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Plot Summary:
David Kinsella, funded by the Norwegian Film Institute, arrived in North Korea ready to make a documentary about a young poet at the invitation of the North Korean government, but filming hadn’t gotten very far when Kinsella realized that everything he was filming was fiction not fact, even the young poet. Each day the government brought in extras and staged every scene too essentially create a propaganda film for the country. Not to be deterred Kinsella took the manipulation of his work in stride and started to capture large expanses of industrial areas to alter later with animation and create an amazing film.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min
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Nightbreaker (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown (played by Emilio Estevez) is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to excessive radiation. The young Brown and a colleague interview soldiers, who show their ignorance and insouciance in the face of this danger. The movie intercuts scenes between the young Alexander Brown and older Alexander Brown, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. Will the decorated psychiatrist finally speak out on the atrocity he witnessed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
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The Man That Was Turned Into Juice (1980)
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Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
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Visit of a President (1961)
Plot Summary:
A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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El Censor (1995)
Plot Summary:
Close-up to the man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Reinbou (2017)
Plot Summary:
Angel Maceta searches for the father he never knew, who fought in the 1965 Dominican civil war.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Red Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
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Over the Border (2006)
Plot Summary:
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
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Amnesia (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
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A Shepherd of Pure Heart (2005)
Plot Summary:
Evenside Church is an upstanding and venerable institution that has served African-American families in rural Maryland for 200 years. Minister Karl Upton is proud to be its young, up-and-coming assistant pastor. Karl takes the Gospel and his calling very seriously, so when God calls him to reach out to at-risk young people in his community, Karl can't say no. The world of the poor, however, is not nearly as simple as Karl had imagined. As he brings their world into contact with his own, sparks of conflict and controversy ignite into a scandal that threatens his family, his faith, and the integrity of Evenside Church. Trapped in a web of secrets, accusations and temptations, Karl must face the shadows that haunt not only the poor, but his own family and church as well. It is a struggle he seems destined to lose unless his faith in God's greatness can dispel the doubts that have befallen his soul and the good people of Evenside.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rooster: Spurs of Death! (1978)
Plot Summary:
70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Requiem for Dominic (1990)
Plot Summary:
Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Romania
Duration: 85 min
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Monday's Child (1967)
Plot Summary:
A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression in this down-beat drama, the directorial debut of Argentine filmmaker Torre-Nilsson.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: political
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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Prince in Hell (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story is set soon after the reunification of West and East Germany, and is about the disintegrating relationship between Jockel a political activist and Stefan a heroin junkie, and their involvement with a bisexual Micha. A 2nd plot line is concerned with Micha's young son Sascha, and his life in a rundown world of drugs and poverty. His fascination with the creepy, exhibitionist puppeteer Firlefanz, whose grotesque puppets enact a gay fairy tale paralleling the relationship of Stefan and Jockel. Central to the disintegration of these characters is the drug dealer Ingolf, who 'pulls their strings' with heroin, instead of puppet wires.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Letter (1982)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: eighties
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A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Children of Iron (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, so they hatch a plan to make their parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
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Trapped In Silence (1986)
Plot Summary:
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Autumn Days (1963)
Plot Summary:
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
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Not in This Town (1997)
Plot Summary:
Local aryan-type thugs, financed by an outside racist (ed begley jr), attempt to create an atmosphere of fear in a small Montana community by intimidating black churchgoers, and Native American and Jewish residents. Through the efforts of a crusading woman (kathy baker), her Jewish Physician husband (adam arkin), and backed by the towns Police Chief (max gail jr), the entire community mobilizes to thwart the plans of these hoodlums.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Night Over Chile (1977)
Plot Summary:
A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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Crossing the Lighthouse (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two kids about ten years old meet within a very peculiar framework: both come from broken families and are in care of foster homes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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Sadie (2018)
Plot Summary:
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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A Sand Castle (1962)
Plot Summary:
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental hospital in bikini and coat. Some of the staff were searching for her. But when she sees them she commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
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The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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Ordinary Magic (1993)
Plot Summary:
When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kamchatka (2002)
Plot Summary:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, political, touching
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Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
Plot Summary:
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, bleak, captivating, emotional, contemplative, uplifting