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Plot Summary:
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, weird
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Kuduz (1989)
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After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
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Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls (1963)
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Anne and Tom, a married nudist couple, work in a real estate office. When the agency's owner discovers that Tom is a nudist, he fires him. Unfortunately, Tom was just ready to close a big real-estate deal with Al Jenkins. Tom goes to his favorite nudist camp to take his mind off his problems and discovers that Al Jenkins is also a member of the nudist camp. Together they come up with a plan to get Tom's wife and their boss to get to the nudist camp so they can close the deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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August Winds (2014)
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Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, erotic, contemplative
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Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
Plot Summary:
Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 124 min
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Dear Alice (2010)
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Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. He is about to give up on his little store selling African art. Karin Carlsson-Said is a lawyer who is about to enter a new important step in her career as a lawyer. Her husband Moses must send money to his hospitalized father in Uganda, but there are problems with the transaction and has issues with keeping up his work as a Social Worker. Bosse is the TV star who finds out he has been fired off his own show and finds his young wife with another man, Hakan is a charming celebrity with an alcohol problem and now once again needs help from his lawyer Karin Carlsson-Said.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere
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Paradise: Love (2012)
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On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual, disturbing, sexy, controversial, art house, existential
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They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
Plot Summary:
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Baroness and the Pig (2002)
Plot Summary:
A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, witty, contemplative, cynical, biting, suspense
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Sorrow and Joy (2013)
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Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, experience the biggest sorrow and misfortune one can ever imagine. Nevertheless, in all the hopelessness they must try to reach for mutual and mature love in order to continue life after death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Sons and Lovers (1982)
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During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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My Heart Beats (2010)
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A poor and lonely English professor, Juri(37), decides to become a porn actor using a mask to hide behind, after she watches an unusual porn, featuring an old and fat woman. And she visits Myungsook, a porn producer, despite their separation of 10 years. After various tests and rigorous diets Juri finally stars in a porn film with an attractive young porn star, Byul(20), who saves money for studies abroad to become a professor. He sports a flawless body except a deep scar across his chest. However on the set, she keeps pushing Byul away, and nobody knows that she is a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual
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The Sister-in-Law (1974)
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Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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On the Path (2010)
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Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, islamic, tense, gloomy
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I Love You (1981)
Plot Summary:
Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: pornochanchada, psychological, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, weird
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The Mouth Agape (1974)
Plot Summary:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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On the Edge (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous differences that separate their ways of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, emotional, realistic, erotic
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Sons of Norway (2011)
Plot Summary:
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn. Sons of Norway is a film about rebellion, punk rock, suburban hell and the struggle between freaks and punks. But most of all, it’s the story of an unusual father-son relationship, and about the strength of the bonds we sometimes do our best to rip apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, offbeat, serious, realistic
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, experimental, psychological, psychedelic, surreal, captivating, slow cinema, philosophical
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating, minimal cast, clever, serious
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The Erotic Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director's own circling around the essence of eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, sexy, erotic, offbeat, contemplative, independent film
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Webdultery (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy
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Turbine (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nick, an adulterous New Yorker, and his wife, Sarah, relocate to the Midwest for a fresh start. Nick soon befriends a wealthy local farmer and discovers a secret he's been keeping is not so easily left behind in this erotic and surreal drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Aadaminte makan abu (2011)
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Abu and Aisumma are an aging Muslim couple. Their aspiration is to go for Hajj and they make many sacrifices to achieve this aim. Now in their late 70s, they decide that they will go for Hajj that year. Abu, being a true Muslim, wants to go for Hajj only according to all diktats of Islam. Good-natured people try to help him by loaning the amount, but since this is against the accepted practices of the religion, he refuses to take them. Finally, they are not able to go. On the dawn of the Hajj, Abu tells his wife that they will go the next year. He goes to the mosque to pray on the Hajj morning.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sincere, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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I Travel Alone (2011)
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Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come visiting next week - enters his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, serious
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And They Call It Summer (2012)
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Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, sexy, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, hot
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To Paint or Make Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Harem (1985)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, political thriller, erotic, romantic
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
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Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical, touching, serious, intercultural, inter cultural
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Fidelity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying