Best movies like Adrift
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Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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When Time Got Louder (2022)
Plot Summary:
Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, lgbt cinema, independent film, queer cinema
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Illusions (1992)
Plot Summary:
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, erotic
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (1974)
Plot Summary:
Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. The casting is almost demented, with classical ballerina and staunch feminist Genshu Hanayagi smoking a cigarette with her privates, poet Sakumi Hagiwara blowing up some gangsters by suicidally detonating a gas-filled love doll, and similarly peculiar appearances from notorious druggie Meika Seri and genre icon Junko Miyashita. Highly recommended for pinku eiga aficionados, this one must be seen to be believed.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
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León and Olvido (2004)
Plot Summary:
The love-hate relations between a girl and his disabled brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, social
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Syndrome (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man is diagnosed terminally ill and having only a limited time to live he decides to inflict pain and suffering on an ex-girlfriend in an attempt to teach her the value of life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Your Caresses (1969)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Fighting Fish (2010)
Plot Summary:
When David's sister returns home after a long absence, their complicated past comes back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, mumblecore
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Lovechild (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day seventeen-year-old Alma sees her father who had left the family five years before and had never contacted them since then accidentally on a subway stop in Berlin. She finds out where he works and start spending time together. Very soon the feelings they have for each other extend a normal father-daughter basis and they erotically attract each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, disturbing, erotic, ambiguous ending
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Beyond Brotherhood (2017)
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Two young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It's a story about survival, second chances and second falls, with an unexpected turn at the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Panama, USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father sees her with new eyes and starts to distance himself from her. Lili feels rejected from her father and reacts with aggression and power games.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, queer cinema
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Ana's Desire (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Lost times (2009)
Plot Summary:
1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. The siblings' coexistence is disrupted by a tragic event, Eszter is raped. A police investigation gets under way; in the meantime, Iván starts up a relationship with young Ilus, who has just finished school and is planning on going to the university. Iván plainly wants to leave his old life behind him, but will he be able to fulfill this ambition? - Written by Warsaw Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Animal's Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Daniel and Ana (2009)
Plot Summary:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, erotic, offbeat, controversial, sexual, eros, disturbing, tense
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle (2009)
Plot Summary:
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, offbeat, sexual, eros, emotional, sexy, hot
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Against the Wind (1990)
Plot Summary:
Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance, Ana shows up wanting to rekindle their affair. He resists at first, but she stays, asserting that Juan is the only man she can ever love. Juan distances himself from Rosario. The mine has problems: high cancer rates in the area caused by poorly stored radioactive waste. A foreign safety engineer, Petersen, tries to connect with Ana, is rebuffed, but lets her stay in his sea-front bungalow. Juan seeks her out to demand she leave, only to argue with Petersen. Death, desire, and longing play out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: manga
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Black Panther: The Story of Emilie and Jacob (2014)
Plot Summary:
After many years apart, Emilie (26) meets her brother Jakob (22) again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret... It is Emilie's wish to arrange the sale of their jointly inherited holiday house in the Swiss Alps.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sentimental, romantic, ambiguous ending, independent film
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True Siblings (2000)
Plot Summary:
The siblings Linus, 19-years-old, who are taking driving license and Vanja, 17-years-old, who's still in school. Their mom Eva works night shift at a hotel. We get to follow them during one month. Linus and Vanja begin to realize that they are living in a universe of their own. And there is neither room for the mom or boy- and girlfriends. At first it is only the longing love in unspoken thoughts. But when thought gets into words they realize that they are each others perfect half. They are drawn closer to each other and finally can't resist the taboo temptation in each others bodies. At first they deny, lie and try to resist. It's about shame and guilt and forbidden feelings which leads to a point where everything is at stake.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, hot
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Illegitimate (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Poland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, touching, psychological, melancholic, contemplative, visually appealing
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Rieke's Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young figure-skater becomes jealous when her brother, also a young figure-skater, falls for another young female figure-skater. She thought she was all that he needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, captivating, erotic
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Shameless (2012)
Plot Summary:
In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, sexy, suspense
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Torn Apart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Kissing My Sister (2000)
Plot Summary:
Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, eros
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Alpine Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: erotic, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, disturbing
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The Cement Garden (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sexy, talky, art house, compassionate, psychological, serious, realistic, controversial
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Delta (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But when his sister moves in with him and the two begin a romance, there are tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, bleak, stylized, gloomy, sexual, independent film
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Love Sick (2006)
Plot Summary:
Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, contemplative, gloomy, crying, inspirational
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Gemini (2005)
Plot Summary:
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, psychological, depressing, sad, eros, erotic
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