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Set in Kuwait in 1988, two women making their way in the boys club of the Kuwait Stock Exchange, on the eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama
Country: Kuwait
Duration: 50 min
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The Ultimatum (2009)
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The Ultimatum is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 27 May 2009 and ended on the date 7 July 2009. This drama serial consists of 30 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. Being the mid-year Channel 8 blockbuster of 2009, it was the first Channel 8 drama to be fully filmed in HD. Despite being touted as the 2009 blockbuster of the year and featuring many established actors and actresses like Zoe Tay, Li Nanxing and Fann Wong, the show's reception was lukewarm at best. Many viewers faulted the serial for improbable casting and for a lack of originality in certain parts of the scripting. The series also came under harsh criticism for being overly melodramatic. However, the performance of newcomers such as Jerry Yeo, who played an antagonist for the first time, were widely praised.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 45 min
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First Class (2014)
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Chinami works at a fabric shop, dreaming of one day working in the fashion industry. By accident, she begins work in the editing section for a fashion magazine. Chinami believes her new job may open doors for her to new opportunities, but it turns out her new job is like working in a war zone with daily fights and competitiveness between the women who work there. Can Chinami survive in such a cutthroat environment?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
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Maidens' Vow (2006)
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The history of the Phoenix Restaurant is closely intertwined with the stories of four women of different generations. It portrays the commonest marital problems and various kinds of stress suffered by women over the centuries.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
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Little Bird (2023)
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As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 46 min
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Living Towards the Sun (2020)
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It is based on the story of young cartoonist Xiong Dun who encounters double setbacks in love and the workplace. In the face of adversity, she bravely fights her illness and spreads positivity with her infectious smile. Xiang Yang is a carefree young woman who comes to Beijing to fulfill her dreams of becoming a manhua artist. After persuading her family and finally finding a job and a house, Xiong Dun settles down in Beijing. Life may be hard but Xiang Yang is surrounded by people that she loves. Unfortunately, life does not treat her kindly. Xiang Yang's boyfriend cheats on her and she experiences a setback in her career. Misfortunes come in threes as she starts to get sick. When her childhood friend forces her to go to the hospital for an examination, Xiang Yang learns that she has a tumor. From being unwilling and unable to accept her circumstances, Xiang Yang gradually finds the strength to live her life to the fullest.
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Country: China
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Through the Waves (2018)
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Due to the Korean war, Oh Bok-Sil’s family becomes separated lose everything. Not to be defeated, they live with strength as they suffer great hardships.
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Country: South Korea
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Switched at Birth (1991)
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This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her. Eventually she dies. And the couple most especially the mother, search for their real daughter. Eventually they suspect that it's a widower who has their child. Now while they try to find out if she is their daughter, the widower is advised by his attorney not to be so hasty to cooperate, cause if she is their daughter, he might lose her, and she is all he has.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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1994 (2019)
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After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
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Notre-Dame (2022)
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As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer - they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each other, smile at or help each other - so that, in the end, they may have a chance to start all over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 297 min
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
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Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Bond (2021)
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Over 30 years of social development and changes, it tells the story of the five children of the Qiao's family, Yicheng, Erqiang, Sanli, Simei, and Qiqi, supporting and relying on each other during the difficult years.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Haru and Natsu (2005)
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As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
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Gold Leaf (2021)
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In 1949, the only daughter of the largest tea factory in Taiwan was supposed to marry a man to take over her life and her father’s huge business. After she divorced, who was her own master became a question. To prove her worth, she intervenes in the family business that was in high debt. In an era when there was no "businesswoman", she led the crumbling tea factory to the world in the "tea wars”.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
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L’Ora: Ink Over Bullets (2022)
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In October 1958, the Sicilian newspaper L’ORA coins the term “MAFIA” for the very first time to denounce the endemic organized crime in the region. Shortly thereafter, a bomb detonates in front of the editorial offices; only two days later the daily reappears with the headline: ‘The Mafia may threaten us, our investigation continues.’ Inspired by true events, L’ORA takes place in Palermo of the late 50 ́s and early 1960s. Newly minted Editor-in-Chief with his group of fearless journalists focus their investigation on organized crime and its reach into every corner of church and society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
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The Fall (2023)
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A true story based on the tragic event in the life of a top-notch actor at the peak of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 43 min
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Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
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Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 250 min
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Hebe (2019)
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Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
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A Death in California (1985)
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A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her which leads to a bizarre trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Windfall and Misfortunes (2008)
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On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a fairytale for the family turned rapidly into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, fairy tale, offbeat
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Brezhnev (2005)
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About the last days of Leonid Brezhnev, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He is sick and depressed, but he is still trying to enjoy some pleasures of life. He is hunting, eating, and sleeping a lot. While awake, he is recalling his life and his career. Most depressing are his painful thoughts about his treason against Khrushchev, who promoted Brezhnev to the top. Other senile members of the Politbureau, are nervous about the choice of a successor. Andropov anxiously interrogates the doctor about Brezhnev's imminent death. He asks, "How soon?".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, political thriller, realistic, disturbing
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Money Game (2020)
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When Jeongin Bank faces bankruptcy, the Financial Services Commission aims to preempt Korea from another economic meltdown as it did in the 1997 financial crisis. With the Korean government having a substantial stake in the bank, things get serious. Chae Yi Hun is the chief of financial policy at the FSC. He hides the fact that renowned economist Chae Byung Hak is his father. Heo Jae is the chairman of the FSC and has ambitious intentions of fortifying the country's financial infrastructure. Lee Hye Joon is a girl who came from nothing. She works at the Ministry of Economy and Finance and wants to see the utopian economy with change. The money game begins now.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Brief Encounters (2016)
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In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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House of Hancock (2015)
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House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, epic, saga
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POSE (2018)
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A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, entertaining, educational, visual, powerful, inspirational, sexy, cynical, queer cinema
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Super Pumped (2022)
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Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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The Dropout (2022)
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The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people's health in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 403 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Crematorium (2011)
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Crematorio is a Spanish TV series written and directed by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. It is based on Rafael Chirbes' novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 397 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic
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Billions (2016)
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A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, intellectual, political, smart, intelligent, entertaining, queer cinema
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Dopesick (2021)
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The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 492 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, anime, spectacular, medical drama, weird
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Inventing Anna (2022)
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A journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, smart, historical drama, social