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Plot Summary:
Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is fake. Now he must travel across Lebanon in search of his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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Chasing the Wind (2013)
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Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
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The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
Plot Summary:
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Qatar, Cyprus, Turkey
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: existential, surprise ending, twist ending
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I Want to See (2008)
Plot Summary:
July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih Mroue;, on the roads of South Lebanon. Together, they will drive through the regions devastated by the conflict. It is the beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, fake documentary
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Memory Box (2021)
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Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama
Country: Lebanon, Canada, France, Qatar
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Year Zero (2004)
Plot Summary:
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after loosing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 131 min
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973)
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Three disabled men--one blind, one with no legs and one with no hands--get together to pull off a museum robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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The Vows (1973)
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The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unusual vow of celibacy and a gang of gypsies who are terrorizing their village. The film highlights many ancient religious traditions still current in these regions, as the villagers, devout Catholics, support the gypsy con-men by buying religious relics from them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 102 min
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Whisper to God (1988)
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When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min
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The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018)
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It is winter in Damascus. Sana, with her eight-year-old son, is living alone while her husband works in Saudi Arabia. When Sana runs out of gas to cook or warm the house, she takes a day off to find a gas cylinder. From there begins a trip into the surroundings of Damas, where Sana finds herself brutally confronted with the effects of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: Syria, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration: 94 min
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Working Girls (2020)
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During a scorching summer, Axelle, Conso and Dominique cross every day the Franco-Belgian border to prostitute themselves in Belgium to continue living in Roubaix.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 91 min
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The Beach House (2016)
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The Beach House is a film about four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 75 min
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The Paper Man (1963)
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A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
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The Ticket (2016)
Plot Summary:
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, touching, serious
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3000 Nights (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min
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Adam (2019)
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Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Falafel (2006)
Plot Summary:
Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Away from Home (2001)
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After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
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A Respectable Family (2012)
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Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following the death of his father and the discovery of what his “respectable family” has become, he is forced to make choices.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, social, non-linear, gloomy
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Azzurro (2000)
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75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Italy, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Amu (2005)
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Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, banned
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My Friend Victoria (2014)
Plot Summary:
Aged eight, Victoria spends a night in the home of a wealthy white family; years later, she encounters them again and her life is changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Insight (2015)
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Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to his previous life are broken. In this new life blind Zuev encounters an exceptional woman capable of seeing more than other people. Her name sounds symbolic – Nadezhda (translates as 'hope' into English) and she works at the local hospital. Nadezhda will help Zuev find his strength and a new sense of existing. These equally strong but otherwise different people spend together what, perhaps, will be the best days of their lives; but everything has an ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Blind Massage (2014)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Little Q (2019)
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Little Q is an aspiring guide dog, training to be a guide for the blind. Soon Little Q is partnered with Bo-ting, a renowned pastry chef who’s losing his sight. But Bo-ting is irritable and reluctant, constantly losing his temper at those around him and rejecting Little Q. Eventually, dog and owner bond as Little Q wins Bo-ting over with its unwavering loyalty. However, as Little Q gets older and Bo-ting’s health suffers, the two of them face an unwilling separation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Imagine (2012)
Plot Summary:
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Portugal, France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, beautiful, cult film
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Cities of the Plain (2000)
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Directed by Robert Kramer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: experimental, touching, serious, captivating
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The Man Who Laughs (2012)
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During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story (2003)
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Based on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, emotional, serious, realistic
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Capernaum (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough, cynical, inspirational, serious, brutal, bleak
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Places in the Heart (1984)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: uplifting, christian film, sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, gothic, social, atmospheric, serious