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Plot Summary:
French-polish movie adaptation of the novel by Dostoievski (also known as Demons), directed by Andrzej Wajda.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Max Havelaar (1976)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Netherlands
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, epic, period drama
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Absence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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A Woman's Revenge (1990)
Plot Summary:
Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for his suicide. By finding Suzy in Paris, Cecile is trying to seek the truth by playing a psychological game on her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
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The Terrorist (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking
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The Well (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and hold her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When old Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe for the money they got. But tragic accident and theft of their money change their plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Dormant Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, anthology, emotional, contemplative
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Comedy of Power (2006)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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One More Chance (1981)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, student film
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Naomi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sincere, serious, suspenseful
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Uno bianca (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, factual
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Scarecrow (1984)
Plot Summary:
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, spiritual, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, biting
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The Runaway (2000)
Plot Summary:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the town's new sheriff, Frank Richards (Dean Cain), to reopen the investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. While the town would prefer that the truth remain hidden, the sheriff pursues the case, determined to see justice prevail. The Runaway is a stirring story of how friendship, determination and conviction can generate racial change in one heart or an entire town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Among Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with exceptional gifts changes their lives in an unexpected way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, inspirational
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The Feast of the Goat (2005)
Plot Summary:
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain, UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, epic, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, social
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Domestic Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, contemplative, biting
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The Promised Life (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, rough, bleak, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Infiltration (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tragical-comedy film story that follows a young non-combatant platoon with defective fitness. Set in "Bahad 4" in the 50's, the movie focuses mainly on two characters: Alon (Oz Zehavi), who believes he was accidentally sent to Bahad 4 and will soon be sent to join the Paratroopers. Avner (Guy Adler), believes that the army is the last thing that interests him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, bleak, serious, captivating, disturbing, biting, suspense
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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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Fast-Walking (1982)
Plot Summary:
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, rough, clever, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cynical
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Almayer's Folly (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, bleak, serious, emotional
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Innocent Saturday (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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In His Hands (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric
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Verdict in Blood (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the woman's daughters, another donating everything to a boarding house for former criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The movie chronicles the first 2 days and the aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, tense, bleak, contemplative, entertaining
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The Rider Named Death (2004)
Plot Summary:
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, clever, captivating, realistic, contemplative, epic, talky, entertaining
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Plot Summary:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, political, sincere, controversial, crying
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The Promised Land (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense