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Plot Summary:
Yesterday Girl is an acerbic, deliriously fractured, incisive, and darkly comic satire on a young German woman (and archetypal embodiment of the postwar generation), Anita G.'s (Alexandra Kluge) search for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, experimental, art house
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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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Occasional Work of a Female Slave (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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The Pacifist (1970)
Plot Summary:
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political
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House of Little Deaths (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eight women wake up every morning, get dressed, eat, put on make-up, do their hair, dress up and get ready for a grueling, demeaning night of work. They're the staff at a brothel outside a major American city, serving the spoiled, rich, entitled and curious. House of Little Deaths spends a week with women who've been reduced to objects in the eyes of everyone outside the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: art house
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Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986)
Plot Summary:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Yuniol (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Yuniol" Perez and Alberto "Junior" Rios come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose affection makes up for the absence of his father. Juan and his mother survive in a tough and impoverished Barrio on the outskirts of the capital city. Behind every happy moment lies an ominous sense of despair. Yet the joyful Dominican way of life for those surviving on the margins serves as a testament to people anywhere confronted with poverty and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Nel giardino delle rose (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, soap opera
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Odds and Ends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Essay film by Alexander Kluge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: experimental, semi documentary
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Class Relations (1984)
Plot Summary:
A young man (Christian Heinisch), recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: political, contemplative, masterpiece
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Embryo (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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A Lonely Woman (1987)
Plot Summary:
The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Thank You All Very Much (1969)
Plot Summary:
Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. Through a friend, she is introduced to rising TV newsreader/announcer George Matthews (Ian McKellen) and after a further chance meeting and a tumble on the sofa, she finds herself pregnant from her first sexual encounter. A failed attempt at self-abortion just re-inforces Rosamund's resolve to have the child - leaving her on a solitary and at times dismal path through pregnancy and into motherhood, aided only by close friend Lydia (Eleanor Bron). Will she get through it? Will her child? And will she let Matthews know that he is actually the father?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Not Reconciled (1965)
Plot Summary:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward. Terms such as “interwar period” and “post-war period” are blown up with a single cut, word or click of a billiard ball. Not Reconciled remains one of the most important German film of the past fifty years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, experimental, controversial
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The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
Plot Summary:
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: art house
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Babai (2015)
Plot Summary:
10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Kosovo, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, art house
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The Rain People (1969)
Plot Summary:
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Amir (2016)
Plot Summary:
Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, experimental
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Maggie Black (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Plot Summary:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice’s grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, black and white, surreal, stylized, art house, cult classic, psychological, poetic, inspirational, spiritual
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Heart of Glass (1976)
Plot Summary:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, psychological, serious
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Vagabond (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, disturbing, art house, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, social, retro
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Kings of the Road (1976)
Plot Summary:
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences. The film features stunning black-and-white cinematography from Robbie Muller and a pensive score from Improved Sound Limited.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: road movie, contemplative, black and white, spiritual, art house, postmodern, cult classic, poetic, psychological, atmospheric
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Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, serious, rough, realistic, poetic, slow cinema, contemplative, sad, art house
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Parisienne (2015)
Plot Summary:
The new film from Lebanese director Danielle Arbid follows a young Arab immigrant in Paris, whose encounters with three men reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, psychological, tense, touching, suspense
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, touching, atmospheric, emotional, bleak, lyrical, visual, philosophical, art house
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Central Station (1998)
Plot Summary:
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, emotional, road movie, realistic, art house, art film, crying, spiritual, mesmerizing
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, serious, realistic, avant garde, contemplative, tense, inspirational, art house
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I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife Erika. But when he is unable to keep up this life-style, his story takes a horrendous turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy