Best movies like Agatha and the Limitless Readings
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Plot Summary:
A man (Yann Andrea) and his sister (Bulle Ogier) meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Phantom (2013)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: existential, experimental, avant garde, independent film, minimal cast, postmodern
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A View from the Bridge (1962)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Woman of the Ganges (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Feelings Factory (2008)
Plot Summary:
Attractive, educated and successful, Eloïse (Elsa Zylberstein) has it all, except for a long-term, stable romantic relationship. Now in her mid-30s, she can hear a certain clock ticking loudly. So she enrolls in a speed dating program. Seven men, seven women, pre-screened for compatibility. You have seven minutes to take the measure of each other before you both move on to other candidates. The Feelings Factory is a remarkable look at one variation of modern romance, a streamlined notion of courtship that gets past all the awkward preliminaries that seem to capsize such encounters. Zylberstein is perfect in the role: her self assurance and intelligence not to mention her sense of humor can always be felt, even as she reveals bits of her needs and vulnerabilities to potential suitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Not in My Family (1993)
Plot Summary:
A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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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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
Plot tags:
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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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Nord (1991)
Plot Summary:
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Wandering Streams (2010)
Plot Summary:
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, they trade pleasantries rather than confidences -- so Emile is shocked when it turns out his elderly pal watches porn, paints nudes and shags women who are his contemporaries that he meets online.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious
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The Valley (1972)
Plot Summary:
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'Obscured by Clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'. (c) Neal Wells.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, sexy, mind bending, psychedelic, ambiguous ending, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Week-ends (2014)
Plot Summary:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are no longer such good friends. Everything is falling apart at the seams. But life is always full of surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, touching, serious
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Jealousy (2013)
Plot Summary:
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, intellectual, art house, black and white, gloomy
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Red Desert (1964)
Plot Summary:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Ugo's old pal, Corrado (Richard Harris), shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana's anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana's existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, realistic, serious, poetic, philosophical, neorealism, existential, contemplative
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Marguerite & Julien (2015)
Plot Summary:
Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, erotic, sexy, tragic, modern day adaptation
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Children of the Salt (2018)
Plot Summary:
An old man, in the agony of death, asks his children to cremate his body and scatter the ashes in the sea. Willing to fulfill the last wish of the elderly, as a rite of passage the youngsters unknowingly transgress the traditions of their father. From that moment on the boys will have to assume roles that are not theirs, faced with everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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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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Adrift (2001)
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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The Dark Side of Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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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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Homesick (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before? Homesick is an unusual family drama about seeking a family, and breaking every rule to be one.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching
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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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Seaside (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, gloomy
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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