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Plot Summary:
Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy
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Parking (2008)
Plot Summary:
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Suburban Mayhem (2006)
Plot Summary:
Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove, Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants - even murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, suspense, offbeat, humorous, dark comedy
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On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Plot Summary:
Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the book "Le goût des jeunes filles" by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Girlfriend Experience (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man obsessed with prostitutes discovers that love is a lot more expensive than sex. An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the client's point of view.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: hot, fake documentary
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Crazy Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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The Red Dwarf (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, sexy, thought provoking, bloody, emotional, melancholic
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Real Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Marco Valois wants to direct a serious movie inspired by the life of a soldier living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He soon realizes that the young soldier home from Afghanistan won't open up that easily. Marco, willing to do just about anything to get his story, follows Éric Lebel to his hometown.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bliss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, affectionate
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The Cricket (1980)
Plot Summary:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes romantically involved with a murder defendant while she is a juror in his trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cynical, semi serious, experimental, suspense, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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3 Steps to Heaven (1995)
Plot Summary:
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Mourning for Anna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat
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Blood Pressure (2012)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman follows letters from an unseen admirer into potential danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic, semi serious
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The Michelle Apartments (1995)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy that sees a man on a business trip gets mixed up in the lives of the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment building, including a femme fatale with murder on her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, sexy
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Hussy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Niagara Motel (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film, sexual, sexy
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From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns' married life, and dream sequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, black and white, suspense thriller, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic
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Gigola (2010)
Plot Summary:
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, queer cinema
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Verdict in Blood (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the woman's daughters, another donating everything to a boarding house for former criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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A Kiss and a Promise (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet Ontario town, a small Bed and Breakfast dwells with a perverse secret. David Beck, a closet sociopath, but seemingly normal man, runs the B & B with his wife Samantha, a fiery woman with masochistic tendencies. The harmony of the house is disrupted when a young girl's body is found on the edge of town and veteran police Detective Anthony Dolan suspects David of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, detective, tense, gloomy, weird
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The Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, sexual, semi documentary, independent film, sexy, hot
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This Beautiful City (2007)
Plot Summary:
Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, erotic, independent film, gloomy, tragic ending
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Lolita's Club (2007)
Plot Summary:
The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the film its title. The film was adapted from an eponymous novel written by Juan Marsé.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual
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October (1994)
Plot Summary:
In October 1970, one group from the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped the British Consul in Montreal. Few days later, a second group did the same with one of the Minister of the Quebec Government. If the first was released, the second was murdered. This is the story of the second group from the stand point of the political kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, sad, psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Chef (2005)
Plot Summary:
Året är 1969. Artonårige Martin mönstrar på som andrekock på lastfartyget "Snow Drift", med destination Kapstaden. Det är Martins tredje resa. I fartygets kök härskar förstekocken Peter Stein, här är allting underkastat hans osynliga och brutala regelverk. Martin är lyckligt omedveten om vad som väntar honom och hans kompis, kockeleven Sundsvall.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Ruination of Men (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women come to claim the body--a bitter, venomous wife and a younger prettier women. They fight and scrap until one of them get the responsibility for the body. Later we find out why the self-titled "King of Baseball" was killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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The Final Curtain (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, witty, clever, realistic, black comedy, cynical, biting, dark comedy, suspense
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The Outlander (2005)
Plot Summary:
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and parochialism, The Outlander disturbs the villagers' complacency and scandalizes the community; he also elicits admiration and gains a woman's love. He ultimately leaves in the same manner he had arrived, but not before he has helped the villagers open their eyes to the larger world beyond their village.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. Things take a turn for the worse when Yeo-jin gets distracted from her duty and the police raid the motel where Jae-yeong is meeting with a client. To avoid getting caught, Jae-yeong jumps out of a window, fatally injuring herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, psychological, sincere, romantic, depressing, spiritual