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Plot Summary:
Detective Didi serial is based on character name Bunty Sharma, who is also known as Detective Didi. Bunty is a feisty woman, who uses her attention to detail to solve puzzling crimes along with Bhim, who is an honest policeman. Both of them take on serial killers, crime lords, gangsters and all, both employing desperate measures in desperate situations. Detective Didi is a popular Indian television serial Detective and Drama serial, which premiered on December 9, 2017 on Zee TV and produced by Trilogy Krikos Production. The serial is starring Manish Goplani and Sonia Balani in lead roles. Detective Didi is directed by Vikram Ghai and Mohit Jha, and the written by Ila Bedi Dutta, Sanjay Kumar, Malavika Asthana, and Styam K. Tripathi.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
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More Than Family (2020)
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To-il tutors high school student Ho-hoon, but she soon falls in love with him and gets pregnant. The film unfolds a series of playful happenings when To-il embarks on a journey to find her birth father for the wedding, though she is living with her step-father.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
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Ride (2018)
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One Sunday in May, at home with Carolina, the hours are counted. The following Monday will have to publicly adhere to the collective emotion that overwhelmed a small community on the sea, a few kilometers from the capital. Mauro Secondari left, a young worker who fell in the factory where at least three generations passed through. And since it happened, Carolina, her partner, has remained alone, with a ten-year-old son, and with an immense effort to sink into despair over the loss of the love of his life. Why can not he cry? Why does not he go crazy with pain? Seven days have passed by now and nothing seems to have changed for her. Despite his efforts, he can not grasp the right, sacrosanct and necessary to make her feel like a normal person. One day only goes to the funeral and everyone will expect a devastated young widow. Carolina can not and must not disappoint anyone, especially herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Keys to the City (2019)
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A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, the man who has raised Russell and his brother as his own since they were kids. But when the beautiful Avery Long joins the campaign, Russell finds himself fighting to sustain everything he's worked for including his campaign for Mayor, and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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A Family On Edge (2013)
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"A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship is forever changed. Shocking secrets from past and present create intensifying tension between the brothers who find themselves faced with a perilous choice, resulting in A Family On Edge. This highly realistic urban drama is layered with unpredictable twists and turns that appeal to an intergenerational audience. This is a must see for those love suspense, drama and action.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
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As a last resort to afford her son’s cancer treatment, a widowed mother asks her manager for money, but the latter poses one condition: she must spend the night with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: children's story
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Victory! (2014)
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The main story is about Artur (Bruno Ferrari), the rich young owner of Arminho Ranch, who holds a grudge against his alleged father Gregório (AntônioGrassi). At the age of twelve, Artur, who was baptized as Mossoró, became paraplegic after he fell off a horse given by his father Gregório, who never managed to cope with this tragedy and ended up rejecting Mossoró. Clarice (Beth Goulart) is Artur's mother, Gregório's first wife, and teaches at Priscila Schiller school. She can't live with the troubled relationship between her son and her husband and decides to run away with her first born to Curacao, hiding the secret of his father's identity for years, until, upon realizing Artur's thirst for vengeance, she reveals that Gregório is not his biological father. But this doesn't alleviate his hate, and he commits his mother to a psychiatric hospital so she won't get in the way of his revenge. Clarice eventually becomes addicted to medications. Dominated by his desire for vengeance, Artur.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: action adventure, soap opera
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Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 98 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
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The Bradys (1990)
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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A family must deal with the unresolved emotions and misunderstandings that deeply affect their relationships with each other. From the mother that wants to graduate from her marriage, to the daughter who discovers her husband's well-hidden secret, the family must learn to rely on and communicate with each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
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A young woman is forced to return to her trailer-park beginnings after her political career is derailed by a sex scandal.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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I Am... (2019)
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Each hour-long film follows a different women as they experience “moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal”.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
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The A Word (2016)
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The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
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Pyarey Afzal (2013)
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Young man confronts his forbidden love and situation changes dramatically as things starts to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 106
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Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 229
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 29
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
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Focuses on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 178
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Spain
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