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Plot Summary:
On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the corrupt influence of modern society and "purify" themselves. But as time passes two of the members begin to give into human desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
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Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
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The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bilingual
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The Egoists (2011)
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Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
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The Shell Collector (2016)
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The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but has a healing and hallucinogenic effect on some people. Can people resist the creature’s temptation, or will they put their lives at risk for a heavenly trip?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min
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Anna (1970)
Plot Summary:
A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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The Last Virgin (2003)
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A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent for. She believes that a priest would help revive the townspeople's faith in God by putting up bars and girly joints.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
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The Birdwatcher (1988)
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A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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Riviera (2005)
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Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
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A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
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Tenets of the Maladjusted (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of maladjusted friends reunite and decide to compare their latest experiences and differing tenets.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Rite of Spring (2022)
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Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confidently enter a new phase. A story about that vital moment when anything is possible and how the most unexpected encounters can change our lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
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The Millennial (2022)
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A young privileged African American millennial recently receives his master' degree from a prestigious university and sets out to pursue a career in his chosen field only to find out it's not the plain sailing he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Play Me Something (1989)
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A collection of seemingly unrelated individuals wait in a small island airport. Their flight is delayed, and each takes a turn to tell the others a story from his or her life. All small island stories of ordinary, uninspiring lives. Until one man, The Stranger, tells his story of a summer romance in Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
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Broken Dolls (1999)
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A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Syndare i sommarsol (2001)
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In the mid-1920s, four young men and women have decided to spend their summer holiday studying together and have rented a wonderful house in the Swedish archipelago. Rationally, they realize that this cohabitation may lead to some of the members being attracted to one another. Thus, in order to avoid unnecessary passions, conflicts, jealousy, grief and enmity, the women sleep in a separate house on the other side of the creek. In spite of believing that they are prepared for anything, and even though they share the task of cooking, their feelings get carried away.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 98 min
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Illusion (2022)
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Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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Proxy (2015)
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On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Perfect Education: 40 Days of Love (2001)
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A young girl, who lost her father at her early age, is kidnapped by a school teacher. He strips, binds and attempts to rape her. For the next few days she tries to escape but in vain. Later, she becomes used to the life with him. Even when she has a chance to run, she chooses to stay. Slowly, their relationship becomes a creepy half-paternal, half-romantic liaison.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
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Safe Word (2022)
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Misa is an underground idol and being filmed closely for a documentary. One day, an owner of BDSM club “H” perceives Misa’s potential and headhunts her as a dominatrix. Misa is confused at first, but when she meets the top dominatrix Kanon, she learns sexual pleasure she never knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
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Délivrez-Moi (2006)
Plot Summary:
After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Female Teacher : Twice Raped (1983)
Plot Summary:
Science Teacher at high school science, Kojima Miho is a popular among male students this worked bad for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Chicas (2010)
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Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
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Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988)
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A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tension, sexual, sexy, suspense
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Jackie Boy (2015)
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A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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Tenderness (2016)
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About youth, decountrifying and attitude toward life. Julia and Patrick - living-together, careful to each other couple have to face the approaching change. Artur - self-confident, world curious egoist, works as a coach and barista at the same time. Vacillating between his choices he reaches the point when his world must be defined anew. Maria - professionally fulfilled actress, running away from any relations, rebuffs every act of closeness. In their world there is no place for great ideas. Nation, identity, politics or economy are meaningless terms regarding what matters for main characters - defining one's self through non-committal human tensions and intensities. The spectator peeks at them in seemingly trivial situations and finds out what is the titular tenderness for each of them. He may observe how the confluence of events and decisions are leading to an ending full of contradictory emotions.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
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In the Company of Women (2023)
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Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will disrupt her the inner world. Throughout these months, Bea will engage in a very special friendship with Miren, older than her. Her political commitment and her relationship with Miren will turn that summer into a stage that will mark her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
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Hearts (2021)
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Follows a pioneer of Italian cardiology and a specialist who returns from America and has to struggle with male stereotypes. The challenge of research and above all the fervent and driving atmosphere of the progressive Italy of the sixties.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
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Tanya's Island (1980)
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Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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Summer Temptations (1988)
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In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and alive. Vanessa had married their father above all because it was very rich. After her husband's death, Vanessa decided to keep him Alive and Kikki and also call Roberto, her former lover, now a professor with the aim of preparing the two girls to the maturity examination. Shortly after his arrival, he establishes an atmosphere heavy with half-empty Island the villa that seems almost a luxury prison do understand immediately that the stepmother and stepdaughters will hate and despise each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Women (1983)
Plot Summary:
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, vintage, sexploitation film