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Plot Summary:
An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Up the Junction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Chance Meeting (1965)
Plot Summary:
Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic young man. Forced to leave his job because he kept provoking conflicts, he now finds some satisfaction as a member of a gang led by the failed actor Ancek (Ludek Munzar). He gets no support at home either; his father has vanished without a trace and his mother has been unable to cope. Oldrich learns all this in the small hours of the following day, after waking up next to Yellow T-shirt Boy sobering-up station. The new father is so moved by the young man's life that he starts taking care of the boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Poids léger (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, sensitive
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The Stone Wedding (1973)
Plot Summary:
Drawing more on the heightened realism of indigenous folk ritual and storytelling traditions than on the Socialist Realist intentions of the state, this almost wordless cine-poem, operating with the most slender of plots but the oldest of narratives, is an often compelling experience. A listless girl is to be married, lovelessly, into the conventional hierarchy of a Romanian town, squatting in a bare, out-of-time landscape. Her mother makes a hard living gathering and breaking rocks, and is soon forced to sell the essential mule for a wedding dress. Come the day, and the attentions of a nomadic musician capture the birch girl's eyes and heart. Cinematic kin to Paradjanov, Peleshyan and, perhaps most closely, the wonderful Georgian film Pirosmani, Stone Wedding is imbued with the stillness of deep time and deploys the keenest of gazes in tableaux that soon lift from mere attention into Morandi-esque focus.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Plot Summary:
Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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I Dream of My Friends (1993)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas, looks a lot like a “road movie” and features an all-male cast, as if there’s no room for women in it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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What Richard Did (2012)
Plot Summary:
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational, indie film, tense, atmospheric, realistic
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Permissive (1970)
Plot Summary:
When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
Plot Summary:
A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: reflective, independent film
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An Old Fashioned Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving continues. Isabella and Tilly pay a visit to Ireland, hoping Isabella's long-ago suitor, the Earl of Shannon, can assist Tilly in getting her writing published.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sincere, suspenseful, disturbing, period drama
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Dogs' Feast (1990)
Plot Summary:
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Ellen (2016)
Plot Summary:
A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen avoid becoming just another statistic?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, captivating, melancholic, disturbing
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Plot Summary:
When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Dragonard (1988)
Plot Summary:
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Wind of Change (1961)
Plot Summary:
Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film deals with the 'colour problem' within the context of Teddy boy violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film, vintage
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Accident (1967)
Plot Summary:
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, deep, psychological, tense, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological thriller, atmospheric, disturbing, neorealism, black and white, touching, bleak, serious, emotional
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The Dresser (1983)
Plot Summary:
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, talky, touching, serious, gloomy, crying, independent film, tense, light
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A Rather English Marriage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Nil by Mouth (1997)
Plot Summary:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough, controversial, thought provoking, sad, cult classic, powerful
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Lamb (1985)
Plot Summary:
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, eighties
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Kings (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever. However, by the end, the friends split up for good, going their separate ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Servant (1963)
Plot Summary:
A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, sexy, surreal, thought provoking, neo noir, noir, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative
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My Zoe (2019)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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Living (2022)
Plot Summary:
A veteran civil servant and bureaucratic cog in the rebuilding of Britain post-WWII, Williams expertly pushes paperwork around a government office only to reckon with his existence when he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: existential, visually stunning, period piece, independent film, period drama
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So Evil, So Young (1961)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is wrongfully accused of theft and is sent away to a harsh reform school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: noir, grindhouse, serious, realistic
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Another Round (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological, thought provoking, social, unusual plot structure, funny, ironic, art house, semi serious, humorous
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white, bleak, emotional, social, offbeat, spiritual
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Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Plot Summary:
Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, crying