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Plot Summary:
In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and the other media present unrelieved visions of war and bloody mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min
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Instant Dreams (2017)
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There could hardly be a more telling contrast between the analog and digital eras than the beautifully blurry memories captured in a Polaroid picture and the thousands of pin-sharp photos on an iPhone. In this ambitious visual essay, Willem Baptist explores the visionary genius of Edwin H. Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera. Even today, all sorts of people are keeping his instant dream alive. Former Polaroid employee Stephen Herchen moved from the United States to Europe to work in a laboratory developing the 2.0 version of Polaroid. Christopher Bonanos, the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid, tells us, "When I heard Polaroid would stop making film, it felt like a close friend had died." Artist Stefanie Schneider, who is working with the last of her stock of Polaroid film, is using the blurring that occurs with expired film as an additional aesthetic layer in her photographic work.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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Collage of Our Lives (2003)
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A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
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The Journey Is the Destination (2016)
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The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
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Rezerwat (2007)
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A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
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The Camera Obscura (2008)
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At the end of the 19th century, a woman whom everyone considers ugly is ignored by all. Eventually, she meets a French photographer, and he will be the only person capable of seeing the beauty and the richness of her intense inner world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Woman in Chains (1968)
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Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas's hidden personality?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, stylized, psychedelic, weird
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The Blood Trail (2009)
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Laya (Che Ramos) is a young professional photographer who has drifted away from her family. Her father has fallen ill, but she hasn’t once come to visit him at the hospital. Her mother, who left their family when Laya was a child, returns to urge Laya to make amends with her father, but Laya’s pain goes deeper than her mother suspects. Laya is sent to the provinces to document a ritual of a disappearing indigenous tribe, and there, she inadvertently comes face to face with her own demons as she observes the relationships of the last remaining members of this dying culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Nowhere (2016)
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Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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Hard Knocks (1980)
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A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Across the Sea (2015)
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A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Albania
Duration: 110 min
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Her Private Hell (1968)
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A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Women on the Roof (1989)
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An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
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Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating
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Dead Europe (2012)
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In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK, Greece
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, thought provoking, realistic, rough, tense, captivating, suspense, gloomy, homoerotic
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Palermo Shooting (2008)
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After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, suspense, mystic, mesmerizing, sincere, offbeat, serious, surreal
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Vortex (1967)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman Hana Angelousi is lured aboard the yacht of a man who is trying to break the spell that turns men into stone. An updated version of the legend of Perseus and Medusa.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Kodachrome (2017)
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Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, depressing, sad, independent film
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City Boy (1992)
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Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange environment, Nick learns the value of personal honesty and integrity and discovers what defines true friendship. He finds himself torn between his affection for Angelica, who believes with her Aunt Olivia that the forest should be preserved, and loyalty to his boss, the owner of the lumber company. In the end, this city boy must choose between his own safety and the lives of those he has come to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 108 min
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The Cormorants (2016)
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In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, adventure turns into life experience. A summer without beginning and without end, the story about a friendship, an age and a land which are obliged to change with the inexorable passage of time.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
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Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014)
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After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an old romance, they square off against the patterns of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
Plot Summary:
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, uplifting, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, learning
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The North (1983)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, political, realistic, independent film, road movie, spiritual, heartbreaking, sad, disturbing
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Eadweard (2015)
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In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film "the motion of life" in all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his jealousy over his beautiful, young wife Flora. As the project progresses, his paranoia over her fidelity consumes him, until questions arise about his son’s paternity, causing him to erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, educational, period piece
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Fidelity (2000)
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Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, erotic, sensual, sexual, experimental, avant garde, psycho sexual
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Arcadia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, independent film, crying
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Mothers and Daughters (2016)
Plot Summary:
Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, entertaining
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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Fitzcarraldo, a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding, he must figure out how to finance the opera house, and ultimately decides to capitalize on South America's rubber production. He discovers a hidden forest of rubber trees that is well protected by rapids, but the only way to get there is via a river on the other side of a small group of mountains. Fitzcarraldo therefore hires natives to pull his steamship over the mountain.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Peru
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: cerebral, surreal, visually appealing, visual, tense, stylized, road movie, scenic, mind bending, thought provoking
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The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, surreal, visually appealing, erotic, sexy, independent film, retro, art film, sensual
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The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
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Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, independent film, inspirational, political, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sentimental
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Distant (2002)
Plot Summary:
Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little to alleviate their detachment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, art house, stylized, lyrical, psychological, touching, slow cinema, atmospheric, contemplative