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Plot Summary:
Aris, a solitary man in his late thirties, becomes a victim of an unexplained surge of memory loss disorders in his city and is forced to confront his severe amnesia through an experimental new treatment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Poland, Australia, Slovenia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, allegory, mind bending, psychedelic, social, sad, surreal, art house
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The Forest (2009)
Plot Summary:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, mystical, allegory
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Remainder (2015)
Plot Summary:
A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, surreal, cerebral
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Manifesto (2015)
Plot Summary:
An outstanding tribute to various (art) manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Communism to Dogme, in connection with thirteen different characters, including a homeless man, a factory worker and a corporate CEO, who are all played by Cate Blanchett. A striking humorous audio-visual experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, philosophical, surreal, visual, avant garde, weird
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Chronic (2015)
Plot Summary:
David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, disturbing, captivating, realistic, social, existential, cult classic
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Kinetta (2005)
Plot Summary:
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a man and a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, avant garde, weird
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Vital (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hiroshi wakes up in a hospital room and realizes that he was in a serious car accident that caused the death of his girlfriend, Ryoko, as well as the loss of his memory. While trying to regain his memory, one of the first clues that Hiroshi finds are his old medical textbooks that he studied prior to his accident. This gives him a renewed purpose in life and he delves forward into his medical school studies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, surreal, suspense, art house, serious, realistic
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Mad World (2016)
Plot Summary:
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad, art house, independent film, crying
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Chinese Doctors (2021)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life events, the film recounts the efforts of the Wuhan medical staff as they attempt to deal with the rising cases of Covid-19.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Entertainment (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, mumblecore, weird
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Heaven's Door (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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My People, My Homeland (2020)
Plot Summary:
In different parts of rural China, various people explore what makes their communities unique.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Peaceful (2021)
Plot Summary:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, stylized
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Heart of Glass (1976)
Plot Summary:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, psychological, serious
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Memory (2016)
Plot Summary:
This drama is about a lawyer, Park Tae Suk who finds out that he has Alzheimer’s and puts his life on the line to fight one last case. The drama depicts his vigorous efforts trying to protect the precious value of the life and family love, while his memory starts fading away.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Oh My Geum-Bi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Geum Bi is only 8-years-old, but she suffers from dementia. She is slowly losing her memory. Her father Hwi Cheol is a swindler. While taking care of Geum Bi, he learns about the preciousness of life. Jang Joo Young becomes involved with Geum Bi and Hwi Cheol.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Let Me Introduce Her (2018)
Plot Summary:
In order to live, a woman named Eun Han risks her life by going through a dangerous surgical procedure for a new face. However, due to the after-effects of surgery, she loses her memory. She tries to find the missing pieces of her memory and while suffering from a different face and not knowing about herself, Kang Woo appears in front of her. Kang Woo has been hurt as his lover left him. He suffers as his relationship with his father gets worse. Like they were destined, Eun Han and Kang Woo reunites. He becomes determined to help Eun Han find her memory. As they work together, Kang Woo slowly opens up his closed heart to Eun Han. Meanwhile, Chan Ki, the morning news anchor, lives a perfect life. However, he seems to have a dark side which no one would have ever imagined. This mystery melodrama takes people to unexpected places with unexpected people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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I'm Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. His wife of five years, Megumi and their 4-year-old son seem to wear masks. He can neither tell their facial expressions nor their emotions. He also struggles about his love for them. On the other hand, Ieji feels an attachment to his ex-wife, whom he divorced five years ago, and their daughter. What sort of days did he have in those five years which are a blank to him? Ieji sets out on a journey to find his past self with a mysterious bunch of 10 keys that he has. He becomes aware that he was a cold, career-minded man before the accident, and the persona that is gradually revealed is beyond the imagination of his present kindhearted self.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Plot Summary:
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. But of all the “transgressions” here on display, perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film’s groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, disturbing, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, social, sad, experimental, controversial, art house
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Electricity (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, inspirational, mind bending, psychedelic, social, independent film, touching
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The Mystery of Her (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Swimmer (1968)
Plot Summary:
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing, philosophical, realistic, stylized, cult classic, bleak
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Alps (2011)
Plot Summary:
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, realistic, serious, art house, aesthetic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, absurd
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, art house, surreal, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual
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Share (2019)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, social, cult classic
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The Trip (1967)
Plot Summary:
Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, captivating, mind bending, mysterious
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Embers (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, realistic
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James White (2015)
Plot Summary:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, mumblecore, weird
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Plot Summary:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, depressing, surreal, mindfuck, confusing, art house, absurd, mind bending, cult classic