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Plot Summary:
When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: epic
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Blocco 181 (2022)
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Set in the multi-ethnic communities on the outskirts of Milan, three teenagers grow up and deal with love, generational conflicts, female emancipation and, above all, power struggles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
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Brookside: Friday the 13th (1998)
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There is trouble a-plenty in store for the Corkhill clan in this video-only special. Series creator Phil Redmond has returned to pen a dramatic script which follows on from a weekend special.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Tokyo Bachelors (2019)
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Three Japanese men in their thirties and forties are professionals working in law, dentistry and banking. The friends are trusting of one another and enjoy each others' fellowship. Aside from that they are currently single. Something inside them begins ticking and they begin to wonder about the merits or necessity for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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I Order You (2015)
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Yeo Gook Dae is a talented chef who is sassy and considerate but heartbroken in the past since his divorce. His heart later on gets healed when he falls in love again. 28-year-old Park Song Ah is idling at home after quitting her job. She goes to a homemade dosirak (lunchbox) shop as her brother’s request and meets three attractive men there. The pretty and delicious food that they make touch her, and she gets her heart stolen by one of them. A cute funny story about a couple who bicker constantly but their relationship gradually blossoms into pure innocent love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
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Left-Eye Detective (2010)
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Tanaka Ainosuke was born with a weak left eye. Then one day, his older brother Yumehito dies mysteriously, allowing Ainosuke to receive a cornea transplant from him. After the surgery, whenever there is a shock to his left eye he sees strange images. Ainosuke assumes that the images might be clues to his brother's death and starts an investigation with the help of his junior high school nurse Sayama Hitomi. But just when their probe begins, an unidentified criminal organization appears to disrupt their investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Wild Mussels (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: masterpiece
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Jon (1983)
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Film by Jaakko Pyhälä.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min
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If There Is No Tomorrow (2020)
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I Am Yu Huanshui is a story for the underdogs about a man who tolerates as much as he can, yet things change when he discovers that he is terminal ill.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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If Time Flows Back (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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True Love 18 (2002)
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Xia Xiao Tong leads a complicated life. Between a physically and verbally abusive mother and her rebellious best friend who is constantly getting into trouble, she has to work hard to focus on her dream of becoming a beautician. However, when a handsome new teacher, He Fan, arrives at the school, things begin to get even more complicated as she starts to fall for him.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
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White Night (1995)
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Directed by Arnon Zadok.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min
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The Natives (2015)
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The inhabitants of Bevergem can at least be called special. One day, stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder also moves in. Why? Nobody knows. And he keeps quiet himself. The inhabitants of Bevergem are charmed by the presence of the eccentric rock 'n' roll figure, but it soon becomes clear that the villagers themselves are even more eccentric. Each of them confides in outsider Freddy and all kinds of petty bourgeois intrigues surface between noisy alpha males (and females) on the one hand and well-behaved, clumsy underdogs on the other. In the run-up to the annual village festivals, things get rather heated, but Freddy watches all the fuss and remains the unmoved mover at all times.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: epic
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Love Yourself (2020)
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Television reporter Sun Yihe, corporate manager Ren Ran, the optimistic Dingding and single mother Xue Kairui are all on the cusp of turning thirty and have reached career bottlenecks. Their love lives don’t go too smoothly either, as all sorts of conflicts and problems start to surface when they begin dating.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Unrequited Love (2017)
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At a university football team reunion, former team manager Mitsuki Hiura confesses that she killed a person to quarterback Tetsuro Nishiwaki. She also reveals that as a result of a gender identity disorder, she is now living as a man. Tetsuro and his friends were puzzled by the events leading to her behaviour. They try to protect their old friend as they gradually discover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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The Underclass (2020)
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After getting dropped from an elite program, a student gets tangled in the affairs of a high school gang while trying to find her own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Ruri's Island (2005)
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Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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dele (2018)
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Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late father. At the request of clients, Sakagami works together with a freelance jack-of-all-trades Mashiba to delete all unfavorable digital records of their clients left in their computers and smartphones after they die. They are not supposed to see inside the files but when they feel something strange in the client’s death, they cannot help getting involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Hard to Say I Love You (2010)
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Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister. This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: shoujo
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TEPPACHI! (2022)
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The protagonist Hiroshi Kokusho was an ace rugby player in his high school days attracting national attention, but his forceful play led to an injury. Condemned by his teammates and becoming isolated, he retires. After graduation, he lives on his own but fails to get a regular job, living a dizzying, carefree, day-to-day life. One day, after getting involved in a fight leads to the point of getting the police involved, he is fired from his job at a construction site and is evicted from the apartment he lives in for nonpayment of rent, leaving him at complete loss. Then a man comes to him and says, “let me introduce a job that's perfect for you!” “A dormitory and three meals included! So perfect for your physical strength which you are so proud of!” The job is in fact at a “Ground Self-Defense Force” which protects the peace and security of the country….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dramatic, exciting, serious
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Jungle Fish 2 (2010)
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A beautiful high school student, who is the top student of her class, mysteriously dies. Six of her friends who graduated from the same elementary school attempts to track down the reasons for her death by communicating in real time. While the six friends dig for the truth behind her death, they face difficulties in their studies, dropping out of school, bullying and boyfriend troubles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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How Soon Is Now? (2007)
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How Soon Is Now? is a 2007 Swedish drama television serial directed by Mikael Marcimain. The narrative portrays four people who grow up Gothenburg between 1966 and 1976. The serial was produced for Sveriges Television, from a screenplay by Peter Birro.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 360 min
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Sexy Central (2019)
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In the bustling center of Hong Kong, five women reckon with betrayal, unrequited love and other matters of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Voice (2009)
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A group of five medical students take on the task of conveying the "voices of the dead." Kaji Daiki fails to get into a popular heart surgery seminar but is somehow accepted into a seminar on forensic pathology. When he approaches professor Sagawa and asks him why he ended up in the seminar, Sagawa challenges him by asking why he wants to study heart surgery. Daiki replies that medicine is meaningless after the heart stops, but Sagawa counters that medicine also applies to the dead. And so, together with fellow students Ryosuke, Kanako, Teppei and Akira, Daiki begins to explore the mysteries of death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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17 (2018)
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Abdi is torn between being a good muslim and an ordinary Norwegian teenager. He doesn't feel he lives up to expectations at home, at school, or among his friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration:
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The Cop (2012)
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Sr. Lt. Yuri Kozyrev, who served in the front-line reconnaissance is taken prisoner during the last few days of the 2nd World War. After the war ends, the Soviet authorities sentence him to life imprisonment, however, when his case is finally reopened, he is released and fully acquitted. Yuri returns to his home in a small workers' town in Moscow, to find that everything has changed during his absence. His father went missing during the war, his mother has died and his sweetheart Larissa has married Volynsky, a successful salesman. Yuri finds a job as a security guard in a warehouse, however, one day when the warehouse is broken into, Yuri becomes the chief suspect. He manages to avoid arrest and decides to find out who is responsible for the robbery. When he successfully catches the criminal, Yuri is rewarded by the KGB Head, Lavrentiy Beria himself, who appoints him Crime Investigation Department Inspector. While this prestigious position brings Yuri new cases, it also brings him face to face with dangerous criminals, colleagues, ex-comrades and his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Tong: Memories (2016)
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What makes a young boy grow up to become a legendary fighter? Lee Jung Woo has always had a short temper and doesn't like to be messed with. Growing up in Busan, he learns to fight back when he is bullied by other kids and ends up becoming a local legend and the top street fighter of Busan. His best friend is Kwon Doo Hyun, who always lives under the shadow of Jung Woo.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Otomen (2009)
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Otomen is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by manga artist Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the best-selling shōjo properties in America, since being licensed by Viz Media. The series is also licensed in France by Delcourt and in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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The Accident (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Welsh community devastated by tragedy is forced to confront difficult truths amid the search for justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Quiz Me Quick (2012)
Plot Summary:
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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Double Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
Amanda and Alex have a fling going on as they find out that their parents are getting a divorce. To complicate things, Amanda's father has met a new woman and that woman is... Alex's mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating