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Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Doblin's text to 2015 Berlin to tell the story of 30-year-old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally. Without citizenship papers, Francis is drawn into the underbelly of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: psychological, epic, captivating, surreal, modern day adaptation
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Plot Summary:
Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John. The complete film is 15½ hours long.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 931 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, art house, mind blowing, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Ardennes (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, twist ending, hood, crime thriller, twisted, surprise ending, weird
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New Order (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, social, surreal, mindfuck, independent film
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2010)
Plot Summary:
Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Byron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend Albeira and becomes a prostitute for drug dealers. In this way she will enjoy all the luxuries that she lacks. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend Albeira and her mother Hilda begin a relationship behind her back.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Human Capital (2013)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, social, twisted, gloomy
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Voyoucratie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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A Blast (2014)
Plot Summary:
Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, non-linear, gloomy, homoerotic, gay cinema
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Orphan (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, non-linear, no music
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Gun-shy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of military service, doesn't have many friends and leads a boring life, until he meets Isabella. The fascinating girl soon becomes his best friend, but Lukas learns she has a sexual relationship to her stepfather. Thus, he is obsessed with the idea of delivering Isabella by killing the man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative
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X: Night of Vengeance (2011)
Plot Summary:
Holly Rowe's retiring, kissing her callgirl life goodbye. She just has to get through her last night on the job. Shay Ryan's a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just has to get through her first night as a hooker. Then fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they're trapped on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale. X is a sizzling adults-only thriller about love, chance, escape and the oldest profession experienced by two women, on a night that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, sensual, realistic, erotic, sexy, controversial, sad, sexual
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Blue Nude (1978)
Plot Summary:
Obscure, sleazy and laid back picture about a young man being dragged down into the seedy and ruthless underbelly of 70s New York pornographers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Spring Awakening (2015)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, non-linear, freeze frame
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Night Shift (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Hugo Boris, Night Shift focuses on three Parisian police officers charged with driving a stranger back to the border. However, Virginie (Efira) realizes their prisoner will most likely be killed upon return to his country and so goes about attempting to convince her fellow officers to release him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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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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Lose Your Head (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, dark, queer cinema
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Ciske the Rat (1984)
Plot Summary:
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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Hard (1998)
Plot Summary:
Hard is about a gay serial killer and the gay detective who is forced to go after him. It has an interesting story: the closeted gay detective is abruptly forced out of the closet after the killer handcuffs him to his bed and makes off with his badge. He then becomes a suspect himself... and all that.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, homoerotic
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Ethan Mao (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, disturbing, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, crying, independent film
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Speed of Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
Drew (Scott Caan) must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old buddy tries to get him to become a pusher. He gets further drawn in by a new and exciting girlfriend, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who uses drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate the case and discover that plague may have killed the victim. Meanwhile, in the center of Paris, the former actor Joss Le Guern survives reading advertisements in a square for the public; when he receives weird messages about an outbreak of plague that is coming to Paris, the former professor Hervé Decambrais requests the warnings and goes to the library to research the meaning of the text, where he meets Adamsberg. Together they find that a maniac is killing people using flees contaminated by rats and spreading the disease in the city; without any clue, the police force do not have how to avoid the panic in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, futuristic, realistic
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No Night Is Too Long (2002)
Plot Summary:
Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets Tim on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder. In a flashback, he tells his story of cruelty, love and a soul-destroying guilt that offers little chance for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sexual, lgbt cinema, controversial, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Cuck (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ronnie is a young white male, struggling with the pressures of life. He’s unemployed, rejected from the military for being mentally unstable, and lives at home with his ailing and nagging mother. Ronnie finds an outlet for his frustration online. The alt-right community gives him a place to belong and absolves his personal responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, thought provoking
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The Passenger (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the provocative new drama from the director of THE VISITOR, sexual and moral boundaries are put to the test when a handsome stranger begins to infiltrate the lives of two artists. While searching for a condo in Berlin for his father, Nick meets Philipp, a young talented photographer and a gorgeous actress named Lilli. There is instant chemistry and both are easily seduced by Nick's charms. Lilli and Philipp begin to explore their relationship with the sexy visitor, succumbing to their passionate affections for him which intensifies their volatile emotional and physical bonds. But what Philipp and Lilli don't realize is that they are being lured into Nick's manipulative..and deadly, love game.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, gay cinema
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Oh Mercy! (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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M/M (2018)
Plot Summary:
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, contemplative, experimental, gay cinema
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Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Plot Summary:
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, sensual, neo noir, independent film
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The Informers (2008)
Plot Summary:
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, bad ending, serious, sincere, realistic, disturbing, erotic, psychological, sexual
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tricky, tense, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, mystical, atmospheric, serious