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Plot Summary:
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, experimental, disturbing
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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels (2004)
Plot Summary:
A candid and campy portrayal of life behind the scenes of the original Charlies Angels.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, thrilling
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Lowlife Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, independent film, entertaining
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The Wooden Room (1995)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a director of documentaries, who lives with his wife - who is as stoic as he - in an isolated hut in the woods. The director is obsessed by filming marginal events in life. The closer he can get to these events with his camera, the more he becomes involved with them. In the end he falls victim to them. The film, with no dialogue and hardly any sound, is an experimental meditation on the complex, continually-changing relationship between a film-maker and his subject.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: avant garde, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, bad ending, disturbing, experimental, silent, weird, documentary filmmaking
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The Bridge Part 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
The second-half of the movie picks up in the present day, seven years later, with Ryan returning home from being on the road touring as a professional singer and Molly working at her father's corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Yesilçam: Bir Sinema Hayvani (2021)
Plot Summary:
Showcasing Turkey of the 1960s, while it follows a film producer who will tell the story of survival in Yesilcam as he experiences the golden age of Turkish cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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8 Slices (2019)
Plot Summary:
A new hire joins a small town pizza restaurant just as the business fails and its employees question the "American Dream.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Adventures in Pornoland (2008)
Plot Summary:
Largely improvised with only two people privy to the "secret" - that a fictional movie was being made using the players, crew, and settings of the adult movie industry as its background. Canadian television director Ethan dreams of making it big in Hollywood. It's hard finding work, so he takes a job in the porn business to make money. Much to his fiancée's chagrin, Ethan ends up enjoying the industry more than he'd expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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La rabbia (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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House Of Himiko (2005)
Plot Summary:
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Last Film Show (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a Summer watching movies from the projection booth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, gujarati, semi autobiographical, extraordinary, nostalgic
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Shamitabh (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, queer cinema
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Bollywood Diaries (2016)
Plot Summary:
The passionate journey of three Bollywood fanatics who wish to make it big in the industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, avant garde
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The Match (2019)
Plot Summary:
One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rough Play (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Dreigroschenfilm (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, grotesque
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The Street Where We Live (2019)
Plot Summary:
"I'm just two paychecks away from being on the street." In the aftermath of the nation's financial crisis, Mary, a single mom with two kids, finds herself faced with that exact situation when the factory where she works closes their doors for good. Providing for her children and keeping the family together, while also maintaining some form of dignity in the process, proves to be the hardest job that Mary will ever have.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (2017)
Plot Summary:
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Arrangement (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Her Way (2021)
Plot Summary:
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enroll him in one of the best cooking schools in France.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Upstarts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to do good while making millions, three college graduates create a startup. But as business begins to flourish, their own bond starts to fray.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Lost Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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100% Coco (2017)
Plot Summary:
13 year old Coco loves fashion and has her own unique style. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion icon. But on her first day of school she is made fun of and everyone calls her 'Coco the Clown'. Devastated, she decides to leave her vintage dresses, panther boots and striped socks at home and to dress herself more unnoticeable. Her anonymously kept fashion vlog as Style Tiger is a huge hit however. Is there still a chance that she will become a style icon? And does Bruno, that quirky boy she knows from school and secretly likes, finally notice her? Slowly Coco learns that she just has to be 100% herself!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Whore (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Up Among the Stars (2018)
Plot Summary:
Víctor is a film director who is overcome by his own misfortunes. He is an alcoholic, unemployed and terribly depressed, largely because of the death of his wife. However, Victor is still the best in one thing: telling fantastic stories to his nine-year-old son, Ingmar. These stories are each of the scripts he dreams of directing in the future, when he gathers all the necessary resources. Victor and Ingmar share a present full of sadness and precariousness, but also full of robots and locations of films they have seen together. Despite forming a great team, their problems will multiply when others begin to question their role as a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Plot Summary:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Time of Indifference (2020)
Plot Summary:
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. Rome, our days. Mariagration Ardengo and her children Michele and Carla are left without a livelihood. Mariagration's money-hungry lover Leo develops a plan to take the last property from the family - the attic in which they live. Michele tries to thwart Leo's plans, but when his attempts fail, young Carla takes over.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing