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Plot Summary:
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only way for each of them to escape their miserable futures is by forever sacrificing the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Aarhus by Night (1989)
Plot Summary:
A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Evergreen (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young girl seduced by a boy's affluent seemingly idyllic family and goes to extremes to gain acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young mother is accused of convincing four teenagers to murder her husband, who she claims abused her during their ten-year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
Plot Summary:
Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated with his being sent to the Gulag for many years. He was in the Soviet Union, according to the film, for a total of 45 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: entertaining
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on writer Maya Angelou's childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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Endgame (2015)
Plot Summary:
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical
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Untold (2014)
Plot Summary:
A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women veterans encourages her to peel away her families' lies and confront her mother who holds the truth. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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Abzurdah (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, crying
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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Boy Meets Girl (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two doctors from Tel Aviv join 'Doctors Without Borders' and travel to Thailand to help out refugees. They leave their daughter, Aya (aged 10) at a kibbutz where the children are housed by age, but not gender. Not only does she have to get used to dealing with a lot of children, making friends and enemies, she has to get used to sharing her room with boys. And sharing the showers with them too.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic
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Restless Virgins (2013)
Plot Summary:
A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, funny, sexual, sexy
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Love You To Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)
Plot Summary:
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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El Greco (1966)
Plot Summary:
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Mark Twain and Me (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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The Pregnancy Pact (2010)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester (Mass.) High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, teen, sentimental, ridiculous
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This Boy's Life (1993)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: depressing, touching, emotional, realistic, epic, retro, uplifting, sad, period piece, thinking
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Dangerous Minds (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, sentimental, hood, sincere, rough, sexy, political, social, hispanic
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A Home of Our Own (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, inspirational, enigmatic
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Star 80 (1983)
Plot Summary:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic, depressing, thought provoking, neo noir, cynical, gloomy
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James Dean (2001)
Plot Summary:
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, clever, iconic
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Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dashrath Manjhi was a poor man from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. Life for him was a daily struggle for survival. He loved his wife, Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day, while climbing the mountain to bring him food, his wife slipped, fell and died. Overwhelmed by grief, Dashrath decided to carve out a path through the mountain, so that no one else would suffer his fate. For 22 years, all by himself, with just a hammer and a chisel, he hammered away at the rocks, till the path was carved out from the mountain.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: inspirational, realistic, psychological, captivating, poignant, art film, avant garde
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Mask (1985)
Plot Summary:
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: uplifting, captivating, sentimental, touching, emotional, depressing, sad, compassionate, sincere, realistic
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Boy Erased (2018)
Plot Summary:
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, intellectual, depressing, serious, lgbt cinema, sad, cult classic
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, captivating, heartbreaking, touching, teen, gothic, gloomy
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Stand and Deliver (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching, realistic, hispanic, motivational, intellectual, spiritual, political