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Dance Town (2010)
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Dance Town (2010)
Original name: 댄스 타운
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: social differences, starting over, life is a bitch, injustice, couples, society, political corruption, dishonesty, state affairs, couple relations, forceful separation, hopes, refugee, inter-korean relations, misfit, social misfits, rape, death of husband, human nature
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: korea, asia, north korea, south korea
Keyword: korean

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Letter to the King (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
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Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
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Iron Island (2005)
Genre: Drama
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Third Person Singular Number (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min.
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Country: USA
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