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Plot Summary:
The scientist Agnes must take care of a foreign flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a foreign man lies beside her in the bed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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The Arbiter (2013)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but misguided man feels that he has the right to decide who is worth their place on earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Estonia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Nightsongs (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young couple in the big city. She is full of energy for life; she wants to have fun and be happy. But husband sits all day on the couch, reading. But the young woman does not give up; she wants more out of life. She encourages him, she provokes him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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Lollipop Monster (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ari and Oona go to the same school. Lolita-like Ari, is blonde, pouting and lives in a world of bright colours, frustrated by her mother still treating her as a child, while arty Oona dresses in black and is treated as an adult by her artist father. When Oona’s father commits suicide after his wife has an affair with his brother Lukas, Oona starts to self-harm, but finds and unlikely friendship with Ari. Ari’s enthusiasm for exerting her sexuality rebounds when she starts an affair with Oona’s uncle, who has recently moved in with Oona’s mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Nowhere (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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10 Sekunden (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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The Gentiles (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ana throws her life on the Instagram and other social networks, where she posts pictures, videos and short animations, together with witty (and lucid) texts. Ana is going through a strange moment. In addition to going through the family conflicts and identity issues typical of her age, she experiences something new. She feels something she does not quite understand, for her close friend Corrales.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min
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Claude et Greta (1970)
Plot Summary:
A stylish sensual sample of European erotica about an aspiring model in Paris who becomes a participant in a relationship with a lesbian.Her female lover becomes too possessive, the model takes a job with an homosexual painter.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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Monologue (1973)
Plot Summary:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min
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Snake Dancer (1976)
Plot Summary:
With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former Sunday school teacher who becomes an exotic dancer -- and provocatively shares the stage with a python. Creating an uproar and breaking every taboo in the book with her act, Kemp soon finds herself charged with indecency as the government attempts to ban her seductive performance art.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Marianne's Temptations (1973)
Plot Summary:
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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His Three Daughters (2023)
Plot Summary:
When their father's health worsens, three estranged sisters come together to try to plan for the inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Three Sisters (2015)
Plot Summary:
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Sister Cities (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, entertaining
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
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Madam Scandal: Let Me Die For 10 Seconds (1982)
Plot Summary:
Roman Porno from 1982.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Windows on Monday (2006)
Plot Summary:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Beyond Honor (2004)
Plot Summary:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Child's Play (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Counsel (2019)
Plot Summary:
An alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
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Dreamland (2013)
Plot Summary:
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner. In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy
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Lotgenoten (2013)
Plot Summary:
When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 65 min
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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1001 Grams (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, touching, gloomy
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Day and Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
DAY AND NIGHT is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his young mistress, his lonely sister, his forgetful mother, a fanatic football coach, a pregnant whore and an angel disguised as an old man. They are all looking for the answer to the same question: "If love is the answer - what is the question?".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, gloomy
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A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)
Plot Summary:
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, crying, entertaining
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Jerichow (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Turkish diaspora in Germany proves the catalyst for this noir-flavored drama concerning the unlikely friendship between a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet war and a middle-aged Turk in need of a helping hand.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy, surprise ending, neo noir
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Lily Sometimes (2010)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, emotional, gloomy
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Rieke's Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young figure-skater becomes jealous when her brother, also a young figure-skater, falls for another young female figure-skater. She thought she was all that he needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, captivating, erotic
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