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Plot Summary:
Based in Australia’s red heart, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend. This series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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The Secret Daughter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A part-time country pub singer has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier which triggers a series of events that will change her life forever. Explore the worlds of 'the haves' and 'the have nots' with heart, humour, romance and music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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Life after all (2003)
Plot Summary:
La vie quand même (LIFE AFTER ALL) is another film in a series collectively called 'Tales from the Orphanage'. The story is simple on the surface (children coping with the sudden loss of parents), but in the hands of writer Sophie Tasma and director Olivier Péray this storyline unfolds a tale of brotherly love that is well worth watching.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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Bardo Blues (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Another Forever (2016)
Plot Summary:
You know the moment when your sorrow is so profound that you can't help but imagine yourself somewhere far away... this is the story of someone who did more than just imagine.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, USA, Colombia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Come Together (1971)
Plot Summary:
An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gilded Youth (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story of two girls from a French suburb and their road trip adventures along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Courthouse on Horseback (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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La Vie devant elles (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the 1970s, in the north of France, an explosion occurs in a mine. Three men and their secrets are buried there. Alma, Solana and Caroline have to fight for the honor of their fathers, take their destinies in hand, and emancipate themselves in a period of great social upheaval. Directed by Gabriel Aghion, this series takes us deep into the heart of three destinies in one generation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags:
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Katie: Portrait of A Centerfold (1978)
Plot Summary:
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Mi Socio (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Beyond the Known World (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must journey into the Himalayas in search for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand, India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu (2022)
Plot Summary:
A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological horror
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Hiding (2015)
Plot Summary:
In order to survive, Lincoln Swift must take his family into witness protection and give evidence against his former employer, vicious crime boss Nils Vandenberg. With new names and fresh identities, the Swifts are ripped from their Gold Coast home and dumped in Western Sydney. But dislocation puts immense pressure on everyone in the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Havlandet (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Bus (2021)
Plot Summary:
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places (2020)
Plot Summary:
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Crash Palace (2001)
Plot Summary:
The trials and tribulations of a group of young backpackers living in the same Sydney hostel.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Shortland Street (1992)
Plot Summary:
Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centering around the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 5000 episodes and 20 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in New Zealand. The show was originally screened as five half-hour episodes each week and initially receiving mixed reviews on its premiere. After its launch it dropped in ratings and would have been cancelled if TVNZ had not ordered a year's worth of episodes in advance. By early 1993, the show's rating picked up and TVNZ renewed the production. Today, it is one of New Zealand's highest-rated shows, frequently making AGB Nielsen Media Research's top 5 programmes of the week.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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A Thousand Goodnights (2019)
Plot Summary:
To carry out her dad's wish and discover her roots, Dai Tian-qing embarks on a journey around Taiwan and finds love and redemption on the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Twelve Nights (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Kyung and and Hyun Oh surprisingly keep bumping into each other over the course of three different trips and end up spending 12 nights together. Could this be just coincidence or something much more?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Stateless (2020)
Plot Summary:
Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 316 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms is a six-part Australian drama miniseries, screened on Network Ten on 15 May 2012. Bikie Wars is based on the book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey. The screenplay was written by Greg Haddrick, Roger Simpson and Jo Martino. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis. Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms cost A$6,000,000 to make.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, disturbing, rough, captivating, bleak, realistic
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Craig Ross Jr.'s Monogamy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four couples from all over the country travel to Los Angeles to undergo a new type of treatment called Swap Therapy to repair their broken marriages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tangle (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald. There has so far been 3 seasons. Episodes of Tangle are now going to be shown on Foxtel channel, SoHo.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Burden of Truth (2018)
Plot Summary:
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, talky
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The Newsreader (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 313 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Lambs of God (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, odd, interesting, masterpiece
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Small Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified teacher, makes a marriage of convenience to Gilbert Joseph, paying for his passage to England on condition he sends for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, family saga, saga, period drama
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The Art of Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Vida (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their mother’s identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, erotic, touching, humorous, sensual, hispanic, queer cinema