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Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 02:12 |
Characters | Dogs, Police, Family, Taxi drivers |
Plot | Love, Robbery, Friendship, Fate, Everyday life |
Place | Sea, Beach, Night Clubs |
Time | Night |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating |
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA, China |
Duration | 01:29 |
Characters | Family, Alcoholics, Womanizers, Single mothers |
Plot | Love, Friendship, Death |
Place | Rugby |
Time | New Year |
Style | Light, Soulful, Fascinating |
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography |
Country | France |
Characters | Angels, Family |
Plot | Love, On real events, Soccer, Adventure, Fight |
Place | Village, France |
Style | Cute, Soulful, Fascinating, For men |
Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, history |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:52 |
Characters | Family, Writers, Losers, Poets |
Plot | Love, On real events, Relationship, Obsession, Friendship |
Place | Paris, France, Hotels |
Time | 19th century |
Style | Psychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, For men |
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | USA |
Characters | Family |
Plot | Love, On real events, Friendship, Rivalry |
Place | Small cities |
Style | Exciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
Tells the incredible true story of Amberley Snyder, a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds after barely surviving a car accident that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | France, Israel, Germany |
Duration | 01:43 |
Characters | Musicians, Jews |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Adventure, Fight, Relationship |
Place | USSR, France |
Style | Soulful, By books, Fascinating |
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | Germany, Belgium |
Duration | 02:18 |
Characters | Lawyers |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Friendship, Rivalry, Female friendship |
Place | Hospitals |
Style | Action, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Serious |
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Israel, Germany, France |
Characters | Teens, Friends, Losers, Terminally ill |
Plot | Love, Friendship |
Place | Israel, Boarding school |
Style | To cry, Touching, Serious |
A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | Germany, France |
Duration | 01:46 |
Characters | Mute, Refugees |
Plot | Love, War, Relationship, Death, Pursuit |
Place | Trains, Paris, France, Hotels |
Style | Action, To cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 02:19 |
Characters | Dogs, Family, Sisters, Old man, Cats |
Plot | Travel, Friendship |
Place | School, Beach, USA, Los Angeles |
Style | Light, Soulful, Fascinating, Makes me think, Touching |
Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 02:03 |
Characters | Family, Students, Friends, Lovers, Surgeons |
Plot | Love, Soccer, Gambling, Poker, Relationship |
Place | Trains, Paris, France, Hospitals |
Style | To cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Touching |
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Denmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA |
Characters | Lawyers |
Plot | Love, Fate |
Time | Winter |
Style | Romantic, Psychological problems, To cry, Cute, Touching |
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Spain |
Characters | Family |
Plot | Love, Friendship, Death |
Style | Exciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, For men |
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia |
Characters | Military, Soldier, Surgeons |
Plot | Fate, Debts |
Place | Germany, Serbia |
Style | Action, Soulful, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Gloomy |
Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, detective, biography, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Characters | Writers, Journalists, Reporters |
Plot | Fight, Death, Cancer, Fate, Funeral |
Place | Psychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, USA, Laboratory |
Style | Action, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing |
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Fathers |
Plot | Time travel, Adventure, Travel, Obsession, Fate |
Style | Psychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Touching |
Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:19 |
Characters | Family, Losers, Unicorns |
Plot | Time travel, Adventure, Friendship, Happiness, Fate |
Place | USA |
Style | Action, Soulful, Fascinating, Fancy, Touching |
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France, Japan, Luxembourg |
Characters | Dogs, Family, Writers, Actors |
Plot | Love |
Place | France |
Style | Psychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious |
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:42 |
Characters | Artists, Musicians, Family, Parents |
Plot | Death, Fate |
Place | Russia, Hospitals |
Style | Psychological problems, Heavy, Tense, Touching, Depressive |
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:50 |
Characters | Cooks, Single mothers, Poor |
Plot | Debts |
Place | Prison, Women's Prison, France |
Style | Soulful, By books, Fascinating, Touching, Serious |
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France |
Duration | 01:27 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Dancing, Travel, Passion, Friendship, Mystery |
Place | USA |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious |
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, music, history |
Country | France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania |
Duration | 01:51 |
Characters | Military, Soldier, Cats, Singers |
Plot | War, On real events, Soccer, Friendship, Snow |
Time | New Year, World War I |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France |
Place | Mountains, Italy |
Style | Psychological problems, By books, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Touching |
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:28 |
Characters | Family, Journalists |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Friendship, Death, Love triangle |
Place | Paris, France, Cemetery |
Style | To cry, Cute, Touching |
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark |
Duration | 02:00 |
Characters | Dogs, Strong women, Family, Psychologists, Photographers |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Depression, Vacation, Birthday |
Place | Mountains, Party, Hotels |
Time | Winter |
Style | Psychological problems, Action, Soulful, Fascinating |
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama |
Country | Thailand |
Duration | 01:02 |
Characters | Teens, Teachers, Geniuses, Family, Friends |
Plot | Love, On real events, Adventure, Relationship, Money |
Place | School, Australia |
Style | Action, Fascinating, Serious |
Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets the idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can’t get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn’s business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:29 |
Characters | Teens, Family, Parents, Mothers |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Time travel, Adventure, Relationship |
Place | Italy, Venice |
Time | Night |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating |
Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile. This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:30 |
Characters | Single mothers, Poor |
Place | France |
Style | Psychological problems, Action, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.