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Plot Summary:
Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes they steal, or break into houses if hired.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min
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From Tuesday to Tuesday (2012)
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Juan is a 35 year old man whose hobby is bodybuilding. He works in a factory, where despite its huge and muscled physique, is mistreated by his bosses and colleagues. His biggest dream is to leave that life gray and a better life, especially owning your own gym, but has yet to collect some money. And that is, when, in the evening of another of his routine days, attends a terrible episode before which makes a decision that suddenly puts a moral crossroads.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
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The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They try Ingrid, Christa's friend, who tries to help, but the school rejects the money. When tragedy strikes Werner, Hans helps Christa bolt to a collective in Portugal. Ingrid visits her; their relationship makes the collective nervous, so she returns to Germany and ceases living in hiding. The police are still looking for her and so is a witness to the robbery, Lena, a bank clerk. Lena's interest brings Christa's second awakening.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: art house
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The Story of Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
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Raoul Wallenberg Tragic Hero or Agent 103? (2018)
Plot Summary:
Raoul Wallenberg born 1912 Stockholm is send to Budapest 1944 July. His job is to save Jewish from Holocaust, his methods are non conventional. January 1945 arrested by Russians at Budapest Siege. Man who saved lives never returns home.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 720 min
Plot tags: captivating, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema
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Saving Grace (1998)
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Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Man from the Embassy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Herbert is a German embassy official in Georgia. He lives an inane life until he meets twelve-year-old girl Sashka who makes him laugh and feel responsibility. Soon he is in trouble because he is suspected of pedophilia, meets corrupt policemen, burglars and violent people.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Long Shadow (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young man, a famous stage actor, who is notified of the death of his father whom he has never seen. In Israel where his father is buried, he meets with his father's young widow, as well as with a movie director who need the son to play his father in a missing scene about his father, an archeologist. But the physical similarities are too much for the young widow and she soon finds herself falling in love with her stepson.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, USA, Hungary
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Whisper to God (1988)
Plot Summary:
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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Vanessa (2007)
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While waiting for the train to pass (Bennet), an out-of-town businessman notices a destitute girl (Vanessa), freezing in the cold. Suspecting that she will throw herself under the train, he takes the girl with him to a nearby restaurant for a warm meal. During the conversation, Vanessa tells Bennet her sad life story and reveals to him her inborn talent. Bennet offers the girl 10,000 dollars to turn her life around, but in return he asks for her only "treasure"-her virginity!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
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This I Wish and Nothing More (2000)
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Bruno, a bisexual but closeted young man lives in rural Hungary with his girlfriend Mari. Also on the scene is her homosexual brother Ringo. Mari doesn't know that when the boys go off to work together in the city they raise cash by turning tricks and burglarizing houses.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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The College Admissions Scandal (2019)
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Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Struggles in Italy (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: experimental
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I'll Meet You There (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Muslim cop goes undercover at his estranged father's mosque while his daughter hides her passion for a forbidden dance, uncovering a shocking family secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Belly Dancer and the Politician (1990)
Plot Summary:
A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 97 min
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Melissa (1995)
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Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Rahm (2016)
Plot Summary:
A virtuous woman has to choose between her honour or saving her brother's life in a Sufi interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan, UK
Duration: 104 min
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The Heartbreakers (1983)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 114 min
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Overnight (2007)
Plot Summary:
One day of a Hungarian stock trader.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Midnight Dancer (1988)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ilegales (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tells the stories of a group of people in Ciudad de Juarez with one thing in common: they are all looking for a better life for them and their families. For many, that better life waits just a short walk away in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, contemplative
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Chocolate City: Vegas Strip (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the way to Las Vegas to try their luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Third Girl from the Left (1973)
Plot Summary:
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub comedian is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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La diosa del puerto (1989)
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After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Armageddon Time (2022)
Plot Summary:
A deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship, and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Comme des rois (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
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David & Kamal (2011)
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This story is about a 9 year old American Jewish boy, David, and Kamal, also a 9 year old and a poor street urchin of Arab descent selling postcards to tourist in the stone enclosed Old City of Jerusalem. At a first glance, Kamal seems bright and energetic but in reality, he's suffering under the tyrannical presence of his grandfather who oversees the living of his family, his mother and two sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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Out of Step (2002)
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Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny must fight to earn her scholarship and try to find a balance between the man of her faith and the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chop Shop (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, feel good, political, social, multicultural
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Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating