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Plot Summary:
A look into the life of the newly elected Prime Minister of Iceland, who starts losing his grip on reality and the effect that has on his family and the Icelandic nation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 50 min
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The Heiress (2020)
Plot Summary:
A story that follows Han Yuanniang, the eldest daughter of a minister who disguises herself as a man in order to pretend to be her twin brother. She encounters the prince thus igniting an unexpected romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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H2o (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 177 min
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Anna (2022)
Plot Summary:
It all starts with a simple lie. Lee Yu-mi takes on a privileged young woman's identity, leading her to a completely different life. When she marries a wealthy man whose ambitions gradually put them in the public eye, her perfectly-built persona begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
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Limbo (2023)
Plot Summary:
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My and Gloria. The news that their sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
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Secret Campus (2023)
Plot Summary:
Four stories of high school and college students whispered around campuses. Real or fabricated, it's up to you to discover.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Bright Future (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bright Future tells the story of county party secretary Mei Xiaoge (played by Hu Ge) and the reforms he and his colleagues introduce to bring about much needed change and development to the lives of the people of Guangming county. Given the subject, it does appear to be a more serious themed show. The series is a key project by China’s National Radio and Television Administration.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Agent (2019)
Plot Summary:
'The business end' of soccer as seen through the eyes of a fierce, mercurial football agent, wrestling with a fatal secret he buried six years ago, on the brink of breaking big or losing everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration:
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Las Pelotaris (2023)
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Las Pelotaris 1926 tells the story of Chelo, Idoia and Itzi, three female pelota players who struggle to achieve their dreams in the 1920s, but these successful sportswomen will have to face the consequences of breaking the mold in a world where ambition and sexual freedom were denied to women.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration:
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Old Land (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three women, three generations, one house in the 'Altes Land'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: sexy
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Bad Behaviour (2023)
Plot Summary:
At the Silver Creek boarding school for girls in the Australian outback, students are largely left to their own devices in their spare time. This series tells the gripping and unsparing story of how the desire to belong sets in motion a cruel dynamic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min
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1994 (2019)
Plot Summary:
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
Duration:
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Wave Makers (2023)
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Weng Wen-fang (Hsieh Ying-hsuan) came from a political family. She joined the Justice Party as the deputy director and spokesperson of the Publicity Department, after failing to be re-elected as a member of the Council. She led the publicity team in realizing their goals, but not without facing many challenges to their faith and values.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: banned, political drama
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Legal Affairs (2021)
Plot Summary:
An up-to-every-trick media lawyer handles her clients' affairs while discovering a mysterious connection between old family baggage and current political controversy in modern Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: political
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News of a Kidnapping (2022)
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The early 90s, Colombia. The government tries to combat drug trafficking with extradition laws. Maruja Pachón and Beatriz Villamizar - the wife and sister of congressman Alberto Villamizar - are kidnapped by the Extraditables. The police begin a search for clues that could help them close in on the kidnappers, and Alberto joins the operation to rescue his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Colombia
Duration: 54 min
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Ask Martha (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marta is a brilliant lawyer with an absolute rule: she only protects women. She is ambitious and can win any case, though her meth- ods may not always be above board. Martha’s clients are very di- verse - from the most successful women to victimized teenagers. She does not select them by affluence her core goal is to protect those who need protection. Martha is ready to use any means, even those that are on the wrong side of the law, whether it be, blackmailing, bluffing, bribery, elaborate hijinks. even in the modern world, a woman can be completely defenseless when the deck is stacked. Ask Martha and she will surely find a way out of any situation. However, the cost of it is not always clear even for herself. Martha protects other women, but is not able to deal with her own problems. Winning a high-profile case - she loses her husband a custody of her own daughter, Sasha (9). How can she rewind it all? How can she bring back the most the dearest she had?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
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Presidentti (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 511 min
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Assembly (2015)
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Jin Sang Pil is elected as a member of the national assembly. Prior to becoming a national assembly member, he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He is simple, brave and righteous, but his work as a national assembly member is poor. With the help of his aid Choi In Kyung, Jin Sang Pil is able to become a honorable national assembly member.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
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The Dismissal (1983)
Plot Summary:
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political
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The Patients of Dr. García (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 1936 Madrid, an idealistic doctor's life changes forever when he shelters a wounded spy and joins a decades-long fight against the spread of fascism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Others (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two neighboring couples are shocked after their teenage children's fight, with absurd consequences. What could be a common misunderstanding grows and reveals the limits and influence of parents in raising children. A modern series about where lack of dialogue can lead people to.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
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Hearts (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows a pioneer of Italian cardiology and a specialist who returns from America and has to struggle with male stereotypes. The challenge of research and above all the fervent and driving atmosphere of the progressive Italy of the sixties.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
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Hospital at the End of the City - The New Generation (2008)
Plot Summary:
The further sequel to the legendary serial takes us right up to the present. At the 50th anniversary of the regional hospital in Bor we enjoy a reunion with all the characters who are still working at the hospital, we will be intrigued to see how the old hospital traditions are being taken up - or not being taken up - by their children, and we meet new characters who will bring new turns to the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
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Exposed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Annie has a plan for her 300k student loans: become a porn star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Surrogate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jane Martin (25 years old), young graduate, is recruited by the Doctor Faye's clinical, "the clinical for healthy sex". Through her maturity, self-confidence and great sexual experience, she requires the obvious qualities to become a good therapist. But Jane does not respect all the rules with her patients and becomes more closer with them. Ignoring the warnings of Dr. Faye, Jane puts her patients and herself in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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The Cry of the Butterflies (2023)
Plot Summary:
This series examines the events leading up the brutal murder of Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal and her two activist sisters, on the orders of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious regime, but also come to mark the global fight against gender-based violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Motion of No Confidence (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
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Japan Sinks: People of Hope (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama gathers young and talented bureaucrats and launches Japan Future Promotion Conference, which is to benefit the future of Japan. Keishi Amami of the Ministry of the Environment and Kōichi Tokiwa of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry are members of that conference.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, anime
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22 July (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story about the people working on July 22 2011, when a terror attack happened in Norway.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, bad ending, suspense
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Life in a Fishbowl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy, anthology, gloomy
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Borgen: Power & Glory (2010)
Plot Summary:
Borgen is a drama series about the fight for political power – and about the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage. The central figure is the 40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg, who through her idealism and huge effort secures her party a landslide victory and thus faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible. Privately, Birgitte leads a happy family life with her husband and two children. She is a woman with a burning commitment, a big heart and little time. Will she be able to be a successful and professional top politician and stay true to herself at the same time?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: political, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, intellectual, atmospheric, noir, clever, talky