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Plot Summary:
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, detective
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The Tale of Iya (2013)
Plot Summary:
It was summer when a stranger from Tokyo arrived at “Iya”, where the riches of nature still abound. This young man, named Kudo, was willing to live his new, self-sufficient life. He was exhausted by city life, and believed this beautiful land would give him some rest. On the contrary, the reality was not as easy as he thought. There was a confliction between a local construction company and a group of nature conservationists. Farmers are trying to save their harvests from harmful animals such as deer and monkeys. People are fighting for their own purposes: to get their job, to save the environment, or to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: silent, exciting, touching, captivating, contemplative, silent film
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Dark Maidens (2017)
Plot Summary:
One day, Itsumi Shiraishi dies at Seibo Maria Girls High School. She falls off from the rooftop of a school building. Itsumi is the daughter of the administrator at the school and she was envied by all the other students there. Did Itsumi kill herself or was she killed accidentally or intentionally? At the time of her death, she held a lily of the valley flower in her hand. A rumor spreads that somebody in the literature club killed Itsumi. Itsumi was the president of the literature club. A friend of Itsumi, Sayuri, is now the president and she holds a regular club meeting, reading stories written by members.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, disturbing, stylized
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Birds Without Names (2017)
Plot Summary:
An unstable young woman pines for the ex boyfriend who nearly beat her to death - and who has mysteriously disappeared - in this gripping tale of lust, devotion and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, detective, entertaining
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Life Back Then (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, road movie, crying, learning
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Everyone Is Psychic!: The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
A high-school student Yoshiro has never got a spotlight in his life and spends his days aimlessly. What only shines in his life is a girl Sae at his school. Even if being completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future. One day, he finds himself having a mind-reading psychic power. As he looks around, there seem more psychics born in the city, and somehow they are all virgins! One uses his psychokinetic power to fulfill his sexual desire or turns into a flasher using teleportation ability... On the arrival of the psychics like Yoshiro, the city gets gradually infested with the erotic terrorism evoked by a mysterious group. Knowing he has never got any attention from the girl of his dreams, Yoshiro determines to use his power to save the world from this steamy chaos and show off what he has got to the love of his life!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, light, humorous, surreal, psychotronic, seinen, detective, eros, low brow humor
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The Ravine of Goodbye (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako. Meanwhile, magazine reporter Watanabe, who is covering the story, discovers the shocking fact that Ozaki was involved in a rape case 15 years ago. Even more shocking, the victim in the rape case is Kanako.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic, romantic, sexy, crying, detective, juvenile
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My See-Through Heart (2017)
Plot Summary:
Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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A Girl Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she has almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal the kidnapper to be Ichiko’s own nephew.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
Plot Summary:
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds. (Chicago International Film Festival).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, semi autobiographical, crying, entertaining
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The Demon (1978)
Plot Summary:
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, erotic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, sexy
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Sweet Whip (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side. Naoko is a popular master in a S&M club.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bleak, crying, erotic
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Happy Hour (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jun, Akari, Sakurako and Fumi truly believe that they can confide in each other. But one day, at a party, Jun confesses that she is seeking a divorce from her husband and this information seems to upset the other three. They follow her trial as she attempts to win her case against her husband’s will.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 317 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, sexy, feel good, captivating, melancholic, independent film, romantic drama, sexual, psychotronic
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Neighboring Sakuko (2013)
Plot Summary:
3 years on from hospitalité, Kiki Sugino and Koji Fukada are back again with this socially-conscious film about a 18-year-old girl in-between adolescence and adulthood who spends a summer in a valley and enjoys romance. Sakuko, a 18-year-old girl studying for her university entrance exams, decides to accompany her aunt Mikie on a trip to a seaside town. There she befriends Takashi, a refugee from Fukushima who has dropped out of high school and works at a motel run by Ukichi, a friend of Mikie. In-between childhood and adulthood, Sakuko starts to understand the difficulties of becoming an adult.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, captivating, sincere, sentimental, feel good, serious
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A Story of Yonosuke (2012)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film, crying
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Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
Plot Summary:
A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of people who make their living at a strip club.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, intense, psychological, sincere, sensual, colorful, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Humanity (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing, detective, depressing, neo noir, captivating, controversial
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Wetherby (1985)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Love & Pop (1998)
Plot Summary:
Pretty Tokyo teen Hiromi Yoshii (Asumi Miwa) and her girlfriends struggle with rivalries, clothes and boyfriends, just like any other high school clique. But out for kicks and blind to the consequences, the girls of Love & Pop hide a dirty little secret. From phone booths and street corners, in department stores and restaurants, the girls practice enjo-kosai or "compensated dating" -- arranging liaisons with older men drawn to their evident nubile charms and schoolgirl uniform innocence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, offbeat, serious, realistic, witty, sexual, sexy
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Dear Friends (2007)
Plot Summary:
High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real relationships and is not even on good terms with her parents. Rina is the clubbing queen and could get any guy she wants with her stunning looks. One day, Rina suddenly collapses and her world falls apart. She finds out that she has cancer. The only one who starts to support her is her classmate Maki. Maki tells that they were friends in primary school even though Rina doesn't remember. Maki wants to get close to Rina and help her like Rina had helped Maki when she had hard times.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexy
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Red Road (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, clever, serious, psychological thriller, inspirational, brutal, dark
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I Love Your Work (2003)
Plot Summary:
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological drama, I Love Your Work explores the pressures of fame and the difference between getting what you want and wanting what you get.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, mindfuck, gloomy, crying, freeze frame
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American Woman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, social, detective
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The Third Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shigemori is a lawyer tasked with defending Misumi in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for murder and has confessed to the crime, but evidence in the case leads to Shigemori having doubts about what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, social
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All I See Is You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, anamorphic, exotic
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Don't Tell (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, gloomy, crying
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The Apartment (1996)
Plot Summary:
A stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, reviving his wanderlust and sending him off on a chase of the elusive Lisa, whom he had overheard suggesting to a friend that her lover, Daniel, had killed someone for her. Soon, Max is trying to unravel the mystery behind the suspicious death of Daniel's wife, which he hopes will lead him closer to Lisa.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, art house, psychological thriller, sentimental
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Bad Timing (1980)
Plot Summary:
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear, psychological, atmospheric, sexual, scary, noir
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house