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Plot Summary:
Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sinhala
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Plot Summary:
A Sri Lankan crime drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sinhala
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Loku Duwa (1994)
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"Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 150 min
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Burning Birds (2016)
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Since her fish salesman husband was killed by militant thugs for his political affiliations, Kusum has been left alone to support her eight children and her mother-in-law. She does this by breaking rocks in a nearby quarry. But of course, things can get worse and they do in this heartfelt but gruelling litany of suffering.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sinhala, crying
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Him, Here, After (2012)
Plot Summary:
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sinhala, gloomy
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The Letter (1982)
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The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Vacation (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
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THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
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At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 556
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: Cambodia, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 98
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 104 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 910
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 127
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IMDB Votes: 514
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A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
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Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 102 min
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
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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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Three Brothers (1981)
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In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
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