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Plot Summary:
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sensual, independent film
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Adventures in Pornoland (2008)
Plot Summary:
Largely improvised with only two people privy to the "secret" - that a fictional movie was being made using the players, crew, and settings of the adult movie industry as its background. Canadian television director Ethan dreams of making it big in Hollywood. It's hard finding work, so he takes a job in the porn business to make money. Much to his fiancée's chagrin, Ethan ends up enjoying the industry more than he'd expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Darker Secrets: Sideline Secrets II (2008)
Plot Summary:
PETER a young traffic cop, is asked to look through hours of sex tapes the late psychiatrist Dr Tyler and his associate Detective Cunningham made of his unwilling male patients. Having both been killed in the first film they have left behind unanswered questions about one particular missing boy. During his search for the boy, Peter finds himself both repulsed and intrigued in the sexual perversion of Dr Tyler's videos. After watching tape after tape Peter soon succumbs to his own dark and seedy side and hatches his own twisted plot . Peter is infatuated with his straight roommate TODD and with the secrets learned from the good doctor he plans on luring Todd into his bed. But sex with Todd is only the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Vital Signs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Triggered by the death of a family member a young woman embarks on a singular journey of helping people who are about to die. The dying have nothing to lose and need lasting moments of intimacy that Simone finds herself willing to give at no cost. But Boris won't let her get away with it quite that easily. He realizes how well she hides behind those intense but short lived relationships. He won't hesitate to provoke her in a violent burst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Kelly + Victor (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) meets Victor (Julian Morris) while they are both loved up on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub. They are soon in her bed, fucking with an urgent intensity that neither has experienced before. These are two characters struggling to get by as best they can while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; her best mate is a dominatrix prostitute, his pals are aspiring drug dealers. It’s when they get into bed with each other that their darker instincts take over.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sentimental, psychological, suspense, transgressive
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Daisy Diamond (2007)
Plot Summary:
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4 month old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, rough, brutal, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, sexy, crying
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DAU. Natasha (2020)
Plot Summary:
Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bige and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB's General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, UK, Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, neo noir, crying
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No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)
Plot Summary:
Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father, while establishing unexpected connections along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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A Menina e o Estuprador (1983)
Plot Summary:
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and driver Pedro and the maid, Dalva. Vanessa has disturbing daydreams and sexual fantasies, but doesn't let Arlindo, a teenager that flirts with her get close to her. Her best friend is Denise, a promiscuous girl that has intercourse with different men. When Vanessa discloses to Denise her problem, Denise gives the address of her psychotherapist Dr. Artur, to her friend. The unethical shrink pushes Vanessa to the edge, bringing memories of a severe trauma of her childhood. Then the disturbed Dr. Artur induces the girls to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: pornochanchada
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Day and Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hot
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Lazaro's Girlfriend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores tries to survive with a broken heart, but his sympathy and sensuality will make adjusting to life in Madrid and try to exceed the Lazarus drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Vortex (1967)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman Hana Angelousi is lured aboard the yacht of a man who is trying to break the spell that turns men into stone. An updated version of the legend of Perseus and Medusa.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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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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Uncle Kent (2011)
Plot Summary:
A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, disturbing, independent film, sexual, freeze frame
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Needle Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Life has become unbearable for 23 year old Nick who is convinced that he's an evil person. Consequently, he shows up at Aarhus University with a gun in his pocket wanting to shoot his fellow students.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Luna Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal with it instead. Alexia owns an apartment complex in California called Luna Park, where her young actors stay while on location. Christi is the apartment caretaker and has been caught hiding in the closet of one of her actors he has a crush on. Maxwell feels indebted to Alexia for taking him off the streets and accepts the task with little protest. When Maxwell and Christi fall in love, Alexia is suddenly forced to deal with the secrets of her past, one of which threatens the boys young love in a way they can't even imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer cinema
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The Zone (2011)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sexy, psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, heartfelt, experimental
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Deep Blue Dream (2013)
Plot Summary:
While still in cinema school, Diego stood out as one of the most promising students, directing successful shorts. However, coming to the job market, he can not establish himself as a filmmaker, being forced to film wedding ceremonies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Communication & Lies (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film about a man and one woman who do absurdly crazy things. But although their shocking behaviors are outrageous, but it remains not just as some spectacles. When the communication between two comes to fail, it suddenly arouses subtle sorrows.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Marfa Girl 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family living in Marfa, Texas attempts to pull themselves back together after a horrific tragedy. This provocative sequel to Larry Clark's film Marfa Girl, shows us a group of people ready to escape their current realities - no matter the cost. Gritty, unrelenting and powerful, auteur Clark once again delivers a bleak landscape of sex, drugs and boredom amongst the residents of a dead-end Texas Border town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house, sensual
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Gandu (2010)
Plot Summary:
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can Gandu survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, surreal, disturbing, psychological, captivating, controversial, independent film, mind bending, offbeat
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Kissing on the Mouth (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ellen is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend while trying to ignore the fact that he's looking for more than just sex. Her roommate, Patrick, isn't helping matters with his secretive and jealous behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: erotic, mumblecore, psychological, humorous, serious, explicit, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat
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Now & Later (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, sexy, art house, explicit, sensual, gloomy
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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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The Principles of Lust (2003)
Plot Summary:
Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, captivating, art house, sensual, erotic drama, biting, suspense
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The Story of Richard O (2007)
Plot Summary:
Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a way to connect with other people. Richard feels cornered and takes some time off from his girlfriend in order to come to terms with his relationship to women and to find a better version of himself. During the last month of summer, he goes on an erotic exploration through the streets of Paris, where he has 13 encounters with 13 women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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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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Otilia Rauda (2001)
Plot Summary:
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sexual Awakenings (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman wishes to model nude for a men's magazine. The only problem is, her husband (a retired photographer) is against the whole idea.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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All the Light in the Sky (2012)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy
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The Pornographer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and 80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, art house, terrifying, sexual, hot