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In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

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    Paula

    Film · 2016 · also drama

    Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

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    My Neighbor Adolf

    Film · 2022 · also drama

    South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts...

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    Vanya on 42nd Street

    Film · 1994 · also drama

    An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling....

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    Come Sunday

    Film · 2018 · also drama

    Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

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    What Maisie Knew

    Film · 2013 · also drama

    In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

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    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    Film · 1972 · also drama

    Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an eleg...

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    As We Were Dreaming

    Film · 2015 · also drama

    Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

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    In the Aisles

    Film · 2018 · also drama

    Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wist...

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    Skin

    Film · 2009 · also drama

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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    F.I.S.T.

    Film · 1978 · also drama

    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become m...

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