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Plot Summary:
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, offbeat, non-linear
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Goodbye World (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious cyber-attack cripples civilization, a group of old college friends and lovers retreat to a remote country cabin, where they must cope with an uncertain future while navigating the minefield of their shared past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic, captivating, grindhouse, independent film, dystopian, disaster movie
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21 Nights with Pattie (2015)
Plot Summary:
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed by Pattie, who likes to talk about her love affairs with the local men to anyone who'll listen. Then, while the whole valley gets ready for the traditional mid-summer dance, Caroline's mother's corpse mysteriously disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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King Lear (1987)
Plot Summary:
A descendant of Shakespeare attemps to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Bahamas, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spiritual, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, experimental, surreal, avant garde
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The New Eve (1999)
Plot Summary:
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Week-ends (2014)
Plot Summary:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are no longer such good friends. Everything is falling apart at the seams. But life is always full of surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, touching, serious
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For the Good of Others (2010)
Plot Summary:
Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful, social, mind bending, bleak, serious, psychotronic
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It's All About Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, Canada, Spain, USA, Japan, Sweden, UK, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, stylized, touching, realistic, apocalyptic, tech noir, atmospheric
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4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic drama, contemplative, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Phase 7 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, intellectual, hispanic, grindhouse
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Empty (2011)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Parts Per Billion (2014)
Plot Summary:
The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, serious, suspense, gloomy, independent film, crying, disaster movie
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Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, spooky, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, corny
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On the Beach (2000)
Plot Summary:
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting, gloomy, psychotronic, disaster movie
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The End (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of old friends gets together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems to have changed between them. But lurking behind the laughter and stories is a murky episode from the past that continues to haunt them. A strange, sudden incident alters their plans, leaving them stranded and with no line of communication to the outside world. On their way for help, the group starts to disintegrate, just as a new natural order is unveiled before their astonished eyes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, apocalyptic, minimal cast, tense
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, erotic, art house, hispanic, sensual, psychological, tense, touching, serious, realistic
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Mister Lonely (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, avant garde, offbeat, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, psychological
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Mutants (2009)
Plot Summary:
A nasty virus has spread throughout the human race turning the population into something ...else. After a brief setup (and a messy hit and run) we’re introduced to an ambulance and its four occupants. Sonia (Helene de Fougerolles) and Marco (Francis Renaud) are together and riding with two police officers. Tensions rise between them as they head for a mythical research facility called NOAH that is reportedly infection free and working on a cure, and circumstances lead to Sonia and Marco holing up alone in an abandoned building. She’s pregnant, in love, and apparently immune to the virus… and she realizes that he’s been infected. He slowly transforms but her love for him refuses to give up on a cure, so she sets out to survive the onslaught of infected, attacks from still-human marauders, and the growing threat from her baby’s daddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, atmospheric, rough, emotional, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, grindhouse
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One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing
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The Chef's Wife (2014)
Plot Summary:
Marithé works in a training center for adults. Her mission: to help other people to change direction in their work and to find their vocation. Carole, who lives and works in the shadow cast by her husband, Sam, an energetic and talented Michelin-starred chef, arrives in the center one day. It's not so much a change in job that Carole seems to need, as a change in husband. Marithé does everything she can to help Carole set out down a new path. But what are the real motives behind this devotion? After all, Marithé doesn't seem to be impervious to Sam's charms, or to his cooking.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, tragicomedy, psychological, sentimental, captivating, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Malevil (1981)
Plot Summary:
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, eighties
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The Bilingual Lover (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, erotic, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Collapsed (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, dark, bleak, serious
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Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, disaster movie
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20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Plot Summary:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, offbeat, depressing, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating
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Testament (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, disturbing, emotional, tense, apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic
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Maggie (2015)
Plot Summary:
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, touching, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, heartbreaking, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic
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Light of My Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, road movie, offbeat, suspense
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Family Resemblances (1996)
Plot Summary:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: witty, talky, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, sincere, culinary, clever, offbeat, semi serious
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The Happening (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending, apocalyptic, bleak