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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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Man Follows Birds (1976)
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Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast apart because he’s poor and his father’s drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village. When his father dies, he decides to go in the mountains with his best friends. Looking for nature at its purest, the two teenage boys have to deal with the cruelty of violent barbarians. Their trip will also make them meet a lost orphan girl and a wise beggar.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
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The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: epic
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 13
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: dread
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A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black and white, surreal, mondo
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Xiao Bo (Yu Bo) lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 37
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Duration: 82 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
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The Stonebreaker (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
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Duration: 104 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, semi documentary
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Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a paedophile released into the community. Yeo Gyun-Dong, invites disabled actor Kim Moon-Joo to re-enact his most famous protest. Im Soon-Rye, goes for the engrained sexism of Korean men with superb wit and, Park Jin-Pyo, confronts the horror of children forced into oral surgery to improve their English-speaking ability.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Plot Summary:
Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 75 min
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Three Macabre tales told by the Crimson Creeper that opens up the mind to Madness and Fear. Horror Anthology that will leave you Screaming for More.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
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The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
Plot Summary:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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North Star (2023)
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Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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The Book of Ruth (2004)
Plot Summary:
The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
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Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons that have haunted them their whole lives. The resulting truths they must face, end in an explosive tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 254
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Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
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Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
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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
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Concurs (1982)
Plot Summary:
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Dance with Him (2007)
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Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan (Mathilde Seigner), a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman (Sami Frey) and his horse, in a dilapidated and deserted riding school near Beauvais. Miguel (Jean-François Pignon), the only lad to have stayed in the riding school out of faithfulness to the master and his values, is at the same time a stuntman for movies, and suffers from the disregard of film crews for the risks he has to take. Those three, in spite of their life-inflicted wounds, are legatees of an ancient equestrian science and know-how inherited from generations of master horsemen. The movie is about how the three make use of this science and know-how to redress the training of a magnificent horse, a training which has been sabotaged by a previous ignorant and careless owner. The success of this common endeavor brings back self-esteem to this woman and two men, but the movie makes clear that their scars are not healed and their difficulties in life are not ended. But - quite simply - they have lived together a period of equestrian fulfillment.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: France
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Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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18 Presents (2020)
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Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, touching, sad, compassionate, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional, deep