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Plot Summary:
West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, art house
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The Future of Emily (1984)
Plot Summary:
Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open around Isabelle's life style. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother, Paula, is unhappy - with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, even though he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Demain (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman taking care of her diabetic father gets involved in a one way relationship. Portrait of a generation about to replace another, Demain is a film based on an inertia marked youth, and on it's precursors confronted to their own disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Locked Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Embryo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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They've Got Knut (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet. While Ingo and Nadja have an open relationship, he thinks its time that they commit to one another exclusively, and is hoping this weekend will convince her this is a good idea. However, their privacy is interrupted when several guests arrive -- friends of Nadja's brother Knut (Ingo Haeb), a noted political activist, who, unbeknownst to her, has also planned a ski weekend. As the guests await Knut's arrival, they get the unpleasant news that he's been arrested during a demonstration; several propose that they should come to his aid, while the majority decide instead to go skiing as a way to pay tribute to his commitment to the cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Leave It to God (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 131 min
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The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
Plot Summary:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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By Design (1981)
Plot Summary:
Angie and Helen are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a mother. Angie loves Helen and if Helen can't feel fulfilled without a child she is willing for them to become parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
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Proxy (2015)
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On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Love and Anger (1969)
Plot Summary:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anthology, spiritual, art house
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Dandelions (1974)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Danmark (2017)
Plot Summary:
22-year-old Norge lives a careless life as a bachelor in the province. The slacker idyll meets a sudden end when 16-year-old Josephine turns up after a one-night-stand and tells him she’s pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Larger Than Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on the idea at first but agree eventually for the sum of money they will be paid in exchange for selling the rights to the material. When the finished film is finally shown in theaters, they proceed to the city all the way from their hometown to catch the screening. They are elated at the prospect of seeing the larger-than-life versions of themselves. But as the motion picture gradually unfolds before their very eyes, they instead go through another harrowing experience of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, suspense, realistic
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Angel Express (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Windows on Monday (2006)
Plot Summary:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love in the Mirror (1999)
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In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
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Ciudad de Ciegos (1991)
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Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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Child's Play (1992)
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When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Flight North (1986)
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Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Finland
Duration: 117 min
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24 Weeks (2016)
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Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be born healthy, they are at first optimistic that they will be able to meet this challenge – although they have no idea what awaits them. But the closer it gets to the due date, the more Astrid begins to worry about the future of her unborn child as well as that of her family and her career. After many discussions and arguments Astrid realises that the decision that will affect all their lives must be made by her alone. What complicates matters further is the fact that, as a successful entertainer, she is in the eye of the public and the media.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, sad, disturbing, tragic ending, educational, existential
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A Place by the Sea (1988)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
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No Mercy No Future (1981)
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Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting her life as the subject for a movie. We see her raped than take up with a series of men she believes are Jesus, each willing or insistent on sex. A young man with his own crisis of faith invites her to join a cult. We see her involuntarily committed to an asylum from time to time where medication and constraints await. Her wealthy parents are helpless. Will a medical professional ever talk to her? If one did, would it help?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, disturbing, controversial
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I Am Curious (1968)
Plot Summary:
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, sexy, disturbing, cult classic, erotic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, controversial, stylized
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Manhattan Gigolo (1986)
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A trip to New York City leads to a racy three-person tryst, a sex tape and big trouble for Johnny (Gianni Dei) in this spicy drama, which also stars former CNN anchor and "NYPD Blue" actress Andrea Thompson. Johnny's wild ride begins when he learns his actor friend Rudy (Aris Iliopulos) is actually a gigolo. The friends engage in a threesome with Leslie (Thompson), but things really heat up when Johnny finds out the encounter was videotaped.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sexploitation film
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
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The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
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Love Scenes (1984)
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Acclaimed actress Val Binnes decides to play a bold and uninhibited role in a controversial new movie for her ambitious, but neglectful and self-absorbed director husband Peter. Val finds herself becoming too caught up in the risqué part, throws caution to the wind, and has an adulterous affair with her hunky, but arrogant leading man Rick. Can Val and Peter's marriage survive the pressure and problems of making the picture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film, hot
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The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Plot Summary:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious and profound lack of interest in these revelations. This does not deter Anna from continuing to meet people, and she genuinely connects with them occasionally, as when she sees her mother briefly in Brussels.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, avant garde, masterpiece
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The Beautiful Occasion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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