malpractice and power plays at a university hospital, and contrasting the paths and personalities of two doctors.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Unsung Cinderella (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aoi Midori is a pharmacist and in the 8-year span of her career, she has worked according to her strong belief that "One must know the patient well in order to prescribe the correct medication as medicine is the bond that connects the patient's today to his/her daily life henceforth". Due to that, Aoi usually takes a long time in her consultations with the patients, and this causes her to be complained by her colleagues for being too inefficient in her work. Aoi shrugs off the complaints as her goal is to help the patients regain the daily life that they once took for granted.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama, medical drama
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Like Father, Like Son (2013)
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Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, disturbing, psychological, sincere, intense, poignant, realistic, sad, slow cinema