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Plot Summary:
On a whim, Eve, a young Swedish traveler, accepts an invitation from Peter to vacation on his family's private island off the coast of New England. As a series of unexpected delays prevent other guests from arriving, Eve discovers that she has little in common with the increasingly erratic Peter. Gradually the idyllic natural beauty of the island gives way and Eve finds herself trapped in a state of surreality punctuated by bizarre visions, dimensional shifting and secret pizza.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia, USA, Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, tension, minimal cast, suspense
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Euphoria (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, melancholic, bad ending, bleak, suspense, stylized, art house
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Dante (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now lonely, has lost control of his life and nothing on Earth is able to help him. Is a holy soul from Paradise, her timeless love and endless care that gives Dante's life a twist. Beatrice, bending the rules of the Underworld, offers her old friend the opportunity to understand the value of life. Dante, guided by the knowledgeable soul Virgilio, will have cross Hell and Purgatory and face several challenges to have the chance of being enlightened by the vision of the Empyrean. His journey is physical and emotional. By meeting many wondering souls Dante will have cope with inner resistances and overcome them evolving and growing to move on with his life.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: educational
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See You in Hell, Friends (1990)
Plot Summary:
As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown in flashbacks. The pretty Rita and her fiancee Petras meet the old colonel, and come to live in his farmhouse. Rita marries the colonel as well as her fiancee, and has a daughter Christine. The colonel's supposed father shows up, and also makes amorous advances on Rita. They all live blissfully together until two holy women with axes arrive. The women start chopping down trees to build an ark. Rita starts having nightmares and Christine is crucified.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: absurd, allegory, dark comedy, avant garde
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Feathers in My Head (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Pierre (Francis Renaud) and his wife Blanche (Sophie Museur) live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missing. In the aftermath of the family tragedy, the couple's own relationship starts to deteriorate. As it gets worse, Blanche begins to lose touch with reality, believing that their son is still with them. Now Jean-Pierre must decide whether to let Blanche believe her fantasy, or bring her around to the horrible truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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Lillian (2019)
Plot Summary:
Stranded in New York as a porn actress, Lillian decides to return to her homeland, Russia, on foot. She resolutely sets out on the long journey. A road movie that goes straight across the USA into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: road movie, exciting, tense, captivating, touching
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Vera (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of an android that raises alive in the deepest caves of the mayan zone in México and meets and old dying man. They will stablish a spiritual bond than enlightens the old mayan and helps him to release himself out of his withered body.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, captivating, suspense, scary, dark, mystic, experimental, crying
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The Tale of King Crab (2021)
Plot Summary:
Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, accidentally kills his lover during a revolt against the local Prince. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, contemplative
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The Wild Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good families enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the Captain’s methods, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers that holds a disturbing secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, psychological thriller, funny, dark, experimental, underground film, art house, dark drama, queer horror
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Tragic Jungle (2020)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, France, Colombia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, hispanic, period piece, weird
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While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, detective
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Graveyard Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1985. The headlines dominates of the hunt of a foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. A group of young teenage boys makes unexpected discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, realistic
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My See-Through Heart (2017)
Plot Summary:
Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Nothing (2011)
Plot Summary:
The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, underground film, psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, minimal cast, contemplative
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Blind Valley (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is an ordinary-looking cop in Descharnes province. Ten years ago, he buried a dirty business to save his skin. Stan Wilson, and share their passion for Deborah but also a dark secret. Ten years ago, they suffered a trauma that no child can recover. Wilson wants to forget. Stan wants to speak, without knowing that he then puts in motion a terrible plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Journey from Greece (2017)
Plot Summary:
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Greece, Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, inspirational, social
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John From (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Night of the Sorcerers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of researchers gathering material for a magazine article on endangered wildlife encounter vampiric leopard women in the heart of the African jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, cult film
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The Ornithologist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, contemplative, visually appealing, sexy, experimental, homoerotic
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Seventh Heaven (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, erotic, light, sexy, thought provoking
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Humanity (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing, detective, depressing, neo noir, captivating, controversial
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Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Plot Summary:
An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, cult film
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The Girl (2000)
Plot Summary:
A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, touching, light, sincere, melancholic, neo noir, independent film
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The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, surreal, visually appealing, erotic, sexy, independent film, retro, art film, sensual
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The Beautiful Occasion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, period piece, costume drama, brutal, independent film, epic, exciting
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Plot Summary:
The theatrical movie spin-off of the ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will follow Essie Davis’ private detective as she embarks on a global adventure to find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records... After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, Phryne Fisher begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, ancient curses and the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of Shirin's forgotten tribe.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, intellectual, detective, psychological, disturbing, sincere
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Lost & Found (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sent to spend the summer with their uncle on a remote island, young brothers Andy and Mark learn that their eccentric grandfather once owned the island, but vanished without a trace…taking with him the secret to a vast fortune. Delving into the mysterious past of the island, the brothers discover that their grandfather designed a complex treasure hunt, a hunt that could lead to unimaginable wealth and heal their broken family – if they can find it in time. Sinister forces also search for the money and will stop at nothing to keep the boys from their quest. As the adventure unfolds, the boys learn that the bonds of family are the most valuable riches of all, and that some family secrets can’t stay buried forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, feel good
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic, erotic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, satirical
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Gerry (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, minimal cast, art house, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, captivating, visual, mindfuck, independent film