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Plot Summary:
Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Romania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Little Secrets (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story beginns on 24 October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. The Second World War with its hardships and bombs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Open Seas (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story of three young friends during their student years in Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Sanctuary (2015)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sad
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Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s lover who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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I Remember (2005)
Plot Summary:
The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Backwater (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is set in a quiet riverside town, where 17-year-old Tooma lives with his father and his father’s lover. Tooma witnesses his father’s sadistic behavior towards his lover and soon finds himself following in his father’s footsteps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Charly (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Yung (2018)
Plot Summary:
This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting deeper and deeper into a cycle of addiction. Joy muses about love when she doesn't happen to be selling drugs. And Abbie, 16, dreams of escaping to Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
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A Night Too Young (2012)
Plot Summary:
On New Year's Day, two preteen boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Sparrows (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
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The Good Son (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants to phone his grandmother in Nord-pas-de-Calais, one thing leads to another and suddenly the whole family finds themselves in a holiday in northern France. For Liliane it means a reunion with her mother, for Luc and Paul the reunion with their grandmother. And then someday on the beach Luc gets to know Manu(el) who teaches him lessons in love, life, fun, teenagerhood and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Plot Summary:
While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. Can their friendship survive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father sees her with new eyes and starts to distance himself from her. Lili feels rejected from her father and reacts with aggression and power games.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, queer cinema
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Welcome Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big brother” in Bert, a guide who is going to take him straight to the brink of catastrophe. But very quickly, boredom resurfaces and the freewheeling sense of being on an adventure evades them. Should they return to the fold, or keep moving on? Their drifting logic compels them to blindly forge ahead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Plot Summary:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Seeds (2017)
Plot Summary:
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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West Coast (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the teasing and contempt of their fellow classmates. So when Fle-O, the leader of this merry gang, learns that he has to leave his town and his friends at the end of the year, his whole world falls apart leaving him vulnerable when the most popular kid in school decides to make fun of them in front of everyone. Humiliated, our protagonists decide to take their revenge through one last expedition together that will lead them further than they would have imagined. Through incongruous situations and successive meetings, they will grow and learn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Memories of Summer (2016)
Plot Summary:
The late 1970s. It's summer in a small provincial town. Twelve-year-old Piotrek has a very strong bond with his mother. While his father is away, his mother starts going out almost every night. Their simple and clear relationship starts to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, erotic, sexy, captivating, underground film, psychological, social, sincere
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Criminal Desires (2013)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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A Daughter's Revenge (2018)
Plot Summary:
Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan. Soon her friend, Anna Bellcroft will be released from jail, where she served time for a DUI. Anna has nothing. No family, no money, no job...BUT Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that she blames her step-father for her mother's suicide, and Anne will become the unsuspecting instrument of her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Private Lessons (2008)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic, erotic, sexy, eros, stylized, queer cinema
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Girls to Buy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Emi is a young ambitious girl who has been dreaming about a big world for years. Whenever an opportunity arises, she jumps into its modes without hesitation, becoming an exclusive escort. Soon it is she who, at the invitation of Arab sheikhs, begins to recruit Polish misses, celebrities, screen stars and models. However, this inaccessible, luxurious world will soon show its dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Summer I Turned 15 (1976)
Plot Summary:
The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Children of the Salt (2018)
Plot Summary:
An old man, in the agony of death, asks his children to cremate his body and scatter the ashes in the sea. Willing to fulfill the last wish of the elderly, as a rite of passage the youngsters unknowingly transgress the traditions of their father. From that moment on the boys will have to assume roles that are not theirs, faced with everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, exciting, hot
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. Things take a turn for the worse when Yeo-jin gets distracted from her duty and the police raid the motel where Jae-yeong is meeting with a client. To avoid getting caught, Jae-yeong jumps out of a window, fatally injuring herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, psychological, sincere, romantic, depressing, spiritual
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird