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Sofus, a young terminally ill cancer patient is enrolled in a hospice feeling ready to die. Shortly after arriving, he meets Sarah a charming young hospice worker. Sarah's impulsiveness and interesting approach to life intrigues him. However, Sarah hides a dark past, her father died of cancer and never gave her the chance to say goodbye. Sarah and Sofus spends a day together and Sarah shows Sofus a glimpse of the life he has never lived. On what seems to be the peak of their happiness together Sofus relapses and has an epileptic seizure which causes Sarah to shut Sofus out of her life afraid of losing him as she lost her dad. Sofus comfort in dying is now replaced with a fear of missing out on the life that he never knew he missed. Sofus realizes than in order to regain comfort in his remaining days, he has to understand the life and youth he has never experienced and have Sarah forgive her dead farther in order to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min
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Jakarta, City of Dreamers (2020)
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Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min
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One Year Later (2016)
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One Year Later tells the story of an American woman, recently recovered from a serious illness, who learns to savor the essence of life through a cathartic trip to the Italian Alps. Liz, a dedicated teacher of comparative literature, struggles with her post-cancer life and changing priorities. Despite her husband's well-meaning over-protectiveness, she takes a trip with their friends - an American couple living in Milan - to Italy. When her friends assume the role of worried caregivers and suffocate her with a jam-packed itinerary, she escapes to the Alps to find her space. Here, Liz is able to reassert her independence. She learns to go forward, and return to her family, with a renewed sense of self -- free of compliance, guilt and obligation.
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Country: USA
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Prisoner's Daughter (2022)
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Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max’s violent past comes back to haunt them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Il tuffo (1993)
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Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemployed gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and Giulio also become love rivals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Ocean of Dreams (1997)
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A married couple in search of erotic adventure climbs aboard a cruise ship to add some excitement to their bland and predicable routine. It doesn't take long for the sexually starved guests on board to get friendly … really friendly. Charlene Smith, Wesley O'Brian, Robert Donovan and Jody Frank co-star in this passionate romp at sea that explores the boundaries of danger and desire.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, independent film
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She Lives! (1973)
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A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Shattered Glass (2002)
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Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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The Whaler Boy (2020)
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Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, independent film
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Moving On (2019)
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A family gathers at grandfather’s place by chance and breaks up. Okju, who has been observing her family for a short time, gains the strength to rise above the loss through this experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, sincere, melancholic
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The Quiet Girl (2022)
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A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: powerful, beautiful
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The Fishbowl (2023)
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As her cancer spreads, Noelia's ultimate decision is to return to her native Vieques, Puerto Rico, and claim her freedom to decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with the contamination of the U.S. Navy after 60 years of military practices.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 93 min
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South (2004)
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Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min
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I Love You, and It Hurts (2023)
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The story of Juan Gris and Lola Robles, two young people from parallel universes who will find themselves on the way to give rise to a world and a new version of themselves, and who, together with their friends, will pursue their dreams while seeking to discover who they are.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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And Then There Was Eve (2017)
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Alyssa, a successful photographer, wakes one morning to find her apartment ransacked and her husband mysteriously missing. Left without even a photograph to offer the police, she turns to her colleague Eve, a talented jazz pianist with a flirtatious charm and disarming grace. Eve helps her confront her husband’s longtime struggle with depression and to, over time, accept his absence. While getting to know this woman through such unusual circumstances, Alyssa is surprised to find herself falling in love again.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Hadi Be Oglum (2018)
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Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. As Ali tries to bond with his son, he runs into many barriers in communtion with him, and Ali's greatest wish is to know that his son understands him. The plot evolves around a father who loves his son dearly but going thru many struggles to create communication channels with his who carries the burden of the memories of his father, his mother and the woman he loves, will shape the life of both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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Tucked (2018)
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TUCKED is a raw and tender drama about an aging 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they realize how to truly be themselves. It's a 'slice of life' drama about love, loss and friendship; a feel good film with a great charm and sense of humour. Tucked was screened at Outfest Los Angeles in July 2018 and won two awards - AUDIENCE AWARD - BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE GRAND JURY PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, queer cinema
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The Shadow Box (1980)
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Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Suicide Service (2017)
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The motivations of two men running an illegal assisted suicide service to help relieve suffering change with the the appearance of two very different women in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
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Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that his cancer has returned. Resigned to the fact that his life will soon come to an end, he begins a journey of reflection as he comes to grips with his life thus far and the people who shaped him, for better and worse.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Skin, Skin (1966)
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Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Barbara (1997)
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Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Pitong Dalagita (2006)
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When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the story uses a multitude of perspectives interconnected flashbacks from surviving students to illuminate the desires, fears and insecurities that led to the devastating act.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, psychological, suspense
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John From (2015)
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Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
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Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she doesn't know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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Pan (1995)
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When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
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The Other Woman (1995)
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After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get her kids to accept Carolyn as new mother. She takes them on a trip across the country to her father Jacob's ranch in Wyoming. During this trip, Tessa tries to teach Carolyn about the responsibilities involved in raising kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic
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Notes for My Son (2020)
Plot Summary:
Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, sad, compassionate, poignant, deep, profound
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After Words (2015)
Plot Summary:
A librarian facing a mid-life crisis travels to Costa Rica.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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For My Brother (2014)
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The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske's fight for survival means that he has to serve his father's sexual needs, which include abuse from the father, but also from paying customers and the father's friend Hans (who has a lot of contacts in the pedophile environment). Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father and Aske's entire world is about to fall apart. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, disturbing, touching, suspense, independent film
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One True Thing (1998)
Plot Summary:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, depressing, clever, serious, contemplative, gloomy, tear jerker