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Plot Summary:
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Yugoslavia, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Out Stealing Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: existential
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Wild Seed (1967)
Plot Summary:
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Frontier (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life -- romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags:
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The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Henryk Kluba.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: folk tale
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The Ambush (1969)
Plot Summary:
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Venus Peter (1989)
Plot Summary:
Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, semi autobiographical, cult film
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Akseli and Elina (1970)
Plot Summary:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: epic, family saga, pre war
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Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Plot Summary:
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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Good Favour (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenage stranger is welcomed into a household in a devout Catholic village and gradually reveals his motives and what seem to be magical powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, mystical, captivating
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Train to Pakistan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK, India
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: art film
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The Nothing (2011)
Plot Summary:
The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, underground film, psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, minimal cast, contemplative
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First Reformed (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, social, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical, dorama, noir
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The Castle (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Nightmares (1979)
Plot Summary:
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church amd state work together to suppress the human spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: intellectual, political
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The Apparition (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jacques is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an impartial and talented investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican who recruits him for a special task; taking part of a committee to investigate the veracity of a saintly apparition in a small French village – a true canonical investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Jordan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, art house
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The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Plot Summary:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Gospel According to Vic (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Confession (2016)
Plot Summary:
Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and atheist woman, can not however be more indifferent. Driven by curiosity, the young skeptic went to the church in order to challenge this.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: spiritual, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Siddhartha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he had been seeking. The story is based on the best-selling novel by German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, dramatic, surreal, existential, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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Calvary (2014)
Plot Summary:
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: meditative, atmospheric, psychological, melancholic, captivating, cerebral, independent film, dark comedy, black comedy, visually stunning
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Waterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Equus (1977)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, sexual, talky, controversial, tricky
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
Plot Summary:
"I have a gift for disaster," says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, slasher, surreal
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The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
Plot Summary:
Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa (his mistress), the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: metafiction, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, talky, stylized, non-linear
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Teorema (1968)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, depressing, experimental
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When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Plot Summary:
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: erotic, manga, independent film, grindhouse, thought provoking, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic
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The Shanghai Spell (2002)
Plot Summary:
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, neo noir, realistic, fairy tale, period drama
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Doubt (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, serious, surprise ending
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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Plot Summary:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, psychological, slow cinema, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic