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Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Brazil |
Duration | 01:49 |
A lonely beach on the southernmost coast of Brazil is the scene for two friends, on the brink of adulthood, to explore their understanding of themselves and one another. Martin (Mateus Almada) has been sent by his father to retrieve what appears to be an inheritance-related document from the family of his recently deceased and estranged grandfather. Tomaz (Mauricio Jose Barcellos) accompanies him, seemingly hoping to regain some of their former closeness. The two boys shelter themselves in a glass house, in front of a cold and stormy sea.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | France, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina |
Duration | 02:20 |
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Russia, Poland, Serbia |
Duration | 01:29 |
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Netherlands |
Duration | 01:27 |
Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Finland |
Duration | 01:30 |
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:23 |
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland |
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 02:42 |
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland |
Two grieving women - Ria, a Dublin mom whose husband discloses he's in love with a woman already pregnant, and Marilyn, a Connecticut Yankee who's son has died - swap houses for a couple months. Marilyn finds solace in Ria's garden and becomes friends with Colm, a local with a restaurant and his own demons. Ria gets a job cooking, has a date or two, and gradually comes out of her shell. Meanwhile,
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:34 |
At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of Ireland. Much to their chagrin, these modern men are joined by the brother of the bride, a crazy, unpredictable alpha male known as “The Machine”, and an explosive Id to their collective Ego. The Machine is a force of nature, and under his leadership, the men—stripped of modern comfort, convenience and, finally, clothing—must begin their journey into the wild.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | India, Netherlands |
Duration | 02:20 |
This first feature film from Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, tells three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances: a visually impaired Egyptian photographer, who after a cornea transplant has trouble adjusting to her newfound sense of sight; a devout Indian monk fighting against animal testing, who has to confront his beliefs when he is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis; and an Indian stockbroker, who after having a kidney transplant learns about the illegal trade in stolen organs and decides to help a poor victim of such theft - even though it means travelling all the way from India to Sweden. The film was first shown at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received great critical acclaim and was touted as "the hidden gem of the year". It was released in India in July 2013, and was awarded Best Feature Film of 2013 at the Indian National Film Awards in 2014.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences leads to an explosion of drama that, coupled with the flammable combination of drugs, wine, and risotto, cannot be contained. A Big Chill for our current social media moment, About Alex is a lighthearted look at the struggles of a generation that has it all—and wants more.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Japan |
Duration | 01:41 |
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom |
A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, family |
Country | USA, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:43 |
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, Belgium |
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | Austria |
Duration | 02:14 |
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA |
Duration | 01:54 |
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg |
Duration | 01:47 |
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA, Germany, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands |
Duration | 02:22 |
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, western |
Country | United Kingdom, New Zealand |
Duration | 02:09 |
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:30 |
Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, Patrick, also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Remy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up...
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, music |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA |
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:33 |
Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that profoundly changes his life.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France |
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:31 |
Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, France, Netherlands |
Duration | 01:52 |
From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | West Germany |
Duration | 02:55 |
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.