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Plot Summary:
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: controversial, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, fairy tale, crying, hood
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The Kids from the Port (2013)
Plot Summary:
Miguel makes the journey that his grandfather cannot make because he is locked up by his own family. The mission is very simple, go to a funeral and leave an army jacket on the grave of an old man, a friend of his grandfather. Miguel, accompanied by Lola and Guillermo, leaves that island of cement that is the Nazareth neighborhood. He wanders the outskirts of Valencia, looking for a cemetery and faces a deserted city.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, bleak, serious, neorealism, gloomy
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The Sentinel (1992)
Plot Summary:
After spending some time with his diplomat father in Germany, a young French medical student returns by train to Paris to resume his studies. He is puzzled by the harsh treatment he receives from customs at the border but doesn't begin to understand why until he gets home and discovers a mummified head in his luggage. He suspects that someone at customs put it there, but is not sure. Instead of reporting the meandering body part, he decides to investigate it using the tools he has as a medical student. It appears to be the head of a Russian who died somewhere in Asia.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: controversial, anthology, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, weird
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Humanity (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing, detective, depressing, neo noir, captivating, controversial
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Wetherby (1985)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Wolves in the Snow (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in which Lucie learns how to lie, to live, and perhaps also to like. Wolves in the Snow is an intense drama set against the backdrop of Montreal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic, crying
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UV (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Intruder (2004)
Plot Summary:
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see Louis as possibly heartless, ignoring a son who lives nearby who is himself an attentive father to two young children, one named for Louis. He leaves his bed one night - and his lover - to kill an intruder; he dreams, usually of violence. Will his body accept his heart? Will his son accept his offer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, mind bending, psychedelic, controversial, art house
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School's Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Hoffman joins St Joseph’s College to stand in for a young French teacher who threw himself from the window of his classroom. But he soon starts noticing strange behaviour from his Year 10 class.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, captivating, tense, social, crying, independent film, weird
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Headwinds (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Waterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)
Plot Summary:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale
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Don't Tell (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Afterschool (2008)
Plot Summary:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, bleak, independent film, suspense, cerebral, philosophical, mumblecore, controversial, teen
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The Son (2002)
Plot Summary:
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, meditative, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, spiritual, art house, christian film, suspense
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Times and Winds (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, rough, serious, art house, bleak, realistic, neorealism, crying
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The Inheritors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, allegory
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, slasher, social, anthology, erotic drama, neurotic, psychological, bleak
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Mouchette (1967)
Plot Summary:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, depressing, bleak, emotional, disturbing, contemplative, stylized, spiritual, inspirational
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Three Brothers (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Killer Kid (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed up in the words "kill without hesitation".Because of his intellect and his commitment to the holy war he is handpicked for a deadly assignment in Paris. But in order to get access to the target he has to learn how to merge in, to become an ordinary eleven-year-old. Karim becomes his role model. Karim is the same age as Laïd and grew up in one of the Paris suburbs. He is carefree and "hip" and becomes the perfect teacher in a world of skateboards, rap music and video games.Despite the cultural differences, despite the fact that one of them is an indoctrinated machine and the other one a perfectly ordinary carefree boy, a friendship begins to grow between the two.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, disturbing, crying
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I'm Not Scared (2003)
Plot Summary:
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, realistic, confusing, sad, art house, twisted
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The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Sweden, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Doubt (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, serious, surprise ending
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film
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Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Plot Summary:
Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Plot Summary:
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, crying, period drama
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Wild Reeds (1994)
Plot Summary:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, lgbt cinema, sad, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scenic, atmospheric, surreal, stylized, psychological, art house, breathtaking, melancholic, meditative, period piece
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Plot Summary:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sincere, bleak, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Plot Summary:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic, realistic, spiritual