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Plot Summary:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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A Brutal Game (1983)
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The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: art house, hot
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The Wonderful Crook (1975)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 112 min
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The State of the Dead (2002)
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When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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The Kill-Off (1989)
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The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a sultry stripper named Danny Lee (Cathy Haase). Danny Lee's act soon turns the head of Ralph, which is not good news for his bed-ridden wife Luanne (Loretta Gross). Luanne's nasty talent is her gift for gossip, and when she begins to suspect that Ralph has adultery on his mind, she starts spreading more ugly rumors that have just enough basis in fact to stick. Soon things spin out of control and a wave of violence begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties, cult film
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No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
Plot Summary:
Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
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Zig-Zag (1975)
Plot Summary:
Marie and Pauline are two cabaret singers who dream of buying a cabin in the mountains. To achieve this, the two women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
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Fatal Mistake (1989)
Plot Summary:
A drama about the youth of the late 1980s. The action takes place in Moscow. A young girl named Nadia, whom her own mother left in the hospital, has fun and quite innocently spends time with her friends. Before returning from a walk home is repainted in punk and brings his own kind of mother. The girl falls in love with a veteran of the Afghan war - a married man. She is called to look after his son, unsuccessfully trying to achieve reciprocity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 104 min
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Lost Seamen (2003)
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Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
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The Stranger in Me (2008)
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A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
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Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Up Against Them All (2004)
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A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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Die Tigerin (1992)
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It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
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A Crime (1993)
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"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Rule 34 (2022)
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Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in BDSM-related activities, leading her into a series of conflicts dominated by violence and eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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I Am Maria (1979)
Plot Summary:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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The House (2022)
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Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
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Der Skorpion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
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After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Confessions of the Sex Slaves (1977)
Plot Summary:
The plot has pretty, middle-class Caucasian girls (college students, runaways etc.) being kidnapped right of the streets of Zurich and Montreal(!), and after being beaten, raped, and hooked on heroin, they are sent to Amsterdam to work as zombified strippers and prostitutes in a nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. A female reporter is investigating the disappearance of one girl and ends up on the trail of the slavers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Happy End (2011)
Plot Summary:
They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy
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Silvester Countdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Illusions (2009)
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A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)
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Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father, while establishing unexpected connections along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Game of Seduction (1976)
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In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Beijo na Boca (1982)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
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Erotic Passion (1981)
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Since her parents' death, 19-year old Della lives with her aunt Marsha and Andrew, her old husband. One morning Marsha has sex with Alex, her husband's doctor. Right afterwords, Della seduces him at the beach while Marsha watches them from her window. The two women have a fight which results to Della leaving the house. She finds refuge at Maria's (a friend of hers) place but as it appears she is missing and the house is inhabited by Aris and Samantha. Della makes a pass at Aris, managing to infuriate Samantha. In the meanwhile, the local authorities are investigating the murder of Aris' business partner, Steve Brynner. When all trace leads to Aris, Della suggests a swap: She'll travel to Italy to get fake passports for the couple as long as they accept to murder Marsha.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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An Independent Life (1992)
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This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
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Surrogate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jane Martin (25 years old), young graduate, is recruited by the Doctor Faye's clinical, "the clinical for healthy sex". Through her maturity, self-confidence and great sexual experience, she requires the obvious qualities to become a good therapist. But Jane does not respect all the rules with her patients and becomes more closer with them. Ignoring the warnings of Dr. Faye, Jane puts her patients and herself in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird