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Plot Summary:
Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, unusual plot structure, disturbing, controversial, sad
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El jardín del Edén (1994)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit brother, plus a mexican peasant who wants to cross the border are the main characters looking for "the garden of eden".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Taj (2011)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic, self-absorbed Indian writer, who discovers he may not have long to live, tries to mend a neglected relationship with his young daughter from a broken previous marriage, while his life slowly falls apart around him. When they discover a box of Lego bricks at a garage sale and decide to build a model of the Taj Mahal together, a whole new chapter opens up for them. But what story will it tell? One of self-destruction, or one of redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, sentimental, unusual plot structure, contemplative, learning
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Sugar Kisses (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nacho, a 13 year old boy, crosses the threshold of adolescence trying to find his place in life in all the wrong places: a dysfunctional family and a social setting that is corrupt and violent. Can the purity of first love survive the darkest aspects of our society?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating
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Donkey (2009)
Plot Summary:
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Plot Summary:
A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: ironic, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, sad, cynical
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The Good Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality. Initial release: March 25, 2011 (Finland) Director: Zaida Bergroth Editor: Jan Forsström Music composed by: Mi and L'au Awards: Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Back Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is the farm on which Thomas was born. It is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is about to do the same thing, and his father, with whom nothing has ever been possible. He finds there everything from which he had fled twelve years earlier. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his passionate mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, dramatic, disturbing
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Heartbeats (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Encounter". Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Life Inside Out (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, independent film
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Mother and Son (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Morgen (2010)
Plot Summary:
NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, social
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Run the Tide (2016)
Plot Summary:
When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Family Film (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, suspenseful, poignant, crying
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Schoolgirls (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prodded by the rebellious Brisa, puberty is awakening in twelve-year-old Celia. Quickly, the two become allies against the rigid rules of authority in the Catholic girls’ school. However, questions about the right bra, cool bands and sexy clothing cannot hide the urgent search for their own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, social
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Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (2015)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story set in the Vietnamese countryside during the late 1980s, as told through the eyes of a 12 year old boy named Thieu. Thieu and his younger brother Tuong share and do everything together. Their days unfold like a whimsical and comical journey filled with innocence, wonder, confusion and curious adventures. Tuong idolizes his older brother’s confidence and constantly strives for his approval. But in fact, Thieu’s “over-confidence” is to compensate for his overwhelming insecurities. Thieu is constantly jealous of his younger brother when it comes to grades, talent and affection from the girl next door, Moon. This leads to an act of violence which leaves Tuong paralyzed and bedridden. In coming to terms with his own conscience, Thieu attempts to redeem himself and discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, independent film
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7 Suns (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to keep an eye on him. During the troubled crossing, the smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human cargo. "The Black" escapes from his former associates but also needs to ecape from the Border Patrol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Change in the Air (2018)
Plot Summary:
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending
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Ana's Desire (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Finding Grace (2019)
Plot Summary:
A struggling family, already on the verge of disintegration, faces new challenges that will test their faith in God and each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, disturbing, christian film
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Blast Beat (2020)
Plot Summary:
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Desert Within (2008)
Plot Summary:
To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, masterpiece
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The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Northless (2009)
Plot Summary:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Notes for My Son (2020)
Plot Summary:
Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, sad, compassionate, poignant, deep, profound
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Under the Same Moon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, sweet, sincere, sad, controversial, serious, realistic, light
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In This World (2002)
Plot Summary:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, political, realistic, tense, thought provoking
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Normal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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In America (2002)
Plot Summary:
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, serious, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, independent film, realistic
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1985 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sad, black and white, crying, queer cinema