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Plot Summary:
Yehuda Levy, a famous actor and revered fear mature 35-year-old, suffers from panic attacks, binge eating and mood swings after a difficult separation. It meets the latest candidate to be a girl his wife and the two formed a special bond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, clever, realistic, witty
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Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (2008)
Plot Summary:
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, sex comedy, clever
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Gossip Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic series of webisodes following several characters maturing through gay and straight issues facing everyone, regardless of sexuality, orientation, gender or age. There is more to the story as each webisodes unfolds. www.gossipboyseries.com.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic
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BeTipul (2005)
Plot Summary:
BeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. Filmmaker Ari Folman served as the head writer of the series.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Srugim (2008)
Plot Summary:
Srugim is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 2008 and 2012. It was directed by Eliezer "Laizy" Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon. The series depicted the lives of five national religious single men and women who reside in Jerusalem; the title is a reference to the crocheted skullcaps worn by men of that denomination. Srugim, which dealt with controversial issues in the Religious Zionist society in Israel, caused a public uproar within that sector. It enjoyed high ratings and won five Israeli Academy of Film and Television Awards.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, talky
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Real Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Marco Valois wants to direct a serious movie inspired by the life of a soldier living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He soon realizes that the young soldier home from Afghanistan won't open up that easily. Marco, willing to do just about anything to get his story, follows Éric Lebel to his hometown.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Voice Over (2014)
Plot Summary:
A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, humorous, realistic, witty
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Self Made (2014)
Plot Summary:
Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, thought provoking, clever, offbeat, witty
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Gigantic (2010)
Plot Summary:
A half-hour dramedy that takes a fictional look at the glitzy, chaotic and often hilarious life of being a Hollywood "it" kid. Set in the world of the Hollywood elite packed with A-list parties and privilege, it tells a coming-of-age story infused with pop culture fame. It's not easy being teenagers growing up in the shadow of their parents' superstar status, and "Gigantic" skewers the celebrity machine while exposing the humanity and comedy beneath the glamour of Tinseltown. With an insider look behind the tabloids and gossip blogs, it features an ensemble cast that includes: 17-year-old Anna (Grace Gummer) and her younger brother Walt (Tony Oller), both kids of a famous movie star couple; their best friends Piper (Jolene Purdy) and Finn (Malcolm Kelley); frenemy Vanessa (Gia Mantegna) and Anna's boy crush with a big secret Joey (Ryan Rottman).
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light, sincere, offbeat, witty
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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of Kenny Everett's struggle to achieve personal and professional fulfilment.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Lotus Eaters (2011)
Plot Summary:
Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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The High Pressures (2014)
Plot Summary:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new relationship: Alicia, a young nurse who will get to calm him down. Miguel will try to finish his work even though he mostly prefers to film the natives he meets, the movements and faces of his friends, the trains coming or the sea. A journey around the uprooting (the cinema) and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Truckers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more connected, the series uses the truck driver, alone in his cab, as a way to explore how isolated we can become within modern society and the importance of real human connection. These are powerful, moving stories, but the tone is always joyous and each story is one of redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Brahmin Bulls (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers that his father has actually come in search of an old flame. A heartfelt and humorous exploration of the ever-evolving relationship between a father and son, the women in their lives, and the powerful secrets they keep.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, semi serious, tense, captivating
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Moving On (2009)
Plot Summary:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Dirt (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, realistic, sexy, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, cynical, biting, sexual
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Quarterlife (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of twenty-something artists are coming of age in the digital generation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, gloomy
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Blockbuster (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black and white
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Extras (2005)
Plot Summary:
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, funny, mockumentary, hilarious, light, feel good
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HaMidrasha (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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One Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
A first-born Chinese girl adopted by English parents gets called back to Guangzhou when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in her son. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave her away and the brother she’s never met?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
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The Best Years (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Best Years is a Canadian teen drama series set in Boston, Massachusetts. The series was created by producer and writer of Degrassi: The Next Generation, Aaron Martin. The first season was shown on Global in Canada and The N in the United States. The second season was shown in the U.S. on The N and in Canada on E!, CanWest's secondary network.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, sexual, sexy
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The '70s (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter (Guy Torry), Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), Byron (Brad Rowe) and Christie (Amy Smart) find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle. Peter Werner directs this poignant television miniseries originally aired on NBC.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, clever, realistic, talky
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Jerusalem Brew (2003)
Plot Summary:
The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, identifying with his grandfather, Eliahu, who lives with the family and has close bonds and a strong influence. The middle child, Itzik, rejects both going into his father's business to be a musician; and Orthodoxy. Strong-willed, feisty Ariella is finishing high school and considering her options. Many scenes take place in the small Tunisian synagogue headed by Eliahu, and involve the power struggles among the regulars there. The gut-punching drama is largely the work of Oscar-winning director Yankul Goldwasser, who previously directed the popular series Reaching for Heaven; and young director Nir Bergman, who won the Israeli Academy Award for his first film, Broken Wings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Plot Summary:
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, independent film, mockumentary, humorous, fake documentary, cult film
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The Lie (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, mumblecore, captivating, contemplative, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, offbeat, humorous, witty, contemplative
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Moving Wallpaper (2008)
Plot Summary:
Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which aired directly after the Moving Wallpaper episode about its production. The second series was based around the production of a "zombie show" called Renaissance. Ben Miller confirmed in May 2009 on his Twitter account that no further series will be made. The title, "Moving Wallpaper", is a disparaging term applied to uninspiring TV shows, or to television in general, referring to the perception that modern television viewers are "mindless absorbers of images", as if staring at wallpaper.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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All the Light in the Sky (2012)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy
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Beautiful Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug-fueled bodyguard, Angry Jack, to get close to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film