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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin's blunt and borderline ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surgeon, small town, humanism, intimate, healing, self discovery, identity crisis, bittersweet, getting home, fish out of water, nostalgia, isolation ...
Place:
maine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The journey of an old man and an EMT specialist in an ambulance becomes unexpectedly meaningful for both of them.
Style:
road movie, existential, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
character study, road trip, mortality, father son relationship, grief, aging, life & death, ambulance, reconciliation, redemption, bittersweet, slice of life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, medical drama, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, military hospital, terminal illness, nurse, soldier, world war, friendship, compassion, nurse patient relationship, bittersweet, mortality, redemption ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
burma
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216
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Style:
compassionate, emotional, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
friendship, road trip, character study, poverty, working class, social realism, realism, humanism, coming of age, class differences, male bonding, social commentary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
bolivia
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Style:
bleak, poignant, melancholic, grim, intense ...
Plot:
refugee, class conflict, moral dilemma, integrity, realism, family drama, sacrifice, betrayal, industrialization, honor, orphan, humanism ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
kolkata
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154
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 660 min.
TV show
Story:
Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík, Tomáš Juricka and Zlata Adamovská among others.
Style:
medical drama, compassionate, historical drama, period piece, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ambulance, doctor, life & death, heroism, realism, resilience, humanism, social commentary, urban, family drama, emergency, medicine ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is ...
Style:
art house, independent film, black cinema
Plot:
coming of age, african, children, intergenerational friendship, child protagonist, innocence, humanism, superstition, tenderness, empathy, boy, folklore ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
africa, west africa, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, independent film, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
construction worker, mortality, illness, cancer, working class, blue collar, aging, urbanization, social realism, humanism, realism, slice of life ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic ...
Plot:
cerebral palsy, self discovery, coming of age, transformation, personal growth, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, social problems, romantic relationship, love affair, love interest ...
Place:
madrid
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160
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Poverty-stricken Daguzi encounters a child - Mantou - floating downstream at the river bank, he decides to take him by his side as his son, with compassion and affection.
Style:
emotional, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
riverbank, compassion, poverty, redemption, child protagonist, loss, companionship, humanism, family drama, adoption, mourning, social commentary ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never ...
Style:
captivating, funny, satirical, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
social satire, satire, humour, political unrest, political conspiracy, political intrigue, village life, political corruption, political protest, politician, minister, political humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, trumpet player, family drama, border crossing, reconciliation, slice of life, dark humor, grandfather, midlife crisis, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
budapest, transylvania, hungary, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
FEARLESS HEART is the story of a young family stranded in the slums of New York City during the Great Depression. Gentle, believable characters make the film heartwarming and enjoyable but it has drama from one scene to another. You can't wait ...
Style:
captivating, inspirational, emotional, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
great depression, poverty, poor, faith, family drama, resilience, hopes, courage, family bonds, love, family problems, financial problem ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Style:
emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, mortality, reflection, intimate, grief, bereavement, compassion, humanism, realism, bittersweet, acceptance ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two seemingly disparate men experience powerful life lessons when a wheat harvester gives a hitch-hiking male model a ride on what feels to be the worst day of their lives, at the peak of the war in Vietnam. The harvester has just been diagnosed ...
Style:
melancholic, road movie, emotional, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
father son relationship, mortality, character study, village life, agriculture, male bonding, hitchhiking, small town, self discovery, bittersweet, drifter, coming of age ...
Place:
midwest, kansas
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, melancholic, earnest, period drama
Plot:
education, children, village life, community, literacy, social change, empowerment, female protagonist, small town, youth, colonialism, idealism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Katya Nikanorova leaves her village in order to find her loved one.
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, sentimental, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
female protagonist, village life, male protagonist, empathy, village, humanism, bittersweet, second chance, folklore, misunderstanding, class differences, escape ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- ...
Style:
dramatic, existential, melancholic, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
character study, illness, mortality, terminal illness, identity crisis, transformation, actor's life, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, showbiz, resilience ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, reflective, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
artist, self discovery, personal growth, choice, identity, character study, relationships, love triangle, humanism, slice of life, coming of age, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, slovakia, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece
Plot:
writers, character study, bohemian, rejection, prison, humanism, young man, introspection, escape, rebellion, women, coming of age ...
Time:
60s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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456
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, emotional, poignant, bleak ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, trauma, resilience, loss, grief, survival, symbolism, hopes, national identity, mourning, character study, rebirth ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
soviet union, armenia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why. How he is taking care of his little infant sister all alone, though he himself is barely ten years old. Neighbours help and try to figure out what should be done with the two children. Like old ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, life is a bitch, child as adult, dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, realism, youth, family problems, single parent, child protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan ...
Style:
poignant, medical drama, touching, period drama
Plot:
mental illness, lobotomy, doctor, euthanasia, death of protagonist, tragic love, forbidden love, tragedy, psychiatric hospital, doctor patient relationship, sadness, grief ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country:
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In modern-day Macedonia, East Indian gypsy Taip (Miki Manojlovic) becomes friends with UN peacekeeper Riju and introduces him to his life of squalor. When Taip's mother dies, he collects government money for the funeral -- but then she comes ...
Style:
intercultural, multicultural, independent film, tragicomedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
gypsy, poverty, survival, grief, tradition, fish out of water, friendship, identity, community, humanism, moral ambiguity, provincial ...
Time:
90s
Place:
macedonia, serbia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Yugoslavia, Liechtenstein, Italy
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.
Style:
thought provoking, reflective, bleak, black and white, historical drama ...
Plot:
pacifism, conscientious objector, ethics, world war two, religion, anti war, moral dilemma, conscience, obedience, humanism, religious conflict, existentialism ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1961, 1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bleak, neorealism ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, homelessness, tragedy, survival, compassion, drifter, loneliness, class conflict, empathy, desperation, character study ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A French-American millionaire (William Holden), his girlfriend (Virna Lisi) and his war buddy (Andre Bourvil) try to grant his dying son's every wish.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, period piece, existential ...
Plot:
christmas, father son relationship, terminal illness, radiation poisoning, family drama, grief, bittersweet, childhood, loss, compassion, intimate, single father ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
corsica
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Style:
period piece, dark comedy, educational
Plot:
world war two, partisan, camaraderie, anti fascist, resistance, occupation, survival, bravery, humanism, resilience, village life, transformation ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A frustrated postman decides to fool innocent villagers in a ploy to get himself transferred. As he walks uphill to deliver his last letter, a wayfarer narrates to him the story of a Harkara, that instills guilt.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, folk tale, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
postman, guilt, character study, moral dilemma, nostalgia, memory, humanism, redemption, slice of life, empathy, legacy, social satire ...
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