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Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: existential, experimental, avant garde, independent film, minimal cast, postmodern
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The Wanderings of Ivan (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a beautiful summer, Ivan, a young Russian arriving in Paris, lives in extreme precariousness. Without money, isolated, deprived of everything, victim of general indifference, even rejected by his Orthodox community, he soon left the big city to take refuge in an adjacent wood, in search of nature and solitude. He settled in a small camp, but soon he discovered a clandestine life where rode male prostitution is a law. He meets young equivocal men and women over whom he has no hold. Then it's his meeting with Pierre, a young father who will seal his destiny and with which he will commit the irreparable.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, crying, psychotronic, homoerotic, multicultural, minimal cast
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Days in the Country (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min
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New Wave (1990)
Plot Summary:
A hitchiker (Alain Delon) is taken in by a wealthy industrialist (Domiziana Giordano).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, art film
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Wheel of Ashes (1968)
Plot Summary:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail. In its nearly clinical treatment of spiritual withdrawal, WHEEL OF ASHES belongs with post-New Wave films by the likes of Jean Eustache and Philippe Garrel. - Max Goldberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: existential
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Born Equal (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
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Calla Lily (2015)
Plot Summary:
An experimental drama, Melanie, who was drugged and raped in college. Now ten years later, she is in an abusive relationship and has a child. A chance encounter with someone from her past leads her to re-evaluate her past.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film
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Almost a Man (1966)
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Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Perrin returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state. The strong supporting cast, including Lea Padovani and Pier Paolo Capponi, bring credence to their roles, but it is De Seta's direction, Perrin's controlled performance, and a relatively subtle score by Ennio Morricone which keep this film from becoming as overwrought as it might have become in other hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: existential
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The Illiac Passion (1967)
Plot Summary:
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, underground film, independent film
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Woman of the Ganges (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Waiting for Godot (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, minimal cast, dark comedy, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, existential, cult classic, absurd
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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The Public Woman (1984)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assasination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, avant garde, art house, deep, existential, cult classic, experimental, postmodern, political, weird
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Whispering Pages (1994)
Plot Summary:
The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat. Shot partly in Sokurov’s dreamlike black and white with a dense sound track of eerie, echoing voices and bursts of mournful Mahler.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: spiritual, contemplative, existential, poetic, avant garde
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man (Yann Andrea) and his sister (Bulle Ogier) meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Tigertail (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, touching, emotional, realistic, compassionate, bleak, social, independent film, sad
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Steppenwolf (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, existential, philosophical, depressing, manga, esoteric, cult classic, independent film, mystic, psychological
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, experimental, independent film, silent, silent film
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Vagabond (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, disturbing, art house, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, social, retro
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Stray Dogs (2013)
Plot Summary:
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman - might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, art house, aesthetic, avant garde, masterpiece
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: art house, experimental, existential, surreal, contemplative, depressing, poetic, philosophical, artsy, anthology
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Red Desert (1964)
Plot Summary:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Ugo's old pal, Corrado (Richard Harris), shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana's anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana's existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, realistic, serious, poetic, philosophical, neorealism, existential, contemplative
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Nostalgia (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative, poetic, black and white, visual, mind twisting, emotional
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The Fire Within (1963)
Plot Summary:
Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: philosophical, depressing, art house, independent film, existential, bleak, touching, sad, anthology, powerful
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Plot Summary:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, existential, black and white, art house, experimental
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In Praise of Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: intellectual, meditative, enigmatic, stylized, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, touching, atmospheric, emotional, bleak, lyrical, visual, philosophical, art house
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Taste of Cherry (1997)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, contemplative, road movie, independent film, philosophical, spiritual, existential, slow cinema, psychological, sincere
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Plot Summary:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, stylized, black and white, atmospheric, postmodern, visual
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, absurd, cerebral, talky