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Plot Summary:
Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an impoverished rural school in Chiang Rai, keeping her identity a secret. In the end, Pimdao, played by Princess Ubol Ratana herself, realizes that real happiness doesn't come from external events but lies in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Reunion (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker (Toshiyuki Nishida), finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: crying
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Nickel Mountain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Memed My Hawk (1984)
Plot Summary:
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Vanishing Point (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Girl from Hunan (1987)
Plot Summary:
The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young girl rebels against the edicts of her elders until at 16, she falls in love with another man... Though set in turn-of-the-century China, The Girl from Hunan deliberately parallel the state of affairs in the China of the late 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
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The Fifth Monkey (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Flamingo Rising (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and more outrageous, he continues to enrage Knight until one of the promotions backfires with grave consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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K (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Hubertus Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Letter from the Mountain (2002)
Plot Summary:
As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: social, manga, captivating, realistic
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The Snow Goose (1971)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, period drama, tearjerker
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Americana (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Swimming Upstream (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem of all... he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The only support he receives is from a sister who also lives a fractured life, his immature best friend, and his girlfriend. "Swimming Upstream" is a moving and honest look at life's painful realities and how this teen deals with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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A Moment in June (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in Thailand, between April-June 1999, 'A Moment In June' is a story of the fusion of six lives, a song that links them together, a hope of the second chance that might never come and a moment they all need to make a life-changing decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Ploy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, tense, mind bending, serious, contemplative, sexual, erotic
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I Walk the Line (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tawes is the sheriff in a godforsaken little hole somewhere in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings he starts having an affair with her. But in small town nothing is secret for long.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Bikini (2017)
Plot Summary:
A couples' trip to Pattaya turns into hell when each others' secrets come out into the open! Soo-jeong and Tae-hyeon decide to go abroad with Sang-jin and Ji-hyeon to celebrate Ji-hyeon's birthday. However, Ji-hyeon can't make it last minute and the three set off. However the local tour guide tricks them into losing everything they've got. Then they meet Lizzie, who Sang-jin falls for right away. They cross the line and Soo-jeong who secretly had a crush on Sang-jin, films them quietly. She then threatens Sang-jin to tell Ji-hyeon with the video of their affair and demands he takes her in. Tae-hyeon finds out about everything and the dreamy vacation turns into hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Nanayo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Farewell, Kuro (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Five No Budget Films (2010)
Plot Summary:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the five short films in the DVD are provided below. 1) The Sandbook --- A short fiction by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya. The film is an adoption of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. The story moves with the landing of an amazing book in the hand of a scholer, who tries to understand "the internal ties in events occuring" in and around the book in order to go through it. The film is a melodramatic interpretation of the story within a very limited budget.2) Jean-Luc Godard Had No Script -- A no-budget fiction by Anamitra Roy. The film approaches the larger history of politically conscious films in a mimetic way. The title of the film is a bit exploitative as it is neither a spoof and has been made with a very tight script.3) ...Or A Horror film -- A.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: experimental, anthology, independent film
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Traps (1994)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Plot Summary:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
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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Negatives (1968)
Plot Summary:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Dead Run (2005)
Plot Summary:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Climbers High (2008)
Plot Summary:
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min
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Skylark (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Judgement (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Ai-Fak" is the story about Fak, a young Thai man who leaves the monkhood to care for his ailing father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is very beautiful, but she is also mentally unbalanced. Then the father dies, leaving Fak to care for his insane stepmother. Soon Fak's neighbors in this remote village are talking about him, saying he is sleeping with his stepmother. This rejection by the villagers sends Fak into a spiral of despair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing