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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
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Magpie (2019)
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After serving 17 years in prison for a murder conviction, Asa Katz receives an early release on the condition that he continues to cooperate with the police as their jailhouse informant. Asa returns to his old neighborhood and to his older brother, David, a successful realtor who made his money in dubious business dealings. Conflicting interests put Asa in precarious situations, and he finds himself torn between his life of crime and his work with the police, all the while skillfully navigating both worlds to his advantage.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration:
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Legacy (2022)
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Set in the late 1920s, it follows the three daughters of Shanghai department store giant Xinghua as they go head to head against each other to determine the true heir who will ensure the family’s continued prosperity.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Albert II (2013)
Plot Summary:
Largely fictionalized, partly fictitious chapters from the life of the Belgian royal family during and around the reign of king Albert II. Besides his duties, including signing a more federal regime for the Belgian state, focus is on his marital troubles, illegal offspring and unruly sons. Albert's elder brother and predecessor Boudewijn I and his widow Fabiola also play a largely fictionalized part.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
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Girls (2020)
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Follow the experiences of four best friends: Luna, Amélie, Cleo and Fleur are best friends. They therefore support each other through thick and thin, at school and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
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Seven Brothers (1989)
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Seven brothers takes place during ten years of the seven deadbeat brothers living with their mother in Jukola, Finland. After their mother's death the brothers are forced to change their lifestyle and try to become socially accepted citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 804 min
Plot tags: folk tale, avant garde
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Golden Fiddles (1991)
Plot Summary:
Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was re-edited into a TV movie in 1994.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: family saga
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Secret Lives (1999)
Plot Summary:
Salatut elämät is a Finnish television series that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. It was the first, and so far only, Finnish daily soap opera. During the series' 14-year run, over 2,500 episodes have been aired. On 17 August 2009, it was announced that Salatut elämät will be on the air until the spring 2015 making the series the second longest-lasting drama series of all time in Finland, only behind Yle TV1's Kotikatu. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment block in Helsinki. The series primarily centres around the residents of Pihlajakatu and its neighbouring areas. Only three of the original twenty characters Seppo, Ismo and Kalle, still remain in the series, and most of the series' current characters have made their debuts in 2008 or later. MTV3 also airs reruns of the series every weekend. In the summer, the channel airs reruns of the series; in the summer of 2011, episodes from the season 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 were aired. Four web spin-off series have been made; Romeo & Rafael Desperados in 2008, Lillukanvarsia in 2010–2011, Tuuliranta in 2011–2012 and "Young man cash man" in 2013.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: brutal, social, absurd, suspenseful, soap opera, cliffhanger, sexploitation film
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Season of Sex (2022)
Plot Summary:
Season of sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
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Behind the Sun (2001)
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Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, intense, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, lyrical, philosophical, sad, spectacular
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To Take a Wife (2004)
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The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mourning Becomes Electra (1978)
Plot Summary:
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min
Plot tags:
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The Weissensee Saga (2010)
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Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, poignant, compassionate, romantic, atmospheric, touching, soap opera
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Unseen (2020)
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The fiction series UNSEEN tells the story of how, over ten days, people and their families face a mysterious phenomenon : some of them become invisible. Out of sight, the invisibles can do anything without being seen, nobody to punish them, nobody to compliment them, nobody to judge them, - But is it really an advantage? Some of them are using invisibility as a tool of revenge or domination, others live it as an exile. But all of them will have to make a moral choice: is their invisibility a power or a handicap? What is left for humanity when no one can see us anymore? Facing the unimaginable, seen and unseen will try, each in their own way, to save their own world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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Ramo (2020)
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The series will focus on the conflict between the two families and a great love that will flourish between this struggle.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, heartbreaking, colorful, romantic, breathtaking, compassionate, captivating, colourful
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At Home in the Mountains (2018)
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The family feud has gone on for decades. Sebastian cannot forgive his erstwhile friend Lorenz for causing the accidental death of his son. Nor can Lorenz forgive himself. His daughter Lisa has just come home, a lawyer no less, determined to take the feud to court and right an old wrong. Although emotions run high as old wounds are reopened, Sebastian finally seems ready to forgive. Yet conflict is still rife between his sons and Lorenz's daughters. An impulsive one-night stand makes Marie question a lifelong hatred, while sparks fly between former childhood sweethearts Lisa and Florian. Nor are things any less turbulent among their holiday guests, who bring their own family dramas with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Home Grown (2013)
Plot Summary:
A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling, humorous
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A Shelter for Love (2012)
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Un refugio para el amor is a Mexican Spanish-language telenovela produced by Ignacio Sada Madero for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Zulianita, written by Delia Fiallo and adapted by Nora Alemán and Georgina Tinoco. Zuria Vega and Gabriel Soto star as the main protagonists, while Jessica Coch, Humberto Elizondo, Laura Flores and Frances Ondiviela star as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, soap opera, telenovela
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Abyss of Passion (2012)
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Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and they have one daughter, Elisa. Rosendo cheats on his wife with Carmina Bouvier, Estefanía's sister. Damian and Elisa become friends because Augusto and Rosendo were best friends. But one day, Rosendo and Carmina try to go away from La Ermita, the pueblo in which they live in. But, Estefanía, who had found out about their plans, wants to prevent this, shuts Carmina in her room and then goes with Rosendo in his car, trying to convince him not to run away with Carmina. They have an accident and die and everyone thinks they were lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Quiz Me Quick (2012)
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The story of five underdogs, meeting by chance during a quiz in a local pub. They get the idea of taking part in the "Superprestige", the most important quiz. The selection procedure turns out to be difficult, requiring more than just knowledge. There's even more at stake than the five had in mind. "Quiz Me Quick" follows their successes as well as their failures.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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Over Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for the former TV star. It’s a harsh environment, but also one with its own rules and traditions. John fights his old demons as well as new temptations, but quickly enters a dangerous arena but also a very lucrative trade of the docks: cocaine. John Beckers came to work at the port, but finds increasingly extreme ways to make the port work for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wicked Wicked Games (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focuses on a bitter, obsessed woman's vendetta against her former lover. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, saga
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The Bank Hacker (2021)
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After two years in prison, professional con man Alidor Van Praet needs to rebuild the illegal fortune the police seized from him. When he spots 19-year-old Jeremy Peeter’s hacking skills at a computing convention, he knows this shy teenager is the key to making it happen and to get revenge on the financial system that drove his father to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Under Fire (2021)
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A tight-knit and headstrong group of firefighters gets shook up by an abrupt change of leadership. After a fatal error during an intervention they come under scrutiny and have to fight for the survival of their beloved fire station "Post Oosteroever".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cane (2007)
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Cane is an American television drama created by Cynthia Cidre, who also served as executive producer alongside Jonathan Prince, Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony. The pilot was directed by Christian Duguay. The show chronicled the lives and internal power struggles of a powerful and wealthy Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar cane business in South Florida. Produced by ABC Studios, CBS Paramount Network Television, El Sendero Productions, Interscope Records and Once A Frog Productions, the series premiered on September 25, 2007 airing on Tuesday nights at 10:00/9:00c on CBS, following The Unit. The series premiere of the show brought in 11 million viewers, the best in its time slot since 1999's Judging Amy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, gloomy, tv series pilot
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Cordon (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cordon seals off a section of Antwerp when a deadly virus threatens the city. People are left to their own devices which brings out the best but also the worst.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, interesting
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Sangre de mi tierra (2017)
Plot Summary:
American drama series about two rival family wine farmers in Napa, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wounded Heart (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ferit Sancakzade is the cherished heir apparent of one of the well-established families of Antakya. Ayse, on the other hand, is a lively young girl living in Istanbul who has managed to stand on her own feet. Ferit, who is about to marry Hande, the daughter of the Varoglu Family, the choice of his family, confronts the facts before the wedding and his world turns upside down. Shaken by betrayal, Ferit's path crosses with Ayse. The two find themselves in a difficult marriage game after their accidental meeting. The story, which takes place in Antakya, an ancient land that is the cradle of civilizations, turns into a true love story by testing friendship with love, past with the future, and passion with patience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Swell (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a big storm in the Netherlands and Begium comes down should prime minister Hans Kreuger the order taking: Can we evacuate four million people? But the storm can login deflect and the evacuation of civilians, hospitals and prisons takes sure 4 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, intense, disaster movie
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About Her Brother (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching, serious, entertaining
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Soul Food (2000)
Plot Summary:
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic, talky, sitcom, black cinema