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Plot Summary:
Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie, independent film
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Tarumama (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara and Óscar, a couple going through a marital crisis, decide to spend a week in a remote country cabin with their two children, Alicia and Tomás. The family tries to have a quiet time, but something strange happens there. There is a woman who prowls through the forest and cries uncontrollably looking for a baby she has just lost. This deeply affects the family who will have to stay together to survive this nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Colombia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing
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The Shame (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Escape (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Dutch woman escapes her family life in search for happiness in the Portuguese Algarve.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Key (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply erotic, uncompromising, visually adventurous story of a marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Original Bliss (2016)
Plot Summary:
Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sex Life of Plants (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a head injury makes a dimwit stranger out Barbara's beloved Guille, she ceases to feel desire for him. Nearing 35, and longing for motherhood, she settles with a new partner, while the memory of lost love harrows her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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A Cappella (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Challenge Game (2016)
Plot Summary:
Florist Ae-ran and forensics investigator Min-ho from the Public Prosecutor's Office both have a family that everyone wants. However, Min-ho can't handle bed time so Ae-ran starts a 'challenge game' in which she seduces and has sex with strange men. One day, Ae-ran and Min-ho meet Alex at a tango cafe. Alex is interested in Ae-ran and approaches her while Ae-ran takes interest in Alex who is more handsome than her husband. Min-ho later witnesses them in action and gets angry when he finds out the man Ae-ran seduced is Alex. Min-ho feels nervous because he finds out Alex isn't just a game partner and approached him for a reason. Min-ho tries to get rid of Alex but Alex chokes Ae-ran and Min-ho even more and feels catharsis. The game they started is turning into a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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With/In: Volume 2 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
Secrets: Tarron is a successful, married businessman who risks losing it all when a sexy new hire comes to his company. As his wife struggles to keep her family together by all means necessary, Tarron’s world is tested and shaken to its core.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sundown (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, art house, existential, cult classic
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
Plot Summary:
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious, art house, independent film
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The Animal's Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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After the Waterfall (2010)
Plot Summary:
A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Seducción (aka Secreto De Amor) (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mexican feature film.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is the filmed version of Pál Závada's novel of the same title, which was first published in 1997 and soon became a bestseller. The story takes place during World War I and afterwards in a small town in south-eastern Hungary. It tells about the unhappy marriage between a young man, Ondris, who is a member of the Slovak minority of the town, and his wife Jadviga. She can't return his devotion towards her and starts a love affair with Franci, a lawyer. The film tells the history of this unhappy relationship between a passionate country man and his equally passionate, but much more erudite wife who wants something more from life but can't get it. There is also some historic background: the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, the independence movement of the Hungarian Slovaks, led in the story by a ridiculous priest, etc. But this only remains the backdrop for the story of an unhappy "ménage à trois".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Ever After (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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We Only Know So Much (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Not by Bread Alone (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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La casa delle donne (2003)
Plot Summary:
It all begins in 1919 in the countryside surrounding Bari, Apulia. From a rich farmer and his three concubines(two of them the sisters of his handyman and the third his maid) a complicated family is formed, in which paternity and maternity is occasionally uncertain. Twenty years later, the eldest of the group weds and flees to Bari. The rest of the relatives move - not only to the same city - but into the same building. Furthermore, the "tribe" expands with the addition of the in-laws of the first-born.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Guest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alicia and Enrique are a young married couple somewhat distanced from each other. Their relationship is threatened when Carlota, a friend of Alicia's from long ago, comes to visit and stays with them for a while.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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What's Between Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, queer cinema
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The Swing (2010)
Plot Summary:
35-year-old Michal has a beautiful wife Anna and daughter Justine. It does not bother him, however, fall in love with a sensual and rebellious Carolina. The man did not want a divorce, but it also wants to opt out of a new passion. The situation is complicated, however, when a lover makes him an ultimatum.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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The Affair (2004)
Plot Summary:
A lonely housewife finds new life in a liaison with a free-spirited man in this romantic drama. Isolated in a remote home, Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) feels suffocated in her marriage to uptight architect Paul (Horatio Ledon). An affair with her husband's exact opposite -- an unrestrained bohemian named Viggo (Andy Mackenzie) -- leads to a newfound feeling of liberation, but ultimately, Jean must forge her own path to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pleasure and Martyrdom (2015)
Plot Summary:
Delfina is a beautiful woman of 45 years who enjoys a good economic spend and shares her life with her faithful husband and her teenage daughter. Through an intimate friend, Delfina meets Kamil, a supposed high-ranking businessman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, erotic
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Shadow People (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dan and Gretchen, a couple with a secretive past and a failing relationship, rent a guest house from another couple in California's San Fernando Valley. But jealousy and betrayal turn a casual friendship into a game of manipulation and deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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Otilia Rauda (2001)
Plot Summary:
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sexual Awakenings (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman wishes to model nude for a men's magazine. The only problem is, her husband (a retired photographer) is against the whole idea.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Under the Surface (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense