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Plot Summary:
A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Natarang (2010)
Plot Summary:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kalyug (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: parallel cinema
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Too Far to Go (1979)
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Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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The Last Snows of Spring (1973)
Plot Summary:
A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities and a jet-set life-style.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Ten Empty (2008)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, juvenile
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The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974)
Plot Summary:
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Trade Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, disturbing, erotic drama, independent film, black comedy
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I Remember (2005)
Plot Summary:
The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
Plot Summary:
Actor Gyung-soo (Kim Sang-kyung) is passed over for a part and decides to leave Seoul and visit a friend. His friend tells him the legend of the "Turning Gate," which foreshadows future events. During his visit, Gyung-soo meets Myung-sook (Ye Ji-won), a girl who quickly falls for him. After a night of passion, he boards the train back for Seoul and meets a married woman who claims to know him. Gyung-soo thinks he may be in love with her, but perhaps he's chosen the wrong woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, poetic, sexual, sexy
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Silsiilay (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of women find solidarity with each other as they negotiate their complicated love-lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags:
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The Good Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pappu is a truck driver. Supporting his parents and extended family is beyond his means. Now, he has been presented a plan. An accident will be staged. Pappu will "die". Insurance payments are substantial.David and Kiran, a middle class urban couple, with their son Aditya, are on a holiday. Aditya will be accidentally separated from them during a brief halt at a Dhaba. And his loss will only be discovered several hours, and several hundred kilometers later. They must double back to find him. Poonam is an 11-year old-year-old child from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, road movie, gujarati
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Passover Fever (1995)
Plot Summary:
Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Life of Josutty (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life of Josutty narrates the story of the struggles and life lessons learned by Josutty(Dileep), a simple farmer living in a village in Kerala who migrates to New Zeland after marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Significant Other (2018)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Joel Lamangan, “The Significant Other” follows the story of a rising fashion model (Erich Gonzales) who catches up and becomes BFFs with her catwalk idol (Lovi Poe). But all hell breaks lose when they realize that they are in love with the same man (Tom Rodriguez).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Modesty (2007)
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Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Twisted Roots (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
Plot Summary:
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious, art house, independent film
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is the filmed version of Pál Závada's novel of the same title, which was first published in 1997 and soon became a bestseller. The story takes place during World War I and afterwards in a small town in south-eastern Hungary. It tells about the unhappy marriage between a young man, Ondris, who is a member of the Slovak minority of the town, and his wife Jadviga. She can't return his devotion towards her and starts a love affair with Franci, a lawyer. The film tells the history of this unhappy relationship between a passionate country man and his equally passionate, but much more erudite wife who wants something more from life but can't get it. There is also some historic background: the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, the independence movement of the Hungarian Slovaks, led in the story by a ridiculous priest, etc. But this only remains the backdrop for the story of an unhappy "ménage à trois".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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We Only Know So Much (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Just Like the Son (2006)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film, serious
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Existence (2000)
Plot Summary:
Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work keeps him away from his home for days and this makes the wife very lonely. In one such instance, she succumbs to loneliness and has a physical relationship with her music teacher and becomes pregnant. She tries confessing to her husband, but he is so excited about her pregnancy, that he does not listen to her story. Twenty Five years later, circumstances force the suspicious husband's mind to work overtime and confronts his wife with facts and figures that when she was pregnant, he had not had any physical relationship with her for more than 9 months before the child's birth. Then whose child is it? The wife accepts it and ask for forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, social, art film
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String (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go and abroad in Saudi Arabia and bids farewell to Meera, promising to keep in touch, which he does, and also sends them a large portion of his earnings, which is used to pay off the family's debts. Then when no word is received from him, a worried Meera phones, and is devastated to learn that Shankar has been killed by being thrown off a 10th floor balcony. Her status quickly changes, her jewelery, ornaments, fancy clothes are taken off, and she is told to remain indoors. wear dark clothes, and is only allowed to pray at a Mandir.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, social, gloomy
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The Ungrateful (1973)
Plot Summary:
Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike.. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, contemplative, surprise ending
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The Affair (1981)
Plot Summary:
Although orphaned at very young ages, Scriptwriter Amit and military pilot Shekhar are brothers and also very good friends. The latter is happily engaged to Shobha, while the former has just fallen in love with pretty, young Chandni. But tragedy strikes when Shekhar's plane is shot down in Kashmir. Amit feels it to be his obligation to leave the girl he loves and marry his brother's pregnant fiancée instead. But when, by an unexpected turn, Amit and the now also married Chandni meet again, their love for each other proves to be stronger than their marital vows.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: romantic, cult classic, mesmerizing, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, saga, gloomy
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Black (2005)
Plot Summary:
Black is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, emotional, serious, entertaining, psychological, thought provoking, depressing
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Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Plot Summary:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sincere, bleak, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Never Say Goodbye (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, romantic, touching, romantic drama, epic, sexual
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Flight (2010)
Plot Summary:
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational, offbeat, realistic, light, intellectual, social