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Plot Summary:
Ignacio Carrillo (Marciano Martínez) is a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, who decides, after his wife's sudden death, to stop playing and return his accordion, which is said to be cursed, to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales (Yull Núñez), a teenage boy who admires Ignacio and wishes to become a juglar like him. Carrillo reluctantly accepts, given his loneliness. On Ash Wednesday 1968, Carrillo, Morales and their donkey start a journey throughout several towns in the Caribbean region in Northern Colombia, until Taroa (a small caserío in Uribia jurisdiction), in La Guajira desert, where Carrillo's maestro supposedly lives. During their journey, Carrillo participates in the first version of the Vallenato Legend Festival in Valledupar.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Colombia, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, road movie
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The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: France, Mauritania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, atmospheric
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Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, melancholic, political, art house
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Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
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Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, road movie, melancholic, realistic, lyrical, semi serious, crying, sentimental, light
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When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby, just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting each other go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, when that doesn’t work, figuring out where they might find it next.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative, mumblecore, independent film
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We Are Little Zombies (2019)
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Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Intimate Lighting (1965)
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Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Life on a String (1991)
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Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him sight. The other is his apprentice, Shidou, who longs for a woman's love and is enchanted with the radiant and spirited Lanxiu. The two men are encamped outside Lanxiu's village, the saint using his energy and voice to bring peace between warring factions. Does sight await the saint when the 1000th string breaks? Can Shidou's strength of character overcome provincial prejudice to win the hand of Lanxiu and a place in the village?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 698
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Duration: 110 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good
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The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented violinist, is the one most likely to achieve them. Norman (Tom Irwin) is a dairy farmer and Ingrid (Glenne Headly) is a choir director who abandoned the piano when she married and settled down, but the Greens are a happy family, for the most part. The trick is finding a way to reconcile their dreams with a reality that may hold more riches than they realize. When Norman gets a chance to conduct the local orchestra for the Dairy Days celebration, it's an opportunity for the family to come together, not just with each other, but with a community they had never fully appreciate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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Khorshid lives with his mom in a house near a river somewhere in Tajikistan. Th landlord comes around every morning to ask for the rent. Khorshid has to provide the money or else they'll have to leave. His blindness has given him an amazing skill in tuning musical instruments which gets him a job at an instrument making workshop. But the problem is That Khorshid is mesmerized by sonorous music all the time; whenever he hears a great musician play, he loses track of time and place. For this, he always gets lost and gets to work late. How is he going to make a balance between his love of music and his task as a breadwinner?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Iran, Tajikistan, France
Duration: 76 min
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Sex, drugs and violence--they're all part of the job when you're protecting The King of Rock & Roll. And when you're only 16, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can't be taught in school. The story of David Stanley, stepbrother and bodyguard of The King. Through the dizzying highs and lows of life on the road with unlimited excess, he experienced it all...and barely survived.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
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Duration: 103 min
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Prodigy (2007)
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Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Music
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, sincere, inspirational, road movie, visual, psychological, contemplative
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Cuba, France
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 998
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 552
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Votes: 41000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: USA
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