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Plot Summary:
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, surreal, controversial, art film
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The Man from Ruin (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal video logs and the philosophical ramblings of a former human survivor, the man seems to wander the world without contact from other humans.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, philosophical
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Orson Welles' unfinished masterpiece, restored and assembled based on Welles' own notes. During the last 15 years of his life, Welles, who died in 1985, worked obsessively on the film, which chronicles a temperamental film director—much like him—who is battling with the Hollywood establishment to finish an iconoclastic work.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Iran, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: parody, psychological, realistic, surreal, thought provoking, captivating, independent film, art film, visual, cult classic
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Black Stone (2015)
Plot Summary:
While his parents are toiling away in a food processing plant in Seoul, Shon Sun is drafted in the army. But being prey to abuse, he deserts. Back in Seoul he finds out his parents have disappeared. Intent on finding them, he embarks on a journey through the contaminated jungle his father was born in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, suspense, suspenseful, crying
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Last Words (2020)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the film’s narrator Jo, a boy of African descent, aims to make the world’s last film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Art History (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sensual, independent film
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Emmanuelle 2: A World of Desire (1994)
Plot Summary:
Having made First Contact with intergalactic travelers, Emmanuelle continues her ongoing mission... to impart the secrets of human love and sexuality. She encounters an enticing dilemma, when one of the aliens falls in love with a vivacious earthling.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: hot, sexploitation film, cult film
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Target (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic, mind bending, serious, independent film
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4 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, surreal, realistic, art house, heartfelt, experimental, tense, atmospheric
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Linko (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a near future, after a global war has destroyed civilization, pirate gangs attack and loot surviving people.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, computer animated
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Windows on Monday (2006)
Plot Summary:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Bungalow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A German soldier who goes AWOL, returns home to more problems than before he left.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, complex
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Sparrows (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
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Beyond the Stars (1989)
Plot Summary:
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, independent film
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Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Several short films about troubled gay youngsters who attempt to resolve their psychological issues through bizarre fetish play or sinister self expression.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, touching, unusual plot structure, lgbt cinema, erotic, experimental, contemplative, queer cinema
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All My Loving (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Divine Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Chile, Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social, stylized, futuristic
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Bokeh (2017)
Plot Summary:
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic, depressing, independent film, cerebral, aesthetic, minimal cast, psychological
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Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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Finch (2021)
Plot Summary:
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, apocalyptic, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, futuristic, contemplative, inspirational, road movie, minimal cast
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Elon Doesn't Believe in Death (2016)
Plot Summary:
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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After We Leave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, serious, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, intense, visually appealing
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Belgica (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, sexy, captivating
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Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, philosophical, contemplative, independent film
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The Survivalist (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, intellectual, futuristic, disturbing, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak, artsy, brutal
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High-Rise (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, surreal, absurd, futuristic, art house, brutal, artsy, stylized, cerebral
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, independent film, cult classic, erotic, meditative, disturbing, serious, art house
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Melancholia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, art house, philosophical, apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, art film
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Plot Summary:
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: philosophical, mindfuck, mind bending, surreal, apocalyptic, atmospheric, cerebral, existential, mind twisting, minimal cast