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Plot Summary:
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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Applecart (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is no normal. We all wear masks. Applecart is a portmanteau film featuring stories dealing with the perversions, shame, rage, and secrets we all keep hidden. Applecart is presented to you as an experimental silent film with a unique sound design and stunning black and white cinematography. It is graphic, transgressive, and honest.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anthology, psycho sexual, art house, rough, disturbing, experimental, controversial, avant garde, dark fairy tale
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The State of the Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Running Hot (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, hot
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13 French Street (2007)
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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Celine (1992)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a nurse, Genevieve, who has struggled with depression. Under her personal care, Céline gradually recovers, and the two women grow close. As she becomes stronger, Céline discovers she has mysterious healing powers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, eros
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Heile Welt (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Workers for the Good Lord (2000)
Plot Summary:
After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, art house, sensual, learning
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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
Plot tags:
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Dolls for Sale (1972)
Plot Summary:
A crime movie directed by Jess Franco.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: detective, grindhouse, sexploitation film
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Graduation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding. Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, captivating, social, suspenseful, thought provoking, art house, postmodern, beautiful
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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
Plot tags:
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Hell Train (1985)
Plot Summary:
This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man by forcing him out of a window on the speeding train. Their crime is witnessed by Isabelle (Christine Pascal) and reported to the police, enabling commissioner Couturier (Roger Hanin) to find the killers. The major problem now is to prevent a race riot when right-wing extremists falsely accuse some Arabs of reprehensible actions and the townspeople gather to demonstrate at the prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Lilian's Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"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
Plot tags:
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Sound and Fury (1988)
Plot Summary:
This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, neo noir, deep
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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Black Angel (1994)
Plot Summary:
Stephane, the wife of an older, prominent magistrate, coldbloodedly shoots a male visitor in her upscale home, then claims she was defending herself against a rapist. Victim turns out to be Wadek Aslanian, a gangster who's viewed as a modern-day Robin Hood. Paul, the lawyer hired by Stephane's husband, learns more than he really cares to know about his client, thanks to a series of anonymous letters. The notes provide a road map through the sordid areas of Stephane's past, allowing Paul to discover her history as an ex-prostitute, a porno movie performer -- and a frequent cohort of Aslanian. Naturally, Stephane's husband knows nothing about her past. Just as naturally , nothing that Paul discovers keeps him from falling in love with this mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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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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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Plot Summary:
When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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My Little Baby, Jaya (2017)
Plot Summary:
Won-Sool is an adult man with cerebral palsy. His daughter Jaya is his pride and joy. Jaya though is bullied at school and even worse things happen to her. Won-Sool later decides to get revenge on his daughter's tormentors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, psychological, bad ending, suspenseful
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The Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon her arrival in Moscow. Thus, she is a bit at loose ends, and going back home is clearly not an option.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Backdoor (2000)
Plot Summary:
Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Romania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Erotic Passion (1981)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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After the War (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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White Wedding (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going over her homework, and teaching her the art of the study. Eventually, Mathilde starts placing little hints that she finds the 47 year old François attractive. He tries to resist her, but he finds himself falling for her as well. They soon blossom into a passionate love, but they must keep their affair a secret from his wife (Mikaël) and the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, sexual, sentimental, emotional, realistic, retro, neo noir, art house, deep, poetic
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The Tribe (2014)
Plot Summary:
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, erotic, surreal, art house, melancholic, lyrical, sexual, realistic, bleak