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Plot Summary:
This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part a recurring dream, the second a Freudian analysis of the dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min
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Rock N' Roll (2007)
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Rock N Roll is a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Renjith. The film stars Mohanlal, Lakshmi Rai, Mukesh and Rahman in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration:
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I Am a Groupie (1970)
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A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Don Juan in Hell (1991)
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While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
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Voices (1995)
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A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Four White Shirts (1987)
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In his free time, phone technician Cezars Kalnins writes songs and plays in a band he has started with friends. The band has a long road to travel in order to receive a permit and make its public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to the songs and criticises them but later is powerless to stop the grindstone of public debate, which she has herself initiated.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Latvia, Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
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Piety (2022)
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Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 80 min
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River of Fundament (2014)
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Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 319 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychological, slow cinema, avant garde, experimental, philosophical, contemplative, art house
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The Stranger in Me (2008)
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A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Rigoletto (2001)
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Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera's most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to highlight the savagery and excitement of Verdi's tale of misdirected revenge. Paolo Gavanelli is vocally and theatrically electrifying as the hunchback anti-hero, acclaimed soprano Christine Schaefer is his doomed daughter, and superstar tenor Marcelo Alvarez is her fickle lover. With superb playing from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, it adds up to a thrilling Rigoletto for both opera aficionados and newcomers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min
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The Roe's Room (1997)
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Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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Return of the Storks (2007)
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Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min
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Illusion (2022)
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Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1992)
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A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Touch (1992)
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Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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Safe Word (2022)
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Misa is an underground idol and being filmed closely for a documentary. One day, an owner of BDSM club “H” perceives Misa’s potential and headhunts her as a dominatrix. Misa is confused at first, but when she meets the top dominatrix Kanon, she learns sexual pleasure she never knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
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Blue Note (1991)
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If you’re a fan of Ken Russell’s particular brand of stylistically dizzy biographies covering the lives of old-school classical composers, then you’re going to love The Blue Note, Zulawski’s outré ode to Frédéric Chopin (played here by concert pianist/first-time actor Janusz Olejniczak.) Simultaneously achieveing wistful and surrealistic tones, the film covers the last few days of fragile Chopin’s professional life, as well as the (ahem!) overzealous behavior from the phalanx of Chopin’s celebrity admirers. Set at a lush countryside estate, The Blue Note expertly drifts back and forth from tender “love triangle” mode to hyper-imaginary dream-like sequences, all aided by a near-constant beautiful stream of Chopin’s piano music on the soundtrack. As well, the film is one of Zulawski’s most personal projects, as Chopin’s Polish exile in France within the confines of the narrative mirrors Zulawski’s own similar post-’70s exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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The Illusions (2009)
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A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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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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Day and Night (1997)
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Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
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The Reject (2007)
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A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his forties and has started to sink into a mid-life depression. On's wife has left him and while he tries to keep in touch with her and his daughter, he feels they're drifting away from him. On often finds himself retreating into a world of daydreams, which becomes all the more common after he loses his job. On struggles to drown in ennui with alcohol, gambling and meaningless sex, but matters only get worse as he learns that his elderly mother's health is failing, and he can no longer keep up with the bills for her medical care. When On discovers some forgotten savings, he sets out on a vacation in hopes of recapturing his muse, with his beautiful and loyal secretary in tow. Film received its American premiere at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
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Paul Raymonds Erotica (1981)
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Brigitte Lahie stars as a stunning French reporter who Paul Raymond personally invites into Soho's sleaziest sex locales. This experience convinces the young woman that she wants to be a stripper too. This slice of erotica features a lineup of Reyuebar Girls, as well as ladies from the pages of Men's Only and Escort Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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An Independent Life (1992)
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This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
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Jackie Boy (2015)
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A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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Eroica (2003)
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British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Tenderness (2016)
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About youth, decountrifying and attitude toward life. Julia and Patrick - living-together, careful to each other couple have to face the approaching change. Artur - self-confident, world curious egoist, works as a coach and barista at the same time. Vacillating between his choices he reaches the point when his world must be defined anew. Maria - professionally fulfilled actress, running away from any relations, rebuffs every act of closeness. In their world there is no place for great ideas. Nation, identity, politics or economy are meaningless terms regarding what matters for main characters - defining one's self through non-committal human tensions and intensities. The spectator peeks at them in seemingly trivial situations and finds out what is the titular tenderness for each of them. He may observe how the confluence of events and decisions are leading to an ending full of contradictory emotions.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
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In the Company of Women (2023)
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Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will disrupt her the inner world. Throughout these months, Bea will engage in a very special friendship with Miren, older than her. Her political commitment and her relationship with Miren will turn that summer into a stage that will mark her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
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Mahler (1974)
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The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychedelic, art house, historical drama, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized
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Action (1980)
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Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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Tommy (1975)
Plot Summary:
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, stylized, visual, clever, mind bending, art house, psychotronic, cerebral, twisted
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New York, New York (1977)
Plot Summary:
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, stylized, cult classic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, romantic, road movie, clever