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Plot Summary:
The story has a father as protagonist will always do what he believes best for his family: the life of Dr. Jaime Jiménez collapses when his 17 year old son is left in a vegetative state due to a beating he receives at the exit of a nightclub . After seeing that justice does nothing to stop the guilty, he himself will undertake a trip to the underworld in search of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, clever, neo noir, thrilling, crying
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Lux: Warrior of Light (2018)
Plot Summary:
The shy late twenties Torsten tile lives with his mother in a bleak Berlin slab. In the guise of his alter ego "Lux - Warrior of Light" he tries to make the world a little bit better. He distributes food to the homeless and helps out on his forays through the city wherever he can. A film crew accompanies him to make a documentary about the social engagement of the self-appointed real-life superhero. Jan, the director, is still looking for a donor. The resourceful producer Brandt shows interest, but on condition that he sees something spectacular.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, crying, freeze frame, documentary filmmaking
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American Skin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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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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Umbrella (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British musician who is frequently touring, has lost his goal in life. Having not spoken with his father in over 20 years, troubling news offers them the chance to reconcile & move forward in both their lives. Theodore Smith attempts to bury the sadness that threatens to engulf his childhood upon hearing the news that his parents will be separating. Elethea Conall, a newly qualified nurse, continues to look after her patients whilst attempting to escape from her past. What do they all have in common?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, captivating, independent film
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A Thief's Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sara has been alone all her life. She’s 22, has a baby, and wants to form a normal family with her young brother and the father of her child. Her own father, Manuel, decides to come back into their lives after years of absence and his release from prison. Sara knows he’s the main obstacle to her plans and she makes a difficult decision: to distance him from herself and her brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social, crying
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Backwater (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is set in a quiet riverside town, where 17-year-old Tooma lives with his father and his father’s lover. Tooma witnesses his father’s sadistic behavior towards his lover and soon finds himself following in his father’s footsteps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Midnight Bus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, manga
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Tyson's Run (2022)
Plot Summary:
When fifteen-year-old Tyson attends public school for the first time, his life is changed forever. While helping his father clean up after the football team, Tyson befriends champion marathon runner Aklilu. Never letting his autism hold him back, Tyson becomes determined to run his first marathon in hopes of winning his father's approval. With the help of an unlikely friend and his parents, Tyson learns that with faith in yourself and the courage to take the first step, anything is possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly engaged couple becomes intrigued by the young stranger who moves in next door. He's handsome, friendly and very helpful, but he's no stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The God Committee (2021)
Plot Summary:
Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the transplant list will receive a heart that has suddenly become available.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hotel by the River (2018)
Plot Summary:
An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it's not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, poetic
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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been looking for each other...but they may have been brought together for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Peaceful (2021)
Plot Summary:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Blast Beat (2020)
Plot Summary:
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Pearl (2020)
Plot Summary:
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling
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Guilt (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Little Feather (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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This Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their doings. Every character has a dilemma, and they all come to terms with it in their own way. But morally, are they wrong? Or are the victims of their own surroundings? There is no clear answer, making the viewer the ultimate judge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Don't Be Afraid (2011)
Plot Summary:
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will learn to control her fears and become an adult, responsible for her own actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, captivating, melancholic, sad, sincere, touching, serious, disturbing
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Almanac of Fall (1984)
Plot Summary:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, intellectual, neo noir, avant garde, powerful, aesthetic, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, bleak
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The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Plot Summary:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, touching, bleak, captivating, realistic, disturbing, neo noir, anthology, psychological
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Up Among the Stars (2018)
Plot Summary:
Víctor is a film director who is overcome by his own misfortunes. He is an alcoholic, unemployed and terribly depressed, largely because of the death of his wife. However, Victor is still the best in one thing: telling fantastic stories to his nine-year-old son, Ingmar. These stories are each of the scripts he dreams of directing in the future, when he gathers all the necessary resources. Victor and Ingmar share a present full of sadness and precariousness, but also full of robots and locations of films they have seen together. Despite forming a great team, their problems will multiply when others begin to question their role as a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, realistic, sexual, detective, sexy
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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The Apostle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, contemplative
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She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, perhaps even to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, disturbing, gloomy
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The Choice (2015)
Plot Summary:
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Animales Heridos (2006)
Plot Summary:
Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and frequently spies on her -- ironically enough, he usually does so during assignations with his mistress, posh interior designer Claudia. Meanwhile, Daniel, who works with Claudia, is enjoying a vacation with his wife Irina, a front desk clerk at the hotel where Silvio usually romps with Claudia. Daniel is hoping the getaway will help put the spark back into their marriage, but he soon discovers Irina's head has been turned by a trainer from a nearby health spa. And finally, Mariela, Silvio's housekeeper, has stated dating Jorge Washington, who has only recently come to Spain from Peru. While Mariela has fallen hard for Jorge, he's impressed by the romantic and material opportunities his new hometown provides.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Wrong Side of the Tracks (2021)
Plot Summary:
When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Plot Summary:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, detective, suspense thriller, psychotronic