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Plot Summary:
A motorcycle cop is still haunted by the traumatic separation from his father when he was a boy. After surviving a near-fatal accident and being framed for police brutality, his whole world falls apart. Unexpectedly, he finds hope in the shape of a terminally ill boy, who reunites him with his father after 28 years. To honor the boy, he creates the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Stuck (2017)
Plot Summary:
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Jacob's Kingdom of Heaven (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jacob, a successful businessman, is settled in Dubai with his family. He is forced to flee to another country when he ends up with a huge debt as his friend betrays him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, inspirational
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Half Ticket (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story of the 'Have Nots' struggling to survive in a world of 'Haves'.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Safe Harbor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Carpenter's Miracle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Josh, a small town carpenter, finds himself at the center of a national media story when his touch brings a twelve year-old boy, who fell into a freezing lake, back to life. Although many consider it a miraculous act, Josh isn't convinced he has done anything special - even after he seemingly heals several others. Thrust into a whirlwind he never expected, Josh must make a decision that could change his life and the lives of those he cares about most.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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More Than Puppy Love (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a girl, her dog, and a man who needs to regain his self-reliance. Curtis Peterson, a strong, vital man in his late twenties, and his wife Marie want to start a family. Tragedy strikes when Curtis is paralyzed in a construction accident. Meanwhile, another family welcomes an addition to its household. Teenager Steve Barnett adopts an 8 week old puppy to train as part of a church project. The Barnett family is to house-train Banner for a year. Then the dog would be returned to the Kansas Specialty Dog Service, where it will be trained to assist the disabled and visually impaired. Steve's sister, 8 year old Emily, ends up taking care of Banner, and falls in love with the dog. Her happiness is offset by the tragic circumstances affecting Curtis and Marie. When Marie takes a job as a waitress to support the family, Curtis is left to sit at home alone, wallowing in self pity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tornado is a true life story of patience, endurance and passion. The picture tells the story of two damaged souls: Pierre, a depressed and damaged young man and Tornado, an emotionally tormented horse. Sensing Tornado’s potential, Pierre travels to Noenieput, in the Groen Kalahari, to find Barrie Burger, a horse whisperer. With Barrie’s advice, Pierre and Tornado embark on a journey of healing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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A Little Red Flower (2020)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Billionaire Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Orphan Horse (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired horse trainer finds a young runaway girl in his barn. Skeptic at first, he let's her stay and a friendship develops while he discovers her heart and talent for horses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, touching
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The Illiterate (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ximena is illiterate; Jacqueline reads to her. Everything except a letter hidden under a wooden Buddha that Ximena won’t let her read. To know what it says, Ximena must learn to read. As Ximena learns, their relationship, thorny at first, becomes ever more trusting. What they will learn is more than either of them could have imagined. Fueled by brilliant writing and luminous acting - Paulina Garcia (Gloria - Best Actress, Berlinale 2013) should be declared a national treasure - this richly metaphorical and emotionally subtle miracle from Chile, the new heart of South American cinema, is exactly the kind of film Cinequest was created to discover - a film that will touch you deeply, a film you will not want to forget.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, minimal cast
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Change in the Air (2018)
Plot Summary:
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending
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A Loving Husband (2016)
Plot Summary:
Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Right Mom (2021)
Plot Summary:
While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Foreign Bodies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow countrymen. He's just arrived in Europe, with other immigrants escaping from North Africa, and from the clashes born with Arab Spring. The hospital, a city within a city, where everyone is forced to remain: Antonio to heal Pietro, Jaber to assist Youssef, his best friend. The disease is the pretext for a meeting between Antonio and Jaber, two scared and lonely souls, "foreign bodies" that are facing pain, insecurity and illegal employment, which will be setting of a changing story. Antonio will experience on his own skin, that pain has no distinctions of color, language, origin, religion or social status. And when for Antonio and Pietro will come the time to come back home, Jaber will seems less foreigner than before, the departure will be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Believe (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small-town business owner tries to save the local Christmas pageant against all odds.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: christian film, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Blue Miracle (2021)
Plot Summary:
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, captivating
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Starving in Suburbia (2014)
Plot Summary:
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, exciting, neurotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Peaceful (2021)
Plot Summary:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Rescued by Ruby (2022)
Plot Summary:
Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, sincere, feel good, captivating
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teacher struggling for inspiration travels to the most remote school in the world. It takes being so far away to understand the importance of his work... and to appreciate the value of yak dung!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Bhutan, China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film, comedy drama, beautiful
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To Olivia (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, depressing
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The Meanest Man in Texas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. When the governor spares his life, Thompson gains a reputation as the meanest man in the state while working hard labor in prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Father Stu (2022)
Plot Summary:
The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, spiritual, thought provoking, independent film
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Son of the South (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, Bob Zellner, grandson of a Klansman, comes of age in the Deep South and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Plot Summary:
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: motivational, inspirational, thought provoking, sad, psychological, sincere, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, uplifting
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Miracles from Heaven (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: christian film, inspirational, thought provoking, sentimental, suspenseful, mystical, motivational, touching, sad, novela
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A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sincere, psychological, captivating, realistic, motivational, inspirational, philosophical, depressing
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The Billionaire (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Billionaire tells the story of Aitthipat Kulapongvanich and how he, at the age of nineteen, dropped out from university to launch a packaged fried seaweed business that is now Taokaenoi Food & Marketing and became one of Thailand's youngest (baht) billionaires.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: inspirational, motivational, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, uplifting