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Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of a blind artist who has the extraordinary gift of making true-to-life portraits just by listening to human voices, and of becoming a TV-junk star. A fable on the need to rediscover the miraculous power of dignity in a world where media's noise has solved the problem of man's imperfection simply by removing the problem itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Biographer (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Brothers and Sisters (1992)
Plot Summary:
After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Best Years (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of four friends Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, Riccardo, told over forty years, from 1980 to today, from adolescence to adulthood. Their hopes, their disappointments, their successes and failures are the intertwining of a great story of friendship and love through which Italy and the Italians are also told. A large fresco that tells who we are, where we come from and also where they will go and who our children will be. It is the great circle of life that repeats itself with the same dynamics despite the fact that years and even different periods pass in the background.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, talky
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Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
Plot Summary:
A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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Subwave (1995)
Plot Summary:
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Victory March (1976)
Plot Summary:
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
Plot Summary:
Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. An independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed the local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: nostalgic
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La rabbia (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Rain (2006)
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Rain (Brooklyn Sudano), a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother (Faye Dunaway), Rain adjusts to boarding school life, where her musical talents flourish.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Video Girl (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lorie Walker ( Meagan Good), attends a ritzy private school in a small southern town. Raised by her grandmother Valerie ( Ruby Dee), she often daydreams of becoming a professional dancer. After a chance meeting with a renowned music video director, her lifestyle changes completely. She finds herself struggling to stay grounded in this new, provocative, glamorous world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious
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The Still Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fueled by original music by members of Guns N' Roses, Bad Religion, No Doubt, Skid Row, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie & The Blowfish and more... The Still Life tells the story of artist Julian Lamont who struggles to pick up the pieces of his tattered life in this poignant drama. A reclusive alcoholic, Julian creates a new art genre called Destructionism, and his works catapult him into the limelight. But as his success in the art world grows, Julian loses touch with the artist he truly desires to be, and his personal life soon tailspins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, captivating, erotic, independent film, serious
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Burning Secret (1988)
Plot Summary:
Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and directed by Andrew Birkin.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, costume drama, historical drama, period drama
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Perfume (2001)
Plot Summary:
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, sexual, sexy
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The Jewel (2011)
Plot Summary:
Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, tense, clever, factual
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The System Within (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony "Wise" Good, is an internationally famous model. He fought his way out of the inner city and rocketed straight to the top. He had it all... The career, the trophy wife, fame, fortune and all the luxuries that come with success. But his swift rise to the top did not take him high enough to protect him from the sudden fall he was about to experience. The corrupt corporate world, the government's support and participation in that corruption, and the jealousy and greed of people he knew best, all lead to a rapid downward spiral into a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Querelle (1982)
Plot Summary:
Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel run by the rapacious Lysiane, who leads Querelle into his first homosexual encounter. Then, Querelle has become vulnerable and soft, and soon the once powerful object of passion comes to belong to Seblon.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexual, controversial, erotic, sexy, art house, stylized, emotional, twist ending, sensual, erotic drama
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Ivans xtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) (2000)
Plot Summary:
Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, depressing, spiritual, art house, independent film
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Wee Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak, captivating, cult film
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Mimi (1979)
Plot Summary:
Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to have sex with her. She even brings herself to orgasm while lying in the bed next to him. He goes nearly apoplectic trying to avoid her advances. Eventually, her school chum Therese comes to visit them, and Guido at last has a semi-suitable object for his by now quite overheated passions. The story is loosely based on a novel by Guido Morselli.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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Tristana (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political, art house, cerebral, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, serious
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Hated (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are what a young underground punk band are striving for, but once they get a taste of it, they are forced to decide how far they're willing to go for fame and fortune and who they're willing to leave behind to get there.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film
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The Shipping News (2001)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: melancholic, emotional, stylized, sentimental, serious, captivating, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, romantic
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The United States of Leland (2003)
Plot Summary:
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: depressing, meditative, psychological, bleak, emotional, rough, serious, realistic, touching, melancholic
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Network (1976)
Plot Summary:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: talky, political, realistic, clever, dark comedy, biting, black comedy, captivating, absurd, intense
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Pay It Forward (2000)
Plot Summary:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, tear jerker, sad, thought provoking
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American Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, cerebral, dramatic, sexy, black comedy, tragicomedy, cynical