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Plot Summary:
Lester, the star player of their community basketball team who dreams of playing at the country's premier league, but encounters a problem on the way to PBA (Philippine Basketball Association). He meets Pandy (Arnel Ignacio), a couturier who is smitten by Lester's looks. Pandy becomes the team's manager and helps him become part of the college's varsity team. Pandy is obviously in love with Lester, a straight guy devoted to his childhood sweetheart Denise (Sofia Valdez). Lester is at a loss when Pandy's love for him turns into an obsession.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Thread Of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Despite their differences, Valentina and her sister Nora share the dream of becoming successful in the fashion world. As they try to reach their dreams, obstacles like family and romance complicate their journeys.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Really Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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Adrift (2009)
Plot Summary:
Anna returns from Africa, where he worked two years in an NGO, and is hired as a security guard at an exclusive health center on the outskirts of Barcelona. By breaking with her boyfriend and go home, a colleague leaves a camper as temporary housing. Spend a few weeks on a wilderness camping and then installed in the parking lot of a service area of the highway. On a night patrol work meets a young, admitted by court order, do not walk because of paralysis and refuses to reveal his identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Last Film Show (2021)
Plot Summary:
A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a Summer watching movies from the projection booth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, gujarati, semi autobiographical, extraordinary, nostalgic
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Bollywood Diaries (2016)
Plot Summary:
The passionate journey of three Bollywood fanatics who wish to make it big in the industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, avant garde
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The Match (2019)
Plot Summary:
One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Man Who Loves (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
A quiet teen's life is shaken up when she's forced to be her arrogant neighbor's slave. He loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Amateur (2018)
Plot Summary:
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, semi serious, emotional, disturbing
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The Arrangement (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Change of Heart (2021)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice, recently widowed by a far right sympathetic policeman, lives with her son & mother. She doesn’t like migrant and foreigners. When she meets Mokhtar, an Iranian entered illegally in France, her world crumbles. This is the beginning of a passionate love story leading Beatrice to defy her racist entourage and the law so that he can cross the Channel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Lost Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' (2013)
Plot Summary:
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Walk With Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 30 and with a young daughter, Amber Evans is forced to start over after she builds up the courage to leaver her husband and the only life she's ever known. As she struggles to find her way, she meets Logan, a free spirited musician with a kind heart who lends an ear to Amber's situation. What starts out as close friendship however, quickly evolves into an unexpected romance. Now, Amber must come to terms with this new identity, amidst the turmoil of a divorce, before she loses the person that she loves. Will she cave to the pressure, or can she overcome her fears before it destroys her relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is the filmed version of Pál Závada's novel of the same title, which was first published in 1997 and soon became a bestseller. The story takes place during World War I and afterwards in a small town in south-eastern Hungary. It tells about the unhappy marriage between a young man, Ondris, who is a member of the Slovak minority of the town, and his wife Jadviga. She can't return his devotion towards her and starts a love affair with Franci, a lawyer. The film tells the history of this unhappy relationship between a passionate country man and his equally passionate, but much more erudite wife who wants something more from life but can't get it. There is also some historic background: the breakup of the Hapsburg monarchy, the independence movement of the Hungarian Slovaks, led in the story by a ridiculous priest, etc. But this only remains the backdrop for the story of an unhappy "ménage à trois".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Guest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alicia and Enrique are a young married couple somewhat distanced from each other. Their relationship is threatened when Carlota, a friend of Alicia's from long ago, comes to visit and stays with them for a while.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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For Jojo (2022)
Plot Summary:
When her best friend Jojo falls in love and moves on from their wild dating adventures in Berlin, Paula does everything she can to sabotage her wedding.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Devathayai Kanden (2005)
Plot Summary:
Babu, a tea vendor, loves Uma, a rich girl. She too loves him for his sincerity. When she receives a proposal from a doctor, she accepts for the sake of a secure future. Babu sues her for cheating.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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A Pharisee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seung-gi has been living under a strict father, blaming himself everytime when a natural but uncontrollable desire surges from inside of him. However, because he can't spurt that desire in reality, every night Seung-gi shares passionate love with a mystery woman in his dreams. He meets Eun-ji ("Viki") a senior from school and gets provoked by her as well as Soo-jeong who he's had a crush on forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy, erotic
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The Lady Improper (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman with a seemingly ideal life, Siu Man is abandoned by her husband partly due to her fear of intimacy. After several life crises, she decides to reboot her life by taking over her father’s restaurant. Siu Man eventually finds herself attracted to her new chef, a free spirit who treats cooking as serious philosophy. Tired of the shackles she placed on herself, Siu Man embarks on a journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Autumn Fall (2015)
Plot Summary:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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High Resolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their courtship in an epic laptop-filmed “documentary”, the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Spring Awakening (2009)
Plot Summary:
Young adults growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Chain Reaction (2017)
Plot Summary:
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Golden Cross (2014)
Plot Summary:
If you have a chance to enter top 1% super class at a cost of others’ happiness, what would you do? Employee’s net incomes are getting lower and lower but their employer’s salaries increases every year. In the age of rough economy, we are forced to believe prospective economy in the future. Then one day, someone lures you for dirty money. Just by juggling with some figures, you can get a glamorous life from a great deal of money and promotion as well as fancy sports car and luxurious pent house. Will you take this Golden Cross card that will lead you to a totally new world? Everyone wants to live well. Who has never dreamed of this kind of desires? However, what if you need the sacrificial lambs for your desires? Here was a banker who never compromised with the dirty desires. But the price of having this principle was high. For rejecting a dangerous suggestion, he had to pay for it with his life. Here is a son of the dead banker, who jumps into the world of Korean top 1% super class with the purpose of taking revenge for his family’s death. However, before long, the son confronts the moment of the same kind of choice like his father. Between his mission to taking revenge and the desire for a glamorous life filled with the power and money, which one will he choose in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing