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Plot Summary:
A train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Angela's Decision (2006)
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Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of her boyfriend Will, Angela looks around at her bleak surroundings, her friends with their unplanned pregnancies, desperate marriages, and dead-end jobs and realizes that she cannot spend the rest of her life in a small town with no future. As Will prepares to return to the army and her mother prepares to move in with yet another man, Angela makes a decision that will change her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: social
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Handcuffs (1970)
Plot Summary:
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Crazy Days (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of Dalmatian guest workers from Germany come to their native town on Easter holidays. They usually spend time in a local pub playing cards, drinking and yelling. Jure is the most successful and bragging among them, while Klempo is considered poorest since he didn't built the house or bought a car. Annoyed by poor cards, Klempo places a bet with Jure that he made more money than him. The loser must give everything to winner and then walk around the town naked.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
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Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
Plot Summary:
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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Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986)
Plot Summary:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Residue (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: social
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Kuduz (1989)
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After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Kick-Off (1990)
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A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Notre histoire (1984)
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Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, anthology
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Wanderer (1987)
Plot Summary:
Another story of a young and beautiful singer, whose beauty and ambition and a lack of happiness, an obstacle to reach the top but a shortcut to an untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Now (2006)
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A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose and unravel the mystery. During their journey JP unveils a secret which forces Jaap to face the truth about Rose.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie
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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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Universal Signs (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Kosumosu (1997)
Plot Summary:
Teen Akiko (Akane Oda) returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend (Megumi Matsushita) and her mom (Mari Natsuki) in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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After Midnight (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
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Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Suburban Roulette (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sexy Sixties Swingers invite tragedy in the simmering suburban cauldron of Chaicago's fringe.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Little Darling (2000)
Plot Summary:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Body Scent (1983)
Plot Summary:
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Infinity (1992)
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To dispel his obsession with death, Prokhorov decides to travel, with no luggage and no destination. He finds himself in the little town where he grew up, but finds no solace there because he has to face death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 206 min
Plot tags: existential
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Masquerade (1971)
Plot Summary:
Banned for over a decade because of its "explicit" sexual situations, when this film was released in Yugoslavia in 1983 the "explicit" scenes had become tame. Other than the notoriety it obtained through censorship, the film has an undistinguished story about the forbidden love affair between the older wife of a sports director and a young athlete.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, weird
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Amir (2016)
Plot Summary:
Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Angel Blue (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dennis (Sam Bottoms) is a handsome, successful and well-liked civic leader who lives in his hometown with his lovely wife (Lisa Eichhorn) and their new baby. When Enrique Vasquez (Marco Rodriguez) and his striking teen daughter Angela (Yeniffer Behrens) move in next door, Dennis is only too happy to lend a hand. But when he and Angela begin an affair, Dennis's perfect life is threatened in this provocative drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sensual, crying
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Blue Rain Osaka (1983)
Plot Summary:
From director Masaru Konuma comes this tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed with pop songs and feminine strength.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)
Plot Summary:
You don’t need politics to make a political film… Love, pleasure, beauty and food are serious enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Two Friends (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much like to know what his friend is doing for a living but Pino will not tell him. Nunzio spends his free time the best he can in his friend's absences. He ends up falling in love with Maria, a commercial employee, whereas his health condition deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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To Love Somebody (2014)
Plot Summary:
Over the span of several weeks, two couples, who have been close friends for years, face several life-altering traumas out of their control. Mike and Meryl are recovering from their son's death and their inability to communicate. Joanna and Tim are trying to conceive their first child, after several failed attempts. In the course of the film the couples contrast one another, quickly developing an intimate study of human nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, erotic, entertaining
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy
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Steal Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the sexy next door neighbor, courting the mother of the house, encouraging the son in his first love affair, and leading the neighborhood boys in an ever escalating series of pranks. A drama about stealing radios, cars, and hearts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, independent film, crying