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Plot Summary:
A group of criminal justice de-escalation workers in Minneapolis embark on a collaborative film project that uses radical workshop techniques to explore their real-life struggles to escape the pressures of the American dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Steambath (1973)
Plot Summary:
TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's off-Broadway play. Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the steambath is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happens to be the attendant picking up the towels.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Full Contact (2015)
Plot Summary:
Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose in life after accidentally bombing a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far away air force base, has never been to the foreign countries of his attacks, nor has he ever touched the plane he uses to kill. Modern warfare keeps him safe and disconnected from his prey. However, after this incident Ivan's disconnectedness starts to apply to everything in his life. He is overwhelmed by feelings of guilt that he is unable to process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Croatia, Germany
Duration: 105 min
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The Famous Joe Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Joe, in the midst of dropping out of college and coming out as gay, decides to record the everyday activities of his life on a handheld mini-video and post the clips to the internet. Soon after he begins this experiment, Joe meets Jesus, a narcissistic hustler drawn to the idea of constantly being on camera.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Mystery of the Almond Trees (2004)
Plot Summary:
A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a perverted wealthy widow, Doña Josefina, also known as “Mrs. Open Mind.” The widow’s summer home, it seems, is a legendary lightning rod for scandal because of mysterious and evil incidents that occur there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: homoerotic
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What a Flash! (1972)
Plot Summary:
The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. Improvisation is a dangerous art-form; unprepared amateurs invariably come up with gross caricatures when challenged to improvise. The actors' choices in this film include an allegorical pageant of the life of Jesus, a marriage, an orgy, and some genuinely affectionate moments. Nonetheless, as an experimental effort in large-group improvisation, the film is instructive. - Clarke Fountain, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, weird
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Head - Hands - Heart (2010)
Plot Summary:
What unfolds against the backdrop of the story of Klára Knabelová (Viktorie Cermáková) and her relationships with three Austro-Hungarian Army officers is a parable of the collapse of the old world of traditional values and the start of the proliferation of new (dis)orders. World War I becomes a trigger for this process of disintegration and an incubator for mysterious, irrational forces. The only person who can emerge from this melting-pot with a clean slate is a strong and charismatic woman who becomes a symbol of composure, as well as the promise of "new tomorrows.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Velociraptor (2014)
Plot Summary:
During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives, and one of them reveals they are still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, suspenseful, talky
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Ivin A. (1990)
Plot Summary:
Soldiers of internal troops Ivin A. standing on duty at night, could not shoot escapes bandit and murderer Prince Mishka. The explanatory he wrote that he refused to continue to dispose of another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Death Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
Death Drive tells the story of a young man, who after emerging from a pool of water scrambles to piece together the previous night before embarking on a series of psychedelic adventures that reveal his darkest internal instinct.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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In the Woods (2010)
Plot Summary:
Enormous tree trunks. The nature of leaves, the roots of desire and a house hidden deep in the forest. A journey to the other side. Something like a "punk" existential fairytale.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: experimental, documentary filmmaking
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Daydream Obsession 2: Infidelities (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to the ever-so-campy, wanna-be gay soft porn, Daydream Obsession, the naked-body-obsessed Clayton (Joseph Dain), whose previous demented daydreams turned to kidnapping and bondage nearly destroyed his friendship in the last film with his straight roommate Brian, now turns his fixated attentions upon his boyfriend Luke, who he suspects is cheating on him. Will the relationship survive Clayton's delusional fantasies? Written by Joe Fowler.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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David im Wunderland (1998)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old David lives with his family and around another hundred Jacobins in a closed community in Germany. The monotonous life of this early Christian community consists of pray.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Clay Farmers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. He longs to finish out the contract and move on to a big city, perhaps with Mike. Gary, a boy from the next farm over, befriends them during their daily chores. Gary lives with his abusive father, a stepmother and a stepbrother. Gary is drawn to the camaraderie of the young farmhands in part to avoid his problems at home. When an innocent session of skinny-dipping is misconstrued by the boy's father, the young hired hands soon find themselves unjustly suspected of wrongdoing in a suddenly hostile small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Giulia (1999)
Plot Summary:
Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house
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Dancing (2003)
Plot Summary:
As co-directed by Xavier Brillat, Pierre Trividic and Patrick Mario Bernard, the offbeat drama Dancing concerns a hermitic gay artist named Rene Bernard (played by director Patrick Bernard) who spends all of his time living and creating new artwork in an ornate ballroom by the French seaside. His only companion is his lover Patric (Trividic) - a belletrist suffering from extreme writer's block. Rene's days progress satisfactorily until Patric leaves for a lengthy vacation; left to fend for himself, Rene falls increasingly out of touch with reality - he initially fixates over a creepy photograph of two clowns that hangs in the facility, then becomes convinced that a spirit is haunting him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, queer cinema
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Anonymous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Eggshells (1969)
Plot Summary:
Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, experimental, allegory, independent film, art film, weird
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Boy Eating the Bird's Food (2012)
Plot Summary:
The astonishing debut feature from Greek filmmaker Ektoras Lygizos updates Knut Hamsun's classic 1890 novel Hunger to the modern day, as it follows an alienated young man desperately trying to survive on the streets of Athens.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, stylized, offbeat, realistic, weird
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Split (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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PVT Chat (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, weird
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Web of Seduction (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this erotic tale of suspense, seduction, and murder, a cleaning woman finds herself working for two wives who are wealthy, idle, and ignored by their husbands. The maid persuades the two woman to kill each other's spouses and live happily ever after off the proceeds of their hubbies' valuable art collections. However, the plan does not go as expected, and the conspirators find that their own lives are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, hot, sexploitation film
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Flight North (1986)
Plot Summary:
Johanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Finland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Praxis (2008)
Plot Summary:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society - aptly symbolized by the medical establishment - his quest reflects the classical mythos of Proteus and the human search for meaning in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Pink Narcissus (1971)
Plot Summary:
An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, aesthetic, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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Ixe (1980)
Plot Summary:
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skillful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, gay cinema
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Language of Love 2000 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kärlekens språk is a 2004 Swedish sex educational film directed by Anders Lennberg. “Language of Love” is a show for night owls, which gives details of sex, problems with impotence, venereal diseases, etc, with detailed demonstrations. The title is a reference to the 1969 sex educational film "Ur kärlekens språk".
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, erotic, educational
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Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, captivating, psychological, tense, offbeat, mumblecore, scary, gothic, twisted
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Psychotropica (2009)
Plot Summary:
A confused and tormented young man (known only as 'The Patient') relates his dreams and memories to a mysterious and sadistic doctor. As The Patient dives deeper into his mental landscape he discovers a shocking truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, experimental
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New Dubai (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: explicit, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Closet Monster (2015)
Plot Summary:
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, gothic, lgbt cinema, semi autobiographical, queer cinema, gay cinema