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Plot Summary:
Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Senegal, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, surreal, stylized, poignant, art film, cult classic, romantic drama
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Journey to the Shore (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, exciting, sincere, melancholic, romantic, romantic drama
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The Skin of Sorrow (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, enigmatic, captivating, sad, visually appealing, mystical, psychotronic, awful
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Ricky (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, enigmatic, surreal, offbeat, serious, crying, avant garde, weird
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A Land Imagined (2018)
Plot Summary:
A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Singapore, France, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, atmospheric, neo noir
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Bear's Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, Sweden, Russia, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, atmospheric, stylized, sincere, captivating, sexy, fairy tale, surreal, semi serious
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The Summoning (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, pre war
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Mayday (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and times running out for her to get home.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, anamorphic
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, thought provoking, exciting, inspirational, twist ending, breathtaking, social, sad, surreal
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On Body and Soul (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, art house, erotic, psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, touching
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Shuffle (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s terrified and wants it to stop - until he notices a pattern in his experience, and works to uncover why this is happening to him - and what or who is behind it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Brightness (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mali, France, Burkina Faso, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, light
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Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alice is a sailor. While her partner Félix waits for her on land, she sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that her predecessor has just died, but also that the skipper is none other than the first great love of her life. Alice finds a notebook in her cabin, apparently that of the former mechanic, and on reading its contents – accounts of mechanical problems, sexual conquests and lovelorn emotions – finds, oddly, that they mirror her own concerns. As they make stops at various ports, dealing with life aboard alongside an all-male crew and the swell and pitch of her romantic feelings, the young woman tries to stay on course.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, realistic, emotional, psychological, erotic, serious
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Fifty (2015)
Plot Summary:
FIFTY captures a few pivotal days in the lives of four Nigeria women at the pinnacle of their careers. Meet Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos. They live and work in the resurgent, ever-bustling, 24-hour megacity of Lagos, the commercial capital of Africa's biggest and most vibrant economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dream (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, mind twisting, mind bending, surreal, touching, captivating, art house, psychological, philosophical
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The Sleeping Beauty (2010)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of the mesmeric “Bluebeard” comes this wonderfully idiosyncratic, heady and erotic exploration of another classic Charles Perrault fairy tale by French cinema’s endlessly probing and brilliant provocateuse. Time-tripping with a truly precocious heroine, we follow a once-cursed six-year-old princess as she awakens a century later at the ripe old age of 16.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, captivating, surreal, sexy, stylized, tense, offbeat, serious, modern day adaptation
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Ava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, art house, sentimental, thought provoking, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Time (2006)
Plot Summary:
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, emotional, realistic, romantic, philosophical, surreal, disturbing, mind twisting, sexy
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Undertow (2009)
Plot Summary:
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, lgbt cinema, romantic, melancholic, scenic, sad, surreal
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Petite Maman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has heard so much about. One day, her mother suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a fort.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, talky, psychedelic, art house, independent film, teen, feel good
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Deeply (2000)
Plot Summary:
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, atmospheric, fairy tale, touching, psychological, crying, independent film
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The Iron Rose (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, grindhouse, sad, existential, creepy, cult classic, psychological thriller, scary
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, anthology, psychotronic, allegory, post modern
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The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Plot Summary:
Veronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Veronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Veronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Norway
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexy, surreal, visual, philosophical, atmospheric, art house, non-linear, mind bending, touching
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Bare (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, sexy, independent film, weird, queer cinema
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Naples in Veils (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic
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Beats (2019)
Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, hood
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Talk to Her (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere, erotic, disturbing, hispanic, captivating, postmodern
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Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, art house, enigmatic, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, erotic, visual, allegory
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A Ghost Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, post-horror, philosophical, sad, surreal, mindfuck, inspirational, mind bending, melancholic
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The Illusionist (2006)
Plot Summary:
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 386000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surprise ending, period piece, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, twist ending, mind bending, tricky, psychological thriller