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Plot Summary:
Suddenly he thinks her alone, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a gnawing disease. This woman whom he knows so little about and whom he would like to be with him. Right now, Just like before.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating
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Spaces and Reservations (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and Kacie have been dating for four years, and are separately beginning to feel the affects of malaise and disconnect. As they drift apart from one another and struggle to bridge the gaps growing between them, Jamie begins to develop feelings for another woman. After precariously flirting with infidelity, Jamie abandons this new pursuit and attempts to salvage his relationship with Kacie, only to discover that she too has fallen for someone else.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, mumblecore
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Born and Missing (2017)
Plot Summary:
A week after she gives birth, Ashley dies in a car crash and her newborn goes missing. Her husband Brian fears that there is something more devious behind the accident.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Father Is a Dog (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mentally-handicapped young man, a sex-obsessed tortured artist, and their responsible but somewhat prideful brother are all grief-stricken in the wake of their mother's death. The three brothers live with their father, a withdrawn and abusive parent who offers no consolation to his mournful sons. The dysfunctional family's dynamic is further complicated when the father strikes up an eccentric sexual affair with a Chinese man who is nearly the same age as his own sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, bleak
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Beyond the Horizon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Summer '76, there's a heatwave and the Swiss countryside is drying out at top speed. In this stifling environment, Gus who is thirteen years old and son of a farmer, sees both his family environment and his innocence relentlessly breaking. He's living the end of a world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Driving with My Wife's Lover (2006)
Plot Summary:
After realizing that his wife has been cheating on him, mild-mannered stamp maker Tae-han leaves his small seaside town of Naksan determined to track down his wife's lover, a taxicab driver from Seoul named Joong-sik. During one of the most intense heat waves on record, he travels to the city, where he successfully finds his target and hires him for a long-distance cab ride back to Naksan. As they drive down the highway, Tae-han refrains from revealing his secret to his new rival, and an unlikely bond develops between the two men. When they are faced with a series of unexpected detours along the way, Tae-han finds ample time to reassess his devious plans as the similarities and differences between the two men begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, erotic, entertaining
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High Tide (2020)
Plot Summary:
Laura is spending a few days at her beach house to supervise the construction of a barbecue shed. One afternoon, she seduces the chief builder, who never returns. Over the following days, the builders continually invade her home – until Laura grows ferocious.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 75%
The Key (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply erotic, uncompromising, visually adventurous story of a marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Lost Paradise (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucie and her father Hugo have grown closer since Lucie's mother left unexpectedly a year prior. When her mother returns, Hugo becomes jealous and angry.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, erotic, disturbing
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Human Touch (2004)
Plot Summary:
To try to raise money for her choir's trip to China, Anna poses nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on a journey of self discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Life of Josutty (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life of Josutty narrates the story of the struggles and life lessons learned by Josutty(Dileep), a simple farmer living in a village in Kerala who migrates to New Zeland after marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Out of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year history of Ewelina, who along with her husband decides to play a porn film. Orgasm, of which she experiences on the set during filming, the reaction of her husband, Piotr, and experiences of other women in the industry completely reevaluate her life. They are a few months after the wedding, they have a small child and like many young couples, continuing financial troubles. Piotr does not have a permanent job and no idea how to maintain a family. In a conversation with friends he discovers that participation in a porn film is an easy and enjoyable way to quickly earn large sums. Ewelina decided that along with Piotr she will play only once in the film. They go to Warsaw to meet their bold plan, enter shyly in the porn business thresholds, young people run a series of events that permanently change their relationship and shift the moral boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, erotic, entertaining
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Closed Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
1942 - Fritz and Emma are hiding Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm. Since their marriage has remained childless, Fritz asks Albert to sleep with Emma and conceive a child on his behalf.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Side Job. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Tropical Manila (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kim-Dusik, who committed a murder in Korea, fled to Manila and has lived there nearly 15 years. He lives with his Filipino wife, Medusa, and their 15-year old son, Philip. Dusik, his irresistible yearning for his mother, turns into violence inflicted on his son, and sexual abuse inflicted on his wife. He only looks forward to going back to Korea as the 15 year statute of limitations runs out. As Philip grows up he confronts his father about his mistreatment of his mother. Philip, in spite of himself, takes after his father's violent behavior. Medusa finds out that Dusik is leaving for Korea in a few months and begs him to take Philip with him to raise him as a Korean.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong (2015)
Plot Summary:
A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, period piece
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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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The Choice (2015)
Plot Summary:
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Great Plains (2016)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by True Events An abused wife and mother to a young boy escapes her violent husband and heads for California with her son. She soon learns that her husband has accused her of kidnapping and the law is in hot pursuit. Now a fugitive, she must risk her life and freedom to protect them both from this predator of a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is the filmed version of Pál Závada's novel of the same title, which was first published in 1997 and soon became a bestseller. The story takes place during World War I and afterwards in a small town in south-eastern Hungary. It tells about the unhappy marriage between a young man, Ondris, who is a member of the Slovak minority of the town, and his wife Jadviga. She can't return his devotion towards her and starts a love affair with Franci, a lawyer. The film tells the history of this unhappy relationship between a passionate country man and his equally passionate, but much more erudite wife who wants something more from life but can't get it. There is also some historic background: the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, the independence movement of the Hungarian Slovaks, led in the story by a ridiculous priest, etc. But this only remains the backdrop for the story of an unhappy "ménage à trois".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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Hattie (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hattie is a television film on the life of the British comic actress Hattie Jacques, played by Ruth Jones, her marriage to John Le Mesurier (Robert Bathurst) and her affair with their lodger John Schofield (Aidan Turner).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Guest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alicia and Enrique are a young married couple somewhat distanced from each other. Their relationship is threatened when Carlota, a friend of Alicia's from long ago, comes to visit and stays with them for a while.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Affair (2004)
Plot Summary:
A lonely housewife finds new life in a liaison with a free-spirited man in this romantic drama. Isolated in a remote home, Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) feels suffocated in her marriage to uptight architect Paul (Horatio Ledon). An affair with her husband's exact opposite -- an unrestrained bohemian named Viggo (Andy Mackenzie) -- leads to a newfound feeling of liberation, but ultimately, Jean must forge her own path to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fragments of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rodrigo, a piano-tuner and former composer fallen on hard times, begins a love affair with the soon-to-be-married Susana. When a bomb in the city of Medellín nearly kills them, Rodrigo and Susana surrender to their attraction and fall into each other’s arms. Cocooned in her apartment above the vibrant city, Susana opens up to him every night and tells him a story of each of the different men from her past. Her stories inspire him to compose again, but his obsession makes him jealous and paranoid. When Susana finally leaves her fiancée to be with Rodrigo, he becomes obsessed with her fidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, Colombia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, eros, entertaining
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Swingers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas (Sébastien Boivin) lives a rather harmonious relationship with Valérie (Natasha M. Leroux), punctuated visits to a swinger club of the city. During a supper with two couples of friends, the audacious Valerie reveals her desire to introduce them to this sexual practice. The idea pleases Charles (Erwin Weche) and Luc (Sylvain Latendresse), but much less to their respective spouses, Veronique (Kina Beauchemin and Lisa (Diana Lewis). Nevertheless, the six friends agree to go to the club, where Veronique, who was already secretly unfaithful to Charles, takes a liking to experience. But Charles could not bear to see her in the arms of another man. On the other hand, the shy and submissive Lisa takes no pleasure in sharing, contrary to the scornful Luc, who finds there a way to satisfy his voyeur fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Erotica: Moonlight (2008)
Plot Summary:
These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shadow People (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dan and Gretchen, a couple with a secretive past and a failing relationship, rent a guest house from another couple in California's San Fernando Valley. But jealousy and betrayal turn a casual friendship into a game of manipulation and deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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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