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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family ...
Style:
anthology, melancholic, existential, multicultural
Plot:
coming of age, moral ambiguity, realism, ethical dilemma, oppression, loneliness, family conflict, loss of innocence, working class, humanism, intimate, identity crisis ...
Place:
hungary, india, budapest
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
Style:
art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Estonia
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A postman endeavors to fly to the moon in one breath so he can deliver a package.
Style:
philosophical, poetic, allegory, existential, reflective ...
Plot:
determination, quest, perseverance, humanism, odyssey, magic realism, minimalism, travel, stop motion
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A six-unit story about the dedication and sacrifice of young citizens in different industries.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, anthology
Plot:
youth, patriotism, dedication, sacrifice, duty, public service, community service, resilience, heroism, progress, communist party, city life ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
A story about a gipsy girl Kati who moves from Hungarian province to Budapest and starts going to school.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
discrimination, children, racial prejudice, social realism, school, migration, city life, humanism, coming of age, class conflict, empathy, poverty ...
Place:
budapest, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Saint-Rupert, Basse Lozère, the son of a family of garbage collectors, Pissenlit, who has played the mentally deficient since childhood so as not to be forced to go to school, is in fact a prodigy in mathematics: by reading a book found in a ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, experimental, tragicomedy
Plot:
mathematics, prodigy, small town, genius, father son relationship, working class, family bonds, humanism, family drama, poverty, class struggle, secret identity ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running ...
Style:
satirical, slapstick, period piece, lighthearted, black comedy ...
Plot:
student, satire, bureaucracy, art school, social commentary, misunderstanding, humanism, sculpture, professor, jealousy, sexuality, slice of life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasili Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, light hearted
Plot:
provincial life, travelogue, marriage, social satire, humanism, city life, slice of life, character study, village, train, villager, holiday ...
Time:
70s
Place:
russia, siberia, moscow russia, black sea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In this meditative film, the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, and the drama arises out of the timeless but still contemporary issues of their lives.
Style:
meditative, slow cinema, independent film, period drama
Plot:
african, poverty, everyday life, social commentary, class struggle, social realism, social inequality, oppression, resistance, humanism, protest, family life ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
africa, ethiopia
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Three interludes about the need to relate to one's work with one's soul, and then the world will be colored with all the colors of the rainbow.
Style:
art house, allegory, philosophical, avant garde, reflective ...
Plot:
creative process, spiritual awakening, surrealism, humanism, everyday life, bittersweet, urban, singer, museum, groom, toys, store ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, emotional, period piece, inspirational
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hospital, medicine, humanism, everyday life, social realism, intimate, patient, doctor, nurse, infidelity, physician, medical profession ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Mullum malarum (1978) wriiten for screen and directed by Mahandran, based on the novel of the same by Umachandran which was published in Kalki in the year of 1966. The movie deals with the brother sister relationship between Kaali and valli, ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
brother sister relationship, village life, humanism, social realism, class conflict, moral ambiguity, tragedy, anger, drunkenness, fired from the job, guilt, marriage ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style:
disturbing, touching, sincere, thought provoking, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, world war two, memory, society, life is a bitch, destiny, life & death, justice, hopes, loss, nostalgia, social realism ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Style:
historical drama, inspirational, period piece, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot:
racial injustice, african american family, social commentary, poverty, hardship, resilience, family bonds, education, sacrifice, depression era, humanism, coming of age ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Style:
slow cinema, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic, poetic ...
Plot:
identity, getting home, mother son relationship, character study, minimalism, train travel, nostalgia, portrait, realism, intimate, slice of life, emigration ...
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, corsica
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
James Stewart reprises his stage and 1950 film role as Elwood P. Dowd in this 1972 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie.
Style:
comedy drama, lighthearted, feel good, absurd, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mental institution, friendship, humanism, acceptance, mental health, family conflict, small town, escape from reality, mistaken identity, bittersweet, social satire, hospital ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, absurd, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
communism, post war, irony, political satire, dark humor, small town life, bittersweet, bureaucracy, everyday life, humanism, moral ambiguity, social realism ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, inventor, friendship, character study, intimate, bittersweet, small town, humanism, loneliness, loss of innocence, nostalgia, mysticism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their ...
Style:
emotional, intense, psychological, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
terrorism, realism, bombing, anti war, moral dilemma, revenge, family tragedy, humanism, underground movement, guerilla warfare, forgiveness, politics ...
Time:
70s
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, conscience, redemption, religious conflict, moral dilemma, guilt, sacrifice, forbidden love, church, political persecution, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly cab driver, heads to Jerusalem to find the men who ...
Style:
emotional, historical drama, reflective, period piece, educational ...
Plot:
coming of age, father son relationship, war trauma, national identity, boyhood, grief, road trip, memory, post war, humanism, investigation, mourning ...
Place:
jerusalem, tel aviv israel, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, redemption, personal growth, identity, estrangement, parenting, intimate, honesty, reconciliation, character study, humanism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the Romanian front near the Austro-Hungarian border during World War I, a multinational group witnesses a hanging and other military deceptions.
Style:
melancholic, bleak, atmospheric, romantic drama, political drama
Plot:
world war one, desertion, hanging, identity crisis, loyalty, moral dilemma, death, tragedy, honor, ethnic conflict, nationalism, court martial ...
Time:
1910s, year 1916
Place:
transylvania, romania, balkan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Desperate for the illness of his son, the farmer steals a pearl Eufemio image of St. Lucia in the village church. Some tourists photographed the theft, and Euphemius is about to be lynched by their neighbors. Pearl disappeared swallowed by one of ...
Style:
tension, black and white, suspenseful, satirical, tragic
Plot:
small town, church, desperation, poverty, theft, religion, moral dilemma, empathy, guilt, priest, social criticism, betrayal of trust ...
Place:
mexico
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Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A school teacher uses innovative storytelling methods to help struggling students, overcoming various challenges to achieve his goal.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, motivational, uplifting, emotional
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
education, teacher, student, school, resilience, empathy, hopes, perseverance, humanism, heartwarming, coming of age, social issues ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a ...
Style:
poignant, reflective
Plot:
friendship, companionship, aging, loneliness, nostalgia, slice of life, community, realism, melancholy, intimacy, humanism, intimate ...
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