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Plot Summary:
Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: existential, philosophical, depressing, independent film, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Sue (1997)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, independent film, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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Phobidilia (2009)
Plot Summary:
After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in todays world all his needs can be easily met: sexual satisfaction via the internet, food by telephone delivery and entertainment by television.Four years later, his idyllic existence comes under attack when Daniella, a free spirited girl comes into his life while Grumps, the buildings real estate agent , informs him that the apartment is about to be sold.Both Grumps, an elderly holocaust survivor with a troubled past and Daniella a cheerful young woman with a disastrous love history, are the first people in a long while to care about our hero. Both think the only way out is OUT.However, our hero refuses to leave his kingdom and decides to fight till the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, offbeat, gloomy, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Memory Thief (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film, sincere, mind bending, offbeat, bleak
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Cleopatra's Second Husband (1998)
Plot Summary:
Robert is an art photographer who is totally controlled by his wife Hallie. When they go on vacation in New York, they leave their house to their friends, Zack and Sophie. When they return, they find their house a total mess, but Zack and Sophie ask to stay a little longer, and they agree.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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California Solo (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film
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Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Plot Summary:
The life of an illegal Russian boy who, after losing his family, is pushed into becoming an escort - ultimately trying to come to terms with who he thinks he is.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film, tense, bleak, gloomy, sexual, crying
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The Brave (1997)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, controversial, cult classic, spectacular, independent film
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The Hawk Is Dying (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer (Giamatti) attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, contemplative, art house, captivating, existential
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The Turning (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Ivans xtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) (2000)
Plot Summary:
Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, depressing, spiritual, art house, independent film
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Most High (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Julius (Marty Sader) loses his girlfriend, his job and the life of his pseudo father, Jack, his itch for a "quick fix" suffocates his ambitions and takes him on a trip through the disturbing addiction of crystal meth. Julius confides in Erica (Laura Keys), who lures him into her erratic lifestyle, and their crazy romance brings him terrifying hallucinations and isolation as he learns that hedonism will not eliminate his pain.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
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Bo (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, captivating, realistic, erotic, sad, bleak
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3:13 (2014)
Plot Summary:
From living a normal life to surviving homelessness in the city of Miami, Peter is a victim of the turbulent U.S. recession during late 2000's. A drama based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak
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Violent Blue (2011)
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Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks her in a cage.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, surreal, cynical, psychological, tense, captivating, gloomy, independent film, psychological thriller
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We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, bleak, gloomy
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Confessions of a Lap Dancer (1997)
Plot Summary:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat of losing parental rights to her child looms, Erica tries to escape from the dark world of the sex industry, but it turns out to be not so easy to do.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film
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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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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
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A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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Open Window (2006)
Plot Summary:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Pornographer (1999)
Plot Summary:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, independent film
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Whatever (1999)
Plot Summary:
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, explicit, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, cynical, gloomy
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The Pawnbroker (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: depressing, emotional, realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, atmospheric, compassionate, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Plot Summary:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: depressing, disturbing, bleak, rough, serious, controversial, grim, cult classic, realistic, dark
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The Blood Oranges (1997)
Plot Summary:
Cyril and Fiona are a long-married couple who travel to an unnamed tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. There they meet another couple, Catherine, Hugh and their three children. Hugh is a photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. The Cyril/Catherine and Hugh/Fiona relationships start.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, independent film
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Crashing (2007)
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It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) out into the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious, sexual
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I'm Losing You (1998)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, serious, emotional, independent film, clever, gloomy, biting, suspense
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, emotional, disturbing, bleak, talky, serious, captivating, gloomy, cynical
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Hello Herman (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, famous journalist Lax Morales, sending him clips of the shootings captured with Herman's own digital camera. In the clips Herman tells Lax, "I want to tell my story on your show". Lax, haunted by his own past, is now face to face with Herman.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic, tense, bleak, gloomy
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Detachment (2011)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching, sad, independent film, serious, inspirational, emotional