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Plot Summary:
A German soldier who goes AWOL, returns home to more problems than before he left.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, complex
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At Ellen's Age (2010)
Plot Summary:
A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Caresses (1998)
Plot Summary:
The eroticism exudes in the eleven interconnected stories that recount difficult relationships and violent sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, surreal, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Bliss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, affectionate
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Do Fish Do It? (2002)
Plot Summary:
16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives together with her brother, her father and his new girlfriend. Her mother isn't in touch much. That's why there is the unconventional Angel whose own daughter disappeared years ago and who is Nina's best friend and substitute mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Even Lovers Get the Blues (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of one of them a group of friends grieves trough sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, homoerotic, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Uncertain Glory (2017)
Plot Summary:
Front of Aragon, 1937. Lluís (Marcel Borràs), a young republican officer destined for a temporarily dormant position, meets an enigmatic widow of whom she falls in love, Carlana (Núria Prims), who manages to fool him to falsify a Document that makes it the lady of the region. The best friend of Lluís, the Soleràs (Oriol Pla), a degraded officer, discovers the fraud and, in exchange for not exposing him, he demands that he move away from the bombings of Barcelona his son and his wife, from whom he is Secretly in love When Trini (Bruna Cusí) arrives at the town, it does not take long to discover the betrayal of Lluís and establishes between them two a "state of war" that will make all moral bases stagger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Fucking Different (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen queer crossovers: lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, sexual, anthology
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Living on Love Alone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, sincere, realistic, cynical, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Mall Girls (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Flesh (1968)
Plot Summary:
A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, social, disturbing, controversial, homoerotic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Swans (2011)
Plot Summary:
Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They stay together in her old apartment. Another woman also occasionally lives there: Kim, a beautiful, enigmatic and aloof Asian. Petra's disease is of no interest to Manuel whereas Tarso visits Petra obsessively in the clinic. Sharing the same space with Tarso is hard for Manuel. Their previous relationship was based on 'visits only'. Manuel is overcome by a sense of emptiness. Meanwhile, Manuel develops an erotic desire for Kim, in fact a transsexual, who helps him discover Petra's body.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, contemplative, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Love Battles (2013)
Plot Summary:
A couple’s verbal sparring intensifies with shoving, punching and wrestling, escalating to the point where their frequent fighting sessions become real love battles….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, captivating, psychological, emotional, contemplative, talky, stylized, semi serious, sexual
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Underdog (2014)
Plot Summary:
23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life is caught in deadlock - Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive loop of temporary jobs, financial trouble and hard partying. A broken arm incidentally leads to a position as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home. Dino is thrown into a reality very far from her own. During a few sultry summer weeks she ends up the centre of an odd love triangle, an unpredictable struggle for affection as well as dominance. "Underdog" is a tender and raw story of privilege and longing, yet at the same time a humorous and unmerciful observation of the shifted power balance between Sweden and Norway - an actuality where Swedes have become the Norwegians' servants.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious
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Another Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Plants (2015)
Plot Summary:
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. She washes him, changes his nappies, and cuddles up to him in bed. From time to time she reads to him from a comic called LAS PLANTAS, which is about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon. At night, Florencia makes contact with men on the internet. Images of her monotonous daily routine and a vibrant fantasy world merge to create a fascina- ting tale of a young woman as she self-determines her own sexual awakening. Dreamlike sequences and atmospheric, metallic music create the mood of a thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Summer '04 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy
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My Brother the Vampire (2001)
Plot Summary:
Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - his latest conquest is Nadine, who runs the dog kennel at his security guard job. Nic is fixated on getting laid, and watches Mike and Nadine through the skylight with Josh. Josh also gets fixated on sex, though he has no clear idea what it's all about, and in particular on Nadine; to Mike's chagrin, she seems more interested in Josh than in him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, romantic, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, homoerotic
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Crazy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age, when he falls in love to the school's dream girl Malen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic, sexy, humorous, gloomy, semi serious, homoerotic, hot
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Like You Know It All (2009)
Plot Summary:
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, uplifting, emotional, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
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Cold Showers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, serious, emotional, melancholic, captivating, sexual, art house, eros, sensual
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Scratch (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story of young love and early life choices.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Fremde Tochter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences – or perhaps because of them – they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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A Friend of Mine (2006)
Plot Summary:
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, touching, non-linear
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Aviva, My Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovered that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sentimental, semi serious
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Breaking the Surface (2006)
Plot Summary:
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sensual, sexy, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Bending All the Rules (2002)
Plot Summary:
When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sexy, sincere, humorous, independent film
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In Paris (2006)
Plot Summary:
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. When Paul is then left in the house to brood and talk to one of his brother's girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, touching, tense, captivating, semi serious
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, touching, spiritual, stylized, sexual
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious, emotional, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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The Role of Her Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous