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Plot Summary:
Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off his European tournée, he is forced to repay the tour organizers 250 thousand Euros. On his journey, he meets the very colorful character of (Janusz Gajos) a retired high school math teacher and a great enthusiast of the horse races. He dreams of returning to America as a somebody, but can only do so after wining a momentous prize. From then on the two friends endeavor to gain success. They discover true friendship. Together they fulfill Franks dream of winning at the horse races, which in turn allows Oliver to buy back his personal freedom. Having recovered from a dramatically ended marriage, the young man is able to open up to a new love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 111 min
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Mongolpiparen (2004)
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To watch a rare bird and at the same time be alone with Lotta, Anders goes to Gotland.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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Taking the Plunge 2 (2009)
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Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec this year. Their love will be purt to the test when a former love of Gaby's turns up at the championships. Gaby finds herself at a crucial point of her life where she has to choose whether to continue competing or follow another dream that she's cherished forever, but which seems impossible to everyone else—her dream to become an astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
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The Blood of Hussain (1980)
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A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 112 min
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I SWIM (2022)
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This is a story of rivalry and friendship between two young swimmers; a tale of natural talent versus hard work. Talented swimmer Chung is a transfer student. In his new class, 4C, he meets a swim relay team led by Wing. Despite being proficient in all four styles, Wing is frustrated at his team’s losing streak to Class 4A. At his first swimming gala, Chung plans to show off his skills. Unfortunately, he shows his imperfect starting dives and lack of stamina instead. The mistake he makes in his starting dive even causes his team to lose. After the defeat, he decides to quit the relay match. However, after observing Chung’s freestyle performance, Wing starts teaching him techniques in starting dives and racing. Wing aims to beat Class 4A with the same team members, including Chung.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
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Summer Rain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Agathe and Paul, on holidays with their children. On a bridge, at the edge of a cliff, a forgotten wallet. A thought, and then dizziness.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
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Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 54 min
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Jockey (2021)
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An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Custody (1985)
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A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
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Ride Above (2022)
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Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
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I'll Meet You There (2020)
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A Muslim cop goes undercover at his estranged father's mosque while his daughter hides her passion for a forbidden dance, uncovering a shocking family secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Longest Swim (2014)
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Best buds since childhood, Ben and Matt have grown apart with age. Even when Ben is diagnosed with diabetes, Matt struggles to support his friend like he should. Then, while vacationing at the lake, Matt is awakened by screams and groans coming from Ben's bedroom. The situation is desperate: Ben is convulsing, shaking and gagging. He's gone into a diabetic seizure and with no phone or hospital nearby, Matt's only hope of saving his friend is making the swim to the closest inhabited house--on the other side of the lake.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Mazeppa (1993)
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Mazeppa is a 1993 French drama film directed by Bartabas. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
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Virus of Fear (2015)
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A swim instructor dealing with a child terrified of the water is accused of inappropriate behavior -- but the stories offered don't line up, leaving parents suspicious and doubtful.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
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The First Day of Winter (2008)
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Valerio is a lonely young boy who can't get on with the others of the same age. He just observes without been seen and tries to compare himself to them, especially with two tough guys from his swimming course. One day Valerio sees something that will change him forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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Riders (1993)
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Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has a high social position, woman at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the Pin Up of Penscombe has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now come to a showdown at the Lod Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 199 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Swimming Pool (2012)
Plot Summary:
During summer in La Habana, four adolescents with physical problems, while in vacation from school, spend a day in a swimming pool with their apathetic instructor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Dive!! (2008)
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Tomoki Sakai (Kento Hayashi) is your average junior-high student. Fascinated by the diving skills of Yoichi Fujitani (Sosuke Ikemaytsu), an elite athlete born into a family of former Olympic divers, Tomoki joins the Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) where Yoichi trains. However, the club is in the red, and its very survival is under question. Beautiful Kayoko Asaki (Asaka Seto) has just returned from the US and joins the club as a new coach, with the mission to save MDC. Her goal is for the club to produce an athlete capable of competing in the Olympics. She brings in Shibuki Okitsu (Junpei Mizobata), a skillful diver with a wild streak from Tsugaru. Meanwhile, Kayoko discovers that Tomoki possesses a unique ability called “diamond eyes” and inspires him to begin serious training. Tomoki, Yoichi and Shibuki have to overcome personal problems, and struggle through conflicts and setbacks in the sport to achieve their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, touching, disturbing
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I Feel Strange (1977)
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Laura (Rocío Dúrcal) is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta (Bárbara Rey), a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
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Dirty Pool (1970)
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A husband is being driven crazy by his insatiable wife. It seems that all the time she spends sunbathing has made her a nymphomaniac. A doctor sends over a pair of swingers to "counsel" the couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
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Heal the Living (2016)
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It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, social, existential
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Tomorrow at Dawn (2009)
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Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play becomes real.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
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Mary White (1977)
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In this heart-warming true story of a loving father-daughter relationship, William Allen White (Ed Flanders) reflects on the last year he spent with his daughter Mary (Kathleen Beller.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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Eyes of an Angel (1991)
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John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, tension, independent film, suspense
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The Swimmer (1968)
Plot Summary:
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing, philosophical, realistic, stylized, cult classic, bleak
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Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996)
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The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of Yosemite National Park, is on the brink of failure. The grandson of a Chinese railroad laborer embarks on a romantic, but ultimately doomed, quest to save this railroad from being sold for scrap. His love of trains finds him working as a railroad-man, instead of at his father's profitable business. He manages to locate a wealthy eccentric investor to help him acquire the railroad, but its financial inviability makes this a quixotic reprieve, at best. The film also portrays the anti-Asian racism present in America at the conclusion of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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Sweet Rush (2009)
Plot Summary:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional, offbeat, gloomy
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Breaking Free (1995)
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When troubled, cynical teen Rick chooses service at a camp for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life. Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a blinded Gymnast rediscover the joys of competition through equestrian show jumping, they begin to take control of the most important journey of all... a journey called life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Child of the Steppe (2016)
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As the unforgiving forces of nature take their toll on humans and animals, the unexpected return of snow devastates the nomad family’s livestock. 11-year old Sukbhat is forced to leave his childhood behind. Now the hopes of the family rely on the young boy who should tame and race the wild horse. An intense relation between father, son and their wild horse shows how nature overwhelms and influences human beings. Nobody remains unscathed after being confronted with the powers of the steppe.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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My Lucky Star (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Normandy, Louise lives happily in the horse world. Suddenly, fate strikes. Louise left alone with his father and a family friend to Ferronnière the stud where she has always lived. Business is bad, they are on the verge of bankruptcy ... Fortunately there Marquise, a young mare Louise high. Against all odds, the girl and Marquise will fight against the fate that seems hell-bent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic
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50 to 1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible odds even before they reach Churchill Downs and the land of Kentucky's blue bloods.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, captivating, exciting, sentimental, serious, road movie, uplifting