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Plot Summary:
The German troops are just outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and the Mexican Embassy’s assurance of a visa. Only those who can prove that they will leave are allowed in this port town, and this means you need an entry permit from a potential host country. Assuming the identity of Weidel, Georg tries to obtain one of the few scarce passages on a ship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, philosophical, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, interesting
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The Cleaner (2012)
Plot Summary:
A forensic cleaner, responsible for the removal of human corpses, has never been able to relate with people or life. Suddenly, he will become accountable for an 8-year-old orphan who has been left behind in the middle of a mysterious epidemic crisis in Lima.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, tense, contemplative, independent film
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God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)
Plot Summary:
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: pre war
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For All Time (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Undine (2020)
Plot Summary:
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, romantic, scenic, lyrical, crying, mystical, weird, urban fantasy
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I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: existential, disturbing, anthology, avant garde, weird, cult film
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Last Words (2020)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the film’s narrator Jo, a boy of African descent, aims to make the world’s last film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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In the Aisles (2018)
Plot Summary:
After losing his brick laying job, Christian begins to work at a supermarket.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, thought provoking, clever, bleak, weird, interesting
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Kill Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, touching, serious, gloomy
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The Bookshop (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, intellectual, slasher, art house, period piece, costume drama, novela
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Proxima (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, touching, disturbing, realistic, corny
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The State I Am In (2000)
Plot Summary:
With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, political, gloomy
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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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Mark's Secret to Eternal Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Mark wakes up in a parallel world where no one knows who he is - not his family, friends or girlfriend - and discovers that he and all the people he loves will soon die a painful death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, futuristic, independent film, contemplative
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The Coming Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
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For a Moment, Freedom (2008)
Plot Summary:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie, clever, fast
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Blueprint (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, sincere
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Julia (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: factual, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, political, touching, visually stunning, historical drama, serious, contemplative
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug dealers. Very much in love, Annette is confident that he’ll get a hold of himself as soon as they return to Paris. But back in France, Victor relapses into his bad habits. After a violent dispute, Victor moves into the room of a junkie he has fallen in love with. Annette leaves Victor and disappears with Pamela. 11 years later: Pamela is 17. She lives in Paris with her mother. One day, she learns that her father lives in the same city. She decides to see him again. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Before Snowfall (2013)
Plot Summary:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, touching, inspirational, tragic ending
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological, sincere, contemplative, sad, poetic, sentimental
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Father of My Children (2009)
Plot Summary:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, is precisely his reason for living. Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoires very presence commands admiration, and his exceptional charisma lead many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is in doubt; too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering, and Gregoires realisation that he may have made one gamble too many will trigger a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere, art house, serious, realistic, crying, entertaining
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Code Unknown (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Romania, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, clever, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, cynical, cerebral, serious, philosophical
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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2046 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, surreal, emotional, contemplative, art house, atmospheric, sexy, philosophical, enigmatic, visual
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Barbara (2012)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer of 1980 in East Germany and, alone, Barbara is confined to living and working as a doctor in a small provincial town - her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West. She has only one focus; to escape and for this, she has to wait patiently. Until Andre, her supervisor in the hospital, takes her off course. Are his motives of love or duty to the authorities? The day-to-day pretense, and content supervision slowly take their toll as the tension builds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, melancholic, compassionate, atmospheric, psychological, sincere, realistic, philosophical, political, existential
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Amour (2012)
Plot Summary:
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: philosophical, reflective, sad, sincere, art house, emotional, depressing, compassionate, breathtaking, disturbing
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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Melancholia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, art house, philosophical, apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, art film
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Plot Summary:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, atmospheric, psychological, political, bleak, apocalyptic, cult classic, suspenseful, independent film
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Plot Summary:
A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, intellectual, atmospheric, captivating, touching, futuristic, tech noir