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24 results for “somber social drama”

Stronghold of Toughs

1967 ★ 8.0

War orphans rebel against teachers and authority figures in their reform school in this somber social drama. Danny is a teen punk who organizes a breakout, only

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Wuthering Heights

1939 ★ 7.2

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassio

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Stella Dallas

1937 ★ 6.9

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future. Topic: Film "Stella Dallas" (1937). Role: Meticulous

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Six Minutes to Midnight

2020 ★ 6.2

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambass

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Senza vergogna

1986 ★ 4.8

A partially paralyzed teenager is failing to have sex for the first time. He's eager but clumsy and sickly, so the local country girls reject him. He starts to

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Silenced

2011 ★ 8.2

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults

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Moonam Naal Njayarazhcha

2016 ★ 8.0

The film takes a deeper look at the social status of people who are forcefully converted to a different religious belief, and how they are looked down upon. Dra

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Cabrini

2024 ★ 7.7

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring miss

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Andrei Rublev

1966 ★ 7.9

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the

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Tristana

1970 ★ 7.2

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent ch

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Winter Twilight

1957 ★ 6.2

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally retur

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Ciske the Rat

1955 ★ 6.4

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, lon

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D.P.

2021 ★ 8.0

A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty. D.P. is a South

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Lake Paliastomi

1964 ★ 7.0

Ivane, a Gurian peasant is struggling with social inequality, trying to feed an impoverished family, pay state and rent taxes with extreme physical exertion and

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The Plague Dogs

1982 ★ 7.8

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued by search parties and then

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The Unloved

2009 ★ 6.8

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle

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To Kill a Mockingbird

1962 ★ 8.0

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and

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The Elephant Man

1980 ★ 8.0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a pers

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Rome

2005 ★ 8.2

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic. Rome is a historical television series

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Under the Bridge

2024 ★ 7.8

Fourteen-year old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Rebecca Godfrey and a local police officer, learn the

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The Ballad of Narayama

1958 ★ 7.5

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin,

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The Captivating Star of Happiness

1975 ★ 5.8

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revoluti

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Esta tierra es mía

1961 ★ 7.0

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages. Drama gritty social somber worker's rights Hugo del Carril Producciones Tecuara Hugo del

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New Year Sacrifice

1956 ★ 6.1

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother

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